The Place to Take a Humor Break
Like a magician distracting you from his hand inside your underwear, President Trump’s flamboyant denials of a quid pro quo offered to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky are intended to focus our attention on a sparkly […]
Donald Trump has famously proclaimed that “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” Now, with an impeachment investigation under way, pundits are wondering if […]
The 2019 Major League Baseball All-Star Game featured interviews with team members as they played their positions on the field. Really. No joke. Oh, the possibilities. Nigel Raisinet, Principal Percussionist, New York Philharmonic, interviewed during […]
Episode 1, Scene 1 Setting: A modest basement apartment in downtown Nazareth; the year is 8 A.D. Mary and Joseph are having lunch in the breakfast nook. Mary: “You know, it wouldn’t kill you […]
Writing humor is hard. Just ask Dostoyevsky. Sure, he scored big with Crime and Punishment, but do you know how many copies of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gulag were sold? […]
Estimates differ, but most experts predict that automation and robots will have eliminated all but a handful of jobs in the United States by 2075. Somewhere between 50 and 300 paid positions will remain, most […]
The saddest part of the breaking scandal involving the corruption of the admissions process at a number of elite colleges around the country is that it was all so unnecessary. An inspiring example of how […]
Sometimes, national emergencies resolve themselves. Such is the case with the immigration crisis that has obsessed our President for the past 4+ years. It is now over. What brought about this miracle? As reported by the […]
I’ll admit it: Melania Trump’s stare gives me the willies. The frozen expression she frequently displays communicates the sangfroid of someone who has just bitten the head off of a live ferret and swallowed it […]
Bert and Ernie: The Lost Interview Conspicuously absent in social media speculation surrounding the sexual orientation of Muppets Bert and Ernie is the fact that the famous pair were actually interviewed on this topic […]