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Yeah. You know, the late George Carlin said that satirists - or I think his word was cynics but I think really the word he intended is satirists - are basically disappointed idealists. So you're making people laugh, but you're kind of writing from anger: "It shouldn't be this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harry Shearer on Political Satire | 7/18/2008 | See Source »

The conservative-leaning Times of London sarcastically praised Comme Si Rien N'Etait as quite possibly "the best album ever made by the wife of a head of state," which, while undoubtedly true, is also a typically British form of insult. But Bruni is not a joke singer, or a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Bastille Day, Bruni Causes a Storm | 7/13/2008 | See Source »

A Failing State The most immediate casualty of the political shenanigans in Islamabad is the global war on terror. According to a report released by the Pentagon on June 27, Taliban militants in Afghanistan have regrouped after their fall from power and "coalesced into a resilient insurgency." That resilience, say...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dangerous Ground | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

U.S. and British forces have helped in the efforts to get Iraq's border under control. Says Huwaidi: "They help with air support and they control the main gate at [the border crossing of] Khorramshahr, and they help with ground missions on the border when needed." Still, he says, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Iraq and Iran Meet, Uneasily | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

The Castle Doctrine was also invoked in a shooting a month ago 250 miles away from the Horn incident, in Kaufman County, Texas. An elderly man picked up a gun and shot - out his front window - at an "intruder" who turned out to be his 15-year-old neighbor, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Kindly on Vigilante Justice | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

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