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...Politics has never been a gentle game. As far back as 1895, satirist Finley Peter Dunne's fictional saloonkeeper Martin Dooley observed that women, children and prohibitionists would do well to stay out of it, because "politics ain't beanbag." But surely, even Mr. Dooley could never have imagined a day would come when a mere seventh grader could be swift-boated...
...been the butt of many jokes. Some play predictably off their diminutiveness. Others, more bizarrely, involve potatoes. One Berlin newspaper last year splashed a photo of a spud on its front page alongside one of Lech, the Polish President, and inquired: "Which one is coming to visit?" A Polish satirist recently lamented the shortage of humorists to cope with the volume of material that the twins are generating: "Life just surpasses my capabilities," said cartoonist Szczepan Sadurski...
...BEEN 25 YEARS younger, he would have been the quintessential 1960s hippie. Instead, the sweet-souled, world-weary, darkly funny Kurt Vonnegut became the avuncular, rumpled hero of the counterculture generation. In books like Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, the satirist, who struggled with depression, repeatedly explored the harmful effects of industry on human beings' collective morality. After laboring in obscurity for decades, he shot to global fame in 1969 with Slaughterhouse-Five, a fictionalized account of his experiences as a POW and "corpse miner" in Dresden after the Allies bombed the city...
...SATIRIST CHRISTOPHER Buckley hasn't been overly ambitious in choosing his targets. (Unscrupulous tobacco lobbyists? Oh no he didn't!) But his new book, Boomsday, has some teeth--or at least some menacing dentures. Cassandra Devine is a 29-year-old blogger who has had it with the government bankrupting her generation to support legions of increasingly long-lived baby boomers. "Someone my age will have to spend their entire life paying unfair taxes," she rants, "just so the Boomers can hit the golf course at 62 and drink gin and tonics until they're 90. What happened...
...that they respect each other's work and remain friendly, but it somehow seems too late: like all the most ridiculous celebrity stories the Big B v. SRK brouhaha has taken on a life of its own. In a wonderful illustration of globalization's reach, even U.S. satirist Stephen Colbert has helped fuel the dispute by featuring Bachchan and Khan - "the Indian Robert Redford and Brad Pitt only crank up the handsome and rip the knob off" - in his television show's celebrity feuds segment. Khan, Colbert said way back in early January, had failed to turn up to Bachchan...