Various Essential Reading/News Roundup

So, first of all RIP JD Salinger. I’ve been meaning to go back and read The Catcher in the Rye because as a child I think some people overestimated my reading comprehension – I was able to understand the basic plot of many novels above my grade level but at the time I didn’t realize they were not supposed to be about plot anymore – and I will probably do that soon. After I read Twilight, obviously. So Dave Eggers wrote an obit for the New Yorker, and I didn’t read it because I have this thing where I hate Dave Eggers and the goodwill engendered by Where The Wild Things Are has yet to completely cure me of it. But I did read this, and it was great.

Why aren’t conservatives funny? I’ve wondered about that for a while myself. I think this guy has hit upon a few answers. I wish a few of the YouTube trolls who keep showing up on the comment boards would read this shit. I’m looking at you, MalesCantMarryMales!

Also, this is just priceless. Epic fail.

Scott Brown, by the way, can apparently take a joke. Good for him!

This week I came across a message board for White Supremacists, and it’s pretty great. Here’s my favorite three comments so far, which you can click through and go to the site itself if you wish.

And also this:

Part of me feels like, if you haven’t actually seen WTWTA yet (and my wife and I are the ONLY PEOPLE I know who actually have seen it), then you shouldn’t watch this. But it’s really too funny, even still. Just put this out of your mind when you finally see it.