Satire: My Kind of Campaign
Satire: To the melody of “My Kind of Town,” Laurie Baron, ph.D satirizes Donald Trump’s reelection campaign.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USALawrence Baron
Lawrence (Laurie) Baron, now retired, served as the Nasatir Professor of Modern Jewish History at San Diego State University. He served from 1988 to 2006 as director of SDSU’s Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies. He was the founder in 1995 of the Western Jewish Studies Association.
He writes two satire columns for San Diego Jewish World: “Humoring the Headlines” under his byline, and “Hounding the Headlines,” under the byline of his dog Elona.
Books to his credit, available on Amazon, include:
Projecting the Holocaust into the Present: The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema
The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema
The eclectic anarchism of Erich Muhsam (Men & movements in the history & philosophy of anarchism)
His most recent articles are:
“Making Room for the Jews: The House I Live In (1945),” AJS Perspectives, Summer 2023, 86-88.
“The Revolt of Job: Salvaging the Lost World of Rural Hungarian Hasidim,” Journal of Jewish Identities, 16:1-2 (January/July 2023), 181-198.
“Persistent Parallels, Resistant Particularities: Holocaust Analogies and Avoidance in Armenian Genocide Centennial Cinema, in Armenian and Jewish Experience between Expulsion and Destruction, ed. Sarah M. Ross and Regina Randhofer (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021), 267-296.
“The Pioneering American Jewish Women Directors from Elaine May to Claudia Weill,” Jews and Gender (Studies in Jewish Civilization), ed. Leonard Greenspoon (W. Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2021), 217-243.
Streaming Jewish Lectures July 26-30
Laurie Baron, Ph.D, collates a list of lectures that will be streaming from Sunday, July 26 through July 30. All times are San Diego times.
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Lawrence Baron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSatire: Truth in Acronyms
What does DHS stand for? Deploying Homeland Stormtroopers. Following are some other examples of truth in acronyms. [Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireSatire: Expect the worst
To counter a boycott against Goya Food in protest of its CEO praising Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump posted a photo of her holding up a can of Goya Black Beans captioned in English and Spanish, “If it’s Goya, it’s got to be good.” Criticized for using her office to promote a product, she retorted that the photo was intended as a campaign ad to show Latino and African American voters that “black beans matter” to her father. [Satire by Laurie Baron, Ph.D}
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAStreaming Jewish lectures: July 19-23
Laurie Baron, Ph.D., compiles a list of streaming lectures, available to computer users, on Jewish religion, history, culture, and current events.
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Lawrence Baron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSatire: Advice for the Golden Deceiver
Although I have never relieved myself on the White House lawn, I think the Golden Deceiver recently stepped into a pile of dog poop there. He has become about as popular as an unleashed Pitbull is to a mail carrier. In my capacity as man’s best friend, here’s some advice for him. [Elona Baron as told to Laurie Baron]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireStreaming Jewish lectures: July 12-16
Laurie Baron, PhD, collates a list of streaming lectures on Jewish topics for Sunday, July 12 through Thursday, July 16
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Lawrence Baron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastThe presidential pundits of Mt. Rushmore
The fireworks are over. The crowd is gone. National Park System workers are taking down the folding chairs. Towering above them the sculpted heads of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt are discussing the speech they just heard. [Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAStreaming Jewish lectures, July 5-10
Laurie Baron, Ph.D. has compiled a list of streaming Jewish lectures or July 5-10
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Lawrence Baron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThe coronavirus pandemic in couplets
Here are some coronavirus couplets:
Nothing makes me more livid
Than post-opening spikes of Covid.
It’s not an oppressive task
To have to wear a mask.
(Laurie Baron, Ph.D0
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireLessons from a leader
As a retired history professor, I wonder how and what I’d be teaching in the age of Trump. Although I rank him below Andrew Johnson on the worst presidents list, I discern the implications of what he says and does for my pedagogy if I ever resumed my career. [Satire by Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Lawrence Baron, Science, Medicine, & Education, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAStreaming Jewish films and lectures
Want to continue your Jewish education. Laurie Baron, Ph.D., tells us what is coming up online.
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International, Lawrence Baron, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USASatire: Trumpteenth
After Donald Trump learned that the original date of his Tulsa Rally coincided with Juneteenth, he changed the date out of deference to African Americans. Indeed, he respects their holiday so much that he plans to make June 20th a national holiday modeled after it calling it Trumpteenth. Here are excerpts from an advance copy of his speech tomorrow: [Satire by Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAStreaming Jewish Lectures and Forums
Here are streaming Jewish lectures and forums that you may access via the internet. All times local Pacific Time. [Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Lawrence Baron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast