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Earn Big $$$ The NEA Way!

Nick Gillespie | 9.25.2009 8:54 AM

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  1. @   16 years ago

    Yikes! The NEA is recruiting...bukkake artists?

  2. Long time reader   16 years ago

    Hentai would be a great way for the NEA to appeal to the young voters!

  3. John Tagliaferro   16 years ago

    Reminds me of some of the old NSA parodies from the 1990's.

  4. Warren   16 years ago

    Now THAT'S a Friday funny!

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  6. Warren   16 years ago

    ROFL I just RTFA. It's high-lariat. A sample:

    Unlike traditional art schools, the Federal Art Instruction Institute doesn't waste your time on boring Post-Modernist theory, messy bodily fluids, or painful self mutilation. With our easy-to-learn program you will quickly learn how to channel your natural artistic ability and suburban self-loathing at state enemies who, when you think about it, are a lot like your parents.

  7. John   16 years ago

    Iowahawk is a genius.

  8. iowahawk   16 years ago

    "Iowahawk is a genius."

    Nah, I just smoke a lot of weed.

    Can I point out that clicking the picture takes you to a longer piece?

    /linkwhoring

  9. John   16 years ago

    Oh so that is what is in that big pipe.

  10. Doug Steen   16 years ago

    ROTFL dude that is priceless! I love it!

    RT
    http://www.privacy-web.pro.tc

  11. SugarFree   16 years ago

    Libertarian SF you can read at work. (Warning, ugly website design.)

    "And Then There Were None" by Eric Frank Russell

    'Superiors,' she scoffed with devastating scorn. 'No man is superior to another. No man has the slightest right to define another man's duties. If anyone on Terra exercises such impudent power it is only because idiots permit him to do so. They fear freedom. They prefer to be told. They like to be ordered around. They love their chains and kiss their manacles. What men!'

  12. Kant feel Pietzsche   16 years ago

    Do you have --
    ?an ironic trucker hat?
    ?ironic facial hair?
    ?ironic douchebag glasses?
    ?a vocabulary that includes "bringing utilities" and "mindspace"?
    ?deep insecurities about your place in the art world hipster food chain?
    ?a slavish desire to do the bidding of your government?
    ?no idea what "ironic" really means?

    Comedy Gold!

  13. Jay S.   16 years ago

    Can you make Sarah Palin look like a turtle or a pirate?

  14. Mango Punch   16 years ago

    Way better than the "Friday Funny"

  15. Art-P.O.G.   16 years ago

    Way better than the "Friday Funny"

    +1. Even Anonymity Guy likes it, and he's always been my toughest critic.

  16. Xeones   16 years ago

    Anonymity Guy is still lucid; he must not have scored any horse yet today.

  17. Art-P.O.G.   16 years ago

    Anyway, I take my hat all the way off to iowahawk.

  18. Pro Libertate   16 years ago

    I think that the statement "channel your natural artistic ability and suburban self-loathing at state enemies who, when you think about it, are a lot like your parents" hits a lot of the more unthinking members of the left right between the eyes. It's more that true; it's metatrue.

  19. Pro Libertate   16 years ago

    More than true, dangit!

  20. Art-P.O.G.   16 years ago

    Anonymity Guy is still lucid; he must not have scored any horse yet today.

    If only he realized that he didn't need the junk to have fun!

  21. Citizen Nothing   16 years ago

    For some reason, Anonymity-bot always reminds me of my Roomba vacuum.
    Oh, wait -- a robot that's kinda cute, but that also sucks. That explains it.

  22. Typical Artist   16 years ago

    Embedded in the discussion is at least one other disturbing point: a nearly lunatic delusion that artists are the vanguard of the proletariat.

    That is disturbing. Everybody knows artists are the vanguard of the bourgeoisie.

  23. JW   16 years ago

    Outstanding, Iowahawk. Absolutely fucking outstanding.

  24. The Libertarian Guy   16 years ago

    Wow, iowahawk, you've got that Yakov patois down pat. A little TOO well. I'd be concerned if I were you.

    In Russia, joke tells you!

  25. Hacha Cha   16 years ago

    is that Sarah Palin/Tina Fey drooling, foaming at the mouth, or just a lot of cum dripping off her chin? great pic

  26. Xeones   16 years ago

    I, too, would tip my hat to the 'hawk, if only i could find one that fits atop my gigantic head.

  27. Warren   16 years ago

    VERY funny
    HIGHLY relevant
    OUTSTANDING artwork

    Grade: A

  28. SugarFree   16 years ago

    iowahawk's commitment to the long form satire is wonderful. The trolls should get there any time now.

  29. KyleG   16 years ago

    Hilarious! Very well
    done.

  30. JB   16 years ago

    Awesome. I hate the Left more and more each day.

    A part of me is looking forward to Obama running the country into the ground. Then it's party time.

  31. Warren   16 years ago

    JB,
    Tell me you brought them this time.

  32. R C Dean   16 years ago

    Anyone who doesn't check iowahawk on a regular basis has no business using the intertubes at all.

  33. henry   16 years ago

    I dreamed I gave Sarah a money shot just like that--thanks for the visual!

  34. Jim Treacher   16 years ago

    Henry dreamed he had something with which to shoot.

  35. Joseph Goebbels   16 years ago

    If I weren't dead and roasting in hell right now, I'd be heading the NEA's pro-Obama propaganda putsch - er, campaign.

    But, alas, I am not. But life in hell is not so bad, except for Two-fer Tuesday, when we get not just one but TWO pineapples shoved up our asses.

    Ach, at least we get to choose which end goes in first.

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