#NoParody ⁽⁷⁴⁾

He knows parody is impossible Thus does religion show its true function in any society: the maintenance of inequality and patriarchy.

Michael Cohen's office raid might actually be the beginning of the end of this long national nightmare. Two articles make different but roughly equivalent arguments about just how serious this is. In The New Yorker, Adam Davidson explains how the investigation centered on Cohen is…

A maniac entered the school with an AR-15. He shot and killed 17 people. This is the essence of the response of about a third of the country, and pretty much all the Rethuglicans. Oh, and clear backpacks. The gave those kids clear backpacks. Clear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iCm8tYX-Vw Why, Pumpkin? Why? As always, true parody remains beyond the reach of writers, comedians and satirists. Why else would every Cabinet appointee seem to have been selected to blow up the agency they head?

The Nib -- a great cartoon anthology site -- has a cartoon up about the impossibility of parody. Sources: Uber Pumpkin