Moving Washington's Birthday
[ Posted Monday, February 17th, 2014 – 17:25 UTC ]
Happy Presidents' Day to all!
Archive of Articles in the "Humor" Category
An Immodest Statue Idea
[ Posted Tuesday, January 7th, 2014 – 18:21 UTC ]
In short, if I had the time, money, and energy to propose a statehouse monument somewhere (where a Ten Commandments display already exists), what I would propose is a honkin' big statue to honor the god of Venus. Create a "Temple of Venus" group and sue to erect a gigantic statue of a beautiful nude female, arising from the waves! Hey, I warned you this was going to be an immodest proposal, right up front.
The 2014 Banished Words List, On Steroids
[ Posted Wednesday, January 1st, 2014 – 17:12 UTC ]
It's that time of year again -- time to check the Lake Superior State University's annual list of "banished words." Or, perhaps, a "back to twerk" column.
My 2013 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 2]
[ Posted Friday, December 27th, 2013 – 17:50 UTC ]
Welcome back to our annual year-end awards column!
The Kringlebase Incident
[ Posted Monday, December 23rd, 2013 – 17:11 UTC ]
We hereby interrupt our live coverage of Pope Francis leading Midnight Mass this Christmas Eve, because we've got some breaking news from the Pentagon. We apologize for pre-empting our traditional Christmas Eve programming, and promise we will continue our coverage after the newsbreak, on a slight time delay so our viewers won't miss a single minute of the Pope.
How About A Saturnalia Display?
[ Posted Wednesday, December 18th, 2013 – 17:58 UTC ]
For others, joining in the mirth has now come to mean celebrating the season of Festivus, a made-up holiday from a made-up television show. And even the Flying Spaghetti Monster adherents are getting in on the fun this year.
Frightful Hallowe'en Tales Of Horror, Left And Right
[ Posted Wednesday, October 30th, 2013 – 17:25 UTC ]
So sit back, break into the bags of candy a night early, turn down all the lights and fire up the pumpkins, because we've got the short and long of both Democratic and Republican nightmares for your terrified pleasure. Enjoy!
From The Spooky Archives -- Spine-Chilling Hallowe’en Tales (Left, Right, And Center)
[ Posted Tuesday, October 29th, 2013 – 16:41 UTC ]
It's that time of year again, so gather 'round, kiddies, for our spine-tingling and bone-chilling tales of political horror!
A Punctuation Paean
[ Posted Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 – 17:11 UTC ]
A paean, my dictionary informs me, is "an exultant song of praise or thanksgiving." The reason I'm offering up such praise today is that it is officially National Punctuation Day. [Who knew punctuation had its own day? Andy Warhol would likely have been amused, one suspects.] But just to warn everyone up front, we're veering off from political discussions today in order to have a punctuation discussion instead. I almost titled this article "A Pedantic Punctuation Paean," but you're going to have to look that word up yourself to see why I thought it was a bit too much. But if an article on punctuation sounds unbelievably boring to you... well, there's always kitten videos a-plenty out there to watch on the internet, right?
The Boehner And The Restless
[ Posted Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 – 16:07 UTC ]
The politico-media empire which writes the rules of the Washington "What Serious People Are Saying" game have apparently decided that the government shutdown is now melodramatically going to happen. Cue ominous organ music blast (dum Dum DUM!). The key word in that opening sentence is "melodramatically," because our government can now be seen as nothing more than a continuing soap opera. Call it "As The Boehner Turns," or perhaps more appropriately "The Boehner And The Restless."