Tag: satire
member name: John Philipp
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December 14, 2009 12:11 AM EST --
Strange things happen in hard economic times, things we often miss because we are too occupied trying to keep our houses and our jobs and our high score on "Ridge Racer V" at ArcadeZilla. OK, . . .
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December 06, 2009 11:56 PM EST --
Thanksgiving's long over yet leftovers linger — not only in your fridge but in my notes. I always have more items than I can use in a column and sometimes these items are funny but not something . . .
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July 25, 2007 10:51 PM EDT --
“Earth is not a planet, it's a project — a laboratory for intelligent design students.”
By supporting the teaching of ID (intelligent design) in schools, George Bush made a monkey . . .
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March 13, 2008 01:19 PM EDT --
Nick was entangled in a blood feud, but not the way he thought.
(A genre I aspire to: Humorous science fiction. This is just the beginning of a 7,000 word short story. Any comments/suggestions are . . .
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February 10, 2008 11:48 PM EST --
The new week is starting and we here at Writing Essentials: Humor Monday are going to do our best to send you out into the world with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. Well, at least the smile . . .
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March 10, 2008 06:31 PM EDT --
It's been quite a day on Humor Monday. Here's a sampling of some of the fine, funny writing:
TODAY'S FEATURED ARTICLES
Life Cycle of a Poem: A Day and a Half's . . .
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March 31, 2008 03:09 PM EDT --
Another bountiful day on Humor Monday - twenty plus of articles to tickle your funny bone.
WARNING: Reading ALL these humor articles at one sitting . . .
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April 01, 2008 09:52 AM EDT --
After posting Writing Essentials: Humor Monday Update 3/31 the humor kept flowing in. I'm adding some of those here so they don't get missed by you who read the last Update and . . .
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April 07, 2008 04:13 PM EDT --
Another funny day on Humor Monday - twenty plus of articles to tickle your funny bone.
WARNING: Reading ALL these humor articles at one sitting may be deleterious to your mental . . .
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April 07, 2008 10:34 PM EDT --
After posting Writing Essentials: Humor Monday Update 4/7 the humor kept flowing in. I'm adding some of those here so they don't get missed by those who read the last Update . . .
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August 04, 2008 05:11 PM EDT --
Welcome to Humor Monday Update.
Not only are there plenty of posts here to get your week off to an amusing start, there is excellent prose and poetry as . . .
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October 19, 2008 11:45 PM EDT --
Don’t take life too seriously , or so they say. What if you got to Heaven and found yourself in a comedy competition with ten other candidates? The rules: the humor has to be true; losers . . .
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October 28, 2008 01:55 PM EDT --
(I published this column in 2006. This year there’s another pumpkin shortage in certain areas and I thought this might be appropriate reading this week.)
Good grief, Charlie Brown, there’s . . .
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November 22, 2009 11:52 PM EST --
Last week I carried a sign. It was a political sign. Not one to end a war or allow or disallow abortions or to legalize California's largest cash crop. The sign I carried had a name on it, a person . . .
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October 18, 2009 11:57 PM EDT --
Living next to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area has advantages: beautiful views, pristine nature and an opportunity to interact with the local fauna. When the Park Service sent out the . . .
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November 02, 2009 08:09 AM EST --
Everyone dislikes lawyers, even other lawyers. I used to think lawyers were below Bush in popularity because they were sniveling, money-grubbing heartless scavengers who feed off the baser instincts . . .
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September 15, 2007 12:35 PM EDT --
By supporting the teaching of ID (intelligent design) in schools, George Bush made a monkey of himself trying to prove he's not one. Bush cited a recent poll that almost half of Americans . . .
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November 30, 2007 11:59 AM EST --
"What your children will be speaking in 2020. You won't understand them then, either."
Euro English
The Euro-English European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English . . .
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January 12, 2008 01:16 PM EST --
God was missing for six days. Eventually, Michael, the archangel, found him, resting on the seventh day. He inquired of God. "Where have you been?" God sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction, and . . .
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January 30, 2008 06:28 PM EST --
If you want the "straight skinny" on the difference between men's and women's brains, take a look at Mark Gungor's 5-minute clip Tale of Two Brains .
Enjoy.
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