Tag Archives: political satire

Troll Level Expert: Lured to Texas, two would-be jihadists die within seconds of arriving at “Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest”

By Mark | May 4, 2015

As we discussed most recently in regard to the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in Paris, I feel very strongly that nothing should be off-limits to satirists. With that said, however, I find something incredibly distasteful about yesterday’s “Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest” in the Dallas suburb or Garland, Texas, that reached its climax with […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged American Freedom Defense Initiative, Byron Smith, Charlie Hebdo, Elton Simpson, entrapment, Garland, Geert Wilders, honeypots, ISIS, Islamophobia, Muhammad, Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest, Pamela Geller, satire, savages, terrorism, Texas, trolling | 54 Comments

Charlie Hebdo, terrorism, and the attempted assassination of political satire

By Mark | January 7, 2015

This was Stéphane Charbonnier, better known as Charb. He was a political cartoonist, and the editor-in-chief of the French satire publication Charlie Hebdo. Today, he was murdered in Paris by masked gunmen along with 11 others, including cartoonists Cabu, Wolinski and Tignous. The men who perpetrated the attack have yet to be found, but evidence […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged Allahu Akbar, Cabu, cartoons, Chab, Charb, Charlie Hebdo, David Pope, Everybody Draw Mohamed Da, France, Free Speech, God is Great, Islam, Islamophobia, Joe Randazzo, Muhammad, Paris, radical Islam, religious extremism, satire, Stéphane Charbonnier, The Onion, Tignous, Wolinski | 87 Comments

Inherit Mark’s much-loved copy of “To Be or Not to Be”

By Mark | October 29, 2013

A few years ago, I decided to invest in a copy of the 1942 Ernst Lubitsch film “To Be or Not to Be” starring Jack Benny and Carole Lombard. The brilliantly quirky little black comedy, set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw in the run up to WWII, had long been a favorite of mine, and I’d gotten […]