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Political quotes: Unanswerable questions

December 27, 2016 Christopher Burke Humor, Ideas, Science One comment

This quotation from a bona fide scientist offers a fitting reproach to the anti-science Republicans who want us to live in their don’t-question-me world.

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Political gifts I wish I could give this Christmas

December 23, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Humor, Politics Leave a comment

Let’s play “Political gifts I wish I could give this Christmas.” I have compiled a list of things that would give me a measure

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Political quotes: The right to be uninformed

November 21, 2016 Christopher Burke 2016 Election, Humor One comment

Here’s a quotation that pretty much sums up the 2016 election. It’s the latest in our long-running series of quotes that remind us, over

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Democracy at the bat: Post-Trump edition

November 9, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Humor Leave a comment

With apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer, the author—in 1888—of this famous poem, here is my updated, truncated, post-Trump 2016-election version of “Casey at the

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Pence does Python

October 5, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Humor 2 comments

It appears that Republican Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence has been watching “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” Not just watching, but channeling. In the Vice

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Political quotes: “To err is human…”

September 21, 2016 Christopher Burke 2016 Election, Humor, People, Politics One comment

  Everything is political. Our long-running series of political quotes proves that–we think. We’re always on the lookout for quotes–contemporary and historical–that are pertinent

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Community college offers “marry-me” cooking class

July 25, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik Education, Humor, Missouri region, Women One comment

This fall, “single ladies” interested in ensnaring a man can take a course at St. Louis Community College, listed in the catalogue as “Girls’

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White House Correspondents’ Dinner can be culturally alienating

May 4, 2016 Arthur Lieber Bernie Sanders, Capitalism, Democrats, Humor, Obama, Politics Leave a comment

If you are a reasonably affluent progressive, the 2016 White House Correspondents’ Dinner had to be a real gas. President Obama and comedian Larry

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Trump’s April 1 lawsuit barrage

April 1, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Humor Leave a comment

Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to sue people and organizations that he believes have treated him unfairly. Today–April 1, 2016– he is making good

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Donald Trump and the Evangelical Industrial Complex

February 29, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Humor, Religion in Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Republicans tend to believe that the bulwark of their strength comes from those people who are very conservative, which includes the millions of Evangelical

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