I check Othram fairly often. For whatever reason, Fairfield County Jane Doe (1985) is really sticking with me, and I keep checking to see how close her case is to being funded and donate when I can. But, of course, I also keep an eye on the other cases.
It's not uncommon to see a new case solved every few weeks, but within the past few days, they've identified 7 Does! The site doesn't give much info on the people themselves, but:
A Jane Doe in Maury County was identified as Amanda Newcomb. Her body was found in the woods. No cause of death listed. She had a daughter, but she was not close to family and never reported missing. https://dnasolves.com/articles/maury-county-sheriffs-department-teams-with-othram-to-identify-2020-jane-doe/
https://www.wsmv.com/2023/03/21/how-detectives-identified-human-remains-maury-co-mothe
A Jane Doe in Gatlinburg was ided as Charlotte Roberta Henry. She was last seen a few months before her body was found. Cause of death not listed. https://dnasolves.com/articles/gatlinburg-police-charlotte-roberta-henry/
A Jane Doe in Rankin County was IDed as Tonya Lea Wills Mullins. She was murdered, and her body was left in a landfill. She was married with two kids.
https://dnasolves.com/articles/rankin-county-othram-tonya-lea-wills-mullins/
A Staten Island Jane Doe was Ided as Christine Belusko. She worked in a clothing shop in NJ, but had been vacationing in the Poconos in the weeks before her death. She was murdered. Bludgeoned to death. Her body was set on fire.
https://dnasolves.com/articles/staten-island-fbi-belusko/
A baby doe was ided as the unnamed baby of Kathryn Anne Grant. He was murdered. Stabbed His mother seems to have kept the birth secret, and she later died by suicide, so....
https://dnasolves.com/articles/uga-othram-kathryn-anne-grant/
A Dekalb County Jane Doe was IDed as Rebecca Burke. Cause of death, blunt force trauma. She may have been assaulted before her death, which makes it sound like murdee is likely.
https://dnasolves.com/articles/dekalb-county-jane-doe-1993/
And a Will County John Doe was Ided as Webster Fisher. He was the victim of a homicide. Shot to death and stuffed in a crate.
https://dnasolves.com/articles/will-county-webster-fisher-1980/

1599 book ban
In 1599, the Archbishop of Canterbury John Whitgift and the Bishop of London Richard Bancroft, whose offices had the function of licensing books for publication in England, issued a decree banning verse satire. The decree, now known as the Bishops' Ban of 1599, ordered the burning of certain volumes of satire by John Marston, Thomas Middleton, Joseph Hall, and others; it also required histories and plays to be specially approved by a member of the Queen's Privy Council, and it prohibited the future printing of satire in verse.[138]
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The motives for the ban are obscure, particularly since some of the books banned had been licensed by the same authorities less than a year earlier. Various scholars have argued that the target was obscenity, libel, or sedition. It seems likely that lingering anxiety about the Martin Marprelate controversy, in which the bishops themselves had employed satirists, played a role; both Thomas Nashe and Gabriel Harvey, two of the key figures in that controversy, suffered a complete ban on all their works. In the event, though, the ban was little enforced, even by the licensing authority itself.
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21st-century polemics
In 2005, the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy caused global protests by offended Muslims and violent attacks with many fatalities in the Near East. It was not the first case of Muslim protests against criticism in the form of satire, but the Western world was surprised by the hostility of the reaction: Any country's flag in which a newspaper chose to publish the parodies was being burnt in a Near East country, then embassies were attacked, killing 139 people in mainly four countries; politicians throughout Europe agreed that satire was an aspect of the freedom of speech, and therefore to be a protected means of dialogue. Iran threatened to start an International Holocaust Cartoon Competition, which was immediately responded to by Jews with an Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest.
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In 2006 British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen released Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, a "mockumentary" that satirized everyone, from high society to frat boys. The film was criticized by many. Although Baron Cohen is Jewish, some complained that it was antisemitic, and the government of Kazakhstan boycotted the film. The film itself had been a reaction to a longer quarrel between the government and the comedian.
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In 2008, popular South African cartoonist and satirist Jonathan Shapiro (who is published under the pen name Zapiro) came under fire for depicting then-president of the ANC Jacob Zuma in the act of undressing in preparation for the implied rape of 'Lady Justice' which is held down by Zuma loyalists.[139] The cartoon was drawn in response to Zuma's efforts to duck corruption charges, and the controversy was heightened by the fact that Zuma was himself acquitted of rape in May 2006. In February 2009, the South African Broadcasting Corporation, viewed by some opposition parties as the mouthpiece of the governing ANC,[140] shelved a satirical TV show created by Shapiro,[141] and in May 2009 the broadcaster pulled a documentary about political satire (featuring Shapiro among others) for the second time, hours before scheduled broadcast.[142] Apartheid South Africa also had a long history of censorship.
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On December 29, 2009, Samsung sued Mike Breen, and the Korea Times for $1 million, claiming criminal defamation over a satirical column published on Christmas Day, 2009.[143][144]
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On April 29, 2015, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) requested Kent Police investigate the BBC, claiming that comments made about Party leader Nigel Farage by a panelist on the comedy show Have I Got News For You might hinder his chances of success in the general election (which would take place a week later), and claimed the BBC breached the Representation of the People Act.[145] Kent Police rebuffed the request to open an investigation, and the BBC released a statement, "Britain has a proud tradition of satire, and everyone knows that the contributors on Have I Got News for You regularly make jokes at the expense of politicians of all parties."[145]
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Satirical prophecy
Satire is occasionally prophetic: the jokes precede actual events.[146][147] Among the eminent examples are:
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The 1784 presaging of modern daylight saving time, later actually proposed in 1907. While an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin anonymously published a letter in 1784 suggesting that Parisians economise on candles by arising earlier to use morning sunlight.[148]
In the 1920s, an English cartoonist imagined a laughable thing for the time: a hotel for cars. He drew a multi-story car park.[147]
The second episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, which debuted in 1969, featured a sketch entitled "The Mouse Problem" (meant to satirize contemporary media exposés on homosexuality), which depicted a cultural phenomenon similar to some aspects of the modern furry fandom (which did not become widespread until the 1980s, over a decade after the sketch was first aired).
The comedy film Americathon, released in 1979 and set in the United States of 1998, predicted a number of trends and events that would eventually unfold in the near future, including an American debt crisis, Chinese capitalism, the fall of the Soviet Union, terrorism aimed at the civilian population, a presidential sex scandal, and the popularity of reality shows.
In January 2001, a satirical news article in The Onion, entitled "Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over"[149] had newly elected President George Bush vowing to "develop new and expensive weapons technologies" and to "engage in at least one Gulf War-level armed conflict in the next four years". Furthermore, he would "bring back economic stagnation by implementing substantial tax cuts, which would lead to a recession". This prophesied the Iraq War, the Bush tax cuts, and the Great Recession.
In 1975, the first episode of Saturday Night Live included an ad for a triple blade razor called the Triple-Trac; in 2001, Gillette introduced the Mach3. In 2004, The Onion satirized Schick and Gillette's marketing of ever-increasingly multi-blade razors with a mock article proclaiming Gillette will now introduce a five-blade razor.[150] In 2006, Gillette released the Gillette Fusion, a five-blade razor.
After the Iran nuclear deal in 2015, The Onion ran an article with the headline "U.S. Soothes Upset Netanyahu With Shipment Of Ballistic Missiles". Sure enough, reports broke the next day of the Obama administration offering military upgrades to Israel in the wake of the deal.[151]
In July 2016, The Simpsons released the most recent in a string of satirical references to a potential Donald Trump presidency (although the first was made back in a 2000 episode.) Other media sources, including the popular film Back to the Future Part II have also made similar satirical references.[152]
Satire celebration
In June 2019, Punocracy, Nigeria's foremost satire platform organised a nationwide writing competition for youth in the country with the objective to make satire a widely accepted and understood tool of socio-political commentary.[153] Some of the entries addressed issues like gender violence, political corruption, religious hypocrisy, internet fraud, educational decay and so on.[154] The group also declared November 9 as World Satire Day with the idea of "trying to fight against the ills in the society not by ammunition but by humour, sarcasm etcetera".[155]
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See also
Cringe comedy
Culture jamming
Freedom of the press
List of satirists and satires
Mockumentary
News satire
Onomasti komodein
Parody religion
Stupidedia
Satiric misspellings
Satires (disambiguation)
Notes
The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, the censors of the press, issued Orders to the Stationers' Company on June 1 and 4, 1599, prohibiting the further printing of satires—the so-called 'Bishop's Ban'.[85][page needed]
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Claridge, Claudia (2010) Hyperbole in English: A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration p.257
Kharpertian, Theodore D (1990), "Thomas Pynchon and Postmodern American Satire", in Kharpertian (ed.), A hand to turn the time: the Menippean satires of Thomas Pynchon, pp. 25–7, ISBN 9780838633618
Branham 1997, p. xxiv.
Ullman, BL (1913), "Satura and Satire", Classical Philology, 8 (2): 172–194, doi:10.1086/359771, JSTOR 262450, The Renaissance confusion of the two origins encouraged a satire more aggressive than that of its Roman forebearers
Antonia Szabari (2009) Less Rightly Said: Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France p.2
"Forecast". Galaxy Science Fiction. June 1968. p. 113.
Corum 2002, p. 175.
"Ig", Improbable
Rosenberg, Harold (1960), "Community, Values, Comedy", Commentary, The American Jewish Committee, 30: 155, the oldest form of social study is comedy... If the comedian, from Aristophanes to Joyce, does not solve sociology's problem of "the participant observer", he does demonstrate his objectivity by capturing behavior in its most intimate aspects yet in its widest typicality. Comic irony sets whole cultures side by side in a multiple exposure (e.g., Don Quixote, Ulysses), causing valuation to spring out of the recital of facts alone, in contrast to the hidden editorializing of tongue-in-cheek ideologists.
Deloria, Vine (1969), "Indian humor", Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, p. 146, Irony and satire provide much keener insights into a group's collective psyche and values than do years of [conventional] research as quoted in Ryan, Allan J (1999), The trickster shift: humour and irony in contemporary native art, p. 9, ISBN 9780774807043
Nash, Roderick Frazier (1970), "21. The New Humor", The Call of the Wild: 1900–1916, p. 203, Humor is one of the best indicators of popular thought. To ask what strikes a period as funny is to probe its deepest values and tastes.
Babcock, Barbara A. (1984), "Arrange Me Into Disorder: Fragments and Reflections on Ritual Clowning", in MacAloon (ed.), Rite, Drama, Festival, Spectacle. Also collected as Babcock, Barbara A Grimes (1996), Ronald, L (ed.), Readings in ritual studies, p. 5, Harold Rosenberg has asserted that sociology needs to bring comedy into the foreground, including "an awareness of the comedy of sociology with its disguises", and, like Burke and Duncan, he has argued that comedy provides "the radical effect of self- knowledge which the anthropological bias excludes.
Coppola, Jo (1958), "An Angry Young Magazine ...", The Realist (1), Good comedy is social criticism—although you might find that hard to believe if all you ever saw were some of the so-called clowns of videoland.... Comedy is dying today because criticism is on its deathbed... because telecasters, frightened by the threats and pressure of sponsors, blacklists and viewers, helped introduce conformity to this age... In such a climate, comedy cannot flourish. For comedy is, after all, a look at ourselves, not as we pretend to be when we look in the mirror of our imagination, but as we really are. Look at the comedy of any age and you will know volumes about that period and its people which neither historian nor anthropologist can tell you.
Coppola, Jo (December 12, 1958). Comedy on Television. Commonweal. p. 288.
Willi, Andreas (2003), The Languages of Aristophanes: Aspects of Linguistic Variation in Classical Attic Greek, Oxford University Press, pp. 1–2, ISBN 9780199262649
Ehrenberg, Victor (1962), The people of Aristophanes: a sociology of old Attic comedy, p. 39
Bevere, Antonio and Cerri, Augusto (2006) Il Diritto di informazione e i diritti della persona pp.265–6 quotation:
nella storia della nostra cultura, la satira ha realizzato il bisogno popolare di irridere e dissacrare il gotha politico ed economico, le cui reazioni punitive non sono certo state condizionate da critiche estetiche, ma dalla tolleranza o intolleranza caratterizzanti in quel momento storico la società e i suoi governanti. (...) la reale esistenza della satira in una società deriva, (...) dal margine di tolleranza espresso dai poteri punitivi dello Stato.
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Amy Wiese Forbes (2010) The Satiric Decade: Satire and the Rise of Republicanism in France, 1830–1840 p.xv, quotation:
a critical public discourse (...) Satire rose the daunting question of what role public opinion would play in government. (...) satirists criticized government activities, exposed ambiguities, and forced administrators to clarify or establish policies. Not surprisingly, heated public controversy surrounded satiric commentary, resulting in an outright ban on political satire in 1835 (...) Government officials cracked down on their humorous public criticism that challenged state authority through both its form and content. Satire had been a political resource in France for a long time, but the anxious political context of the July Monarchy had unlocked its political power. Satire also taught lessons in democracy. It fit into the July Monarchy's tense political context as a voice in favor of public political debate. Satiric expression took place in the public sphere and spoke from a position of public opinion-that is, from a position of the nation’s expressing a political voice and making claims on its government representatives and leadership. Beyond mere entertainment, satire's humor appealed to and exercised public opinion, drawing audiences into new practices of representative government.
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Knight, Charles A. (2004) Literature of Satire p.254
Test (1991) p.9 quotation:
A surprising variety of societies have allowed certain persons the freedom to mock other individuals and social institutions in rituals. From the earliest times the same freedom has been claimed by and granted to social groups at certain times of the year, as can be seen in such festivals as the Saturnalia, the Feast of Fools, Carnival, and similar folk festivals in India, nineteenth-century Newfoundland, and the ancient Mediterranean world.
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Test (1991) pp.8–9
Cazeneuve (1957) p.244-5 quotation:
Ils constituent donc pour la tribu un moyen de donner une satisfaction symbolique aux tendances anti-sociales. Les Zunis, précisément parce qu'ils sont un peuple apollinien [où la règle prédomine], avaient besoin de cette soupape de sûreté. Les Koyemshis représentent ce que M. Caillois nomme le « Sacré de transgression ».
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Durand (1984) p.106 quotation:
Déjà Cazeneuve (2) [Les dieux dansent à Cibola] avait mis auparavant en relief, dans la Société « apollinienne » des Zuñi, l'institution et le symbolisme saturnal des clowns Koyemshis, véritable soupape de sûreté « dionysienne ».
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Yatsko, V, Russian folk funny stories
Corum (2002) p.163
David Worcester (1968) The Art of Satire p.16
Müller, Rolf Arnold (1973). Komik und Satire (in German). Zürich: Juris-Verlag. p. 92. ISBN 978-3-260-03570-8.
"What Is Horatian Satire?". wiseGEEK.
"Satire Terms". nku.edu.
Sharma, Raja (2011). "Comedy" in New Light-Literary Studies.
Patricia, Green. "The Golden Age of Satire: Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift" (PDF).
"What Is Juvenalian Satire?". wiseGEEK.
"Satire Examples and Definition". Literary Devices.
"Satire in Literature: Definition, Types & Examples". Education Portal.
Fo (1990) p.9 quotation:
Nella storia del teatro si ritrova sempre questo conflitto in cui si scontrano impegno e disimpegno ... grottesco, satirico e lazzo con sfottò. E spesso vince lo sfotto. tanto amato dal potere. Quando si dice che il potere ama la satira
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Eastman, Max (1936), "IV. Degrees of Biting", Enjoyment of Laughter, pp. 236–43
Fo, Dario; Lorch, Jennifer (1997), Dario Fo, p. 128, ISBN 9780719038488, In other writings Fo makes an important distinction between sfottò and satire.
Fo (1990) pp.2–3
... Una caricatura che, è ovvio, risulta del tutto bonaria, del tutto epidermica, che indica, come dicevo prima, soltanto la parte più esteriore del loro carattere, i tic la cui messa in risalto non lede assolutamente l'operato, l'ideologia, la morale e la dimensione culturale di questi personaggi. ... ricordando che i politici provano un enorme piacere nel sentirsi presi in giro; è quasi un premio che si elargisce loro, nel momento stesso in cui li si sceglie per essere sottoposti alla caricatura, a quella caricatura. ... Di fatto questa è una forma di comicità che non si può chiamare satira, ma solo sfottò. ... Pensa quanti pretesti satirici si offrirebbero se solo quei comici del "Biberon" volessero prendere in esame il modo in cui questi personaggi gestiscono il potere e lo mantengono, o si decidessero a gettare l'occhio sulle vere magagne di questa gente, le loro violenze più o meno mascherate, le loro arroganze e soprattutto le loro ipocrisie. ...un teatro cabaret capostipite: il Bagaglino, un teatro romano che, già vent'anni fa, si metteva in una bella chiave politica dichiaratamente di estrema destra, destra spudoratamente reazionaria, scopertamente fascista. Nelle pieghe del gruppo del Bagaglino e del suo lavoro c'era sempre la caricatura feroce dell'operaio, del sindacalista, del comunista, dell'uomo di sinistra, e una caricatura bonacciona invece, e ammiccante, accattivante, degli uomini e della cultura al potere
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Fo (1990) quotation:
L'ironia fatta sui tic, sulla caricatura dei connotati più o meno grotteschi dei politici presi di mira, dei loro eventuali difetti fisici, della loro particolare pronuncia, dei loro vezzi, del loro modo di vestire, del loro modo di camminare, delle frasi tipiche che vanno ripetendo. ...[lo sfottò è] una chiave buffonesca molto antica, che viene di lontano, quella di giocherellare con gli attributi esteriori e non toccare mai il problema di fondo di una critica seria che è l'analisi messa in grottesco del comportamento, la valutazione ironica della posizione, dell'ideologia del personaggio.
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Arroyo, José Luís Blas; Casanova, Mónica Velando (2006), Discurso y sociedad: contribuciones al estudio de la lengua en..., 1, pp. 303–4, ISBN 9788480215381
Morson, Gary Saul (1988), Boundaries of Genre, p. 114, ISBN 9780810108110, second, that parodies can be, as Bakhtin observes, "shallow" as well as "deep" (Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, 160), which is to say, directed at superficial as well as fundamental faults of the original. [...] the distinction between shallow and deep [...] [is] helpful in understanding the complex ways in which parodies are used. For instance, shallow parody is sometimes used to pay an author an indirect compliment. The opposite of damning with faint praise, this parody with faint criticism may be designed to show that no more fundamental criticism could be made.
Luttazzi, Daniele (2005), Matrix, IT, archived from the original on December 25, 2005, Dario Fo disse a Satyricon: —La satira vera si vede dalla reazione che suscita.
Luttazzi, Daniele (October 2003), Fracassi, Federica; Guerriero, Jacopo (eds.), "State a casa a fare i compiti" (interview), Nazione Indiana (in Italian), Lo sfottò è reazionario. Non cambia le carte in tavola, anzi, rende simpatica la persona presa di mira. La Russa, oggi, è quel personaggio simpatico, con la voce cavernosa, il doppiatore dei Simpson di cui Fiorello fa l’imitazione. Nessuno ricorda più il La Russa picchiatore fascista. Nessuno ricorda gli atti fascisti e reazionari di questo governo in televisione.
Kremer, S Lillian (2003), Holocaust Literature: Agosín to Lentin, p. 100, ISBN 9780415929837
Lipman, Stephen ‘Steve’ (1991), Laughter in hell: the use of humour during the Holocaust, Northvale, NJ: J Aronson, p. 40
Clark (1991) pp.116–8 quotation:
...religion, politics, and sexuality are the primary stuff of literary satire. Among these sacret targets, matters costive and defecatory play an important part. ... from the earliest times, satirists have utilized scatological and bathroom humor. Aristophanes, always livid and nearly scandalous in his religious, political, and sexual references...
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Clark, John R; Motto, Anna Lydia (1973), Satire–that blasted art, p. 20
Clark, John R; Motto, Anna Lydia (1980), "Menippeans & Their Satire: Concerning Monstrous Leamed Old Dogs and Hippocentaurs", Scholia Satyrica, 6 (3/4): 45, [Chapple's book Soviet satire of the twenties]... classifying the very topics his satirists satirized: housing, food, and fuel supplies, poverty, inflation, "hooliganism", public services, religion, stereotypes of nationals (the Englishman, German, &c), &c. Yet the truth of the matter is that no satirist worth his salt (Petronius, Chaucer, Rabelais, Swift, Leskov, Grass) ever avoids man's habits and living standards, or scants those delicate desiderata: religion, politics, and sex.
Ferdie Addis (2012) Qual è il tuo "tallone da killer"? p.20
Hodgart (2009) ch 2 The topics of satire: politics p.33
The most pressing of the problems that face us when we close the book or leave the theatre are ultimately political ones; and so politics is the pre-eminent topic of satire. ...to some degree public affairs vex every man, if he pays taxes, does military service or even objects to the way his neighbour is behaving. There is no escape from politics where more than a dozen people are living together.
There is an essential connection between satire and politics in the widest sense: satire is not only the commonest form of political literature, but, insofar as it tries to influence public behaviours, it is the most political part of all literature.
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BRAINY QUOTES
SATIRE
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
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Voltaire
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
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Molly Ivins
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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James Thurber
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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Anthony Trollope
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
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Alexander Pope
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Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
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Lenny Bruce
Satire doesn't effect change.
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P. J. O'Rourke
I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.
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Molly Ivins
Rush Limbaugh's pathetic abuse of logic, his absurd pomposity, his relentless self-promotion, his ridiculous ego - now those, friends, are appropriate targets for satire.
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Molly Ivins
Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.
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Molly Ivins
You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.
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Michael Moore
It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
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John Oliver
When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.
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Molly Ivins
Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.
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Stephen Colbert
I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime.
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Stephen Colbert
I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character.
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Stephen Colbert
I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don't have to push it!
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Tom Wolfe
We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or burlesques of popular dramatic themes, there was no conscious attempt at being either sarcastic or offensive.
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Stan Laurel
If you're going to give people 20 minutes of news satire, you've also got to give them Tiffani-Amber Thiessen or you're going to have rioting in the streets.
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Jon Stewart
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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Anthony Trollope
When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
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Dita Von Teese
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
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I. F. Stone
You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.
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Alan Alda
Every one of my products - my lingerie, my perfume, and everything that I do beauty-related with regard to building my burlesque shows - is just me.
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Dita Von Teese
The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.
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Pedro Almodovar
Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.
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Dita Von Teese
Bip is the romantic and burlesque hero for our time. Bip is a modern-day Don Quixote.
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Marcel Marceau
In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
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Caitlin Moran
I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
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Christina Aguilera
Objectivity is almost a choice you make. As a burlesque performer, I didn't choose to be objectified.
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Esme Bianco
Burlesque girls were alchemists. They were steel-tough performers who were willing to use kitchens as dressing rooms, haul their costume bags through the snow, and go into debt over fake diamonds, all for the five minutes onstage when they were goddesses.
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Molly Crabapple
I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.
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Carmen Electra
Burlesque dancing didn't solve all my post-divorce problems, but what it did do was force me to court myself for a little while.
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Emily V. Gordon
Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.
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Martin Mull
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.
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Dawn Powell
I've always had a love affair with New York City, and I've threatened to get an apartment there one day. But it just made sense for me to set 'Burlesque' on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. It's a place I know intimately well and love, and I think there's a great story to be told with L.A.
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Steve Antin

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I got access to R1 shop, so probably taking delivery sooner than expected. The purchase is gonna be done through business name, but I have a few concerns (as I’ve never done this before). I’d prefer personal name to simplify things with insurance and such, but my state is offering a heavy incentive (25k discount) to do a business EV purchase, so business name it is.
-Recommendations for financing ? Does Rivian/Chase offer decent rates (given the current interest rates) for a company name? Probably have to have personal guarantee. Or any CU recommendation?
-Insurance: recommended companies? I know it’s gonna be a lot more expensive than personal, so want to see what companies people use for the best coverage and pricing. 1 vehicle with the company owner being the sole driver.
-Registration (NJ specific). Can I put it in company name and get normal plates? I don’t want commercial plates as that comes with a huge number of issues with having company name, weight rating, and town displayed on the truck. Plus commercial plates restrictions on parkways and stuff.
Thanks for the help: so excited to take delivery. Glacier white on black R1S.

Ello ello! I’m about 6.5 months out from my October 2023 wedding. Pretty much all of the big stuff is booked. Thankfully I found my dress at a sample store a couple months ago so I’m good, but I’m having a bit of an issue with where to find the groomsmen attire. I know in general what I’d like the bridesmaids (and man of honor) to wear, but it’s also partially dependent on the groomsmen’s attire.
The problem is - only 1 of the 3 groomsmen lives in NJ where my fiancé and I live / where the wedding is. Another lives in VA and the other in FL. They won’t all be together until the bachelor party in September which will be way too late to figure it out.
Because we can’t get them all together to go shopping, we’re trying to find somewhere they can all buy/rent their suits from. And because of that, we haven’t properly picked out their outfits. We also don’t want to be financially douchey, so don’t want to ask them to buy a $500 suit or whatever.
Anyone have any suggestions? Mens wearhouse may be a possibility but it doesn’t seem to have the suit my fiancé wants. Anyone order from the suit shop or another online store?? How did it work out?? Extra points if they work in conjunction with a ladies/bridesmaid store to ensure things match properly.
I’d love to finally check this off my ever growing to do list 😅
TIA!

I need your help, but first a little bit of background on me. I’m a 27 year old man and I’ve been in the UBC (NJ) since 2015, I’m an architectural woodworker and I do installs on occasion. I also took a year off from the shop to work in the field doing interior system work, trim, sheetrock, etc. I’m back working in the shop, the work is much steadier as opposed to being a field carpenter and job security is a top priority for me.
The company I work for won’t be around till my retirement and I have no interest in working for another shop. Also, top rate in the mill cabinet local is pretty mediocre. With our new contract, we’ll be bumped up to $37/hr by 2027. This is why I’m looking for a career change.
This is how I landed on working for the Port Authority of NY NJ. I’m sure they’ll still be here by the time I hit the age of retirement, the benefits are just as good as I get through the UBC, the starting pay ($33.64/hr) is more than I make now as a journeyman, and there’s a lot of opportunity to move up the corporate ladder. I applied for a “station trainee” position. I would be working in Jersey City doing maintenance at the stations and tunnels. I had a brief phone interview and have my exam scheduled for nine days from today.
My question is, does anyone here work for the Port Authority, in maintenance or something close to it? How do you like it, what are your shifts/hours like? How does the money compare to when you first started? Are layoffs/furloughs common? What is the work culture like?
I really enjoy my job now, and I like the people I work with for the most part. My foreman is cool and doesn’t crack the whip, they’re not very strict at my shop at all and pretty lenient when it comes to pretty much anything. I get to listen to my podcasts and work on whatever I’m working on in peace. My commute is also less than 10 minutes and I don’t hit a single highway. But there’s no way I can survive in Jersey on my current salary. Thinking about my future, I won’t be able to support a family on my current salary. I need to make a change, and I’m excited about the idea of working for the Port Authority!! So please, I’d like to hear about your experience working at the Port Authority, thanks.

I need your help, but first, a little bit of background on me. I’m a 27 year old man and I’ve been in the UBC (NJ) since 2015, I’m an architectural woodworker and I do installs on occasion. I also took a year off from the shop to work in the field doing interior system work, trim, sheetrock, etc. I’m back working in the shop, the work is much steadier as opposed to being a field carpenter and job security is a top priority for me.
The company I work for won’t be around till my retirement and I have no interest in working for another shop. Also, top rate in the mill cabinet local is pretty mediocre. With our new contract, we’ll be bumped up to $37/hr by 2027. This is why I’m looking for a career change.
This is how I landed on working for the Port Authority of NY NJ. I’m sure they’ll still be here by the time I hit the age of retirement, the benefits are just as good as I get through the UBC, the starting pay ($33.64/hr) is more than I make now as a journeyman, and there’s a lot of opportunity to move up the corporate ladder. I applied for a “station trainee” position. I would be working in Jersey City doing maintenance at the stations and tunnels. I had a brief phone interview and have my exam scheduled for nine days from today.
My question is, does anyone here work for the Port Authority, in maintenance or something close to it? How do you like it, what are your shifts/hours like? How does the money compare to when you first started? Are layoffs/furloughs common? What is the work culture like?
I really enjoy my job now, and I like the people I work with for the most part. My foreman is cool and doesn’t crack the whip, they’re not very strict at my shop at all and pretty lenient when it comes to pretty much anything. I get to listen to my podcasts and work on whatever I’m working on in peace. My commute is also less than 10 minutes and I don’t hit a single highway. But there’s no way I can survive in Jersey on my current salary. Thinking about my future, I won’t be able to support a family on my current salary. I need to make a change, and I’m excited about the idea of working for the Port Authority!! So please, I’d like to hear about your experience working at the Port Authority, thanks.

A little bit of background on me. I’m a 27 year old man and I’ve been in the UBC (NJ) since 2015, I’m an architectural woodworker and I do installs on occasion. I also took a year off from the shop to work in the field doing interior system work, trim, sheetrock, etc. I’m back working in the shop, the work is much steadier as opposed to being a field carpenter and job security is a top priority for me.
The company I work for won’t be around till my retirement and I have no interest in working for another shop. Also, top rate in the mill cabinet local is pretty mediocre. With our new contract, we’ll be bumped up to $37/hr by 2027. This is why I’m looking for a career change.
This is how I landed on working for the Port Authority of NY NJ. I’m sure they’ll still be here by the time I hit the age of retirement, the benefits are just as good as I get through the UBC, the starting pay ($33.64/hr) is more than I make now as a journeyman, and there’s a lot of opportunity to move up the corporate ladder. I applied for a “station trainee” position. I would be working in Jersey City doing maintenance at the stations and tunnels. I had a brief phone interview and have my exam scheduled for nine days from today.
My question is, does anyone here work for the Port Authority, in maintenance or something close to it? How do you like it, what are your shifts/hours like? How does the money compare to when you first started? Are layoffs/furloughs common? What is the work culture like?
I really enjoy my job now, and I like the people I work with for the most part. My foreman is cool and doesn’t crack the whip, they’re not very strict at my shop at all and pretty lenient when it comes to pretty much anything. I get to listen to my podcasts and work on whatever I’m working on in peace. My commute is also less than 10 minutes and I don’t hit a single highway. But there’s no way I can survive in Jersey on my current salary. Thinking about my future, I won’t be able to support a family on my current salary. I need to make a change, and I’m excited about the idea of working for the Port Authority!! So please, I’d like to hear about your experience working at the Port Authority, thanks.

A little bit of background on me. I’m a 27 year old man and I’ve been in the UBC (NJ) since 2015, I’m an architectural woodworker and I do installs on occasion. I also took a year off from the shop to work in the field doing interior system work, trim, sheetrock, etc. I’m back working in the shop, the work is much steadier as opposed to being a field carpenter and job security is a top priority for me.
The company I work for won’t be around till my retirement and I have no interest in working for another shop. Also, top rate in the mill cabinet local is pretty mediocre. With our new contract, we’ll be bumped up to $37/hr by 2027. This is why I’m looking for a career change.
This is how I landed on working for the Port Authority of NY NJ. I’m sure they’ll still be here by the time I hit the age of retirement, the benefits are just as good as I get through the UBC, the starting pay ($33.64/hr) is more than I make now as a journeyman, and there’s a lot of opportunity to move up the corporate ladder. I applied for a “station trainee” position. I would be working in Jersey City doing maintenance at the stations and tunnels. I had a brief phone interview and have my exam scheduled for nine days from today.
My question is, does anyone here work for the Port Authority, in maintenance or something close to it? How do you like it, what are your shifts/hours like? How does the money compare to when you first started? Are layoffs/furloughs common? What is the work culture like?
I really enjoy my job now, and I like the people I work with for the most part. My foreman is cool and doesn’t crack the whip, they’re not very strict at my shop at all and pretty lenient when it comes to pretty much anything. I get to listen to my podcasts and work on whatever I’m working on in peace. My commute is also less than 10 minutes and I don’t hit a single highway. But there’s no way I can survive in Jersey on my current salary. Thinking about my future, I won’t be able to support a family on my current salary. I need to make a change, and I’m excited about the idea of working for the Port Authority!! So please, I’d like to hear about your experience working at the Port Authority, thanks.

A little bit of background on me. I’m a 27 year old man and I’ve been in the UBC (NJ) since 2015, I’m an architectural woodworker and I do installs on occasion. I also took a year off from the shop to work in the field doing interior system work, trim, sheetrock, etc. I’m back working in the shop, the work is much steadier as opposed to being a field carpenter and job security is a top priority for me.
The company I work for won’t be around till my retirement and I have no interest in working for another shop. Also, top rate in the mill cabinet local is pretty mediocre. With our new contract, we’ll be bumped up to $37/hr by 2027. This is why I’m looking for a career change.
This is how I landed on working for the Port Authority of NY NJ. I’m sure they’ll still be here by the time I hit the age of retirement, the benefits are just as good as I get through the UBC, the starting pay ($33.64/hr) is more than I make now as a journeyman, and there’s a lot of opportunity to move up the corporate ladder. I applied for a “station trainee” position. I would be working in Jersey City doing maintenance at the stations and tunnels. I had a brief phone interview and have my exam scheduled for nine days from today.
My question is, does anyone here work for the Port Authority, in maintenance or something close to it? How do you like it, what are your shifts/hours like? How does the money compare to when you first started? Are layoffs/furloughs common? What is the work culture like?
I really enjoy my job now, and I like the people I work with for the most part. My foreman is cool and doesn’t crack the whip, they’re not very strict at my shop at all and pretty lenient when it comes to pretty much anything. I get to listen to my podcasts and work on whatever I’m working on in peace. My commute is also less than 10 minutes and I don’t hit a single highway. But there’s no way I can survive in Jersey on my current salary. Thinking about my future, I won’t be able to support a family on my current salary. I need to make a change, and I’m excited about the idea of working for the Port Authority!! So please, I’d like to hear about your experience working at the Port Authority, thanks.