10 Reasons to Get a New 2010 Apple/AT&T Phone for 2011
By DuncanRhys C. Liancourt ––1. You would rather drop calls than balls, with or without a Snooki (whatever that is). 2. Unable to afford air travel thus missing out on full body scans you fear you will not reach your recommended daily dose of radiation. 3. The new app that, while calling out names from … Continue reading
Cider Braised Paprika Lamb
By DuncanRhys C. Liancourt ––This is the first stanza of Frank O’Hara’s “The Hunter:” He set out and kept hunting / and hunting. Where, he thought / and thought, is the real chamois? / and can I kill it where it is? / He had brought with him only a dish / of pears. The autumn … Continue reading
Small Man Gone: Joe Manchin Wassails While Wronged-Warriors Wrestle
By DuncanRhys C. Liancourt From FireDogLake’s Chuckie Corra (and available from nearly all news sources): “Joe Manchin is an epic disappointment already. He was the only Democratic senator to vote no on a DADT repeal earlier in the month, and then refused to even show his face for the vote on Saturday for the DREAM … Continue reading
Rightist Christmas List
You will have observed by now, dear appreciated reader, that satire is one of Cultured Anarchy’s most cherished tools. Sometimes it is the only tool at our humble disposal that seems up to the task. Such is the case with the piece you are, I hope about to read. Should you wish to see the–shall … Continue reading
What Better Holiday Card Than Wolfhound On Tapestry
Thanks to you all for reading. Just click on the title. Happy Holidays.
America’s Native Moonies
By DuncanRhys C. Liancourt There’s bad news for people hoping to observe tonight’s lunar eclipse: Republicans filibustered it. Americans: please adjust your calendars, the GOP has filibustered the concept of Tuesday; there will not be any Tuesdays until further notice. P.S. *he GOP has also filibus*ered *he le**er (*). During tonight’s lunar eclipse 30% of … Continue reading
Dysfunction Junction, What’s Your Function? Secession & Regression Predilections
By DuncanRhys C. Liancourt Rick Perry asserts Texas’s right to secede from progress and keep all its great Texasiness like “the highest teenage birth rate, the highest proportion of people lacking health insurance of all 50 states, “the third highest poverty rate, the second highest imprisonment rate, the lowest voter turnout, the lowest proportion of … Continue reading
I’ll Be Home For Christmas, Damn It
By DuncanRhys C. Liancourt [Sing it to the original tune by Buck Ram, Kim Gannon, and Walter Kent] The Dream Act is dead thank the lord Publicly like I usually do And although there remain bills left to kill I promise you I’ll be home for Christmas Down and outs bite me Hope you … Continue reading
If Marriage is Sacred Shouldn’t We Sacrifice to Bridezilla?
By DuncanRhys C. Liancourt ––The National Organization for Marriage’s Maggie Gallagher says defeat of Prop 8 would mean “end of marriage as we know it in all 50 states.” too bad for Newt Gingrich’s would-be 4th wife. The National Organization for Marriage joins the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins in “refudiating” its addition to the … Continue reading
Every Time a Politician Cries a Demon Gets His Horns
By DuncanRhys C. Liancourt ––Some say John Boehner’s repeated weeping humanizes him, but the tears must not be even skin deep since he still looks like Star Trek’s Lieutenant Commander Data. John Boehner cries for the children––straight ones with rich parents. To be fair, John Boehner’s tears really were tears of love: power is an … Continue reading