Might Stephen Colbert actually run for President (at least in South Carolina)?
teh funny
Maureen Dowd invited Stephen Colbert to write her column for her in Sunday's paper. Which was a nice breath of fresh air. Colbert's column is not White House Correspondent Dinner.
I don't know how I missed The Wingnuttiad, but this is apparently how Thers has decided to conclude his summer vacation. Time well spent, I say. Here's a sample:Right Blog.
. . . fixed by your friends at the Sadly, No! Research Consortium.I'm not sure what "Lawyers, Guns and Money Facts" would be, but speaking purely for myself, they'd be pretty goddamned boring.
...as many of you have predicted, it would be Gonzo. (Sigh. If only he actually were gonzo.)My favorite moment this week (and I quote from his testimony): "I'm not aware,.
Via Jessica and Yglesias, a sad reminder of how far we haven't come. In fact, of how far we've regressed:
I've wanted to post on this ever since a friend alerted me to it yesterday. Jennifer Pozner beat me to the punch today. But it's good enough to share.Hilarious stuff. The best part - bar none - is the interview with one pole dance lesson...
His choice of words, not mine.I wrote last week about the hubbub over FOX and CBS's refusal to run a new Trojan condom ad which uses sex to advertise sex.
If you need a break from the unreadable dead-seriousness of Victor Davis Hanson's No Man a Slave outtakes, try "Bizarro Iraq 2007" -- the funniest right wing parody since Liberalstein!Behold:Terrorists.
I'll grant that the awfulness of today's comic sections was near the top of the list of the topics I liked to engage in dorm-dinner-table rants about (foreshadowing my inevitable entry into a blogosphere), so I'm a particularly ripe audience. Nonetheless, I think it's plain...