Our Holiday Fundraiser Kicks Off!
[ Posted Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 – 18:02 UTC ]
For your viewing enjoyment this year, we introduce... (drumroll, please...):
Kittens!
Archive of Articles in the "Humor" Category
Three-Dot Tuesday
[ Posted Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 – 19:03 UTC ]
It's going to be a short one today, folks. Since Congress is on yet another one of its week-long vacations, politically it has been a pretty slow week. Even the mainstream media is left fanning the flames of the airport security foofaroo in a desperate attempt to fill their allotted timeslots, in the absence of any real news out of Washington. Well, actually, even if there were such news coming out of Washington, the media would likely still be distracted by the shiniest object in their (quite limited) ability to perceive these things.
An Immodest Proposal
[ Posted Monday, November 22nd, 2010 – 17:41 UTC ]
Which is why I'd like to offer a modest proposal. Actually, to be strictly correct and technically accurate, I should say an immodest proposal -- that everyone should have to fly naked. Immediately ban all clothing of any kind from all flights, in order to reach a one-hundred percent rate of security against clothing bombs. This would be the ultimate in security for the flying public, and therefore should be our new policy for every commercial flight.
Terrifying Hallowe'en Nightmares, Left And Right
[ Posted Friday, October 29th, 2010 – 16:17 UTC ]
It's that time of year again... the time when we pre-empt our usual Friday Talking Points column here and instead gather 'round the virtual campfire and shove a metaphorical flashlight under our chin, and proceed to tell two tales of horror guaranteed to make your blood run like ice water in the veins, no matter which side of the political divide you hail from.
Entertainment And Politics
[ Posted Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 – 16:49 UTC ]
When ex-actor Ronald Reagan won the presidency for the first time, I became convinced that American politics had become indistinguishable from show business. Nothing that has happened in the intervening years has caused me to change my mind on the subject. But the phenomenon of television personalities throwing their own pseudo-political "rallies" on the National Mall in Washington certainly breaks new ground in both the political arena and the entertainment world, I have to admit.
Republicans And Pink Underwear
[ Posted Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 – 16:34 UTC ]
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, of Arizona, recently made the news. In his own words: "I just got done welcoming Sarah Palin to our County [sic]. Had a nice chat and gave her a pair of pink underwear." This marks a turning point in the American political scene, where pink underwear has been rehabilitated, so to speak, within the Republican Party.
Three-Dot Thursday
[ Posted Thursday, September 30th, 2010 – 15:40 UTC ]
But all of that is neither here nor there. The style of journalism known as "three-dot" was pioneered and perfected by the late great Herb Caen of San Francisco newspaper fame, and consists of stringing together many disparate items conjoined with a liberal usage of ellipses, or those three little dots which indicate "sentence trails off here" or, in journalism, sometimes "there's a bunch of stuff I cut out from this excerpt here." Three-dot journalism relies on the first, and more common, usage... to trail off... into vagueness... or even innuendo....
The Relevance Of Frank Zappa
[ Posted Monday, September 27th, 2010 – 17:30 UTC ]
Frank Zappa was recently honored by the city of Baltimore (where he spent the first years of his life) by the erection of a bust in front of a public library. And, yes, I like to think Frank is up there somewhere smiling down on my usage of the words "erection" and "bust" in that sentence. More on that in a bit.
Friday Talking Points [139] -- Three Years Of FTP
[ Posted Friday, September 17th, 2010 – 16:42 UTC ]
First, though, we simply must wish ourselves a happy third anniversary. Woo hoo! Three years of FTP columns!
Won't U B My 100th Follower? Pls?
[ Posted Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 – 16:03 UTC ]
OK, that was an annoying headline, I fully admit. It was annoying to type out, and I can only imagine how annoying it must be to read.