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...more political humor, visit time.com/cartoons
Brown did the most traditional thing of all last year. He married Anne Gust, a former Gap executive he had been seeing steadily for 15 years. Friends say she has calmed down the frenetic Brown and given his sense of humor a beta boost. Brown, a Catholic, organized the ceremony, chose the medieval chants, cleared the whole thing with Rome and held the private service in the same San Francisco parish in which his parents were married. When I ask the obvious question--"So, how's married life?"--his reply is pure, distilled, 100-proof Brown: "It's a good...
...everyone's mantra, from civic associations to city hall. "We have purchased jet boats and sandbags," says Glenn Stoudt of the Lakeview Civic Improvement Association, before trying out a joke. "There are several arks being constructed, and the rats and mosquitoes are pairing up." That's called hurricane humor in these parts...
...flooded facility. He was siphoning gas from National Guard trucks to run generators to sustain the critically ill; eight patients died. "Our experience in Katrina taught us the same thing our parents taught us--to be self-sufficient, self-responsible, disciplined and organized," he says, a look of humor mixed with pain in his eyes. His staff members kidded him when he showed up the night before Katrina with a "hurricane box" containing a sledgehammer and life jackets. They laugh no more, he says. This year Charity, which can barely sustain an emergency room in a defunct Lord & Taylor store...
...Bloggers have yet to whip themselves into a humor-patrolling frenzy over the MSM's lack of attention to Gore's satire - though it was undeniably funnier than Stephen Colbert's White House Correspondents' Association monologue, it had a smaller target: the person who was elected in 2000, not the one who actually sits in the office. It's that twist of history that made the skit so satisfying to liberals, myself among them, who have gnashed their teeth through six long years in George W. Bush's Washington. But the satisfaction one might draw from even a playful vision...