Word: jon
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...Senate is in the midst of a terrible crisis, and I'm here to help. First of all, there's the minifridge. Is this caramel? Moose blood? I have no idea. But when I miraculously scrub it clean, all Senator Jon Tester notices is the Heineken minikeg in the garbage. In Montana, he explains, you don't throw away beer, even on office-moving day. In New Jersey, I tell him, you get pizza and beer when you help someone move. In Montana, I learn, people don't take obvious hints...
Carlson, Tucker • four-and-a-half-year-old smackdown by Jon Stewart still rankles...
...House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she'd like to see the matter resolved by the end of next week, though Senate Republicans already blocked a vote on Baucus's bill this week. "Other senators need time to consider the bill," Jon Kyl, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, said on the Senate floor. "The public ought to have a right to review this legislation to make sure it doesn't have any additional loopholes or unintended consequences...
...that we've civilized ourselves out of really satisfying scapegoat rituals: The ancients would have staged a mass immolation of the AIG casino pigs in their private jets or crucified Bernie Madoff on the 18th hole at the Palm Beach Country Club, preceded by a public show trial with Jon Stewart as chief magistrate. You probably need an over-the-top catharsis or two like that to get the popular rage under control. As it is, guilt and anger are being splashed about chaotically and inefficiently--and people like Barack Obama, who had nothing at all to do with...
...report is brutally honest and surprisingly up-to-date, citing the Rush Limbaugh controversy and the Jim Cramer vs. Jon Stewart kerfuffle as evidence of the personality-driven nature of cable news and the viral powerhouse that is YouTube. And like so many panicked reports, this bleak prognosis on the health of American journalism grimly alludes to the 1930s as a way to really emphasize the dire straits we're in: "If estimates by Advertising Age prove accurate, total spending on advertising fell for the second consecutive year. Another decline is predicted for 2009. That would mark the first consecutive...