Commentary - America's Future

By David Donadio • Dec 31,2008

Let’s make sure no one gets a laugh out of these jokes

This Times piece on financial jokes starts out promisingly enough: DID you hear the one about the stockbroker who’s been sleeping like a baby? Every hour, he wakes up and cries....

By David Donadio • Dec 30,2008

Fark’s 2008 headlines of the year

Fark’s 2008 headline of the year competition has some real gems: Gerbil causes 3-car accident; article doesn’t say which gere he was in at the time “Spam King” sentenced to...

By David Donadio • Dec 30,2008

What doesn’t kill Hamas makes it stronger

Benny Morris writes as follows on Israel’s predicament: To the north, the Lebanese fundamentalist organization Hezbollah, which also vows to destroy Israel and functions as an Iranian proxy, has thoroughly...

By Sonny Bunch • Dec 30,2008

Department of humorous [sic]s

I’ve warned in the past about making fun of another blogger’s misadventures with grammar/spelling, since we all blog quickly and we all make our own mistakes. But one of the...

By Sonny Bunch • Dec 30,2008

Most Ambitious Subhed Ever

From Charles Krauthammer’s longish piece in The Weekly Standard, “The Net-Zero Gas Tax”: A once-in-a-generation way to weaken OPEC, abolish absurd regulations, reduce greenhouse gases, improve our trade balance, gain...

By Sonny Bunch • Dec 30,2008

Asking Hamas to stop will surely work!

I’m going to plagiarize a post from Jonah over at the Corner because it’s worth reading in its entirety to understand just how stupid, pointless, and futile it is for...