I'm a big fan of Tom Lehrer, the Harvard professor and political satirist who skewered everyone in the 50s and 60s with WASP-y little piano ditties about nuclear war, racism, and pollution.
He also famously remarked that "political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." And perhaps he's right. Certainly, it seemed during the Bush years that the Worst Administration Ever was one step ahead of both political satire and dystopian fiction.
Things are different now, right? We don't just have a president who makes better speeches. We have a president who does things that make us proud to be Americans again, right? He even tells the occasional joke, and he's pretty funny. Though maybe sometimes he's deadpanning and it's going over our heads.
But if someone doesn't tell me the punchline to this I may start screaming.
Obama administration will not sign land mine ban
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