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George Carlin’s advice to ‘edgy’ comedians: Punch up, not down (video)
Ground-breaking standup comedian George Carlin is all in favor of free speech, but thinks the best comedy comes from punching up, not punching down, and that means not mocking gays, immigrants, women, and other vulnerable minorities.
Mas…George Carlin’s advice to ‘edgy’ comedians: Punch up, not down (video)
Anthony Bourdain visits ‘Little Guatemala’ in L.A.’s Westlake District (video)
Multi-ethnic sanctuary city Los Angeles is full of ethnic neighborhoods — Little Tokyo, Little Armenia, Tehrangeles, and more. In this episode of his CNN series, Anthony Bourdain stops by the nighttime food market in L.A.’s Westlake District – Little Guatemala.
Trump on Twitter makes the presidency modern again! (toon)
[Payton Hoegh toons regularly at Weekly Political dot com.]
I have been awaiting Anthony Bourdain’s “Parts Unknown” all my life
I have been waiting for something like Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown all my life.
Really.
The CNN season premiere April 30 was a watershed moment for Chicanos and Mexican Americans.
Here’s what I Tweeted the night I saw it:
The show asked people like me what it’s like to be who we are and I never thought anyone would ever care enough to ask. @PartsUnknownCNN
— dolores quintana (@doloresquintana) May 1, 2017
Mas…I have been awaiting Anthony Bourdain’s “Parts Unknown” all my life
Orange President salutes Black History Month (transcript, audio, toon)
Our historic President knows more about Black History Month than the last President, who was not so historic.
And instead of teaching us in American, the President is going to speak English to you, you know, to class up the history of this carnage-loving people, his African-Americans.
Our speech researchers here at the National Pochismo Institute took Wednesday’s speech transcript and ran it through a text-to-speech thang with a British-accented robo-bloke. And it sounds classy! You’ve never heard classy as bigly as this — all the words — the best words — plus a Ben Carson shoutout — and some bragging, lots of lies, and ignorance in abundance. Not to mention dissing CNN and non sequitors, slang, and muddled thinking. You’re welcome, mate.
Mira el transcript, with notes from POCHO’s Comic Saenz, and audio below:
Mas…Orange President salutes Black History Month (transcript, audio, toon)
CNN video: ‘Remittances’ from the U.S. keep this Mexican town alive
After a son leaves his small, impoverished Mexican town of Francisco Villa to find a better life in Chicago, he sends money to help his family — and hometown — alive. Racist Donald Trump says he would stop these “remittances.”
CNN identifies three Mexican mujeres wanted for Boston bombings
(PNS reporting from BOSTON) CNN has identified the three Mexican women suspected of the Marathon bombing, sources say:
Three obese Mexican women…are the chief suspects in the Boston Marathon attack.
“My top-level sources have confirmed that the individuals depicted in these photos planned, coordinated, and put into effect this week’s deadly bombing,” said CNN reporter John King, speaking of the trio of overweight Hispanic women, two of whom reportedly died in the late 1990s and one of whom has never actually visited the United States.
Mas…CNN identifies three Mexican mujeres wanted for Boston bombings
Prince Harry sure loves him some tamales oaxaceños! (video)
Prince Harry’s CNN interview about combat in Afghanistan is just gonna have to wait. One does not simply ignore the amplified call of the tamalero oaxaceño!