'The Onion': So Funny It Makes Us Cry. If satire had an Olympics, might have won a gold medal this week. The satirical news source announced that its Sexiest Man Alive for 2012 is Kim Jong Un, North Korea's Supreme Leader. "With his devastatingly handsome, round face, his boyish charm, and his strong, sturdy frame, this Pyongyang-bred heartthrob is every woman's dream come true," the news service wrote below a photo that showed the 29-year-old leader in his high-collared, blue party suit — the Communist Party — on a reviewing stand.
"Kim made this newspaper's editorial board swoon with his impeccable fashion sense, chic short hairstyle and, of course, that famous smile," they wrote. Although in the photo, Kim Jong Un looks as stern as Stalin. But ardor was so persuasive that the official Chinese English language website not only ran the "Sexiest Man Alive" dispatch word-for-word, but added a 55-photo slideshow of Kim, riding a gray and white stallion and touring factories. hailed as "a proud Communist subsidiary of . " Natural History Magazine | Editors Pick from the Past. HE revival of concern in the recently extinct culture of the Nacirema is, to say the least, most interesting, and perhaps reflects an increasing state of concern for own society. (Aspects of the Nacirema culture were first described by Horace Miner in “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema,” American Anthropologist [1956] 58:503–507.)
The use of a multidisciplined approach in deciphering this puzzling culture is gratifying; for it is only by bringing all our methodological techniques to bear on the fragments of evidence in our possession that we will be able to rationally study and understand the history of this apparently vigorous but short-lived culture. Through exploratory digs by our archeological expeditions, we are able to say with some confidence that the Nacirema were the dominant group in the complex of North American cultures.
When one views areas normally considered to be within their cultural suzerainty, one sees evidence of similar activity. Most trees were removed. The Magazine - Why Aren’t Conservatives Funny? September/October 2012Why Aren’t Conservatives Funny? An academic’s doomed attempt to explain why there are no good right-wing comedians. By Joshua Green A Conservative Walks Into a Bar: The Politics of Political Humor by Alison Dagnes Palgrave Macmillan, 255 pp. Alison Dagnes, a political scientist at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, has a curious affliction: she thinks the comedian Dennis Miller is really, really funny.
She wanted so badly to meet him and discuss his craft that she contrived to write an entire book on the subject of comedy and politics essentially as a professional excuse to fulfill this desire. Miller styles his act as a stream-of-consciousness rant that is heavy on cultural allusions and was, back then, laced with an acid scorn toward the unenlightened — especially hicks, rednecks, culture warriors, and other right-wingers. And on Monday, movers went to the governor’s mansion in Austin, Texas, to transfer Bush’s belongings to Washington. Bodyrit. The Onion - America's Finest News Source. Free Wood Post.