Happy Endings
Aired September 6, 2011



Topic: Depressed Americans need to think about the end

Highlight: The Bullet Point calls the audience whores.  Also, Stephen eats popcorn and enjoys the show of life.

Comment: Yeah, I love this one.

2011 comes to a close after the jump:

( Death and Taxes, I Think, Therefore I Brand, Look Out for the Little Guy, Bite the Hand That Feeds You, Bully Pulpit, The 1%, Let Them Buy Cake )

That New-Smell Smell
Aired April 4, 2011



Topic: Febreze product which changes scents.

Highlight: Stephen's smelly new product.

( Buy and Cellulite, Autocratic for the People, Enhanced Rejustification, Hear No Evil )

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Angriness
Aired January 12, 2011



Topic: Angry rhetoric in the wake of the Tuscon shooting

Highlight: About Glenn Beck's metaphor: The important thing to take away is that when the sister-in-law tells the wife about the husband cheating, she does so as loudly and as viciously as possible with the sole intent of ( Read more... )

Flight Risk
Aired May 4, 2010


Topic: Michael J. Fox interrupts the Word to promote his book
Highlight: Michael eats celery, plays harmonica, turns on a drill, and builds a bird house to distract Stephen, then locks him under the desk.
Comment: They went the entire month of May 2010 without a regular Word.  Sad
( P.R.-mageddon, $tay the Cour$e, Who War It Best?, The White Stuff, Ownership Society )

2009 ended with one of my favorite Words ever, Stephens review of Sarah Palin's book Going Rogue.  Drink in the funny...

The Green Mile
Aired November 3, 2009



Topic: Overcrowded prisons and privatizing them

Highlight: We know private enterprise does everything more efficiently.  Remember, Enron transformed the power grid (Into the power "gridn't"), and ( Read more... )

Share the Wealth
Aired March 3, 2009


Topic: President Obama's health care plan
Highlight: At least with the banks, we're getting something in return for our money (Screwed)

More after the jump:

( Locked and Loathed, Rand Illusion, Keeping Our Heads, Fine Line, Morally Bankrupt, Have Your Cake And Eat It Too, Stressed Position, Brunt Double )

Barack Obama gets elected and 2008 ends:

Change
Aired November 5, 2008


Topic: Barack Obama wins the 2008 presidential election
Highlight: What part of electing Barack Hussein Obama doesn't scare the American people? (The not George Bush part)

Prepare for some fun with alliteration:

( Pity Party, Love Lost, Mad Men, A Man Named Plaxico, Barack-Handed Compliment, Season of Giving, The Unbearable Lightness of Supreme Being )

That's The Ticket
Aired September 2, 2008



Topic: Critics target Sarah Palin's experience.

Highlight: Senator Obama, Senator Biden, and Senator McCain (Worst Three-Way Ever)

Comment: Ah, our first Sarah Palin-centered Word.  It's like we're entering a golden age.

More videos after the jump:( How Dare You?, Powerless, OhMyGodSocietyIsCollapsingAndWeWillSoonBeDevouringEachOtherInTheStreetsLikeDogsAndACrippledOne-EyedBoyWillBeKingIfWeDon'tFixThisByNextWeek!, Ye of Little Faith )

I don't think I realized how much bad economic news there was before the meltdown in fall of 2008.  Here we are in July and Bush is calling Wall Street drunk well before the bailout.  Bad memory, thy name is me.

Priceless
Aired July 14, 2008



Topic: Prices are going up, but worth of human life is going down

Highlight: Stephen describes the circle of ( Read more... )

It seems that post-strike was about the time The Word started running a little more rarely.  Only five in the entire month of May, 2008!  That should move this right along...

Free Gas!
Aired May 5, 2008



Topic: High gas prices

Highlight: Backing what policy experts think is a terrible idea just shows you're ready to be president (Specifically, President ( Read more... )