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A Religious Freedom Parable

[ Posted Wednesday, February 26th, 2014 – 17:10 UTC ]

Our heroine, Libby R. Terryan, wakes up to a bright new beautiful world in which citizens and businesses are free to act without governmental restraint upon their deeply-held religious beliefs. Libby breathes in this sweet air of freedom as she gets ready for work. Because of all this intoxicating freedom, Libby finds herself running a bit late.

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The Total Consciousness Of Harold Ramis

[ Posted Tuesday, February 25th, 2014 – 18:08 UTC ]

President Obama just released a statement from the White House to mourn the passing of comedy genius Harold Ramis. It reads:

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Moving Washington's Birthday

[ Posted Monday, February 17th, 2014 – 17:25 UTC ]

Happy Presidents' Day to all!

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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.

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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.

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My 2013 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 2]

[ Posted Friday, December 27th, 2013 – 17:50 UTC ]

Welcome back to our annual year-end awards column!

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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!

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