Richard
Milhouse Cookies: Homespun Horseshit from the Checkers Speech
to Nestlé, a Marketing Manual As a practical guide, Kissinger's paper is a model in modern spin. As a tasty treat, we thought it lacked butter. |
Woodrow
Flip Wilson: Making the World Safe for Black Comedy and the
New Freedom of Topical Stand Up Pryan's idea that Flip Wilson essentially created a new world
comic order by being black, vaguely issue-oriented, and accepted
by white society is as cogent as the notion that our current
role as the world's policeman is an unintended consequence of
our international success. We're now as taken for granted as
Tyler Perry is successful despite himself. |
Rick
James Monroe Doctrine, or the Era of Good Feelings, the Era
of Feeling Good, and the Misery Compromise: Freakin' as
American Decolonization We have to admit that we couldn't follow the premise of this paper, but we had a really good time getting' down. |
Dwight
& Tina Eisenhower (Proud Mamie Keep on Turnering), or I
Left a Good Job in the Army: the Presidency as Spousal Abuse,
a Complex in Military Industrialization The thesis that America's relationship with the Military Industrial Complex is, essentially, a prolonged domestic dispute is both compelling and sad. But does this mean that Canada is, like, some international battered-citizen's shelter? At the very least, we could engage them as our BC buds. |
Rutherford
Purple Hays: Trippin' in Electoral Collegeland In an attempt to prove his point about how surreal electoral results can be, Redding spiked the refreshments with Owsley-level acid. As near as we could tell from the paper itself, doing this made as much sense as anything. |
Super
Grover Cleveland Rocks: Musical Monetary Policy with Mugwumping
Muppets The tunes were catchy and the action camp, but the points deserved a veto. |
Jesse
James Garfield Sits Around: Fatal Laziness in the Mortally Shot,
an Analysis in Daily Strips Modern medicine meets 'Merican history as Davis argues, controversially and graphically, that lassitude equals death for those suffering from severe physical trauma. Could be, but we all know that true healing happens as a result of lasagna. |
Andrew
Jackson-If-You-Nasty: Dueling for Honor and "Driving old
Hickory," Double-Entendre as Cultural Current from 1824
to the Present The paradox of the double entendre as hidden dishonor presented in an honorable way proves that the po-mo collapse of the du(e)listic oppositions predates the awareness of postmodern thought. Those keeping abreast of the presentation noted the wardrobe malfunction--just in case that sort of thing gives you any timber. |