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BREAKING: McCain suspends campaign
John McCain has suspended his Presidential campaign this afternoon as he returns to Washington to work on the current economic crisis. The McCain camp is pushing for a delay to Friday’s scheduled debate, but the Obama folks are not buying in yet. President Bush may address the nation tonight on the state of the [...]
Continue reading...Franken crafts SNL skit that slams McCain
21. September 2008
Al Franken, the former “Saturday Night Live” actor and writer who is now running for a U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota, helped to craft the opening sketch from last night’s episode of SNL. Franken didn’t actually write the material, but apparently he called current SNL head writer Seth Meyers and pitched him the basic [...]
Continue reading...Stephen Colbert will get us through these tough economic times
21. September 2008
Parody pundit and former Presidential candidate Stephen Colbert helps to guide us through these trying economic times with his latest edition of “Colbert Platinum” - for billionaires only…
Continue reading...Palin’s hacked email should be a lesson for us all
20. September 2008
As everyone knows by now, Governor Sarah Palin’s email, with the notriously insecure Yahoo! email service, was broken into and screenshots were taken and blasted all over the web. Obviously, this will raise lots of paranoia, people will be generally running for their lives and telling webmail services to invent all sorts of new and [...]
Continue reading...LHC highlights decline of American science
11. September 2008
Well, we managed to survive certain apocalypse at the hands of the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator that was supposed to kill us all with a quill full of exotic matter and black holes. Incredibly, no one was harmed in the least by an experiment that happens trillions of times a day in our [...]
Continue reading...Hindu extremists go on a rampage in India
10. September 2008
Conditions in some areas of India currently look ripe for small-scale genocide. Hindu extremists have carried out attacks against Christians ahead of upcoming elections, burning down churches and killing those that resist. Many victims have been burned alive and others have been badly injured. The prevailing view among many in India seems to be that that [...]
Continue reading...After Heller, Congress tries to uphold the law
10. September 2008
The Supreme Court recently upheld the Second Amendment in the Heller case; the majority opinion read: “In sum, we hold that the District’s ban on handgun possession in the home violates the Second Amendment, as does its prohibition against rendering any lawful firearm in the home operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense … We affirm [...]
Continue reading...Kim Jong may have had a stroke
9. September 2008
Reports are surfacing that Kim Jong Il, leader of the reclusive nation of North Korea, may be in ailing health following a possible stroke. He has oddly not shown up for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the country with no apparent explanation. Although the North Korean government refuses to admit anything, there seems to [...]
Continue reading...NASA administrator email leaked
7. September 2008
Mike Griffin, NASA head administrator, authored a frustrated email to several other top officials at the nation’s space agency. What was not planned, however, was that the email would leak and be published in the Orlando Sentinel and elsewhere. In the email, Griffin expresses his opinion that the next Administration will be forced to extend the [...]
Continue reading...Palin speech draws 37 million
4. September 2008
Last night’s speech by Sarah Palin was watched by almost 40 million Americans, a similar number who tuned in to watch Barack Obama accept his party’s nomination last week. Much of the interest was probably curiosity from people who just weren’t yet familiar with Palin. For many, this was their first chance to [...]
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