In naming its favorite ten magazine covers of the year, Time, itself a magazine, did not select The New Yorker's Barack-Michelle terrorist-radical fist bump-jab cover, but did opt to recognize Entertainment Weekly's Oct. 3 issue featuring Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart parodying the uppity Conde Nast title. The New Yorker's cover, "titled 'The Politics of Fear,' inflamed everyone in all the rings of the political circus, and the magazine had to explain its intentions — and the concept of satire — to the world. Amid all the hubbub came Entertainment Weekly, whose cover subjects, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, make their livings by pointing out the pervasive folly of the political process. By spoofing the original New Yorker cover, this one actually trumps it. In addition to making the reader (me, anyway) laugh out loud, it wryly comments on the controversy." And just like The New Yorker being forced to explain satire, Time finds itself forced to explain parody. Bravo!