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Even if your town has public consolation spaces where you can be bear-hugged by like-minded total strangers, that really doesn’t help PESS, especially if the hosts include complimentary coffee. The coffee only keeps you awake longer. Here psychologists and l... More »
By Paul Mortenson 6 November 2016 Take this brief questionnaire to find out. Caution: answers to all question choices are incorrect. Donald Trump Section If Donald Trump is elected President, do you plan to seek refuge in a monastery or convent move to Tierra ... More »
President Trump’s Cabinet, in order of succession to the Presidency, as of January 20, 2017 Vice-President: Donald Trump (Mike Pence was told “You’re fired!” on November 9, 2016) Secretary of State: Sarah Palin (she can almost see Russia from her h... More »
By Dan Geddes NEW YORK – After a week of new allegations of Donald Trump’s past sexual predations, campaign spokesman Dirk Digger stated that Mr. Trump would not commit sexual assault “before, during or after” his final Presidential debate with Hillary... More »
Good morning, to the Right Honorable Prime Minister Madam Theresa May, I’m incredibly sorry to have missed you when you were in New York, but I was somewhere in what I call flyover country. This is a huge, huge country, but I would have flown to New York in ... More »
By Dan Geddes Instructions The U.S. Congress requests that all candidates for U.S. President take the following the ethics test. Dear Candidate: For each question, please select the choice that best matches your beliefs. 1. Which term best describes your ethi... More »
By Edward Stanton 19 September 2016 It’s been almost sixty years since William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick’s The Ugly American rose to the top of bestseller lists, ran through twenty printings and stunned both the reading public and the foreign policy co... More »
Greetings, Vlad! I know that we’ve never actually met person to person, though I feel we really have so much in common that I’ve given you a personal nickname. I was told that I can’t use the Latin alphabet in writing to you in Russian or use capital let... More »
To become a candidate for President of the United States, a person doesn’t need his or her high school transcript, college degree, record of public service, character references or an employment resume. Even a driver’s license isn’t necessary. The only... More »
By W.T. Fallon 25 August 2016 NEW YORK — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced at a press conference today that he plans to replace the Affordable Care Act with his own health care plan, Trump Care, if elected. “I promised to make Am... More »
By Rick Blum 24 July 2016 In an unexpectedly raucous press conference this afternoon, the American Contract Bridge Council announced that it has modified the terminology used in this trick-taking, card game, which dates back to at least 1886 when John Collinso... More »
By James C. Coomer 13 July 2016 Donald Trump’s Acceptance Speech to Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, July 2016 Thank you, thank you. It has been a long campaign. I have traveled the length and breadth of this country, at my own expense be... More »