Archive for Satire
This Chinese Life
Posted by: | CommentsA couple of weeks ago, “This American Life” aired a story titled “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,” about life in the Chinese factory that makes the iPhone and other consumer electronics. Apparently, others took notice. “The Daily Show,” for example.
I wonder if the dormitories in the clip are the ones they show to the press?
Attack In B Minor For Strings
Posted by: | CommentsWasting no time, the “definitely not coordinating with Stephen Colbert Super PAC” strikes:
Even The Language Is Corrupt
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OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH
Immediately and Henceforth,
- Naked aggression shall be called “preemptive war”
- Propaganda shall be called “news”
- State kidnapping shall be called “extraordinary rendition”
- Water torture shall be called “enhanced interrogation”
- Arbitrary imprisonment shall be called “extrajudicial detention”
- Kleptocracy shall be called “privatization”
- Securities fraud shall be called “derivatives trading”
- Sitting on the ground shall be called “active resistance”
- Chemical attacks against sitting civilians shall be called “pain compliance.”
That is all.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
(Cross-posted from Dirty Hippies.)
Catch the Spirirt
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Lt. John Pike pepper sprays his way through art history.
(image above courtesy of a friend)
One Teacher Who’s Had Enough
Posted by: | CommentsTaylor Mali – “What Teachers Make”
[h/t Bill Franklin]
Success Is Not An Option
Posted by: | CommentsIn case you missed it this week, Tea Party Nation included this pledge in an email to its membership. Colbert gives it a tip of his hat…
Right Wing Watch reports today that Tea Party Nation president Judson Phillips responded to the uproar caused by the post, saying “Liberalism is about the control of speech and thought and the suppression of any belief that does not agree with the liberal orthodoxy.” Which is, of course, exactly why lefty bloggers spread the Tea Party Nation email so far and wide this week, why it is featured here, and why Colbert gave it a coast-to-coast tip of his hat.
Not that Judson Phillips would grasp the irony.
Rabbit Punch
Posted by: | CommentsWow! That’s terrific bunny …
“Ask not what the billionaires in your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country’s billionaires.”
Republicans 2012: Keeping millions out of work to put one man out of a job!
With the help of two DINOs:
Senate Republicans have voted to kill the White House jobs bill despite weeks of campaign-style barnstorming by President Barack Obama across the country.
Forty-six Republicans joined with two Democrats to filibuster the $447 billion plan.
Don’t Tread On Me! (But tossing’s okay.)
Don’t despair. Florida Republicans are moving ahead on the vital public issue of dwarf tossing:
MELBOURNE, Fla. – Dwarf tossing… It’s on the minds of voters and representatives throughout the Sunshine State.Rep. Ritch Workman (R-Melbourne) is fighting to get a state law banning dwarf tossing repealed, saying that it is not up to the state to decide who citizens can or cannot toss.
Workman says it’s about not letting the government trample our individual liberties. He says if local governments want to ban dwarf tossing, fine, but the state government should not be involved in the issue.
FREE-DOM!
