http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Tom+Attea Humor Tom Attea Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=97661&ca=Humor 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. And what do we have in the Middle East now but a variation of the same obvious sucker’s game, which w... Humor Tom Attea Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=97662&ca=Humor With a surprising salvo of bravado, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked the provocative question, “Does Iran have a right to exist?” In the startling speech, he warned Western nations, especially European ones, that they will be hurt if they continue to insist that Iran should not be wip... Humor Tom Attea Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=97664&ca=Humor “I’ll go along with that. You were talking about developing a way for the creatures in the water to breathe. How’d you manage that?” “Gil had an insight, so we call it gills. Let me take this little fella out and demonstrate for a moment. Excuse me, he’s kind of feisty. Got ya! OK, now look here. Se... Humor Tom Attea Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=93291&ca=Humor 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. How does he know? He asked his ever-faithful wife. For instance, here is the transcript of a discussion with the reliable spouse that was leaked to the press by their ever-a... Humor Tom Attea Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=93299&ca=Humor Yet another bleak new book about the end of life on the earth has emerged from the darkling presses, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Unnfortunately, the author skips something that has not yet occurred: the beginning of life on earth. In the book, a father and son, who are survivors of a nuclear apocaly... Humor Tom Attea Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=93303&ca=Humor 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. What? Have you noticed that the prizes in science go with reliable regularity to very deserving academic researchers b... Humor Tom Attea Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=93304&ca=Humor “I dunno. If I did, I’d be in tech.” “Heat.” “Oh, right. We don’t want the team to be cold, at least, not all the time.” “No way. They’d be miserable.” “And we don’t want that.” “So we need light and heat.” “How do we manage that?” “We’re thinking of overheads.” “Overhead lighting?” “Yeah. Also, hea... Humor Tom Attea Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=93222&ca=Humor 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. Is that a challenge or isn’t it? Not really. All it takes, we think with persistent resistance to despair, is unwavering fairness, inarguable logic... Humor Tom Attea Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=92527&ca=Humor 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 ar... Humor Tom Attea Sat, 14 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=92529&ca=Humor 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. Take the ludicrous bauble that prompted this article. It appeared in no less a distinguished place than the f...