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...campaign to attacking Coleman as a Bush lapdog, especially on Iraq and the economy - not a bad strategy against any Republican, given the President's woeful job approval numbers. But Franken and his team spent the summer in a defensive crouch, explaining how, in contemporary comedy, a rape joke is really just a joke, and how swear words are part of the basic vocabulary. As if that weren't enough, the Democrat became embroiled in a "scandal" over having not paid all of his state taxes from his days as an itinerant entertainer. By Labor Day, Coleman looked likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races to Watch '08: Franken May Get Last Laugh in Minnesota | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...Lonesome Day Blues.”To a certain extent, any release from the Bootleg Series is useless to all but the serious Dylan fan. Over the years, Dylan’s studio albums have evolved into institutions of their own—even that commercial joke and critical gaff, 1970’s “Self Portrait,” looms mythic in the catalogues of completists—and the Bootleg albums that deal explicitly with rarities and outtakes smack, to casual listeners, of revisionism and recycling. And to that same extent, those listeners are right...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bob Dylan | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...native American awareness Week in Lame Deer, Mont., and time for the Clean Indian Joke Contest. At many schools, the week is a serious occasion; at Chief Dull Knife College, it's a lighthearted celebration with a chili cook-off, art show, tepee-raising competition and a stick-horse race for adults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Chief Dull Knife College | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...winning joke is from a 12-year-old Northern Cheyenne boy: "Three men are riding in a pickup--two in the cab, one in back. The truck falls into the river. The two men open their doors and swim out but can't find the third man. Finally, he comes up. 'What took you so long?' they ask. 'I couldn't open the tailgate,' he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Chief Dull Knife College | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

Watching the group perform, he adds, “was like an inside-joke being passed around.” Maybe after all the mockery, a cappella gets the last laugh...

Author: By Jessica R. Henderson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: La Famiglia A Capella | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

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