Fifty Shades of White
When I was first learning how to color in 1st grade, my art teacher taught us about red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black and white. Pretty much all the colors I’ve needed ever since. Then I got my first…
Top 8 “Thwarted Knight” Excuses (2/2)
Sorry, son. I know I was hard on you (and me?) last time. Still, it’s all downhill from here, don’t worry. 6. You’re twisting my words. OK, so you know words are subject to interpretation. That’s a start. So why…
Top 8 “Thwarted Knight” Excuses (1/2)
Everybody knows it’s REALLY, REALLY, REALLY HARD TO BE A MAN!!! ;( And when you’re part of a tragically oppressed subaltern group like yours, there’s no shortage of excuses for justifying your perfectly noble and laudable addiction to telling women…
9/12/2001 – Part 2 (Conspiracy Theorists Actually Know This)
9/12/2001 – THE DAYS AFTER THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENED (A serial book excerpt) In Part 1 Flight 93 has accomplished its goal of smashing into the White House, apparently killing President George W. Bush. Secret Service men are now searching for…
Prime Minister Disraeli: 7 Hilariously Cutting Putdowns
1. Civilization and Savage Witticisms Benjamin Disraeli, the English Frankie Boyle, is quite possibly the most aristocratically flamboyant and cutting Prime Minister in UK history. With perfect comic timing, he sliced through the pompous pretensions of his opponents, like a…
“But Immigration is Complex…” Uh-uh, Not so Fast
Coming up to the 2015 General Election, the inflammatory rhetoric of UKIP is a worrying feature of the complex political scene in the UK. It’s always been complex, of course… Well, we have had politicians who have expanded the suffrage…
Brains Donate NFL Players to Science
Chicago, Illinois – As the 2015 NFL draft is set to begin tonight at 8pm (est), the scientific community added to the excitement with a groundbreaking announcement last night that the brains of current and former NFL players, Michael Vick…
(The) News (Really) Bytes – April 2015
The Aurora Joker James Holmes trial finally begins three years after his attack at the premier of a new Batman movie that killed twelve people. Could we just have Batman seal him up in a forgotten part of the Batcave…
9/11/2001 – The Day After The Unimaginable Happened
(A book serial excerpt) What would have happened had events occurred differently on 9/11? The aircraft nosed through the mid morning sky. Outside the fuselage it was a sleek bird jetting its way through the air, its wings leaving contrails…
Sarko in China: “Monsieur Jinping, Break Down This Wall”
Nicolas Sarkozy is universally renowned and respected as the man who single-handedly brought down the Berlin Wall, restored the constitutional liberties and privileges of “La République,” and ended forever the reign of jihadist terror in the entire “monde non civilisée.”…