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He’s B-a-a-a-ck!

January 19, 2007 by Jan Herman

Shoah and Pin-Ups

January 16, 2007 by Jan Herman

That’s the title of a new documentary about “Lurie would like to have painted comfortable, comforting things,” says Matthias Reichelt, a curator and art historian who collaborated on the film with the director Reinhild Dettmer-Finke. “But something kept him from doing so. And that something is what this film explores.” Anthology Film Archives in New […]

Bold and Beautiful

January 15, 2007 by Jan Herman

Today’s national holiday marks the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. He would have been 78. That’s younger by five years than two living ex-presidents, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, and yet he seems a figure from a far more distant past. BnnRpbiblustering moral pipsqueaks? Click these links: 1) to read or watch King’s […]

Old Bull on Top of New Lies

January 11, 2007 by Jan Herman

If anybody needed further proof that whatsisface is still flogging the same old bullshit, let him read Washington Post mush and the Prez Huha‘s] aides insisted that the plan [for more U.S. troops] was largely created by the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki,” “does not really want them,” according to another NYT report. […]

Over the Top

January 10, 2007 by Jan Herman

Take a close look. Does he bear any resemblance to the It’s Alfred Jarry’s woodcut of Père Ubu, better known as Ubu Roi, and it comes to mind as a prelude to Huha’s speech tonight because a reader has just suggested Père Bubu (Papa Bubu) or BuBu Roi (King BuBu) as our new moniker for […]

Terminology

January 8, 2007 by Jan Herman

The Bullshitter-in-Chief?” The answers were, “Of course.” But the suggested terms, ranging from “d’Oily Farte” and “Mr. Stupid” to “Banana Head,” “Fratboy” and “The Dolt,” failed to inspire the staff. So we’ll stick with our term, shortened to The Bullshitter. We hope this will underscore his iconic status not just as the first among equals […]

More Popcorn

January 5, 2007 by Jan Herman

If it’s true he hasn’t seen the video of Saddam Hussein’s execution, as the what a mumbler he is. raw execution video, he could watch the

The Believer’s Gas

January 3, 2007 by Jan Herman

He has called himself horseshit op-ed column in today’s Wall Street Journal. mulling a suitably demeaning term to substitute for our customary

Dirty Stockings: 2006

December 26, 2006 by Jan Herman

Bullshitter-in-Chief‘s next maneuver to cement two legacies of his regime — the BnnRpbiTo Our Pipsqueak Leaders One More Ventriloquist Dummy ‘I Am Me and Rummy’s He …’ Deja Prevu, or Just the Facts No Parking for 9/11’s Fifth On a Bicycle and a Prayer Pants on Fire Pass the Milk, Please The One True Person […]

‘Tis the Season

December 21, 2006 by Jan Herman

And now we defer to the merry holiday. For wicked wunnerful, ya can’t beat William S. Burroughs, who wrote the tale way back in 1952, narrates. Christmas music swells as the camera tilts in on him, standing by the living room fireplace. He takes a book down from the shelf and sits in an armchair […]

Nobody Owns Headlines

December 21, 2006 by Jan Herman

Forget the substance, look at the form:

The One True Person of the Year

December 19, 2006 by Jan Herman

For his special comments, Bullshitter-in-Chief and his regime of aaaeulc cronies.

Techmeister

December 19, 2006 by Jan Herman

Time’s

Loud Whispers

December 17, 2006 by Jan Herman

Finally, an acknowledgment of Sunni genocide as the aaaeulc‘s sub rosa policy in Iraq: “We shall call it the Darwin Principle,” Cooper writes of the policy, also referring to it as “the Shiite option.” One unnamed senior regime official is quoted as calling it the “stare into the abyss” strategy. Although the policy is couched […]

Deep Woodstein

December 12, 2006 by Jan Herman

Do we really need a book about the impact of Watergate on the lives and careers of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein? We already know what happened to them. Woodward went on to write a shelfload of best sellers about the government, told from the inside, and Bernstein joined the glitterati. “Woodward and Bernstein: Life […]

Foodies on Iraq

December 8, 2006 by Jan Herman

Don’t treat it as a “recipe for our defeat,” says John McCain. At last we’ve come to the real terms of debate over the Bullshitter-in-Chief has ever offered a recipe for anything but. You have to wonder about their sanity and their tastebuds. Baker asked pols to eat the report whole, not to pick at […]

Still Delusional

December 8, 2006 by Jan Herman

It’s always refreshing to see the news of the day told with accuracy, in this case the Iraq Study Group Report: In light of the report’s stark warning that the situation in Iraq was “grave and deteriorating,” Mr. Bush came close to acknowledging mistakes the Bullshitter showed just how delusional he is. “You wanted frankness […]

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