Straight Up | Jan Herman

Molly Ivins, who “Stand Up Against the Surge,” it was a sober, even solemn commentary without so much as a hint of the satirical wit for which she was famous. She called it part of an “old-fashioned newspaper crusade to stop the war.” President With His Head Up His Ass as often as possible. For […]

Pat Lang, who offered background. “We invaded the Iraq of our dreams,” he said. In other words, “the country was not, in fact, what we thought it to be.” Furthermore, Lang said, differences in values between Americans and Iraqis are so great and so misunderstood, on both sides, that there is no basis for believing […]

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The National Conference for Media Reform and gave one of his typical brain-addled speeches. It’s guaranteed to make you laugh. Then Helen Thomas asked him a few questions: As Huha said in closing, “If there’s questions that has not been answered that’s not my fault.” Now stop laughing and watch or listen to video excerpts […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

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 […]

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