Name That Douchebag! 20 February 2012
This one’s a thinker! Results announced Wednesday!
An earnest Valentine -- introducing Ex Libris
Thanks for reading, y’all.
Name That Douchebag! 13 February 2012
The second-ever installment of Name That Douchebag! The Douchebag of the Week is a prominent Republican… See what you can do, Internet!
How exactly did you get elected?
Congressman John Fleming, a Republican from Louisiana, made the unfortunate mistake of posting a somewhat legendary months-old Onion article to his Facebook page, presenting it as real news.
Introducing a new series on the blog, a trivia game that we’ll call Name That Douchebag! I’ll upload a photo, quote, or description of some awful wanker and you have to guess who it is! The first person who comments here or on Facebook, Tweets @EdwardJohn, or e-mails teddyk@establishmag.com will earn the title of Number One Douchebag Identifier of the Week. I’ll update the post with the winner’s name. That’s glory enough, I should think.
For the first edition of Name That Douchebag! we’re going to start off super easy. All you have to do is identify the four villains in the foreground of this photo. Full names, people!
Ron Paul is a Stopped Clock
“[Ron Paul] prides himself on having never changed his mind in decades, which would be admirable if he weren’t going around being dead wrong most of the day. He’s a stopped clock. There will not be one more tick from Paul, clockwise or counter. That mean’s that he’ll be correct only twice a day, as if by coincidence.”
Salman Rushdie: Christopher Hitchens (Vanity Fair, Feb 2012)
On June 8th, 2010, I was “in conversation” with Christopher Hitchens at the 92nd Street Y in New York in front of his customary sellout audience, to launch his memoir, Hitch-22. Christopher turned in a bravura performance that night, never sharper, never funnier, and afterwards at a small,…
Occupy Protestors: Ditch the Guy Fawkes masks and show me your face.
“Fawkes was a reactionary Catholic terrorist. Sometime during his military career as an ally of the Inquisition Regime, he began using the handle “Guido Fawkes” in solidarity with his fanatical Spanish cohorts. Hoping to reinstall a papist king on England’s throne, he and his co-conspirators planned the demolition of Parliament and assassination of King James …
So, tell me, what exactly does Guy Fawkes have to do with Occupy Wall Street?”
