When political cartoonist Thomas Nast lampooned the corruption of New York City’s Tammeny Hall, Boss Tweed was alleged to have said, “Stop them damn pictures. I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures.” YouTube is now a growing home of video lampoons, [...]
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Dog sentenced to stoning by Israeli rabbinical court is hoax
Last week, the intertubez esploded with the tall tale — unfortunately, within the pale of believability — that an ultra-Orthodox rabbinical court in Israel had sentenced a lawyer-reincarnated-as-dog to death by stoning. Ynet offered the story in English, which shot through Twitter like a hot pita through hummus. But over the weekend, Maariv purportedly issued [...]
Jun 20th, 2011 Humor and Israel 0 Comments
RE: Haven’t heard from you in a couple of days?
=== This is an automated email reply. === Thank you for your email! I am presently in Heaven with the Lord Almighty Yahweh and all the other believers in Judaism, and unable to get back to you until forever. I’m sorry if this permanently inconveniences you. In all fairness, I could have also been wrong [...]
May 24th, 2011 Humor 0 Comments
Stewart on Settlements
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Middle Eastern Promises www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Rally to Restore Sanity
Sep 30th, 2010 Humor and Israel 0 Comments
Occupation LOLz – The Full Collection
My awful sense of humor run amok — and years of frustrated pro-peace, anti-occupation activism — produced my collection of occupation-themed LOL Catz. Here there are all collected from my profile on icanhascheezeburger.com and reposted to Flickr, conveniently showcased in the gallery below: Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer var so = new SWFObject(“http://www.db798.com/pictobrowser.swf”, “PictoBrowser”, [...]
Sep 12th, 2010 Humor and Israel 0 Comments
The downward spiral of making dissent the enemy
Click to zoom. Panel translations from right to left: Big guy: A Real Israeli doesn’t dodge IDF conscription! Skinny guy: I’m a deputy battalion commander in the paratroops. A Real Israeli doesn’t sit in cafés on Ibn Gavirol [a Tel-Aviv boulevard]! A Real Israeli doesn’t order Pixies tickets! A Real Israeli is a fan of Beitar [...]
Jun 23rd, 2010 Humor and Israel 0 Comments
Everything stops for World Cup
By Jonathan Zapiro, South Africa. From the Bereaved Parent’s Circle exhibition “Cartooning in Conflict,” the calendar version of which hangs next to me in my office.
Jun 15th, 2010 Humor and Israel 0 Comments
Israel mad libs
In case you missed it amidst a larger post on Jewschool, I vented my frustration with the predictabile destructiveness of Israel’s military operations (of both public relations and human lives) by creating Israel mad libs: Israel invaded (place) today, rolling in (number 100-1,000) troops along with aerial strikes. The operation killed (10-1,000) civilians according to [...]
Jun 8th, 2010 Humor and Israel 0 Comments
R2-D2 + Divinity = Win
This cute blasphemy courtesy of the awesome web comic of math, nerdom and romance xkcd.com. Hat tip to the Google Buzz feeds of David A.M. Wilensky and Drew Cohen.
Mar 3rd, 2010 Humor and Judaism 1 Comment
This is why I blog
Hat tip to DCC for the brilliant use of this in a Jewschool comment spat.
Jan 12th, 2010 Humor 1 Comment