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January 2012

January 13, 2012

The chicken’s name was Colin

Have you seen Portlandia, the TV sketch show that skewers today's fashions and mores, as...

November 2011

November 04, 2011

Colbert occupies Wall Street protesters

To his great credit, Stephen Colbert is an equal opportunity satirist. A tip of the...

June 2011

June 02, 2011

Those Lutheran satire clips

You know those computer-animated-and-voiced clips on YouTube that have been going around in the genre...

May 2011

May 13, 2011

Top ten signs you’re too afraid of your government

My brother Jimmy is always a little behind, which means that when he comments on...

April 2011

April 01, 2011

April Fool’s Day clearinghouse

Every April 1, people by custom pull pranks, and this is especially true online, with...

December 2010

December 17, 2010

The nativity in online terms

Have you seen this? (If the video doesn't show up, hit "comments" so that you...

November 2010

November 23, 2010

October 2010

October 27, 2010

Bringing on America’s Fall

Editorial cartoonist Tom Toles has an amusing bit about how we can blame our politicians...

October 25, 2010

Taking Jon Stewart’s rally seriously

Jon Stewart keeps insisting that his "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" that he and...

July 2010

July 05, 2010

Humor

This is the place to contribute jokes, lines, and humorous anecdotes that really or supposedly...

February 2010

February 06, 2010

Stephen Colbert’s shocking ancestry

The family secret that reduced the star of the Colbert Report to tears: Oh, the...

January 2010

January 30, 2010

Jokes

Remember jokes? Brief little stories with a funny ending? It seems to me that people...

January 12, 2010

Jay Leno was just on too early

Jay Leno Cancelled, Conan Comtemplating Split | TheHDRoom. NBC's plan to save money on scripted...

January 04, 2010

What’s in; what’s out

The fashion mavens at the Washington Post have put up their annual list of What's...

December 2009

December 30, 2009

Dave Barry’s year in review

One of my New Year's customs is to contemplate the year gone by, month by...

December 23, 2009

Garrison Keillor claims Christmas for Christians

Lake Woebegone sage Garrison Keillor has stirred things up with a column entitled Nonbelievers, please...

December 13, 2009

Mark Hemingway on “30 Rock”

Did you watch "30 Rock" the other day and hear a cryptic reference to someone...

November 2009

November 05, 2009

Ridiculing the Penn State t-shirt controversy

Here is how to deal with a pseudo-controversy (referring to the student-selected t-shirt design for...

October 2009

October 27, 2009

Bill Cosby & the Bible

Bill Cosby was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor last night, a much-deserved...

September 2009

September 24, 2009

Hu's on first

The Dodgers are in town, on the verge of giving the Nationals their 100th defeat....

September 18, 2009

Devil's Dictionary, revisited

Ambrose Bierce was a late 19th, early 20th century American satirist who penned The Devil's...

September 17, 2009

Conservative guerrilla performance artists

Don't you have to hand it to James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, two conservative activists...

September 14, 2009

Wittenberg, the Play

Last Spring I blogged about a new play called Wittenberg, which is about three individuals...

August 2009

August 28, 2009

Stupid Questions

Every weekend, the comics section in the Washington Post holds a humorous contest called "The...

June 2009

June 24, 2009

Not a prophet nor the son of a prophet

Liberal evangelical Jim Wallis, editor of "Sojourners" is saying that the satirical comedian Jon Stewart...

June 19, 2009

Lutheran humor

As I mourn the loss of Strange Herring and continue to mourn the loss of...

June 17, 2009

Strange Herring is quitting

Strange Herring, is going on hiatus. That's one of my favorite blogs! The pillar of...

June 11, 2009

Automotive criticism

I have often said that ANY subject can be made interesting by good writing. As...

June 01, 2009

Where to find your missing comics

Do you like the comic strips in newspapers? I do, though I don't think they...

March 2009

March 27, 2009

Remaking the Three Stooges

The Farrelly brothers are set to remake The Three Stooges, casting Sean Penn as Larry,...