How telling that common sense satire, so subversive 30 years ago, is now so contrary to political correctness that it may well now constitute a hate crime. Here, we see the logical failure of sexual identity politics in the real world, and the juvenile futility of the anti-imperialism bandwagon.
Posts Tagged ‘satire’
Conservative Commentary in Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Posted in Humor, Politics and Society, tagged imperialism, Life of Brian, Monty Python, satire on March 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »
So You Want to Make Dead Mormons Gay…
Posted in Religion, tagged baptism for the dead, homosexuality, Mormons, satire on February 22, 2012 | 3 Comments »
A satirical web site has gone up inviting users to help the “many Mormons throughout history [who] have died without having known the joys of homosexuality.” You enter a name, click a button, and the deceased will then somehow have the chance denied them in mortality. I think this is a great idea. Seriously. The [...]
Victorian Satire Teaches Us How To Live Well
Posted in Language and Literature, Living well, tagged Edwin Abbott, Flatland, inspiration, satire, self improvement on August 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, [but] to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy. –Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland
Young Abraham Lincoln Gets an Education
Posted in Education, Humor, Politics and Society, tagged Abraham Lincoln, budgets, satire, Socrates, unions on June 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
As everyone knows, Abraham Lincoln was a very well educated young man. He became exceptionally fluent in literature and history early in childhood. This was due to the amount of tax dollars the government spent on public education. Federal programs, also, allowed computer technology, multicultural activities, and paid teacher trainings to bless young Lincoln with [...]
The Educational Rapture
Posted in Education, Humor, Politics and Society, tagged activism, budgets, economy, Nevada, satire on May 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
From the Holy Book of Teacheriah, an Epistle to the Unionians, chapter 5, verses 5-10: 5 And in that great and last day, there shall be a famine of public-sector budgets in the land, and the houses of learning shall be in mighty want; 6 And there shall arise many great heroes, like unto the [...]
If the Real World Worked the Way Students and Parents Think School Should Work
Posted in Education, Humor, tagged educational standards, parents, satire, standards, students, teaching, teenagers, work ethic on February 9, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Scene 1 IRS- Tax forms must be submitted by April 15. No exceptions. Citizen A- But I didn’t have time! I had other things to do. IRS – What things got in the way of a priority obligation that comes around ever year? Citizen A – You know, like dances and field trips and clubs [...]
The Secret Book of Mormon
Posted in Humor, Religion, tagged Book of Mormon, LDS Church, satire on January 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
NOTICE: The following is SATIRE. Think about it. ********** Here’s the easiest way to know that Mormons don’t really think their Book of Mormon is true: they hide it as much as they can! The next time you talk to some Mormon, ask them why nobody but the “worthy” is allowed to even see a copy, [...]
Rules By Which a Free Republic May Be Reduced To a Socialist One
Posted in Humor, Politics and Society, tagged Benjamin Franklin, Constitution, Founding Fathers, regulation, satire, small business, taxes, tea party on January 3, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Despite the scorn leveled at it by the elite mainstream, the Tea Party movement has illustrated something significant about America: we’re fed up with the status quo and its increasing power grabs. In the last few years, not only have there been Tea Party protests, we’ve also had a popular political tract called Common Sense, and [...]
Census Takers In Ancient Rome?
Posted in Humor, Language and Literature, Politics and Society, tagged census, Julius Caesar, satire, Shakespeare on March 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Teaching Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar this month reminded me of the current brouhaha over the supposed intrusiveness of the 2010 federal census. In Act III, Scene 3, a minor character runs afoul of an angry mob that has been whipped up to a homicidal frenzy by the Machiavellian machinations of Marc Antony. In the following confrontation, the [...]
Is Harry Reid Secretly A Conservative Saboteur?
Posted in Humor, Politics and Society, tagged Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Harry Reid, health care bill, satire on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think I finally get it. I understand why Harry Reid is pushing so aggressively for this health care reform. Remember Atlas Shrugged? Besides John Galt, the capitalist superman recruiting strikers behind the scenes, another freedom fighter was Francisco D’Anconia, who paraded as a worthless playboy so nobody would suspect him of helping to sabotage the whole [...]
The Great Grade Bailout
Posted in Education, Humor, Politics and Society, tagged academic achievement, bailouts, educational standards, personal responsibility, satire on May 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
There is a great inequity in justice in our public school systems. I refer, of course, to the fact that some students have higher grades than others. This can only be the result of institutional disenfranchisement, and must be corrected by government intervention. Besides, our nation’s future faces catastrophic academic failure if we don’t artificially [...]
America’s Finances Stabilize: USA Wins Lottery, Gets Inheritance, Sells Stuff On E-Bay
Posted in Humor, Politics and Society, tagged bailouts, economy, satire on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SATIRE In the face of staggering, record-breaking trillion-dollar deficits for this year and the foreseeable future, America was understandably worried about its financial future. Luckily, several unexpected windfalls came up and helped America break even. “I was all sweating about these bills I got coming up, you know, infrastructure and social security and stuff, but [...]
SATIRE: Telegraph, Railroad, And Steamboat Companies Demand Government Bailout
Posted in Humor, Politics and Society, tagged bailouts, satire on December 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Washington D.C., A Few Generations Ago–Leading executives from America’s major communications and transportation endeavors are converging on the floor of the Capitol today to plea for federal bailout money from Congress to prop up their flailing enterprises. A spokesman for AT&T–American Telephone and Telegraph–laid out his case for receiving government assistance to the tune of, [...]
SATIRE: Counterculture Vindicated In Wake Of Local Tragedy
Posted in Humor, Politics and Society, tagged cultural criticism, liberalism, satire on December 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
ANYWHERE, U.S.A.–After yesterday’s terrible accident, the details of which will remain mysteriously vague in this report, observers were surprised to see hundreds of society’s hedonistic deviants spontaneously emerge as local heroes. The scenes of chaos were greatly ameliorated by such visions of mercy as the regional university’s entire Department of Atheism, which immediately organized an [...]
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