ComPost Archive: Epic Failures
Newt Gingrich's patriotic urges
Newt Gingrich, in an interview, said that "There's no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not...
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Alexandra Petri
| March 10, 2011; 10:45 AM ET |
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Before limiting college students' voting rights, stop old people!
They're monolithic! They come flooding into the polls with an overwhelming sense that their way is right and a total lack of mooring in what's actually happening on the ground. They listen to strange music. They dress in funky sweaters...
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Alexandra Petri
| March 7, 2011; 6:10 PM ET |
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Charlie Sheen and the anatomy of winning
(Charlie Sheen, Rick Wilking/Reuters) "I don't know, winning, anyone? Rhymes with winning? Yeah, that would be us." - Charlie Sheen Winning is what it's about these days. It's been Sheen's byword in a series of rants on our television screens...
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Alexandra Petri
| March 4, 2011; 6:47 PM ET |
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John Galliano, Mel Gibson, Charlie Sheen -- poison and poetry
Oscar Wilde once said that "The fact of a man's being a poisoner is nothing against his poetry." But watching the fallout from John Galliano's pro-Hitler, anti-Semitic rant, I have to wonder whether that's still the case. One of the...
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Alexandra Petri
| March 2, 2011; 2:52 PM ET |
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Gov. Rick Perry blocks journalists on Twitter -- really?
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is blocking journalists on Twitter. But not all journalists? Does Gov. Perry not grasp that anyone can still read his account? @GovernorPerry is not locked! It's visible to everyone! So this seems like a particularly inane...
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Alexandra Petri
| March 1, 2011; 12:24 PM ET |
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Kirk Douglas, the Oscars and the power of age
Maybe our youth-obsessed culture is like Samson -- lost its power when Justin Bieber cut his hair. I enjoyed the Oscars. Disclosure: My college roommate and bosom companion wrote jokes for the telecast, so I'd been programmed to enjoy them...
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Alexandra Petri
| February 28, 2011; 8:09 PM ET |
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