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Three Turban Monte; Bush And Rumsfeld Find Themselves Playing A Real Sucker's Game
We all know the story of the rube who gets sucked into a game of Three-Card Monte on Fifth Avenue and watches his bets disappear in the pockets of the quick-handed sharpie at the folding card table...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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President Of Iran Questions Iran’s Right To Exist
With a surprising salvo of bravado, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked the provocative question, “Does Iran have a right to exist...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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The Invention Of Water And Air Creatures; Second Half Of Part Six, The Invention Of Everything
“I’ll go along with that You were talking about developing a way for the creatures in the water to breathe...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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Bush Claims Approval Rating At All Time High; His Wife Told Him
Why is President Bush unconcerned about his approval rating, which has now sunk to 33%
He’s certain it’s at an all-time high...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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New Book About End Of Life On Earth; Skips Beginning Of It
Yet another bleak new book about the end of life on the earth has emerged from the darkling presses, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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Nobel Prizes Awarded; Alfred Nobel Excluded
As the world indulges in another reverent obeisance to the Nobel Prize and its genuinely laudable recipients, we should take a moment to observe that Alfred Nobel has been excluded...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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The Invention Of The Sky, Second Half Of Part Four, The Invention Of Everything, An Eyewitness Account
“I dunno If I did, I’d be in tech...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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What Is Islamic Behavior? Generally, How Islamic People Behave
We’re going to attempt what, until now, seems undoable for an infidel: write about Islamic behavior in a way that doesn’t upset Muslims or anybody else...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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Very Clever Mozart: For Not Having Mohammed’s Head In The Original Production Of Idomeneo
As all the world now knows, Berlin’s Deutsche Oper closed a production of Mozart’s perennially harmless opera Idomeneo, because of “incalculable risk” due to a threat from a Muslim group or individual over the director’s decision to include a scene in which the heads of Mohammed, Jesus, and Budda are presented without their accompanying bodies...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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World Chess Championship Literally Goes Down The Toilet
Sometimes the cartoon world, at least as reflected in the colorful pictures and captions of mass media, gets so bonkers that a real-world headline would be right at home in a humor magazine...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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Senate Approves New Legislation Aimed At Interrogating Itself
The Senate, immediately after voting to approve legislation governing the interrogation and overall treatment of terrorism suspects, voted on new legislation that would compel it to interrogate itself about why nearly every member’s speechifying has been directed, not so much at the nation’s problems, but at the November voter...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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The American Umpire. Conducting The American Empire In A Way That’s As Fair As The Calls In Yankee Stadium.
We were sitting here trying, as usual, to figure out how today’s America, saddled with the burdens of inadvertent empire, could conduct itself in the world so Americans are happy about how we’re doing and the rest of the world might actually either approve or have a hard time disapproving of our behavior...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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Poll In Iraq Proves It’s Hard To Be Grateful When You’re Being Blown Up
One would think that the number of American lives that have been sacrificed or maimed and the enormity of American treasure that has been expended in Iraq would elicit some degree of gratitude among Iraqis...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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Noam Chomsky Gets A Bestseller The Incriminating Way
Noam Chomsky, the innovative linguist on the left, went from the relatively placid life of a leading scholar to a major presentation by Hugo Chavez at the UN, who held up as recommended reading one of his many books, with the hefty title, “Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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The Invention Of Land; An Eyewitness Account, Second Half - Part Two Of The Invention Of Everything
"Always metaphysical Can we just stay with the practical stuff for now...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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What If The Most Powerful Nation On Earth Was Iran?
Is everybody happy with the way the US is behaving as the world’s most powerful nation No...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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Bin Laden Dead Or Alive? Since Nobody's Sure, We Wrote Both Articles.
Bin Laden Dead
Osama Bin Laden is dead
We know this for certain, because, after five years of knowing only that he had access to a tape recorder, we were bound to know at least one thing about him that is certain...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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Iranian Woman Is First Female Space Tourist; Agrees To Wear Spacesuit
Just when we thought all Iranian women were contentedly hiding behind their veils, what do we read but one not only made it to America but just made it into space...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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Chavez Bedevils Pres; Rangel To The Rescue
At least, Washington can agree to come together to defend one of its own The politcos did just that in response to Hugo Chavez calling President Bush “the devil” in a speech at the United Nations...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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The Invention Of Sex; An Eyewitness Account - First Half Of Part One, "The Invention Of Everything"
An unexpected manuscript showed up in our inbox We were immediately convinced of its authenticity and decided we had to share it with you...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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The Invention Of Sex; An Eyewitness Account - Second Half Of Part One, "the Invention Of Everything"
(Suggestion: Read The First Half of Part One First)
“What”
“Brush burns...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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Oui, Monsieur, The French Are Not Immune; Si, Signore, Even The Pope Must Do The Rope A Dope
In a world caught up in effects, with scant attention being paid to causes, we find that France – which has, in the understatement of the current issue, abstained from a full-throttle commitment to the war on terror – has gotten its terrorist wakeup call...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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Quick Question: Does God Advocate Murder?
It appears, scandalously enough, to be the question Islamic terrorism foists on us Of course, there are times when a chancy question can diplomatically be allowed to slip by unanswered, especially by a humor magazine...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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Israel Weighs Recognition Of Palestine’s Right To Exist
After decades of refusing to admit that Palestine has a legitimate right to exist, Israel inched toward possible approval of the idea it has opposed as part of its militantly anti-Palestine platform...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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U. S. May Become Nonaligned Nation; Cites Worldwide Ingratitude
In case you haven’t heard, there is a brash new movement afoot to make America a nonaligned nation The principal motivation behind the movement is worldwide ingratitude for the sacrifices America has made for the benefit of other nations, while getting back precious little in return, materially or even in simple gratitude...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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Lady Macbeth Just Won’t Make Her Exit; Now She’s A Syndrome
Anybody who has wended his or her way through the linguistic excellences and frequently petulant schemers in Shakespeare’s plays longs, at some point, to say to Lady Macbeth herself, “Out, out, damned spot...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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Senate Wonders If New Kind Of Warfare Requires New Rules; Forgets How Colonists Picked Off Redcoats
The Senate is debating whether or not guys who go by the rules of the Geneva Convention can defeat guys who torture people and shoot them in the back of the head...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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Aye, Capt’n Bush, 'Tis Not Only The Storm But The Navigation
“What a night to be at sea” shouted brave Captain Bush into the rain-slashed, wind-whipped Middle Easter that had suddenly come upon The Good Ship USA...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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Tony Blair To Resign As British Pm; May Run For Us Vice President
Tony Blair announced that he will step down as Prime Minister of England within a year and give up leadership of the Labor Party, which has been increasingly upset with his performance and approval ratings...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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What? An Iranian With A Good Thought In His Cranium?
What do you know There’s at least one Iranian who still has a good thought in his cranium...
Author: Tom Attea - Category: Humor
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