Irony

Jason Linkins

David Maraniss Is Above Politico's Cheap Antics, Reports Politico

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.03.2012

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Politico reports today that there is a "dangerous new Obama book" coming out that turns out to be the same book -- David Maraniss' forthcoming "Barack...

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PICTURE: One Dog's Incredible Sense Of Irony

Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Video, Irony, Pets, Funny Pictures, Adopted Dogs, Dog Training, Urlesque, Ironic Dog, Training Your Adopted Dog, Dogs, Comedy News

Dear Dog, We know finding out you're adopted is never easy, but that's no reason to be destructive. We're sure your family loves you very much. ...

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NYC Quake Response

Ted McCagg | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Nyc Earthquake, Irony, Earthquake, Comedy News
Ted McCagg

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Jason Linkins

Obama Is Beseeched To Call Congress Back From Recess, Despite The Fact Americans Have No Faith In Congress

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, S&p Downgrade, Deficit, Congress, Michele Bachmann, Irony, Unemployment, Michele Bachmann 2012, U.S. Credit Downgrade, Barack Obama, Politics News

S&P downgraded the U.S. credit rating, the Dow has been pitching around as if it were the Coney Island Cyclone and millions of Americans are unemployed. Someone should do something! So why not the Congress -- who have famously done nothing?

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Screw Irony: What Jonathan Franzen Learned From David Foster Wallace

Charlie Alderman | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, Hipsters, Infinite Jest, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, Freedom, Irony, Literary Fiction, Sincerity, Hysterical Realism, James Woods, Books News
Charlie Alderman

James Woods describes Jonathan Franzen, as a "cultural ironist, always a twisted adjective ahead of his characters." I'd argue that this gloss of Franzen misrepresents his two most well-known novels.

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Read "Bossypants" Like A Fancypants

blog.oup.com | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Irony, Allegory, Literary Criticism, Snl, Saturday Night Live, Literary Terms, Tina Fey, Bossypants, Allusion, Books News

Summer heralds many important things: 3D movies, involuntary camping trips, and sidewalk distribution of ice cream samples in tiny disposable cups. Bu...

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Jason Linkins

Doomsday Cranks Descend On Washington, Ironies Abound

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Doomsday, Irony, Harold Camping, Doomsday Cults, End of the World, May 21 2011 End of Days, Video, Religion News

Do you have plans for the summer of 2011? I know I do. I'm going to visit London, and redecorate my apartment, and maybe go see some movies or something. But we all may want to put our plans on hold, because it's entirely possible that the world might end in just over two weeks. That's the view of some end-times cranks, anyway, who have rolled up on the Washington Monument to explain that everyone needs to have their affairs in order by May 21. If they're right, I have just one thing I want to share with the rest of the world: Suck on that, student loans!

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Obama Admits: I Was Born in Morocco

Alex Blaze | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Irony, Barack Obama, Morocco, Humor, President, Satire, Comedy News
Alex Blaze

"It's half-way between Kenya and the US," Mr. Obama explained, "so in the spirit of bipartisan compromise I'm going to admit that I was born in Morocco."

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Santa, Deconstructed

Derek Nystrom | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Santa Claus, Marxism, Michel Foucault, Irony, Capitalism, Critical Theory, Postmodernism, Politics News
Derek Nystrom

I've recently realized that Santa Claus actually enacts, in miniature, the various stages of our gradual recognition of and acquiescence to contemporary forms of power and authority. No, seriously, he does. Here's how.

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Tan, Rested, and Ready: Welcome Home, Irony!

Spencer Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elections, Change, Irony, Midterm Elections, America, Columnists, Hope, Pundits, Obama Administration, Barack Obama, Comedy News
Spencer Green

Irony officially superseded Hope in a brief ceremony at the White House, as Alanis Morissette's "Ironic" was sung by Katy Perry. "I'm very optimistic about Irony and what it will contribute to our country," said the outgoing Hope.

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Jason Linkins

Afghan War Enters The Black Comedy Stage Of Operations: More Tanks!

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Irony, Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Tanks, Eat the Press, Media News

In case you missed it, last week the Washington Post brought word of the new wrinkle to winning the War in Afghanistan: tanks, lots of them! For the ...

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Hair of the Mug

Mike Gellman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Types, Women, Irony, Williamsburg, Hipster, Beards, Moustache, Men, Octobeard, Comedy News
Mike Gellman

It's that time of the year again. The glorious month where I grow my Octobeard. Why, you may ask, do I grow the Octobeard? First, I want Winter to know that I'm not afraid of it. Second, my ladies like me with stubble.

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Jason Linkins

Obama White House Faces Ironic Criticism

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Irony, Political Elites, Barack Obama, Eat the Press, 2010 Elections, Elections 2010, Politics News

Apparently, criticism of the Obama White House has reached the ironic comedy stage. Right. In a related story, with the exception of mockingbird loyalists, other birds are privately criticizing mockingbirds,

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The Book Cover Goes Meta

HTML Giant | Jimmy Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Covers, Book Marketing, Book Publishing, Irony, Books, You Shall Know Our Velocity, Meta, Cover Design, Reading, Amazon, Books News

One is given not just a hypothetical cover of the book, but an entire surrogate book as a manifested object residing in space. This may point to moder...

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Why Hipsters Will Save Theater: Cherrywood

Monica Westin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Media, Change, Kirk Lynn, Irony, Twitter, Peter Brook, Mary-Arrchie Theatre, Alienation, Theater, Hipsters, Facebook, Bertolt Brecht, David Cromer, Happenings, Cherrywood, Chicago News
Monica Westin

What ultimately distinguishes hipsterdom is the ironic distance its members have from their identities... the very alienated orientation that I will argue we need to save American theater.

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Does America Also Need Cultural Health Care?

Rob Patterson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rob Patterson

The majors were an almost ghostly presence at SXSW 2010. The indies have now seized the day within the leading-edge music market.

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Mad Cow by Moonlight: Mucca Pazza Enchants Evanston

Robert Rodi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mucca Pazza, Evanston, Mark Messing, Irony, Dawes Park, Mucca Pazza Evanston, Marching Bands, Chicago News
Robert Rodi

The role of the marching band used to be one of reassurance: crowds would watch them sail by in lockstep, a vision of supremely confident organization. But we don't much believe in that kind of world anymore.

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"Bruno" And The Irony Of Satire

Sean L. McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sean L. McCarthy

What happens when you're lampooning someone, or some segment of society, but in exposing their ridiculous notions, they only think you're promoting their cause?

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You're Too Old For That: Irony And Age Fade First In Fashion

New York Times | Cathy Horyn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Getting Older, Women, Aging, Irony, Beauty, Age, Fashion, Style News

FIRST go the knees, then goes irony. Sometime around age 50, women start to let go of certain ideas about themselves and fashion. Up till then you can...

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Hipster Joins Marines, Wins Purple Heart In Ultimate Act Of Irony

Emmett Rensin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Marines, Political Satire, Irony, New York, Youth Culture, Hipsters, Hipster Iraq, Hipster Purple Heart, Emmet Rensin, Joshua Cohen, Joshua Cohen Purple Heart, Joshua Cohen Hipster, Joshua Cohen Iraq, New York News
Emmett Rensin

Though no amount of exercise or food was able to add a pound to Cohen's body, he reported finding boot camp surprisingly easy. Sgt. Marvin DeLores remembers Cohen as "One of the easiest-conditioned guys I've met in years. Hardly took much work at all to shape him up."

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Jason Linkins

Lesbian YouTube Video Embraced By Virginia GOP (NSFW VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ahh, the Republican Party of Virginia. You know, in the recent past, they've sort of given the world no indication that they're anything other than a...

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Jason Linkins

Virginia GOP Eating Itself Alive; Internal Battle Looms For New Chairman (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeff Frederick Twitter, Video, Irony, G. Gorgon Liddy, Wiretapping, Jeff Frederick, Twitter, Northam, Frederick Twitter, Ralph Northam, Virginia GOP, Richmond-Virginia, Eat the Press, Politics News

The Republican Party of Virginia finds itself on the hunt, of late, for America's Next Top Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia. Why is this?...

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Oh, The Humanity! Godless Huffington Post Commenters Wickedly Destroying Conservatism

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

Due to a genetic deformity among conservatives, they are seemingly born without being able to spot irony in all its delicious forms.

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Who Is Pressing The Pressmen?

Emily Bracken | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Journalists, The Press, Politicians, Fourth-Branch-of-Government, Cnbc, Media Coverage, Comedy Writing, Vigilantes, Jon Stewart Jim Cramer, Media, Press, The Daily Show, Journalism, Edward R. Murrow, Jim Cramer, Checks and Balances, Comedians, Irony, Jon Stewart, Satire, Daily Show CNBC, Political Satire, Ombudsman, Media News, Idealism, Humor and Satire, Jim Cramer Daily Show, Comedy News
Emily Bracken

Humorists and comedians are a curious bunch. Quixotic by nature, they want so desperately to live in a world of decency, fairness and goodness, and in Stewart's case, in a world where the media grew some cajones.

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Madoff Robbed: Statue Worth $10,000 Stolen From Palm Beach Home

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Schadenfreude, Irony, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Bernie Madoff, Bernard Madoff, Business News

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Authorities say he took billions from investors, and now someone has taken a statue from him. Palm Beach police are investig...

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