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...joke was not lost on the media: FoxNews.com noted that it was "snowing irony in Washington." Nor did the protest end quite as expected. After the high-spirited and very well organized marchers left the park and encircled the nearby Capitol plant, groups locked arms in front of the three entrances to the facility, fully expecting to be arrested by the dozens of police monitoring the event. But the arrests never came: the police simply waited and watched as speakers and musicians climbed a mobile soundstage and addressed the increasingly frigid crowd. After nearly three hours, with activists beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite Snow — and Irony — a Climate Protest Persists | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...went there on a Wednesday evening, and the place was packed with students and families who were having a jolly time eating out of the john. "It's very progressive and irreverent, like a practical joke," says junior high school teacher Chen Kin-hsiang, who went because her students raved about it. "It's a little gross when you see other people eat," she says, "but when you're eating, you don't notice it, 'cause you're hungry and the aroma is appetizing." Smell is one poop-like quality the chef does without. (See pictures of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Edible Excretions: Taiwan's Toilet Restaurant | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...month ago, Harvey knocked Nancy Pelosi because she "rubber-stamped" the stimulus package. He called on Congress to do its job and not "sit on the economic skillet and let the pork sizzle." This was mild stuff compared with a joke Harvey passed along to his listeners in September 2007 about an imaginary meeting of David Petraeus and Chelsea Clinton. The President's daughter asks the general if he's afraid of anything, and Harvey gives this reply: "I am afraid of three things. I am afraid of Osama, and I am afraid of Obama, and, Ms. Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Harvey: The End of the Story | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...that have made their way onto the bosoms of many Harvard students, we don't think the tenuous relationship between Pertile and Corleone is a cause for concern. The real issue seems to be, is a comparison to Corleone necessarily a bad thing? Also, the t-shirt's a joke, if you didn't notice (via the Eliot list...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: Lino Pertile is the Godfather | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...Bolton, John • joke by about the nuclear destruction of Chicago delights attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

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