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  • Franken on the Hill

    Before we rebuild another country we need to clean our own house. By that I mean send career politicians packing, rather they be republican, democrat or an independent. Sorry this means Ted Kennedy needs to go home and fight his cancer and Oklahoma's Istook needs to return to mopping floors at the radio station. There could be worse things to ...
    Posted to Readme by elkc on July 8, 2008

  • Michael Kinsley's Logic

    Kinsley's legendary mastery of logic has failed him. About Al Franken's problem explaining away bad jokes, he writes If comedy writers are thinking, ''I'd better not say that because it may not be funny and in 13 years I may decide to run for the Senate,'' we will end up with fewer good jokes on TV and fewer interesting people in the ...
    Posted to Readme by mathpol on July 8, 2008

  • Re: Franken a big deal?

    True. He wants to parlay his political authorship into a gig as a Senator. Yawn.
    Posted to Readme by Puller58 on July 8, 2008

  • First Casualty of Politics -- Sense of Humor

    The first casualty of prudish political perceptions, is the freewheeling creativity of the comic and his or her jokes. You have proven the point quite well for me, as regards your priggish proletarian pole axing of Al Franken's politics as candidate for U.S. Senator from the State of Minnesota, based on his previous life as a comic writer and ...
    Posted to Readme by MichaelBernard1 on July 8, 2008

  • Useful idiots

    As with the upcoming Presidential elections, the useful idiots of this country will put guys like Al Franken in as their representative and Barack HUSSEIN Obama in as their President. For who is more foolish? The fool or the ones who follow him?? Or in this case, cast a vote for him...
    Posted to Readme by gungirl61 on July 7, 2008