In “My New Jewish Husband,” Halley documents the beginning of a new genre: Reality sitcoms. All she needs is one more encounter with those Hadassah ladies and a guest appearance by Jason Alexander…

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Now playing at the AMC Fenway in Brookline:

Alfie
Saw
Ray
Birth
The Grudge.
Shall We Dance?

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My daughter and I have made a short movie (58 seconds) for your enjoyment. It’s called RingTone.

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“I wonder how Jackie Chan would get down…”

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From the Harry Shearer site comes this RealAudio clip from his ooold comedy group, The Credibility Gap. It’s a clever play on the old Abbot and Costello routine. I hadn’t heard it before…

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I was re-reading Doonesbury’s Greatest Hits: A Mid-Seventies Revue — I read from it every day because that’s how my Liberal Overlords send me their coded messages — and came across this strip from 1976, when Gerald Ford was in office and his son Jack had acknowledged that he (Jack) smoked pot:

It got me thinking. Perhaps Clinton’s “But I didn’t inhale” remark was intended as a joking reference to this strip. Then, once it got taken seriously, Clinton felt like he couldn’t correct the record for fear of looking like a liar or like someone who doesn’t take drug “abuse” seriously. Or, perhaps he just didn’t want to raise the drug issue again: “Actually, I did inhale. And I held my breath until I felt the sweet fumes aerating my brain, raising me to a higher consciousness.” (Actually, my own multi-decade experiment with marijuana led me to conclude that it lowered my consciousness, albeit rather enjoyably.)

Coincidence? Yeah, probably. But it’s Sunday, so Joho should run a comic strip, right?

A couple of pages later I found another strip that took me down memory lane:

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Test your luck with Florida’s sample electronic ballot…

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At the World Economic Forum meeting today, so not a lot of time to blog. So, here’s the Top Ten list Kerry read on Letterman last night:

Top 10 Bush Tax Proposals

10. No estate tax for families with at least two U.S. presidents.

9. W-2 Form is now Dubya-2 Form.

8. Under the simplified tax code, your refund check goes directly to Halliburton.

7. The reduced earned income tax credit is so unfair, it just makes me want to tear out my lustrous, finely groomed hair.

6. Attorney General (John) Ashcroft gets to write off the entire U.S. Constitution.

5. Texas Rangers can take a business loss for trading Sammy Sosa.

4. Eliminate all income taxes; just ask Teresa (Heinz Kerry) to cover the whole damn thing.

3. Cheney can claim Bush as a dependent.

2. Hundred-dollar penalty if you pronounce it “nuclear” instead of “nucular.”

And Bush’s number one tax proposal:

1. George W. Bush gets a deduction for mortgaging our entire future.

FWIW and BTW, I thought Kerry did well overall…a lot better than he did with Jon Stewart.

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Pestiside is a blog by an American living in Hungary. Talk about snarky. And talk about funny. I believe, in fact, that this is what’s known as a wickedly funny site. (Thanks, Ethan, for the link.)

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Political satire. (Thanks to Cory for the link.)

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