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...says that the human condition is weak, venal and vulnerable, and we all deserve to blow. The bang that ended the movies, definitive political satire,Dr. Strangelove, wasn't fireworks but the end of the world. In the Loop sidesteps the happy ending, but sitting through it is a hoot: cruel people making funny cracks about life-and-death issues. You'll feel smarter just getting in synch with its hurtful, healing sense of humor...
...weak and inept in the penalty box. Sure, it can be comical to watch Republican National Committee (RNC) gaffe machine Michael Steele riff on his hip-hop vision for the party or Texas Governor Rick Perry carry on about secession or Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann explain how F.D.R.'s "Hoot-Smalley" Act caused the Depression (the Smoot-Hawley Act, a Republican tariff bill, was enacted before F.D.R.'s presidency), but haplessness does not equal hopelessness. And yes, the Republican brand could benefit from spokesmen less familiar and less reviled than Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich, but the party...
...Smoot-Hawley tariff bill signed by President Herbert Hoover is attributed by to President Franklin Roosevelt and - oh, yes - referred to by as the "Hoot-Smalley" bill...
...told that the firm was out of business and that they should look for another job, some of them did what any number of their colleagues around town have been doing for years: they threw a party. On the equity-trading floor, the internal p.a. system known as the "hoot" blared out the R.E.M. song "It's the End of the World As We Know It." And then, after collecting their personal possessions, dozens of the Lehmanites crossed the concourse to the pub just opposite, All Bar One, where they drowned their sorrows in style. "People were spending five...
Millions of Minnesotans awoke with such queasiness last Wednesday. Sure, the gubernatorial campaign had been a hoot, what with a no-chance-on-earth third-party candidate marauding about the state and providing some comic relief from the stiffs who headed up the Republican and Democratic tickets. But the election was supposed to signal sober-up time. Instead, the good citizens of Minnesota learned that they--or 37% of the 61% of those who went to the polls--had voted into the Governor's office a 6 ft. 4 in., 250-lb. shaved-head former professional wrestler and Twin City...