Fafblog's Medium Lobster becomes a political columnist for the Guardian
The Guardian has hired The Medium Lobster from the brilliant and incredibly irregular comedy politics blog Fafblog to write a column for them; the debut effort (a Monster Manual of vice-presidential contenders) is hilarious:Ah, the US vice-presidency! From visiting second-tier foreign dignitaries to waiting for the president to die, this linchpin of the modern democratic nation-state is a role that can't be filled by just anyone. Indeed, this is a job that calls for nothing less than the most highly-cultivated political window-dressing money can buy.America's next viceWho has the experience? Who's pretty – but not so pretty they kind of look like a slut? Whose name will fit comfortably on a bumper sticker in a garish red-white-and-blue font?
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