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What If Herman Cain Had a Kill List?
Scene: Herman Cain is grinning as he enters the Situation Room, carrying enough Godfather’s Pizza for everyone present — and to everyone’s horror, Rich Lowrie is there at his side. JOHN BRENNAN: Before we begin, Mr. Cain, a question.CAIN: (glancing at a note card) Islom Karimov!BRENNAN: Huh?CLINTON: (amused) That’s the president of Uzbekistan. BRENNAN: Jesus. CAIN: I think that we ought to be able to kill 9 terrorists from 9 different countries in 9 minutes. Is there any reason we can’t do that?BRENNAN:That isn’t exactly how it works, Mr. Cain, we can’t —CAIN: Excuse me, I was talking to my man Rich. As I said during my campaign, I’m going to rely on my national security advisers, and I’m not going to let Washington insiders keep making all the decisions. BRENNAN: I was just explaining that someone has gone to fetch the next batch of photos, so we have to at least wait —CAIN: What about that guy? Looks to me like he’s a fan of sharia law. CLINTON: (texts “OMG” to Brennan).
Read more. [Image: Reuters, Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg]
A one-act play of GOP fan fiction, by Conor Friedersdorf.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4wamygTM01qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
What If Herman Cain Had a Kill List?
Scene: Herman Cain is grinning as he enters the Situation Room, carrying enough Godfather’s Pizza for everyone present — and to everyone’s horror, Rich Lowrie is there at his side.
JOHN BRENNAN: Before we begin, Mr. Cain, a question.
CAIN: (glancing at a note card) Islom Karimov!
BRENNAN: Huh?
CLINTON: (amused) That’s the president of Uzbekistan.
BRENNAN: Jesus.
CAIN: I think that we ought to be able to kill 9 terrorists from 9 different countries in 9 minutes. Is there any reason we can’t do that?
BRENNAN:That isn’t exactly how it works, Mr. Cain, we can’t —
CAIN: Excuse me, I was talking to my man Rich. As I said during my campaign, I’m going to rely on my national security advisers, and I’m not going to let Washington insiders keep making all the decisions.
BRENNAN: I was just explaining that someone has gone to fetch the next batch of photos, so we have to at least wait —
CAIN: What about that guy? Looks to me like he’s a fan of sharia law.
CLINTON: (texts “OMG” to Brennan).Read more. [Image: Reuters, Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg]
A one-act play of GOP fan fiction, by Conor Friedersdorf.
The Comedy of Process: A Look At HBO’s VEEP
VEEP just keeps getting better and better. The HBO comedy detailing the career of a failing and flailing Vice President Selina Meyer and starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus is both hilarious and 
marvelously profane. The shows creator Armando Iannucci, known for “In The Loop”, has made a career of mocking the egomaniacal and power hungry. His work is littered with examples of the various ways a writer can puncture the whimsies of the over-confident and for his characters occasionally angry, but always profane comedy.
VEEP isn’t the first time he’s taken a shot at American politics, but it’s surely the most successful. The show interests itself primarily in the bitter ironies of the Vice Presidency. It sees the presidency much like John Adams as a high profile job that at times seems to offer little profile or real power; seeming to exist on pure potential for both. The premise is simple but it’s take on the complexities of the VP seat makes it interesting; everyone in Washington seems to have more power and influence than the Vice President who is unable to win even symbolic victories despite being the country’s second in command. The so close and yet so far nature of the office makes the cringe worthy mistakes and missteps of Selina and her staff worth it.
With shows like Scandal, Parks & Recreation, and the upcoming USA’s Political Animals and NBC’s 1600 Penn there does seem to be a gluttonous number of political themed television on the air, but VEEP is the only one that satires political institutions themselves and not the politics of government. It’s at heart an office comedy yes, but while it’s not an examination of partisan politics it is an examination of political process.
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Cougar Town live vs Hulu
I’m rewatching Cougar Town on hulu and they definitely cut a few scenes here and there and I can’t figure out why.
Really!? Which scenes I only watched it on Hulu.
life:
On what would have been Harvey Milk’s 82nd birthday, LIFE.com offers a series of photographs by Grey Villet chronicling the early days of the modern gay rights movement in America.
Titled “Homosexuals in Revolt” and touted as “a major essay on America’s newest militants,” the piece elicited strong reactions from readers — many of whom, of course, were less than happy that their beloved LIFE would devote a dozen pages to people whom one letter writer characterized as “psychic cripples.” Other responses from peeved readers that were printed in the January 28, 1972, issue of LIFE included:
From Telford, Penn. — There was plenty to lament in your year-end issue, but the thing that struck me as most sad was the fact that LIFE felt compelled to devote 11 pages to “Homosexuals in Revolt.”
From Chicago — Essentially, it is absurd to accept as a mere “variant lifestyle” a practice which, if universal, would mean the end of the human race.
And, from Glendale, California, the standard (as well as reductionist and selective) biblical critique — “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22).
Read more about this essay here.
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