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Top Ten Surprising Items in the Economic Bailout Plan
Uncle Sam's New Improved Economic Bailout Plan: Just add more tax $$$ (drowning CEOs sold separately)Looks like it’s politics-as-usual over at David Letterman’s Online Top Ten Contest Headquarters. The...
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Spring Forward: Daylight Savings Next Casualty in Economic Downturn
The Clock Also Rises...In states that still participate in Daylight Savings, which may soon be nationalized by the federal government if Americans continue to lose confidence in daylight and are...
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Bureaucratic Genocide: Iowa Politicians Attempt to Kill Off Elders with Acronym
The Iowa Assembly has set the stage for an epic battle-to-the-metaphoric-death between the state’s elderly population and the up-and-coming elected power mongers. Fearing the Elders may usurp their...
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George W. Bush’s Top Ten Facebook Status Updates (An Exercise in Futility)
Just when you thought former President George W. Bush had fully disappeared into the Texas sunset with the satirists’ shadow following closely behind, David Letterman’s “Late Show” posse resurrected...
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Gay Marriage Hits Iowa, Homophobes Vow Revenge
(Disclaimer: a satiric moratorium has been placed on the front end of this post. Anything that smacks of satire is intended to be non-hyperbolic truth and should be read as such.)In a long overdue...
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Iowa’s Culture War: And the God-Fearing Homophobes Will Rise Again?
Upon the heels of Easter weekend and the celebration of the resurrection of God’s only child, Jesus Christ, the Religious Right (alias GOP) grabbed their pitchforks and stormed the Iowa State Capitol...
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The Teabaggin’ Revolution: Rebels Without a Full Teapot
When I think of teabagging, I can’t help but think about John Waters’ “Pecker.”I was first exposed to teabagging while watching John Waters’ “Pecker” on the big screen in 1998. The film’s protagonist,...
View ArticleBest Parody of Anti-Gay Marriage NOM’s “Gathering Storm” Ad
It was only a matter of time before somebody created a parody of the National Organization for Marriage hyperbolic ad “Gathering Storm”:
View ArticleAnti-Gay Marriage Wingnuts Thank Colbert for Mocking Them
When your livelihood is teetering between living on the fringe and living in obscurity, I guess there is no such thing as negative publicity. This may explain why the National Organization for Marriage...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Sen. Grassley: Real Health Care Reform
Dear Senator Grassley:My monthly health insurance premiums are killing me, literally.I wish I was speaking hyperbolically. And no, I’m not a hypochondriac: Who could afford to these days with...
View ArticleScott Bateman: John McCain versus Health Care
While trying to follow the GOP's line of argument against including a public option in health care reform, I found myself sniffing the rear end of Wile E. Coyote in an underground tunnel just outside...
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F*** Obama’s Health Care Reform
My favorite 4-letter F-word is, you guessed it: FREE.Despite the cautionary advice that “nothing is free” or “you can’t get something for nothing,” I’m a sucker for free stuff. What can I say, I’m a...
View ArticleWill Ferrell's Protect Insurance Companies PSA
The folks over at Funny or Die (which by the way is not a slogan for biparisan health care advocates) unveiled an exclusive Public Service Announcement lampooning Big Hellth Insurance, which, for...
View ArticleSarah Palin 2012: Let the Rapture Begin (SNL video included)
Like big fat bullies, Rush Limbaugh (dare I repeat myself?) and genital warts, some irritants never seem to go away regardless of how hard you try to ignore them or how much you douse them in vats of...
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‘Confessions of a Cold War Veteran’ Sounds Off
Surprise, surprise: I've launched yet another blog, "Confessions of a Cold War Veteran."Part memoir, part humor/satire, part pop-culture, and like our government's annual budget -- 50 percent Military...
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Iowa Congress Spares Masturbatory Drivers
Masturbating motorists across Iowa were relieved to hear that the Iowa Senate did not include “masturbation” as part of its bill outlawing texting-while-driving. Unlike the Iowa House’s version, the...
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Sen. “Tough Shit” Bunning: Get a REAL Job
I don’t imagine the 1.2 unemployed Americans waiting to see if their benefits will be extended another 30 days were amused by the latest episode of C-SPAN’s latest episode, “A Democracy of One,” on The...
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Pssst…Don’t Tell Anyone I’m Hetero
Never in a million year did I imagine myself agreeing with former Vice President Dick Cheney, but I confess dear Civilian, I recently found myself taking my first step into the Dark Side by agreeing...
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Rebranding War: What is it Good For?
What’s in a name? That which we call a warBy any other name would smell of death, destruction --And a democratic resurrectionOf burning flesh dipped in oilBuried deep in foreign soil…FADE IN:Uncle...
View ArticleThe White (House) Elephant Obama Would Like to Soon Forget
While the Health Care Reform debate ramped up during the past few weeks, with arm twisting on the left and Hyperbole bombs dropping on the right, the war in Iraq celebrated its 7th birthday -- a party...
View ArticleRep. Boehner Just Says Hell No to "Yes We Can!"
The Obstructionist Party of No (OPN) may want to consider a new campaign strategy for November. Not too many folks like to be told "no" all of the time. Take for example a toddler who has been told...
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Quagmire Stew: A Recipe for Disaster
Preemptive Ingredients:2 bloodied handfuls of WMD seeds2 Congressional chambers locked-and-loaded with free-range Chickenhawks1 Military Industrial Complex armed with a blank check (and no balances)1...
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The Freak Show's Pullin' Me Back In
I tried to swear off politics and political satire forever, but the GOP's Declaration of War on public employees, doves, common decency, the vanishing Middle Class,common sense, attrition, the...
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Top Ten Signs Donald Trump is Serious About Running for President
It seems that if you want to grab and hold the media’s attention these days, all you have to do is drink tigers’ blood or booze with pickles, run around in public and babble incoherently about nothing...
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The American Scab Dream: Will Work for Congressional Crumbs
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that our rapidly ailing Democracy is suffering from schizophrenia? My other 16 personalities tend to agree.Our Democracy, the best form of government money can...
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