I Invite Syria’s Assad Over For Dinner and Root Beers
Bashar al-Assad, president and dictator of Syria is getting way too cranky and needs to step down. And if the only thing that’s making him cling so tenaciously to power is the lack of a […]
Category: Politics
N’Ode to a Spider or How Two Political Parties and the TARDIS Joined Forces
A few days ago I was bitten on the side of the neck by a spider. It became inflamed and warranted a trip to the local medical facility. It also infected the lymph node behind […]
Making Fun Of Terrorists (And Other Bad Ideas)
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK I made a promise that I would attempt to go back to humor when I wrote my September 11th column. The reasoning: This is a humor column. Still, it’s […]
Romancing The Feds
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK I’ve spent a lot of time looking into what the US government spends money on. In fact, you could say I’ve spent so much time on their spending that […]
Not a Sterling Personality
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK So there’s this rich guy named Donald Sterling, who told his half-black girlfriend that he doesn’t like black people. And even though he said it behind the doors of […]
A New List Of Old Words
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK It wouldn’t be another year if we didn’t come across lists of new words, something I discussed when the year was new. But what about old words? Now I’ve also […]
The Early Harvest Isn’t Looking So Hot
When I was a kid my family drove out West. On our way to Yellowstone we spent some time in Iowa. It’s a beautiful state filled with very nice people. We visited the fabled Corn […]
In the Gay Old Wintertime
As this long, cold, lonely winter turns into more winter, many are asking, “What the fuck’s going on here?” Well the answer is simple because a winter this extreme can only mean one thing: we have become […]
HumorOutcasts Reporting from The 2014 Winter Olympics
Okay, so I’m not really in Russia or at the Olympics. I’m camped out on my couch eating a bag of Doritos, looking at a big pile of snow that’s so high it would scare […]