Classes may have been cancelled, but it didn’t stop the DI columnists from filing their craft: Conservative Comedy: The Ultimate Oxymoron. If I ever grab the student newspaper, it’s only for the crossword puzzle. Damned thing doesn’t even have a cryptoquip. That’s the first column I’ve read in a long while and will be the last I read in at least as long. If only I were as smart and funny as my betters on the editorial staff, instead of being old, white, and Christian.

Although I think the Oprah douche thing might come from here. And Naing clearly hasn’t heard of Scrappleface. (I still miss the long-defunct Happy Fun Pundit. A clip of the show the columnist is complaining about is here. Political comedy just isn’t that funny and political comedians are generally unbearable.

On a kinder, gentler topic, it’s a pisser that I don’t have any AA batteries in my whole house. I shoveled the front walk, the driveway, and the intersection by my house and the amount of snow that fell in this blizzard is something else. It shouldn’t melt much by the time I’ll have a chance to buy some batteries, so pictures of my ginormous heap of snow will appear here soon. When I shoveled the driveway today, though, I noticed that someone or something had burrowed into the heap a bit. This snow isn’t particularly stable—it’s a fine powder that’s near useless for packing, so I’m hoping none of the neighborhood kids try to burrow out a fort in there—as tempted as I am to do it myself.

Update: Apparently that show is really, really bad. I agree that putting that show together, no matter how funny and well done it could have been, was a really bad move for the Fox News brand.