Jokes
March 21, 2012 — John Hinderaker
Sure, he’s always been known as a loose cannon. And he was never one of the brighter bulbs on the Senate’s rather dim Christmas tree. But, still: at some point, don’t you have to wonder whether something has gone seriously awry? Scott wrote this morning about Biden’s wacky tribute to the bin Laden raid–the most audacious act in 500 years! And it had only a 48% chance of success!–but that
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March 16, 2012 — John Hinderaker
The Republican National Committee put out this satirical poster, ridiculing the professionally-produced Obama campaign movie called “The Road We’ve Traveled.” It is really very funny. Maybe there is hope for the Republicans after all!
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March 16, 2012 — Steven Hayward
Courtesy of QuickMeme:
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March 13, 2012 — Steven Hayward
John has the Michael Ramirez cartoon beat covered here, but I stumbled across TerrellAfterMath.com, the lampoon site of retired engineer Rich Terrell and his editor Lucy Gill, who pass some of their time producing lovely send-ups of liberal lunacy. Here are a few of my favorites, but you should bookmark the page and check out their archive for yourself.
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March 5, 2012 — Steven Hayward
I get a lot of invitations to boring things here in DC. But this just might be worth attending just to see if someone at the Canadian embassy is drinking too much Canadian Club, or taking that old Michael Kinsley boring-headline-contest too seriously (“Worthwhile Canadian Initiative” was the winner).
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February 22, 2012 — Steven Hayward
I’m still getting the hang of Twitter (my latest contribution: “Carnivale in Brazil is like the Tournament of Roses Parade on LSD”), but for now I think the best Twitter feed around—and reason enough to join or follow—is the feed that supposedly comprises elevator gossip and quips from the hallowed halls of Goldman Sachs (featuring Goldman CEO Lloyd Bankfein in the photo thumbnail): GS Elevator Gossip @GSElevator Now that I have
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February 21, 2012 — Steven Hayward
So it’s Carnivale week here in Rio, and your intrepid Power Line Southern Command bureau chief decided to dress up in the scariest festival costume imaginable—American tourist—and take in the street scene last night. My keen journalistic conclusion: Carnivale is a cross between Pasadena’s Doo-Dah parade and the drums and space segment of a Grateful Dead concert, with a dash of the Stanford marching band thrown in just for some
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September 21, 2011 — John Hinderaker
One of my brothers posted this joke on another web site. It exemplifies Zeno’s Paradox, among other things: An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one tells the bartender he wants a beer. The second one says he wants half a beer. The third one says he wants a fourth of a beer. The bartender puts two beers on the bar and says, “You guys need
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