A letter to Dr. Laura Schlessinger
From Letters of Note, a letter from Kent Ashcraft, a musician, with some hilarious questions for Dr. Laura Schlessinger about biblical do s and don’t s.
Drugs and their effects
“A new test of the drug hydroxychloroquine suggests that it may cause delusions, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned on Monday.”
Community spread
“A resident of Washington, D.C., has been identified as the source of the community spread of coronavirus misinformation throughout the United States.”
Imaginary call
“Yes, they call that a dangling participle. Not many people know that. The Norwegians called me about it.”
Another Cabinet change
The New Yorker reports that Donald Trump has named Lori Loughlin as his new secretary of education, replacing Betsy DeVos.
TrumpHotels.org
A must-see.
“Thumbs-Up”
A New Yorker cover: “Thumbs-Up,” by Barry Blitt.
Tom Lehrer, "Lobachevsky"
Tom Lehrer's plagiarism song
Creamsby's Sheaves
One man's dream: a little stationery store
"Size is the answer"
Plans for survival, from Republicans and from William S. Burroughs' dinosaurs
Colson Whitehead, "Visible Man"
Ellison-influenced satire
Dell response to the MacBook Air
A parody commercial
Andrew Sullivan's advice
Just like yours, my beard has been getting a little gray on the chin and sides recently. And it really does age one. . . . But all is not lo...
Reality trumps satire
Predominantly, probably, uh
Reality trumps academic satire
On the difficulties of writing academic satire