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By Dan Geddes WASHINGTON – At his eighty-minute press conference last week, President Donald Trump referred to his administration as a “well-oiled machine” and promised four more years of astonishing government efficiency. Trump’s first month in offi... More »
“To beat a reality TV star,” producer Harvey Schleishenstein murmured to himself, “it takes a reality TV star…” The idea didn’t belong to anyone in particular, but since it had come to him, he was considering it. Like the majority of voters in the ... More »
For those of you who just couldn’t take it anymore and shut off the news last spring, let me commend you – and briefly summarize what has happened in the interim. Hillary won (of course), and just four weeks ago, she gave a very gracious, unifying inaugura... More »
While performing my janitorial duties in the basement of a biweekly newspaper that once wrote about music, I knocked over a box labeled “M.W.” An ancient fax machine tumbled out. My god, could I have stumbled onto the Mojo Wire, the apparatus Hunter S.... More »
By Steven Michaels 18 February 2017 Blue states hate me! Mick Mulvaney, where’s my inauguration band? Crazy eyed, party lines, we’ll tarry our four year plans! Pudzerino, you must have known, oh, there’d be dancing in the land! And now it’s all ME,... More »
Sam Crestwell loved America. His patriotism was so pure and infinite that words were insufficient to convey its profundity. It was woven so intrinsically into his sense of self that it had become inseparable from his existence. It was almost impossible for him... More »
By Bruce Lader 12 February 2017 Reserve far in advance for this restaurant named after the last Pyrenean ibex. Celia’s authentic wildlife atmosphere of real wolf heads, Blue Hyacinth Macaws and Saint Francis’ Satyr butterflies definitely merits the set gra... More »
By Kenneth Langer 11 February 2017 WASHINGTON, D.C. Following massive protests in the United States and around the world, President Trump has rescinded his ban on immigrants from seven Muslim countries. In its place, he has issued a new Executive Order (EO) ba... More »
On the 25th of January, 2017, Chinese president Xi Jinping banned great from all new schoolbooks, kindergarten to university levels. Beginning on January 28th, the start of the Chinese New Year, students in classes where English is taught will be requested not... More »
In its latest attempt to “win hearts and minds” in the Middle East, the Pentagon has announced a new program of dropping Christmas presents alongside selected bombs and cruise missiles in difficult theaters such as Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Indestructi... More »
If Congress was composed of teenagers, laws intended to rein-in outrageous parental behavior would be passed with lightening speed, proving that teens are actually capable of doing something quickly. Breaking news stories such as the following would flood main... More »
By Dan Geddes NEW YORK – CNN today announced its new policy of issuing trigger warnings before showing the face of President Donald Trump to viewing audiences. “We know the mere mention of President’s Trump name or the sight of his face is enough to trig... More »