satire and humour

The Foolish at Night

Sylvia Shawcross The foolish-hearted people exist in this world more than we really know. The foolish-hearted people do foolish-hearted things because their heart has its own language and sense of life that others do not understand. The foolish-hearted person feeds a stray raccoon when the skies are smeared with smoke and the night feels mean-spirited …

The Second Coming of Literal Hitler

CJ Hopkins So, the quadrennial simulation of democracy in the USA is getting underway, and personally, I couldn’t be happier. It’s been a challenging few years for unincorporated political satirists like myself. The roll-out of the new global-capitalist totalitarianism hasn’t been particularly funny. In fact, it has been extremely not funny. Squeezing a little humor …

22 Memes to Get You Through the Day – Aliens R Real Edition

Our first memes in many a moon, and it’s fittingly space-themed. As expected, the US Congress’ “UFO hearings” sparked a rash of meme activity. Enough to spark this back to life. 1. Even the professional memers were getting in on the act. 2. Weirdly, nobody really seemed to care about the “revelations” very much… 3. …

Serf’s Up

Sylvia Shawcross Well its enough to drive you around the bend and put bubbles in your veins trying to understand the world as it is unfolding. Watching Mattias Desmet being interviewed here, I remember a criticism of his theory being that he attributes everything bad happening right now to the psychology of the masses and …