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"Mike and Jon, Jon and Mike—I've known them both for years, and, clearly, one of them is very funny. As for the other: truly one of the great hangers-on of our time."—Steve Bodow, head writer, The Daily Show
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"Who can really judge what's funny? If humor is a subjective medium, then can there be something that is really and truly hilarious? Me. This book."—Daniel Handler, author, Adverbs, and personal representative of Lemony Snicket
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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
March 01, 2005
Thank God Our Leaders Are Completely Different From Vladimir Putin
Previous installments in this long-running series can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. These ones are actually written by me.
I'm quite pleased that Billmon wrote this, thereby saving me a great deal of effort. (As an added bonus, it's much better than what I would have done.)
For more on this grim subject, here's a column by Dennis Jett (reg. required), a former US ambassador and member of the National Security Council.
Posted at March 1, 2005 06:00 AM | TrackBackThe one Billmon did today on "Casey at the bat" also was very well done. Casey not being a bloodthirsty dictator, of course, it does not fit in with your theme.
Posted by: Anna in Cairo at March 3, 2005 02:40 AM"Vlad" himself offers some comments… and chastisements for his pal.
http://www.swans.com/library/art11/cmarow12.html
Posted by: mk at March 3, 2005 11:02 AM
