I took another look at that Franken-Coleman Mad Magazine fold-in and the more I looked at it, the more I thought that their intent couldn’t possibly have been to create a FrankMan buttplug. Or a ColeKen buttplug.
I tried folding the page differently.
That didn’t look right either, so I tried a different fold.
I’m pretty sure this is more like what Mad had in mind. Except maybe it should have been spelled Demo-chér.
And judging from the look on Al’s face, I don’t think there’s any question who’s holding the soap.
More news about Al Franken today than just his adventures with his tubby toys. The Forward has named Al to their list of the 50 Most Influential Jews.
Here’s Al’s mention:
Al Franken
It took Al Franken eight months of a ballot recount and legal wrangling before winning Minnesota’s “Jewish seat” in the Senate, a seat that has been held for the past three decades by members of the tribe. For a comedian-turned-politician, it was worth the wait. In July, Franken became not only the 13th Jew in today’s Senate, but also — more notably — the Democrats’ 60th member, giving the party its super-majority. Best known for his years on “Saturday Night Live,” Franken shifted slowly toward politics, emerging first as the author of a best-selling anti-Conservative indictment, then as a liberal talk-radio host and finally as a candidate. When he took on Jewish Republican Senator Norm Coleman in the Minnesota race, Franken said: “I don’t think Minnesota is ready for a gentile in this seat.” As a member of the Senate, Franken, 58, has yet to make his mark. He is frequently a guest at events organized by Jewish organizations, and participants at those events have praised his seriousness and depth, while registering a singular complaint: Franken is no longer funny.
The orange link is mine.
Funny, but prior to last fall’s elections, I think my taking note of this being a Jewish seat was not echoed by anyone not writing for an exclusively Jewish audience. The only mention in the Strib of Franken’s religion was a guest op-ed by his daughter in which I learned for the first time that Franni Franken is Catholic, just like Laurie Coleman.
I’ll ask again: how in the hell could any news outlet not find this newsworthy?
And again I’ll answer my own question: because both parties were terrified of a mass exodus of Republican voters to Dean Barkley’s camp.
Why Franken’s camp was worried, I can’t imagine. Unless, of course, they were afraid that Israel would come up in one of the debates.
Al’s first anniversary in office is a ways off yet, and I’m not aware of any votes he’s cast so far that would impact Israel, but I’m watching and waiting.
One percent of America is Jewish. Thirteen percent of the U.S. Senate is Jewish.
WTF? The next biggest religious disparity is that Mormons comprise 1.7% of our population, yet hold 6% of the U.S. Senate (Bob Bennett, Orrin Hatch (UT), Harry Reid (NV), Mike Crapo (ID), Mark Udall (CO), and Tom Udall (NM)).
Add that up and 2.7% of America controls one out of every five U.S. Senate seats.
If Mormons and Jews ever find any overlap, I think we’re in for some serious synergy. How would Mormon-Jewish culture impact the U.S.?
Mormons would become funnier, Jews would become taller. Fiddler on the Roof would play Salt Lake City every year and Marie Osmond would start doing gigs in the Catskills. Jews would take up skiing and Mormons would discover hummus.
And the kids? They’d all grow up to become Mennonites.
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What’s worse than a Jewish-Mormon-Mennonite on your doorstep?
Catholic extortionists in your homeless shelters.
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I voted for Maame Gyamfi, but that was before I read the Post’s judges’ comments.
Now I hate all of them.
The judges, that is. I read copy written by these judges all the time and if they put half the effort into their own work that they’ve invested into this contest, no one would be pushing the Post to get new columnists.
Keywords: sappy, overwrought, whimsical, leverage, brio, infectious, bright, recurring, flurry
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Fox News purges their videos from YouTube.
Not all of YouTube, of course. Just the parts using clips to mock Fox.
No Glenn Beck fan clubs were disturbed by this abuse of the DMCA take-down process.
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Money:
Fighting back always pisses them off, so much so they ramp up the cheating and win anyway
A short Jonathan Schwarz post that gave me three nosebleeds (and I can’t make my right fist unclench)
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Let me preface this picture by saying FUCK THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND.
If I’ve never felt obliged to get over the Revolutionary War, I can hardly fault a WWII vet for shitting black stools over this apostasy.
U.S. Presidents do not bow, salute, curtsy or do anything but shake hands. Firmly.
They also don’t give shoulder rubs to German chancellors, but that was then and this is now.
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EtC:
Herbert on screwing the young and poor (I know — more fun than screwing rich old people but Herbert doesn’t go there)
Clarence Page factchecks Palin, and so does AP, John Cole, Tim F. and The Daily Beast,
More than you wanted to know about Khalid Shaikh Mohammed’s trial [and still more from TBogg]
Jackson Diehl is, without a doubt, the biggest douchebag douching at the WaPost
I really think the leftysphere is drawing the wrong conclusions on Galbraith (unless this doesn’t lead to a free and independent Kurdistan, but I suspect it will)
30 nude photos and 8 sex tapes
Is Lou Dobbs a racist? Of course he is, but unlike most Republicans he is also a genuine conservative
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11/14/2009 at 4:32 pm
BigDaddyMalcontent
“U.S. Presidents do not bow, salute, curtsy or do anything but shake hands.”
Unless the previous administration was riddled with embarrassingly juvenile crooks who ruined your nation’s reputation for generations and you are desperate for any chance to recover a mere sliver of said nation’s former glory.
11/15/2009 at 2:16 am
Rudy Polk
> U.S. Presidents do not bow, salute, curtsy or do anything but shake hands. Firmly.
I just read Lawyers, Guns and Money. Check out their pics of Ike bowing:
http://lefarkins.blogspot.com/2009/11/dwight-d-eisenhower-bowing-hour.html
11/15/2009 at 8:50 am
Mark Gisleson
What Ike was doing is what I was thinking of when I first heard about this. That’s how a gentleman bows to a lady. The one exception is DeGaulle, and I suspect that was a bit more personal. But Obama’s bow is more like groveling.
11/15/2009 at 10:12 am
Rudy Polk
Mark, I understand why you feel that way because Obama does seem to bow more than merely lean forward like Ike does. And FWIW, Ike looks more stylish or something IMO.
I think that Obama bows because he grew up in Honolulu. Bowing is still somewhat popular there. If you grow up there & you hang out with your Japanese or Korean friends at their homes, then you might bow to imitate your friends’ behavior. My experience living there when younger: I recall bowing only to the elderly when with my friends who bowed to them. Those same friends bowed to lots of people of various ages we’d see together at stores, swim meets, the beach, library, shaved ice stands, and such. I did not ever sense that I should bow to any one in my own age group or even to my parents’ age group when with them. I did out of peer pressure or perceived peer pressure, I suppose, feel more comfortable than not bowing to elderly people when I was with my Korean and Japanese friends who customarily bowed to them. Those same friends still bow to loads of their family friends on Oahu. The act is akin to handshaking but with more attendant nuances. I may be wrong, but I reckon that bowing is something that Obama learned in his youth to do from time to time in order to be polite. Obama may or may not break some sort of protocol rules in politics by bowing, but I’m pretty sure he learned from well-meaning friends & neighbors in his youth to bend down toward his waist when bowing.
11/15/2009 at 10:15 am
Mark Gisleson
That makes perfect sense, but if someone as far to the left as me has a visceral reaction to the photo, I think it’s fair to say that most Americans don’t expect to see their leaders “bowing” deeply to foreign leaders.
I’ve yet to see the bow defended by anyone on the right, and I doubt many indies are all that comfortable with it.
11/15/2009 at 7:59 pm
Maame G.
I do not know if this is appropriate, so feel free to delete it if it is not. I could not find an email address to contact you on your website.
I wanted to thank you for taking the time to vote for me in the Wash Post contest. It means a lot that someone who doesn’t know me made it a point to vote. You are totally awesome. Even though I did not make it past this round, I hope one day to reward your vote of confidence.
Thanks again!
Maame Gyamfi
11/15/2009 at 8:04 pm
Mark Gisleson
And thank you for writing the best entries. You’re a great writer. Just having you leave a comment here classes up the joint.
11/16/2009 at 12:29 am
gene
Wege wrote: U.S. Presidents do not bow, salute, curtsy or do anything but shake hands. Firmly.
The fucking Emperor of Japan is a (weak ass) sovereign. Someone who is a vassal of a sovereign bows to their sovereign. A commoner of the realm shares Sovereignty with the dog robber in chief. No bow, no scrape, no grovel. Bad Obama!