Humor

How can a demagogue who boasts of kidnapping and killing and whose woeful misjudgment has reined down death and destruction on his own country be hailed as a saint? Is this dema... 12/02/2006

Recently after years and years of heartaches, letdowns, and countless Saturdays nights spent stumbling half-drunk around dark bars in a vain attempt to find love, I decided that... 12/02/2006

Members of The Dramatists Guild of America, the organization of playwrights, of which I have been an active member for many years, was in an unusually feisty mood in a review th... 12/02/2006

The combative president of Iran continued to reject a resolution by Western nations that his nation stop its development of the atomic bomb for peaceful purposes, even though, t... 12/02/2006

As you have no doubt read, the country?s leading bigamist ? distinguished title, eh? ? was arrested in Las Vegas during a routine traffic stop. He had made it to the number one... 12/02/2006

The Defense Department announced that our ever-vigilant military managed to intercept and shoot down a seagull over the Pacific. To assure a successful outcome, Dick Cheney was... 12/02/2006

What does a resourceful malefactor do when nearly all of the world is searching for him and he has nothing more urgent to do than hide out? Why, what else? He takes up gardening... 12/02/2006

Leading deadly duffers of Hezbollah and Hamas have finally surveyed the damage that their misjudgment has inflicted on their own people, perhaps partly out of fear that these lo... 12/02/2006

Wouldn?t it be revelatory if a helpful hand would came out of the clouds and give the human race a new work list? Given our present doings, we sure could use one. But, since the... 12/02/2006

The Florida manatee has fooled us all for ages. We thought it was as slow to cogitate as its ?sweet potato? body is to move. Never did the clever "sea cow" let on that it?s actu... 12/02/2006

I actually bought a Sunday paper this past weekend, something I haven't done for a while. Reading about all the problems in the world just tends to detract from my retirement eu... 12/02/2006

Sometimes, even a mountain lion has to watch who it bites. Consider the case of the mountain lion, or cougar, who jumped out of the woods at a park in British Columbia and took... 12/02/2006

Iran provided its long-promised ?multi-faceted? response to the proposal by Western nations that the mullahdom stop enriching uranium. A day or so before it presented its writte... 12/02/2006

Do you save one of the books of holy writ or the helpless babe? Be fair. You can only save one. No time for two. The flames are at your fanny. Yes, there's some chance you can g... 12/02/2006

In the trial of Saddam Hussein for genocide, he and his lawyers apparently decided that playing dumb and asking, ?What 180,000 Kurds?? would unlikely prove to be a credible defe... 12/02/2006