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Title

• The McSweeney's book of politics and musicals.

Publication

New York : Vintage Books, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

McSweeney's (Firm)

Description

xix, 347 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

• "A collection of political humor from the editors of McSweeney's"--
• "Ever since John Hancock broke into song after signing the Declaration of Independence, American politics and musicals have been inextricably linked. From Alexander Hamilton's jazz hands, to Chester A. Arthur's oboe operas, to Newt Gingrich's off-Broadway sexscapade, You, Me, and My Moon Colony Mistress Makes Three, government and musical theater have joined forces to document our nation's long history of freedom, partisanship, and dancers on roller skates pretending to be choo choo trains. To celebrate this grand union of entrenched bureaucracy and song, the patriots at McSweeney's Internet Tendency ("The Iowa Caucus of humor websites") offer this riotous collection (peacefully assembled!) of monologues, charts, scripts, lists, diatribes, AND musicals written by the noted fake-musical lyricist, Ben Greenman. On the agenda are. Fragments from PALIN! THE MUSICAL Barack Obama's Undersold 2012 Campaign Slogans Atlas Shrugged Updated for the Financial Crisis Your Attempts to Legislate Hunting Man for Sport Reek of Class Warfare A 1980s Teen Sex Comedy Becomes Politically Uncomfortable Donald Rumsfeld Memoir Chapter Title Or German Heavy Metal Song? Noises Political Pundits Would Make If They Were Wild Animals and Not Political Pundits Ron Paul Gives a Guided Tour of His Navajo Art Collection Classic Nursery Rhymes, Updated and Revamped for the Recession, As Told to Me By My Father And much more!"--

Uniform Title

McSweeney's (Series)

Subject

• American wit and humor
• HUMOR / General
• United States > Politics and government > Humor

Genre/Form

Humor

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Foreword / Wyatt Cenac -- My America: a new action movie screenplay by Sarah Palin / Wendy Molyneux -- Presidential stats / Simon Rich -- From the diary of John Adams / Peter Krinke -- An anti-Washington candidate's stump speech / Pete Reynolds -- My 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 plan / Ellie Kemper -- Where is the rest of this graph? / Ben Greenman -- The only thing that can stop this asteroid is your liberal arts degree / Mike Lacher -- Debate for the emperor of the Upsilon Sigma star system / Teddy Wayne -- Vote Yes on SPLOST 5 / Lucas Klauss -- Barack Obama's undersold 2012 campaign slogans / Nathaniel Lozier -- A comprehensive list of third-place finishers for U.S. President, 2008-2036 / David Warnke -- The leser-known slogans of political moderates / Kate Johansen and Katie Bukowski -- Three timelines of the American financial meltdown told through R.L. Stine book titles / Matthew Gillespie -- Fragments from BAILOUT! THE MUSICAL / Ben Greenman --^
• Political decision-making in the new century / Sean Carman -- Former CIA director George Tenet's other excuses / Christopher Monks -- A message from a TSA full-body scanner / Jesse Adelman -- A guest columnist still getting the hang of it / Ellie Kemper -- Extended trailer for American demographic 2012 / Pete Reynolds -- Your attempts to legislate against hunting man for sport reek of class warfare / Mike Lacher -- Little housing crisis on the prairie / Susan Schorn -- Atlas shrugged updated for the financial crisis / Jeremiah Tucker -- Noises that select political pundits would make if they were wild animals instead of political pundits / John Warner -- Donald Rumsfeld, love doctor / Stephen Elliott -- Parallels between my living through two years of middle school and two terms of George W. Bush's presidency / Teddy Wayne -- Republican S&M safe words / Nahan Pensky -- Fragments from WEINER! THE MUSICAL / Ben Greenman --^
• Someday my concession speech will be read by schoolchildren / Jim Stallard -- Starting over with Pat Nixon / Tom Gliatto -- How you voted / Jonathan Stern -- 30 and pregnant / Rachel Friedman -- I'm afraid the children are our future / John Moe -- How superior each bar feels to the others / Ben Greenman -- Classic nursery rhymes, updated and revamped for the recession, as told to me by my father / Jen Statsky -- The adventures of right-wing conservative Robin Hood / Sarah Rosenshine -- Two medieval physicans debate universal healthcare / Blair Becker -- The twenty-first century adventures of Tintin / Neil Graf -- Youth culture findings / Dan Kennedy -- April Fools' Day pranks to play on an unemployed twenty-something male who still lives at home with his parents / Christopher Monks -- Your protest signs are too specific / Alan Trotter -- Less powerful industry lobbying groups / Todd Rovak -- Fragments from PALIN! THE MUSICAL / Ben Greenman --^
• Marxist-Socialist jokes / Jesse Eisenberg -- What if Germany won the war? / Mike Sackes -- Metroid's Samus Aran speaks out about gay marriage / Marco Kaye -- Abstinence-only driver's ed / Suzanne Kleid -- A 1980s teen sex comedy becomes politically uncomfortable / Andrew Golden -- For a yellow brick war / Mike Gallagher -- The stability of data / Ben Greenman -- How Bernanke tackled the depression, as recorded 150 years frm now by post-apocalyptic hobo folklorists / Grant Munro -- Ron Paul gives a guided tour of his Navajo art collection / Jeremiah Tucker -- Tribal matters / Jim Stallard -- Early drafts of Patrick Henry's revolutionary proclamation "Give me liberty or give me death!" -- Sam Weiner -- Unpublished Federalist Papers / Maggie Ryan Sandford -- Crate & barrel table ware style + U.S. President = fictional Delta blues singer / Josh Michton -- Patriotic laundry metaphors / Doogie Horner -- Quiz: Rumsfeld memoir chapter title or German heavy metal song? / David Rees --^
• The next wave: candidate product placement / Pete Reynolds -- Occupy Main Street / Teddy Wayne -- Operation middle class: a fearful rich man's rules for survival i an increasingly populist world / Luke Kelly-Clyne -- I will / Henry Alford -- Word problems for future hedge fund managers / Bob Woodiwiss -- Mom's and Dad's campaign statements / Gergory beyer -- I shouldn't have opted for the cheapest HMO / Jim Stallard -- Presidents who could also be strippers / Noel Wood -- State rules / Colin Perkins -- Great quotes from the end of NASA's space shuttle era / Jim Santel -- Things JFK might ask you to ask not today / Kate Hahn -- The songs of Lenin and McCarthy / Jimmy Chen -- Fragments from WIKILEAKS! THE MUSICAL / Ben Greenman -- The elements of press release style / Gary Klien -- Which flavor of ice cream do you want, Daddy? / Miles Kahn -- Aesop's fables each children the art of voter suppression / Andrew Golden --^
• This recesson has spared no one, not even the mythical and folkloric figures of our collective Western imagination / Henry Alford and Ryan Haney -- POLL: Do I fully understand the concept of margin of error / Ben Greenman -- A letter from the U.S. Department of Education regarding the birth of your first child / Mark Brownlow -- Importan details about your new healtlh plan / Dan Kennedy -- Robert Gibbs's Dungeons & Dragons game goes off the rails / Travis Watt -- The labors of unemployed Hercules / Lake Burns -- Templates to the editor / Ben Woodiwiss -- Slightly less-cited Supreme Court decisions / Rob Kutner -- Archaic U.S. Senate procedures / Lucas Klauss -- Congressional missed connections / Sloan Schang -- Chapter titles for Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring that were rejected for being too alarmist / Caredwen Foley -- Fragments from HOT PLANET! THE MUSICAL / from Ben Greenman -- Recycle, compost, or trash? A guide / Jenny Shank --^
• Pickman's chicken farm is now cruelty-free / Zack Poitras -- Create your own Thomas Friedman op-ed column / Michael Ward -- The Gahhh! Institute / Lucas Klauss -- Eyewitness News with Tom Denardo and Cheryl Clayburn / Seth Reiss -- How much I had to manipulate the datea to make it seem like things were looking up / Benn Greenman -- Little-known facts from the Guinness book of world records / Simon Rich -- Ongoing roadblocks in the mongoose-cobra peace talks / Bob Woodiwiss -- The grils of The Hills visit Afghanistan / Wendy Molyneux -- David Brooks also eats cereal / John Warner -- A straw poll of voters' minds for this upcoming election, based only on the conversation initiations of the morose security guard who sits in the lobby of the building where I work / Ryan Haney -- Photo ops to gain more than 50% of the electorate / David Hart -- Dance dance revolution / Matthew Bonnano --^
• Actual subject lines of E-mails I've received from Barack Obama's campaign that sound like he's asking me out and then breaking up with me / Sarah Walker -- Fragments of SANTORUM! THE MUSICAL / Ben Greenman -- Spreading the good word: a missionary's guide / Wendy Molyneux -- The 700 Club does weather / Alex Kane -- The first American bidding war / Susan Schorn -- The front porch campaign, 1880 / Chris White -- Perhaps now you wish you had paid closer attention to your judicial candidates for County Circuit Court! / Mike Lacher -- Ordinary circle or pie chart? / Ben Greenman -- This is a reeelection campaign stop, not a Labor Day weekend beach vacation / Ryan Haney -- Laura Wingfield from The Glass Menagerie on the 2012 Republican presidential candidates / Kate Hahn -- No country for anyone / John Warner -- The latest deals from LivingCapitalist / Pete Reynolds -- Voter segments to watch this year / Sloan Schang --^
• Accusations leveled at a dolphin running for President / Eric Feezell -- God texts the Ten Commandments / Jamie Quatro -- New fears for the twenty-first century / Hannah Tepper -- Fragments from STRONG GOVERNMENT! THE MUSICAL / Ben Greenman.

ISBN

• 9780307387349 (pbk.)
• 0307387348 (pbk.)
• 9780307948632 (ebook)
• 0307948633 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2012013819

OCLC

290472273

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library