When I was a kid, Mad Magazine was our comedy gold standard. I had piles of them stacked up under my bed, mixed together with Marvel comics and (I’m embarrassed to admit) an occasional Richie Rich. At 12 years old, we were not really aware of Mad‘s liberal politics but it was definitely infused in everything and it almost certainly affected my world view — I got the message that liberalism is somehow linked with being smart and funny and silly and tolerant and in the know. — Read the rest
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