Robert Mugabe may be a Fighter, but is Barack Obama a 6525th level cleric? Because that’s apparently what it would take to cast a “World Racial Healing Spell.” That’s right, the worlds of politics and Dungeons and Dragons have collided … Continued
The moral values that have held together this country and this world are in an advanced stage of decay. From schools to shops to our own homes, we turn on one another — race against race, religion against religion, nation … Continued
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Over the past two weeks, much digital ink has been spilled about the political meanings and messages embedded in The Dark Knight. In this particular corner of the intertubes, considerable (over)thought has gone into dissecting the layers of philosophy in … Continued
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Hendrik Herzberg, who is some sort of editor at The New Yorker (though that shadowy cabal never ever publishes a masthead, so aside from Remnick, it’s kind of unclear what everyone does), and my very, very favorite political columnist in … Continued
Sean Tevis, who is running for State Rep in Kansas, had a brilliant idea to raise campaign funds: become viral on the Internet by doing an xkcd parody. And it’s funnier than xkcd has been recently, which is an added … Continued
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There’s a mid-to-large sized kerfuffle brewing over Barry Blitt’s cover art for the latest New Yorker (at left). As you can see, it shows a caricature of Barack Obama exchanging a “terrorist fist jab” with his wife in the oval … Continued
Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe has been finally and officially stripped of his knighthood by staggeringly lenient Dungeon Master Queen Elizabeth II. This makes Mugabe officially a fighter, which is probably the class he should have been all along. But before … Continued
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Last week, I was sitting in a bar in the village of Ngare Ndare in northern Kenya, nursing a Krest Bitter Lemon, and listening to the radio. The radio was tuned to Metro FM, “Kenya’s House of Reggae.” Amidst the … Continued
AGENT JONES: Spill it, Spitzer. SPITZER: You’ve got nothing on me. Quit wasting your time. AGENT JONES: We know you did it. All of it. SPITZER: I don’t know what you’re talking about. AGENT JONES: We have the documents, Eliot. … Continued
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