the whole world is watching

[laconia]

Did everyone else already know that Sacha Baron Cohen went to Cambridge? I had no idea! Andrew Paul's article in the AV Club covers the new Borat film, mentions that Baron Cohen wrote his undergraduate thesis on the American Civil Rights Movement, and discusses Baron Cohen's op-ed in Time magazine. Even if you don't have time to catch up on all things Borat (or, like me, are only mildly interested in the character), We Must Save Democracy From Conspiracies is an op-ed well worth reading.

Slate published a piece of satire I can really get behind--an endorsement for Trump, from the fly that perched on Mike Pence's head during the vice presidential debate.

You may be confused as to why I am offering an endorsement in the first place, since most Americans share molecular physicist Seth Brundle’s pernicious misconception that “insects don’t have politics.” It’s true that we’re not big on compromise, but it’s also true that we love garbage, and we love corpses, and we love shit, and you don’t have to have one of those big ugly mammalian brains to tell which political party is committed to materially improving our lives.

OTOH I'm appalled because the article presents such a well-reasoned case for supporting Trump; but then again, only an agent of Beelzebub could rationally support the man.