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Politics

Friday Funnies

Master of disaster

Scott Stantis | 2.1.2008 6:25 AM

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  1. BTS   19 years ago

    Man, that's a little on the tasteless side, isn't it. Oh well, not nearly tasteless enough for me to pitch a fit over. Besides, Rudy pretty much brought it upon himself what with every 10th word out of his mouth being "9-11"

  2. sarcasm/   19 years ago

    Are you trying to be hurtful?

  3. JOhn C. Randolph   19 years ago

    Speaking of the sunshine state, I think the DEA really wishes that the cops down there had just given this guy back his minivan:

    http://www.sfbg.com/wire/20.html

    I can just imagine the drug warriors trying to uproot the entirety of American agriculture looking for hybrids like this.

    -jcr

  4. DavidS   19 years ago

    JCR - that's a great great story. Hope someone at Reason can blog it in full...

  5. From the Keystrokes of John Q.   19 years ago

    Mr John C. Randolph,

    That's too funny! Thank you for posting that up! I am in your debt!

  6. tarran   19 years ago

    JCR - If any man deserves a Medal of Freedom (a private one, not the Bush award for incompetency above and beyond the call of duty), it is that professor.

  7. Episiarch   19 years ago

    Man, that's a little on the tasteless side, isn't it.

    If you want 9/11 tastelessness, watch the South Park segment of The Aristocrats. They managed to top themselves, which I didn't think was possible. Great stuff.

  8. joe   19 years ago

    Still too soon!

    Wincing here.

  9. P Brooks   19 years ago

    JCR- Great story, thanks

    "Tasteless" is some fucking martinet clambering over dead bodies trying to obtain a political advantage. I piss on the grave of the Ghoul's Presidential aspirations.

  10. Lamar   19 years ago

    I guess I'll just have to get over watching those 3,000 people die. No biggie.

  11. DavidS   19 years ago

    Tasteless is more palatable when combined with funny - not the case here.

  12. joe   19 years ago

    I'm surprised by my reaction, but those recognizeable cut-off structural bits on the rubble were really a kick in the pants.

  13. Nick   19 years ago

    Tasteless is using 9/11 to go to pre-emptive war against a country that had nothing to do with it, while ignoring the mastermind behind the attacks.

  14. Al Federber   19 years ago

    "Tasteless is using 9/11 to go to pre-emptive war against a country that had nothing to do with it, while ignoring the mastermind behind the attacks."

    -- You mean Dick Cheney, right?

  15. Nick   19 years ago

    Who else would I mean? 😉

  16. Daze   19 years ago

    Rule of thumb: anything labeled as "a funny" is likely not funny.

  17. g.ira   19 years ago

    What the hell. Screw anyone who's amused by that shit. Mock Rudy all you want, but there is no humor to be drawn from 9/11 imagery. I get that the big criticism is his "9/11 milking," but there are less lazy and vile ways of conveying that sentiment.

  18. Brian Sorgatz   19 years ago

    Mock Rudy all you want, but there is no humor to be drawn from 9/11 imagery.

    Let's lighten up just a little, folks. If Hitler can be funny, anything can.

  19. Brian Sorgatz   19 years ago

    And to hell with Godwin's Law.

  20. Brian Sorgatz   19 years ago

    Have you seen CatsThatLookLikeHitler.com?

  21. Francesco Sinibaldi   19 years ago

    The sun and the blackbird.

    Like a nightingale
    coming back in the
    dark I hear a
    glimmer escaping
    in the twigs of
    a quietness, and
    finally a martin,
    smiling and tender.

    Francesco Sinibaldi

  22. Kdog   19 years ago

    That is more than a little tasteless.

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