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Oct.17.2012
Binders full of women?
To make a Gilligan's Island analogy, last night's debate reminded me of an argument between the professor and an exotic hybrid combining Gilligan and Thurston Howell III.
Good God, where do we begin?
According to the talking heads, President Obama needed to climb through...
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Oct.15.2012
Seriously, this couldn't have come at a better time.
After basking in eighty-one straight shimmering days of Pacific Northwest sunshine, I awakened at five-thirty this morning nearly as grumpy and sore as Jerry Sandusky after an evening horsing around with the prison tickle monster. Things were...
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Oct.08.2012
Have a story I want to tell you. It's about a family who live in a large and beautiful house.
They have a large number of servants, an incredible number. The servants are supposed to do a great many things for the family. "We'll work for you as long as you pay us," the...
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Oct.08.2012
Dear Hallmark,
Why did you allow things to get to this point without calling me? Come on, you guys, you know I'm here for you.
It's obviously too late to reverse this current wave, now that you've announced the impending layoffs of seven hundred and fifty full-time American employees due to...
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Oct.04.2012
An asteroid is heading our way.
No, calm down, you didn't miss the news. It's out there, somewhere in time and space, and it's not anything imminent.
So an asteroid is heading our way. Okay, we know the drill. We've seen the movies. Humanity will come together and leap into action. Well...
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Sep.10.2012
What are your core beliefs?
I know that's a pretty loaded question. Most of us have sort of a "belief pyramid," where our really intense convictions are firmly ingrained up top where the stonework can't get tagged with graffiti or some teenage boy's spent Copenhagen wad.
And then down near the...
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Sep.04.2012
I have a deal for you. I'll give you $1.00 and you give me $1.61. Sound fair? Of course it does. But that's what we do here in America.
We're attempting to reduce our Federal deficit here in the United States, and do so without raising taxes on the wealthy, although other tax increases, if...
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Sep.02.2012
Are you sitting there this Labor Day weekend wishing you could be the next Mark Twain? The reincarnation of Kurt Vonnegut? Well, you need to know about satire:
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, ...
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Aug.24.2012
Once upon a time there was a rabbit warren where the bunnies lived their lives peacefully. . . most of the time. But every so often, frequently in fact, a bunny or two would go beserk and, grabbing hold of a large carrot, would use it to bludgeon other bunnies to death. "Why is this happening...
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Aug.21.2012
There's just nothing to write about? Really?
How about taking a look at today's newspaper. For example, in mine today, three stories virtually leaped off the page.
image via iwasbornveryyoung.com
A man running fur U.S. Senator makes a really lame comment about women and rape...
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