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Congress And The Inauguration

Courtesy of the most reliable source for news on the net, the Onion.  You know, the odd thing is that I have seen stranger Congressional hearings.  It is hard to satirize Congress.  Rather like attempting to satirize chaos.  An institution has to have some standards before satire is effective.

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Donna V.
Donna V.
Sunday, January 18, AD 2009 6:02pm

A while back, Tom Wolfe stated that satirizing aspects of modern American life became next to impossible during the later half of the 20th century. No matter what a satirist dreams up these days, he is bound to find himself one-upped by reality.

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