satire

Con-jabulation:  Pressing the Great Reset Button

At times I’ve wondered Faulkneresquely this plague-stricken year what Emile Durkheim would have thought of all this lockdowning, quarantining, and self-isolating?  To echo Benjy from The Sound and the Fury:  Does “Caddy” still “smell like trees”? The Great Reset news is here, and all the headlines read:  “Science Walks on Water!”  The print’s in appropriately […]

2021:  Paradigm Shift or Shaft?

Can you dig it? — from the theme song to the 1971 feature film Shaft, written and performed by Isaac Hayes We have more than enough of a Police State already… — Krystal Ball from The Hill’s Rising show on January 20, 2021 The New Year has arrived, not with bells and whistles but vaccines and new […]
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That’s All, Folks!

As they used to say at the end of all those wacky Looney Tunes cartoons, that’s all, folks! The show is over. Literal Russian-Asset Hitler, the Latest Greatest Threat to Western Democracy, the Monster of Mar-a-Lago, Trumpzilla, Trumpenstein, the Ayatollah of Orange Shinola, has finally been humiliated and given the bum-rush out of Washington by […]
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Stop Press: I’m Converted

Mass celebration after a year of coronation  (Ihoto credit:  Pedro K) As those who have followed my published remarks in these pages might remember, I have always been sceptical about what one or more insistent author here and everywhere has told us about the immanent end of life as we know on the planet, Earth […]
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Are You Ready for Total (Ideological) War?

So, welcome to 2021! If last week was any indication, it is going to be quite an exciting year. It is going to be the year in which GloboCap reminds everyone who is actually in charge and restores “normality” throughout the world, or at least attempts to restore “normality,” or the “New Normality,” or the […]
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Transcript of a Telephone Call to President Trump

Caller: Don, as your departure draws near, we’re calling to thank you for your service. As you know we had some serious doubts about you at the outset — loose cannon, unguarded comments, and some crazy foreign policy ideas. But hey, our concerns were short-lived and we’re beyond grateful for the tax breaks, subsidies and […]
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X Files Explained – Top 10 Episodes & Fight the Future Film! Jay & Jamie Dyer (Half)

  We finally tackle X-Files in terms of the overall story arc and the top 10 episodes of all time, based on our own esoteric and extreme silly level criteria.  We will look at classics like the Leech Man, the real meaning behind the 1998 Fight the Future Feature Film and the weirdest installments.  The […]