The thing about putting Lashawn Barber on The Daily Show is that you don’t really even have to make fun of her. All you have to do is let her talk; the comedy’s self-contained:
P.S. Why should we listen to Barber anyway? I mean, she’s only a woman. Those are probably just her hormones talking…
You know, this country survived a foreign invasion, civil war, two world wars, and a cold war with an enemy that possessed enough nuclear weapons to turn every inch of the planet inot glass a hundred times over. It survived these threats without throwing away the Constitution. But when a couple of failed goat herders got lucky once, our Congress pissed their collective pants and willingly voted away the Fourth Amendment. Senators tend to be concerned, sooner or later, with their legacy. It might help if you pointed out to them that, right now, their section of the history book is entitled “Notable Cowards of the Early 21st Century”
The cloture vote –the vote to break the GOP lead filibuster, just to be clear — is apparently sometime this morning. There are phone numbers at the link above. Please, call your Senators and remind them that we aren’t supposed to be a nation of cowards.
Royalty was like dandelions. No matter how many heads you chopped off, the roots were still there underground, waiting to spring up again.
It seemed to be a chronic disease. It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: "Kings. What a good idea." Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.
-- Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
