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According to Cold War era satirist Fred Lehrer, “when the earth becomes uranious, we will all go simultaneous…oh, we’ll all fry together when we fry.” However, with nuclear power rising to the forefront as the new green, it seems he may have gotten it backward. It actually looks like nuclear may prove a valuable ally in the fight against global warming...
...disappointed, but I’m not ecstatic either,” said Rosemary H. Han ’10, who said that she would prefer someone more in the vein of political satirist Stephen Colbert...
Ideologues can parody themselves more effectively than any satirist. Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party, is sipping sparkling water in a hotel lounge and comparing himself to Mahatma Gandhi. The BNP aims to send nonwhite Britons "home." At private BNP rallies, Griffin, convicted in 1998 of incitement to racial hatred, warns adherents that Muslim men are plotting to defile underage British girls, peppering his invective with concocted statistics such as this one: "The average racist murderer in this country is 40 times more likely to be a member of an ethnic minority than the other way round...
...When feminist Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792, satirist Thomas Taylor responded with A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes. Taylor mocked the absurdity of studying women’s rights by suggesting this might one day lead scholars to take seriously the even zanier notion of animal rights. If this occurred, he warned, “government may be entirely subverted, subordination abolished...
...it’s a challenge to forget her infectious melodies. Don’t be fooled by her darling demeanor; in “It’s Not Me, It’s You,” she proves her mettle as both a musician and satirist...