Humor & Satire

The only annual event more exciting than when the new phonebooks come out! The Dave Barry Holiday Gift Guide.

by the helpful Planet Moron:

There are two types of renewable energy to consider:

1. The kind that is really expensive.
2. The kind that doesn’t exist.

The expensive kind is helpful in that the additional resources devoted to it will help slow down the economy, while the kind that doesn't exist is helpful in that the additional resources devoted to it will help slow down the economy.

So, there's really no downside.

I remember really liking this, long ago, back when MTV played music:

Don Luskin got a rare forwarded-to-everyone-in-the-world email that's worth forwarding:

Dear Fellow Business Owners

As a business owner who employs 30 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama will be our next president, and that my taxes and fees will go up in a BIG way.

From FrankJ's version of BO's encounter with "Joe the Plumber":

Obama turned to the press. “And that was the dramatization of my new tax plan. Any questions?”

“Why are you so awesome?” a reporter squealed with glee.

“It’s hard.” Obama bowed his head sadly. “Especially when FOX News allows critical things about me to be said.”

“Awww, poor Obama,” the press said. “Everyone is against him.”

They've got a strategery.

(via Poor & Stupid)

Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator:

Who knows, Lock Pepper Palin you just might be president one day!

Dave Burge offers the Iowahawk/Protein Wisdom ticket to the "none of the above" voters:

And next December, when you turn on the TV and see my U-Haul pulling up to the White House, and the panic starts setting in again, just come back to this post and consider what might have been.