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From: Me and Tom
My friend Tom Shroder just received the following email from your agency, over your signature. We are left with two urgent questions.
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The Invitational Week 183: Same Difference
Jesse Frankovich’s total rewrite of a vintage “Speed Bump” panel — he hadn’t seen the original words — topped this week’s Invitational results. See our picks below for seven more Re-Bumps, plus Dave Coverly’s original wordings.
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Birthright Shittizenship
The most appalling decision the Supreme Court made yesterday was the one that came down on the correct side, the righteous side that supported the single most important principle upon which this country was founded, the one that codified ba...
The Great American State Fair, Part II
Overnight, Donald Trump posted the following:
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Dear Mr. President:
Thanks for asking.
I am delighted 😀 to answer, having just attended the event, as the readers of this column know. I arrived at one p.m. on Saturday, which is theo...
Shade 'n' Fraud
Behold the panorama above. Rachel took this photo at one o’clock Saturday afternoon at Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair on the National Mall. There’s one good thing one can say about this event: Unlike many state fairs and county fa...
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