Scenes We’d Like to See

“I Don’t Recall” Goes Extinct at a House Oversight Hearing

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Tonight’s episode of Scenes We’d Like to See explores a fun concept, a this will never happen scenario where a House Oversight hearing takes place where nobody can lie—not the witness, not the staff, not the members, not the press shop. No “circle back,” no “misstatement,” no fog machine—just raw answers, maximum cringe, and careers … Read more

MAD Magazine Was My Satirical Bible

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The Magazine I Hid From My Parents—and Never Really Outgrew “What, me worry?” Those three words—and that gap-toothed grin—were all you needed to recognize Alfred E. Neuman. For more than sixty years, I’ve kept a subscription alive to a magazine I once had to hide from my parents. Back then, MAD Magazine was supposedly “too … Read more