OMGWTF CANADA BUS DECAPITATION!?

Craig Ferguson (my favorite late night host, since I broke up with Keith Olbermann) did an uncharacteristically serious and fascinating interview with Lance Morrow about his (fairly old) book, Evil: An InvestigationThis is a subject in which I'm interested and spend a lot of time thinking about. Writing as I do, the question of what is evil (and ( Read more... )

Satire -- advanced irony, if you like -- is supposed to be deadpan, and it ought to be dangerous, even inflammatory. Satire is polemical; it should test limits. Satire has faith in the intelligence of its audience, in part because it is itself a humor driven by ideas.

Americans don't appear to have a clue about irony