Archive for Humor

Surreal

I was picking my son up from the airport. Since he is a little guy, I had to get a pass and go through security, so that I could meet him at the gate as soon as he got off the plane. Because of the Northeast fiasco, I got to the airport really early in […]

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“I’m in Love With Friedrich Hayek”

Don’t give up on this. It gets hilarious at the end. (HT2 a bunch of simultaneous posters.)

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A Reader Quiz!

As long-time readers know, I only visit a sparse number of blogs in my daily routine. Two bloggers whom I read constantly are Bob Wenzel and Scott Sumner. For a fun reader quiz, I will now quote a passage from a recent blog post by one of these men. Can you guess which one? (You […]

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Maybe It’s Maybelline

OK kids, what do you think? Is this Jon Stewart interview with Ricky Gervais really as spontaneous as they lead us to believe? I hope so, but my momma didn’t raise no fool. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Daily Show on Facebook

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A Blast From the Past

For some reason this episode popped into my head, and I had to look it up on YouTube. It was even funnier than I remembered.

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Hillary Has a Sense of Humor

(BTW, I only call her “Hillary” because “Clinton” would be ambiguous.) Glenn Greenwald linked to this State Department press release. This is simply hilarious. I don’t know what would bother me more: (a) the people who wrote this didn’t see why it was funny, or (b) the people who wrote this understood full well that […]

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Naomi Wolf Says What Guys Can’t

Here is her letter to Interpol (which I assume was an open letter, not something that was leaked): Dear Interpol: As a longtime feminist activist, I have been overjoyed to discover your new commitment to engaging in global manhunts to arrest and prosecute men who behave like narcissistic jerks to women they are dating. I […]

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Obama Says “Go Ahead, Make My Day”

…in his own way. Check out the understated, rhetorical way that Obama says, “Bring it” to the Republicans. I found it really funny.

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