Mike Edison lists ten political satires that told the truth at Huffington Post. George Orwell, Stephen Colbert, and Roddy Piper are all included.

The Yale Club has suspended its dress code! Chaos! Anarchy!

Michael Chabon talks about President Obama being a good writer in this video interview with the Guardian.

In other writers named Michael news: Michael Kimball and donuts.

A quaint, post-Halloween 1977 video of the Dracula Society tour of Whitby.

Speaking of vampires, there’s a new Vampire Weekend song. It sounds like the other Vampire Weekend songs, but that’s actually not such a bad thing.

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