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The American Jerk Week in Pictures: 9/22 – 9/28/2008

Posted on September 28, 2008 by Rob Reuter

The week in review, from Sylvester Stallone’s relentless hunt, through Batman’s war with the police, into Barack Obama’s salute to John McCain. [read more at link] Continue reading →

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Mississippi Queens

Posted on September 27, 2008 by Rob Reuter

Jim Lehrer asked how the financial crisis would, in a broad way, affect how each dude would approach the presidency, and McCain said, “How about a spending freeze on everything except defense, veterans affairs and entitlements?” Good plan, John; it takes a confident man to deny raises to his Secret Service security detail. [read more at link] Continue reading →

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The Leaked Sarah Palin Emails

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Rob Reuter

While WikiLeaks has so far declined to publish the remainder of [Palin’s] leaked email, The American Jerk has obtained several of them via the honored journalistic technique of writing them ourselves and then using liberal application of Jack Daniels to forget that we did so. [read more at link] Continue reading →

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What’s Wrong With Being Sexy?

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Rob Reuter

I’ll admit that that was as funny as Saturday Night Live’s been since Hans and Franz… but considering Hans and Franz was to comedy what crotch rot was to key parties, that’s not saying much. So: Saturday Night Live was funny for a change. Well, funnyish. End of news item. Full stop. Right? Of course not. [read more at link] Continue reading →

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All Politics Are Local

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Rob Reuter

I’ve been engrossed enough skimming material from the national political clusterfuck that I didn’t even notice that Massachusetts has a primary vote for statewide candidates today until I heard it on the radio while taking my morning dump. Which, frankly, is the preferred way to be surprised by any part of the American political process: with your pants already down and your bung pre-relaxed. [read more at link] Continue reading →

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