The Invitational Week 190: Can You Handle It?
What’d be a good Secret Service code name for some celebrity? Plus the winning limericks.
The Gene Pool
Humor. Outrageous discussions, surprising observations, live chats, polls, and the weekly Invitational humor contest (formerly The Washington Post's Style Invitational). Significant misanthropy tempered by a warm heart.
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Did Jon Ossoff Actually SAY That?
The Democratic U.S.
Good News!
We get to flush him!
The Nature of The Beast
. . . It's kind of pathetic.
The Woke Mob!
Yay, I finally found the template for the inane modern right wing assault on so-called wokeness — the fatuous transgender locker-room and bathroom fury, communists taking over our cities, forced indoctrination of anti-racism beliefs, oppressive snowflake oversensitivity, demonic DEI, and so forth.
Is This Real Life?
Lexi is seen here going out her front door, something she does five or six times a day, usually bouncing down the steps, lustily greeting the only neighborhood she has known in her six years on the planet.
Trump's Piggyback Ploy
— Yesterday, the servile board of trustees of the stately John F.
The Invitational Week 189: A Drawn-Out Contest
Make something funny starting with a simple icon. Plus: What’s Trump’s next cultural target?
Deja Vu
The cruelty continues...
The Gasbag Takes Off
Yesterday I started reading a sentence aloud to Rachel from a story in The New York Times.
The Fastest Animal On Earth
(And other amazing facts in this all-creature column)