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There is a pandemic on the rage, and though many call for masks and vaccinations as if they are some vital lifeline, the anti-maskers and anti-vaxers of the world have shown me how incredibly harmful it would be to endorse either of those. They cite several re... More »
While Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff, John Kelley, was explaining to him who the allies and adversaries were in both World Wars, the former president was reported to have shockingly said, “Well, Hitler did a lot of good things.” Possibly, if... More »
by T. K. Marnell This past tumultuous year has been a time of reckoning for America, as together we discovered the previously invisible rips in our modern social fabric: the rise of disinformation on social media, our collective under-preparation for natural... More »
By Martin H. Levinson A Typical Nobody Marries Noh-Won Important A Typical Nobody and his high school sweetheart, Noh-Won Important, were married last night in the Holy Church of the Faceless Multitudes, which is located at the corner of Main and Wherever in A... More »
By Sam Weller I had a brilliant idea! An idea so big that no American President has ever done it before. I want to share it with you all, the Great People of the United States of America, who voted for me in an unprecedented landslide victory last November. I ... More »
By Martin H. Levinson Commenting on the January 2021 Capitol break-in, Georgia Representative Andrew Clyde (R) said, “If you didn’t know the TV footage was a video from January 6th, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit.” He ... More »
By Martin H. Levinson A majority of Republicans believe there was widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election. They’re totally right but, like the rest of the country, they don’t know the half of it. Well, let me fill everyone in. In Pennsylvania, t... More »
Dear Melinda: Because you haven’t responded to my phone calls, emails or drone flyovers and, because your recent injunction against me does not apply to snail mail, I thought I would simply send you a letter. First, I would like to offer my heartfelt condole... More »
Because I think it is a very mean life: John Miller’s[1] famous last words by Ties Dams and Thalia Ostendorf Speech recorded at the occasion of the retirement party of John Miller Contractor in the employ of E. Christ[2] Construction Inc. January 20th, 2... More »
By David Galef “The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.” Trying afternoon yesterday with Lady Ottoline Morrell in her stupid new frock at her stupid garden party.... More »
by David Comfort In 2006, Jack Dorsey, a 29-year-old NYU drop-out and shoe salesman reject, invented a new kind of human communication. Describing it as “bird chirps” and “short bursts of inconsequential information,” he called it Twitter. By year’s ... More »