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January 2015

January 15, 2015

The very model of a Biblical philologist

After the jump, Biblical scholarship by way of Gilbert & Sullivan's "I am the very...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

The funny year in review

One of my long-time customs leading up to New Year's is to read Dave Barry's...

December 10, 2014

Pun control

The Chinese government is forbidding the use of puns in state-supported media. Alexandra Petri objects. ...

November 2014

November 11, 2014

Panic

Americans are panicking over Ebola, and authorities are concerned not just to stem the disease...

April 2014

April 12, 2014

Letterman’s replacement will be Stephen Colbert

David Letterman, the late night talk show host on CBS, announced his retirement the other...

March 2014

March 27, 2014

Wiping out your social media debts

Thanks to Anthony Sacramone for alerting me to this Portlandia bit, Declare Social-Media Bankruptcy |...

January 2014

January 01, 2014

The snarky year in review

One of my solemn customs for New Year's Eve is reviewing the events of the...

December 2013

December 30, 2013

The myth of the Christmas myth

It's still Christmas, there being 12 days of that season, so thanks to Truth Unites....

December 13, 2013

Baby Boomers agonistes

It's almost too easy to make fun of us Baby Boomers. But satirist P. J....

October 2013

October 11, 2013

Get offended

The management of this blog is taking no position on the controversy over the use...

August 2013

August 09, 2013

Mazeppa and Teddy Jack Eddy

I told you about the Tulsa mini-renaissance of my college days in the 1970s, mentioning...

June 2013

June 17, 2013

Best Father’s Day cartoon

Comics - The Washington Post.

May 2013

May 21, 2013

Making fun of journalists

The inimitable Lutheran journalist Mollie Z. Hemingway satirically dismantles the practice of journalism as it...

April 2013

April 17, 2013

Comic genius dies

Comedian Jonathan Winters died. When I was a kid and heard he was appearing on...

April 01, 2013

April Fools’ Day clearing house

Happy April Fools' Day! This is the day that the internet and other media are...

March 2013

March 01, 2013

How the pop culture would choose a pope

The latest offering from the inestimable Rev. Hans Fiene with his Lutheran Satire enterprise has...

January 2013

January 17, 2013

Jesus and other punsters

The BBC has a wonderful article by Sally Davies on puns, basically a review of...

January 01, 2013

Dave Barry’s year in review

One of my personal New Year's Day rituals is to read humorist Dave Barry's month-by-month...

December 2012

December 10, 2012

A prank turned grim

You have probably heard about those two Australian radio hosts who called the hospital where...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

Kurt Vonnegut on writing and living

Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse-Five among many others, seems like a much better author when...

October 2012

October 17, 2012

The best campaign ad of them all

In a postmodern, objectively irrelevant, subjectivist, "I like this" kind of way: HT: Anthony Sacramone.

October 16, 2012

"Like most Catholics, I do whatever I want"

You've got to see Saturday Night Live's take on the Vice Presidential debate. Go to...

September 2012

September 25, 2012

Lampooning the Jesus’ wife hype

The inimitable Hans Fiene at Lutheran Satire on the Jesus' wife kerfluffle and, more generally,...

August 2012

August 24, 2012

I Did Not Know That

Local columnist John Kelly asked readers to tell about "common knowledge" that they somehow missed. ...

August 06, 2012

Anthony Sacramone is back and making fun of Batman

The blogging maestro Anthony Sacramone, who used to be Luther at the Movies, is back,...

May 2012

May 16, 2012

Fact-checking humor

David Sedaris is a humor writer who has a standing gig at National Public Radio...

May 15, 2012

Epic fails

Do you read the mad-cap sports columnist Norman Chad? His latest column is about the...

April 2012

April 18, 2012

A new liturgy

The rumor has been going around that this new liturgy will be replacing Divine Service...

March 2012

March 05, 2012

Lutheran insult generator

You will need this: Lutheran Insulter. HT: Mockingbird

January 2012

January 27, 2012

Put a bird on it, but not a real bird

More Portlandia. . . . This is more than a satire of artsiness. It cuts...