prank o’ the day: VF punks TWS

from Vanity Fair via Gawker. But yes, they really SHOULD do the New Yorker (and some Canuckistan terrorist such as myself really SHOULD do The Walrus…hmmmmm).

In any case, the skanky demi-coverwrap innovation, paired with the chubby, self-satisfied, Winnebago-driving Rotarian-pandering-to, blowhardy Weekly Standard makes this the perfect target.

For the National Lampoon. Vanity Fair, how did it come to this?

Still. Funnee.

A Vanities Cover-Flap Public Service

By ANDREW HEARST

Magazine publishers often send their newsstand editions into the world with “cover flaps” that tease the contents within. This is a handy way to pique the interest of passersby. But a cover flap can also be useful as an agent of mischief and lighthearted political agitation. Inside the October 2006 issue of Vanity Fair is a fake flap you can attach to a copy of The Weekly Standard. Simply get your hands on a copy of our October issue, turn to page 272, and follow the instructions below:

1. Cut and fold where indicated.

2. Hurry to a newsstand. Pick up the latest issue of The Weekly Standard. Wrap folded page around spine of magazine.

3. Return magazine to rack.

4. Step back a few paces and observe.

VF's TWS cover flap in prank flap

how Republicans celebrate 9/11

from Gawker. You must check out the comments section on their post; one of the very best. “I hope they don’t invite Cheney!” for example.

Tasteful Dove Shoot on 9/11

religious persecution and the founding of America

Gore Vidal's AmericaNot what you think.

Fortean Times is the go-to site on the Internet for all your Gore Vidal quotation needs, as all the literati know (particularly since the New Yorker went all Kato Kaelin/Beyonce/Roseanne Barr), and the On This Day entry for today is perhaps the finest example thereof.

6 September. The Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Plymouth on this day in 1620. Gore Vidal one remarked that they left England ‘not because they were persecuted for their religious beliefs, but because they were forbidden to persecute others for their beliefs.’

Well that would explain a great deal.

antiwar video: December Skies

From the Cowboy Junkies and Jesus’ General.

and from the comments:

From an interview with the Cowboy Junkies’ Michael Timmons:
[snip]
“…It is a stark and brutal idea: the celebration of war, so endemic in our society, is akin to celebrating the killing of our children. So I wrote the song with that context in mind. After I wrote it, I realized that there were many more layers to the song and idea…
[snip]
The other layer was a bit more subtle. The title of the song refers to the rising of the Star of Bethlehem in the December sky. The Star of Bethlehem heralded the coming of Jesus and his message of peace and love and good will toward our fellow man (a message that seems to be completely lost in these times). But it also struck me that, according to Christians, Jesus was sent by his Father to die for our sins. Another father sending his child off to die for what he perceives is the greater good…”

Goering on leadership

The man knows what he’s talking about. I shall make no comment about the fact that I found this while doing a Google Image search for the new Boris Johnson poster.

None whatsoever.

Goering on Leadership

 

Hail Election Day!