While listening to BBC news coverage of Iran on the radio this morning, the words “Revolution speeds evolution” came to my head. At the time, the words fit the current Iran situation very well and time will tell whether there is a revolution, a new election, or crushed hopes and lives. Since it rang in [...]

Recently, New York Times reporter Motoko Rich wrote an article about how during a recession, what people want is a happy book, with a happy ending. Incidentally, book sales have soared in the romance novel genre, and, as the masses know, the vampire love story genre. Mass-market paperbacks fly off the shelves of [...]

In a bold sign of thawing relations between the countries, Presidents Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez announced today that the state of Texas would be traded to Venezuela for Jesus Moronta, a slick-fielding, hard-hitting 14-yr-old shortstop phenomenon, cash considerations and an undisclosed amount of raw, premium coca.

It seems there is a shortage of gods in the universe today. Here on earth, if you mention the name Baal, Njord, Horus or even Krishna, people will look at you like your nuts, or like you’re alluding to someone out of a fairly tale. These gods, now considered to be blatant myths, [...]

Times are hard, money is short, things seem to be spinning out of control. The new President is trying to fix things but these solutions may be too little too late. There is something the President has brought to the table that has been lacking….a sense of cool.
Look back to the old Hollywood movies and [...]

Milwaukee, WI         3/22/09
A middle-aged Milwaukee man cannot stop saying fuck after hitting what he claims to be his thousandth pothole. “I am fed up with the fucking potholes in this city,” Raymond Smith said today. “Paying over one-thousand dollars for new shocks, a tire alignment and new brake pads [...]

By Jeremy Benishek and Kyle Romeis
Drinking Courvoisier on a random Tuesday night can lead to some random entertaining conversations. But can we truly say that this particular Tuesday night was a “random” night? Or can we say that we had “random” conversation? What about that Tuesday would make it random, and likewise, [...]

In an effort to conserve scarce resources in trying economic times, President Obama has issued an executive order to alter the centuries-old tradition of addressing a joint session of Congress. Both branches of Congress will, instead, be issued only one-hit bongs, marking the first time the joint session has been changed since Theodore Roosevelt’s hookah [...]