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Comedy Devastated by Obama Victory

[Brad Jacobson, Wounded Courier]
As the majority of Americans continue to bask in the glow of Barack Obama’s landslide victory on Tuesday, comedians nationwide have suddenly fallen on hard times. Some literally.

Widespread reports of comics leaping from windows on Election Night have received little attention in the press. Some historians liken the turn of events to [...]

A McCain Victory? Fat Chance!

[Tom McNichol, Morphizm]
The margin of Barack Obama’s electoral victory caught some pundits by surprise. But Obama’s win was ensured when McCain failed to connect with voters outside of his core constituents, the American obese. Compare the red/blue electoral map of the Obama-McCain contest with the eerily similar map charting obesity in the U.S.:

2008 Presidential Election [...]

It’s Over. At Last. Head High, America.

How McCain Could Win

[Greg Palast, Morphizm]
It’s November 5 and the nation is in shock. Media blame it on the “Bradley effect”: Americans supposedly turned into Klansmen inside the voting booth, and Barack Obama turned up with 6 million votes less than calculated from the exit polls. Florida came in for McCain and so did Indiana. Colorado, despite the [...]

Vote For Obama Because He\'s Black

[Greg Palast, Morphizm]
No question, Mr. Bruce was my favorite teacher in junior high.

I went to this Loser-ville school in the San Fernando Valley. It was all Chicano kids and working class white losers like me. Everyone had to take ‘metal shop’ so we could work the bottom-end jobs in the Chevy plant.

My brain was dying [...]