[Peace-discuss] OMG, I LOVE Andy Borowitz!!

[Brussel, Morton K]

Yes! It is so far back in the past, that I can't remember when the New Yorker was anything but an outlet for State Department views, and a staunch defender of Israel and its policies. But they do it in a bland New Yorker kind of way, and very occasionally have an article by the likes of ???. I've been subscribing because of an occasional interesting story, movie reviews, and the cartoons, but even for the latter, they have lost any edge. As for their poetry, it in general is opaque. 

Clearly it is a magazine that is intended for the wealthy. 

--mkb

On Dec 28, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:

> The New Yorker's taste in prose is now as corrupt as its politics. 
> 
> There has been a vast decline in both from the time of William Shawn, a consummate editor and opponent of the Vietnam War, to that of the present editor, a supporter the Iraq war and of Obama's murders. 
> 
> Chomsky recently noted the ''moral degeneration running throughout the whole intellectual class. And yes, Obama has continued this and in some respects extended it, but it hardly comes as a surprise. The rot is much deeper than that."
> 
> --CGE
> 
> 
> On Dec 28, 2012, at 7:59 AM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" <ewj at pigsqq.org> wrote:
> 
>> I explained to some of my colleagues in the lab
>> that the New Yorker was a very high class literary magazine published
>> in NYC, and had one colleague read a portion of the
>> article out loud.
>> 
>> The matter of the excretion of a phone book left the audience
>> rather non-plussed.  There were cries for him to cease and desist
>> somewhere near the buffet.  We never made it to the Richards curve.
>> 
>> Some one tried to explain the reputation of the New Yorker.
>> 
>> We never quite made it to full explanation of the matter of ginormous
>> and the escatological accommodation of phone books
>> passage of the end times, either.
>> 
>> I didnt get to point out the analogy between a phone book
>> and a "purple squealing worm with a bell on it" which is one
>> of the Missouri variations on that theme.
>> 
>> Everyone went back to work and some said they were grossed out
>> enough already.
>> 
>> *
>> By the way, there aren't any Wings or Wongs in the phone books
>> in Hong Kong.
>> 
>> That's to keep everyone from Winging the Wong number.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/28/12 15:55, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
>>> You mean, as opposed to Anglo-Saxon?
>>> 
>>> On Dec 27, 2012, at 10:44 PM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"<ewj at pigsqq.org>  wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Is there a link to an English language version?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 12/28/12 6:49, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Check this out, if you haven't already...
>>>>> http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/12/a-holiday-letter-from-john-boehner.html#entry-more
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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