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Jon Stewart’s comedic impulse is so sophisticated that to fully appreciate it requires a superior intellect. And cases of vodka. But consider this minor example of supreme genius brought to you by his Rally to Restore Sanity. At said rally, Steven Demetre Georgiou Cat Stevens Yusuf “Peace Train” Islam is appearing. On stage. As a performer. This is the same guy (or, perhaps, group of guys) who publicly endorsed the assassination of Salman Rushdie. . . . → Read More: Rally to Ignore Sanity Katie Couric, according to the fawning Howard Kurtz, is feeling liberated. That’s good, what with all the oppression generally suffered by talking heads who make $15 million a year. Imagine the brutality of an existence where one—by reading words into a camera—is rewarded with a salary that eclipses the gross domestic product of Afghanistan. Now imagine being forced to read those words into that camera from inside a posh New York studio. The horror. But brave . . . → Read More: The Great Unwatched Add to the suddenly, so terribly in vogue and seemingly never-ending succession of rallies in Washington, D.C., probably the most pretentious ever conceived: the Government Doesn’t Suck rally. Seriously. Mark your calendars: October 30, 2010. If you attend only one gratuitous gathering of pointless solidarity this year, make it this one. The brainchild of erstwhile—presumably non-sucking—federal employee Steve Ressler, this proposed gathering of unionized drones purports to extol the innumerable virtues of that pinnacle . . . → Read More: Up with Government! |
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