(This clip aired on June 24, 2013. To get suggestions on how to view clips of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report outside the US, please see this earlier post.)
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(This clip aired on June 24, 2013. To get suggestions on how to view clips of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report outside the US, please see this earlier post.)
Mr. Deity explains why this is so in an episode riddled with clichés and bad puns.
(Via Machines Like Us.)
Sometimes we nonbelievers forget how difficult times have become for Christians who can no longer make bigoted statements without experiencing pushback. They are being bullied and called meanies and worse. They are simply not used to it and are suffering deeply. Samantha Bee of The Daily Show lends a sympathetic ear to their plight. [Read more…]
… how would we tell? (From the film The Dictator.)
Tom Tomorrow has a new cartoon that looks at how the reactions of those opposed to Snowden’s leaks are all over the map.
Belle Isle is a 1000-acre island located in the Detroit river between the US and Canada. A developer plans to purchase the island for $1 billion and convert it into a sovereign state that the wealthy from all over the world can come and live in, free from those oppressive taxes that are taken from them and given to the moochers and looters. [Read more…]
Yesterday I posted about the absurd plans of people who want to create separate armed enclaves where they hope to live free lives without the government imposing its will on them. As readers were quick to point out, while the military fortifications and weaponry envisaged may have been barely adequate in medieval times, it would take a modern army less than five minutes to overpower them. [Read more…]
As could have been easily predicted, both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report had bits on the Snowden affair and they promise more in the days to come. This was Jon Oliver’s first day as fill-in anchor for Jon Stewart for the summer and he did a pretty good job handling a big story. As he said in a different clip, the revelations of the NSA monitoring all electronic and phone communications would be making the Amish feel pretty smug right now, if only they had any idea what was going on. [Read more…]
