Actorvist Schadenfreude: A Multimedia Spectacular From the New Republic
Ha ha ha, Graydon Carter's defunct satirical monthly The New Republic has produced a comical slide show titled "Celebrities With Thoughts." Apropos of Bono's most recent instant-classic New York Times editorial -- a poetic intellectual exercise, the thrilling denouement of which is: "Could it be that all Americans are, in that sense, African-Americans?" -- TNR has aggregated some quasi-contextualized gems from the nation's op-ed pages. Each and every one is absolutely required summer beach reading. [ TNR's The Plank ]