ComPost - Alexandra Petri puts the "pun" in punditry.

Posted at 04:16 PM ET, 02/28/2013

What to do in a popeless place?

By Alexandra Petri

Do we get a vacation?

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Tags: pope

Posted at 01:48 PM ET, 02/28/2013

How to threaten Bob Woodward

By Alexandra Petri

Or, how not to threaten Bob Woodward

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Tags: Bob Woodward

Posted at 08:00 AM ET, 02/28/2013

'The Giving Tree,' revised

By Alexandra Petri

Some edits to improve the story.

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Posted at 05:43 PM ET, 02/27/2013

Manned Mars mission in 2018? Another unfunded space program to get excited about!

By Alexandra Petri

More space dreams!

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Tags: Mars

Posted at 01:22 PM ET, 02/27/2013

SAT to be updated

By Alexandra Petri

SAT imitates life.

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Tags: SAT

Posted at 04:18 PM ET, 02/26/2013

Titanic II is setting sail in 2016

By Alexandra Petri

While we're at it, here are other voyages worthy of re-creation.

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Tags: titanic

Posted at 01:10 PM ET, 02/26/2013

John Kerry and the right to be stupid

By Alexandra Petri

It's my favorite!

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Posted at 03:41 PM ET, 02/25/2013

Whoa, the Onion apologized! A slippery slope, but the right call

By Alexandra Petri

This was the right call, but I hope it doesn't start a precedent.

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Tags: the onion

Posted at 12:33 PM ET, 02/25/2013

Was Seth MacFarlane really that sexist?

By Alexandra Petri

Well, yes, boobs — but what else did you expect from the "Family Guy" guy?

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Tags: oscars

Posted at 09:26 AM ET, 02/25/2013

Panic! Terror! Sequester!

By Alexandra Petri

Can we tone down the drama?

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Tags: sequester

Posted at 07:04 PM ET, 02/22/2013

Six ways you are disappointing George Washington

By Alexandra Petri

Like all parents, the Founding Father is less angry than disappointed.

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Tags: george washington, history

Posted at 06:00 AM ET, 02/22/2013

End Oscar segregation with better acting categories

By Alexandra Petri

Here are some better ways of dividing than by gender.

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Posted at 06:54 PM ET, 02/21/2013

What is this peculiar fish?

By Alexandra Petri

Is everything a lie?

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Tags: fish

Posted at 10:37 AM ET, 02/21/2013

No joke, Postal Service starts a fashion line -- Rain Heat & Snow

By Alexandra Petri

This was the GOOD idea?

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Tags: USPS

Posted at 05:17 PM ET, 02/20/2013

Through a Google Glass, darkly

By Alexandra Petri

Darkly, or, Alex's Adventures in Wonderland.

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Tags: Google

Posted at 10:54 AM ET, 02/20/2013

Congratulations, Joe Salazar and the #LiberalTips2AvoidRape hashtag

By Alexandra Petri

A winning formula for the worst conversation possible.

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Tags: Twitter

Posted at 04:10 PM ET, 02/19/2013

Scott Brown's eloquent pocket

By Alexandra Petri

I know pocket dials.

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Tags: scott brown

Posted at 08:13 AM ET, 02/19/2013

The Feminist Mystique

By Alexandra Petri

We don't want to need a movement.

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Tags: feminism

Posted at 05:10 PM ET, 02/15/2013

Herman Cain to Fox News

By Alexandra Petri

He's back!

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Tags: Fox News

Posted at 02:13 PM ET, 02/15/2013

Han Solo and other depressing reminders of mortality

By Alexandra Petri

This is not about the meteor.

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Tags: han solo

Posted at 04:16 PM ET, 02/14/2013

Inspired by NYT Tesla test, here are my consumer trials of some products

By Alexandra Petri

I, too, can be a product tester!

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Tags: TESLA

Posted at 02:36 PM ET, 02/14/2013

Everything you need to know about Heinz Ketchup

By Alexandra Petri

With the Heinz sale, some fun facts, if you consider facts about ketchup fun.

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Posted at 07:00 AM ET, 02/14/2013

The top 20 grammatical pick-up lines, for Valentine's Day

By Alexandra Petri

Apparently, this is what the public wants.

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Posted at 02:01 PM ET, 02/13/2013

How to survive Lent 2013 OR What we gave up for Lent

By Alexandra Petri

I resolve to not allow that thing that happened last year to be repeated.

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Tags: Lent

Posted at 07:34 AM ET, 02/13/2013

Marco Rubio's drinking problem

By Alexandra Petri

Sunk, forever, by an ill-timed sip.

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Tags: Marco Rubio

Posted at 01:08 AM ET, 02/13/2013

President Obama's 2013 State of the not-Mardi-Gras Union

By Alexandra Petri

It's the State of the Union, again.

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Tags: State of the Union

Posted at 04:41 PM ET, 02/12/2013

No more Olympic wrestling? Time to go back to Olympic roots!

By Alexandra Petri

Return to the old ways!

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Tags: olympics

Posted at 08:01 AM ET, 02/12/2013

The state of the Millennial union

By Alexandra Petri

Talk to us, President Obama. Our situation is still pretty dire.

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Posted at 03:19 PM ET, 02/11/2013

Name Pluto's two smallest moons!

By Alexandra Petri

Choose wisely.

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Tags: pluto

Posted at 12:34 PM ET, 02/11/2013

Benedict XVI resigns, but Pope springs eternal

By Alexandra Petri

What do you do with a retired pope?

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Tags: pope

Posted at 11:33 AM ET, 02/08/2013

ASTEROID!!!

By Alexandra Petri

EVERYONE PANIC!

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Tags: asteroid

Posted at 11:02 AM ET, 02/08/2013

Do not follow this Valentine's Day advice

By Alexandra Petri

This week abounds in bad advice.

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Tags: valentines

Posted at 04:39 PM ET, 02/07/2013

14 seconds to fired, for Labrador tweeter

By Alexandra Petri

Fourteen seconds of mistake is nothing. Public life is full of people who have made fourteen years of mistake.

By Alexandra Petri | 04:39 PM ET, 02/07/2013 | Permalink | Comments ( 0)
Tags: bad decisions

Posted at 12:16 PM ET, 02/07/2013

A drone of one's own

By Alexandra Petri

I think the nation's discomfort with drones could be solved by distributing them more broadly.

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Tags: drones

Posted at 10:08 AM ET, 02/07/2013

Where are they now? Charles Dickens's characters

By Alexandra Petri

Where are they now?

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Tags: dickens

Posted at 06:16 PM ET, 02/06/2013

So much for Saturday with the U.S. Postal Service

By Alexandra Petri

The USPS is sensible to make this cut.

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Posted at 08:00 AM ET, 02/06/2013

Concealed carry in church? In Arkansas soon, yes.

By Alexandra Petri

Bring your gun to church in Arkansas and find out!

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Posted at 02:19 PM ET, 02/05/2013

Todd Kincannon's Trayvon Martin trolling

By Alexandra Petri

The worst tweet ever? Really?

By Alexandra Petri | 02:19 PM ET, 02/05/2013 | Permalink | Comments ( 0)

Posted at 08:18 AM ET, 02/05/2013

The GOP's makeover problem

By Alexandra Petri

How radical a redesign is called for?

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Tags: GOP

Posted at 01:18 PM ET, 02/04/2013

What our favorite Super Bowl XLVII commercials say about us

By Alexandra Petri

Our Super Bowl favorites, ourselves.

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Tags: super bowl

Posted at 11:06 AM ET, 02/04/2013

For Richard III, the plot thickens

By Alexandra Petri

For Shakespeare's famous villain, the plot thickens.

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Tags: shakespeare

Posted at 12:38 PM ET, 02/01/2013

Ronaiah Tuiasosopo on Dr. Phil -- Manti Te'o and the M. Butterfly effect

By Alexandra Petri

Somewhere between fiction and fact.

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Tags: Manti Te'o

Posted at 06:00 AM ET, 02/01/2013

God vs. the Applebee's waitress

By Alexandra Petri

Applebee's waitress fired for outing pastor's rude receipt.

By Alexandra Petri | 06:00 AM ET, 02/01/2013 | Permalink | Comments ( 0)

Do you agree with President Obama's decision to provide military aid to the Syrian rebels?

ComPost: February, 2013