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Axis of Venal
Of all the year-end lists that populate the blogosphere, by far my favorite is The Beast’s 50 Most Loathsome Americans. Each eagerly-awaited annual installment is a masterpiece of bilious mockery and remorseless character assassination, couched the most spiteful, profane, inflammatory language imaginable. Once the sins of each honoree have been described in all their gory detail, sentence is passed; punishment is swift, severe, pitiless, and most importantly, hilarious. (Example: Rush Limbaugh’s punishment for yet another year of unmitigated douchebaggery is “Parkinson’s disease, triggered by oxycontin abuse.”) The descriptions of and punishment of each vile character would almost be over the top, if everyone on the list didn’t so richly deserve every hateful word.
As always, half the fun is dissecting the list and debating the relative (de)merits of each ranking… (more…)
