By Laurie Baron
MARGATE, New Jersey ‒ At this week’s Democratic presidential debate, a podium was set up just in case Joe Biden decided to become a candidate in the primary elections. To make it less obvious that the Vice President was a no-show, the podium was put next to the chair Clint Eastwood talked to at the Republican Presidential Convention in 2012.
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Forensic evidence determined that a Russian missile shot down Malaysian Air Flight 17. Russia responded by claiming that the downing of the plane was part of its war against ISIS in Syria.
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After the admission by two high-ranking Republican congressmen that the House Select Committee on Benghazi is a political witch hunt to discredit Hillary Clinton, the chair of the Committee Trey Gowdy promptly changed the venue of the hearings to Salem, Massachusetts.
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Donald Trump insinuated that Bernie Sanders is really a communist. The old criticism of McCarthyism won’t work anymore because Trump has no sense of decency.
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Playboy magazine is discontinuing frontal nudity in its pictorial spreads because it cannot compete with internet pornography sites. On the other hand, it will still carry 3D nude photographs in its braille edition.
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Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. Currently serving as the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Richard Stockton College in Galloway, New Jersey, he may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com San Diego Jewish World points out to new readers that this column is satire, and nothing herein should be taken literally.