Friend of IMAO, Michael Z. Williamson, has a new book out now — Tour of Duty: Stories and Provocations — containing several stories from his Freehold universe, stories written for the Valdemar universe, stories inspired by his last deployment, some humorous essays on firearms, and some political commentary — so lots of stuff in one nice book.

Also, his novel Freehold — the first novel of his Freehold universe — is going to be out for the first time in hardcover, and it will be signed and limited edition. I prefer Kindle books for reading, but you can’t sign those — I guess except with some sort of RSA private key. But that’s not the same thing.

Study shows that late-night comedians are finally starting to target Obama and the Democrats more for jokes than Republicans. So, after nearly five years of the Democrats spectacularly failing at everything, comedians are starting to say, “Hmm… maybe there is some material there.”

I know what you’re asking: Will IMAO finally start making fun of Obama now instead of just the Republicans (or, as I like to call them, the “Re-dumb-licans”)? I don’t know. I’ll have to run that by Harvey.

Well, I guess I can try one Obama joke right now.

Q. How many Obamas does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. Communism.

Eh. I’ll try again.

Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi walk into a bar. The bartender says, “What will you have?”
And Obama says, “I will have a beer.”
And Reid says, “I will also have a beer.”
And Pelosi says, “I’m the designated driver. I will have a Sprite.”
And… I don’t really know where I’m going with this.

So this is harder than I thought. I’ll keep working on it; I’m sure there are some good Obama and Democrat jokes out there.

Until then, here’s some of my regular political humor:

“Knock knock.”
“Who’s there?”
“Republican.”
“Republican who?”
“Shut up, minority!”

Heh. That’s classic.

In my new column, as opposed to a national conversation on race, I propose we try a national shutting up.

Also, not talking about race will be a bigger adjustment for some than for others. Presumably, Al Sharpton will starve to death. But his will hopefully be a sacrifice toward a better, more functional society.

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