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Jeffrey Harrison: Stalinesque

We don’t recognize our own country,
and our words don’t carry more than ten feet,
but the snippets that can still be made out
are all about the Emperor Felonius.

November 23, 2024 · 16 Comments

Abby Zimet: Cosmic Jokesters Buy Cesspool of Hate-mongering Psychopath Who Is Not Taking It Well

We salute the supremely ironic sale of Alex Jones’ vicious Infowars – now bankrupt thanks to the $1.4 billion he owes Sandy Hook families for claiming the massacre of their children was a hoax – to the satirical wise-acres of The Onion, working with those families.

November 21, 2024 · 10 Comments

Baron Wormser: The Wand

Like many born in the years after World War Two, I spent a portion of my childhood watching Disney cartoons on television and in the movie theater. One thrilling aspect … Continue reading

November 17, 2024 · 10 Comments

Barbara Hamby: Ode to Red and Speedy

Who can remember all the selves stuffed into the miraculous
sack of skin?

November 8, 2024 · 15 Comments

Abby Zimet: Their Lasting Legacy | Talk About A Shithole Country

Because things can always get weirder, the newest statue on the National Mall features a faux-bronze turd sitting on Nancy Pelosi’s desk

October 29, 2024 · 9 Comments

David Kirby: Shorty Boudreaux

He really was short.
He’d get on a box and disappear under the hood
and jump down half an hour later,
grinning and wiping his hands on a rag,
and ask me about school.

October 29, 2024 · 9 Comments

Barbara Crooker: Treadmill

We lift weights. We
feel great. We

do yoga. We
eat granola.

October 28, 2024 · 13 Comments

Sharon Fagan McDermott: I Dream of Kevin Bacon Playing Guitar to his Goats

and I ask him “why you, Kevin Bacon, why
are you in my dream? I’ve not even
watched Footloose all the way through.”

October 19, 2024 · 17 Comments

Video: Opulent Round Edible Object

A boy discovers a glitch which enables him to exchange cotton balls for cookies.

September 21, 2024 · 5 Comments

Abby Zimet: U.S. Attorney In Charge of Trump Almost Shooting Is Haitian-American

We love the smell of irony and karma in the morning.

September 19, 2024 · 5 Comments

Jose Padua: The Shape I’m In

it was the middle of a Lower East Side winter and the heat
in my apartment that night was up so high, after being completely out
for a week, that I couldn’t help but feel sexy, knowing I had pork buns
in my tiny fridge

September 19, 2024 · 15 Comments

Abby Zimet: OMG Now They’re Coming For Our Cats and Chairs and Ducks

Sheesh. The Crazy Train just keeps clattering on.

September 11, 2024 · 13 Comments

Video: Charlie Chaplin Swallowed by a Factory Machine — Modern Times (1936)

In Chaplin’s last performance as the iconic Little Tramp, his character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world.

August 23, 2024 · 5 Comments

Abby Zimet: MAGA’s Hell On Earth | Women’s Rights, Child Care, Free School Lunch and Cat Hair

From one glad patriot, “The blue wave is coming, and it is covered in cat hair.”

August 13, 2024 · 10 Comments

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