Showing posts with label Satire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Satire. Show all posts
Friday, March 28, 2025

Once again, the Babylon Bee gets to the heart of the matter

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  I have to admit, there are times when I think the Babylon Bee's irreverent, satirical take on the news of the day is divinely inspired...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2024

A 4chan comment I find scarily prescient

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  Watching our country descend into banana republic territory (see the Babylon Bee for more about that ), I came across this graphic on Me...
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Get woke, go manatee???

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  I had to laugh at this headline at the Babylon Bee. It stems from a controversy over Dove's hiring of a Black Lives Matter activist as...
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Thursday, October 7, 2021

It seems I'm (not really!) a "buck-toothed transsexual quaker on stilts"...

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  The Babylon Bee has put out an invaluable chart, allowing one to identify one's disability, gender, race/creed, and a bonus attribute ...
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Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Italian food will never taste the same again...

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  The celebrated McSweeney's Internet Tendency  has turned its satirical attention to the menu at Olive Garden , a chain of Italian-styl...
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Saturday, August 14, 2021

Saturday morning snippet: Time for a lot of laughs

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  Last week I came across two YouTube videos that had me rolling in the aisles.  They're compilations of the greatest moments of comedy ...
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Saturday, August 7, 2021

Saturday Snippet: It's a hard life, being a prophet

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  I've long enjoyed Jewish humor for its self-deprecating light-heartedness, and its sometimes surprisingly deep insights into the heart...
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Friday, July 16, 2021

I want one!!!

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  The Babylon Bee does it again . Popular New Ejection Porch Automatically Launches Vaccine Evangelists Into The Stratosphere An American ma...
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Thursday, July 1, 2021

The Babylon Bee hits another one out of the park

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  The satirists at the Babylon Bee are outdoing themselves these days - hence the strident attempts by those with no sense of humor to shut...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

The Babylon Bee hits one out of the park

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I had to laugh out loud when I read this  satirical, snarky "report". Clever Texans have implemented a new strategy to stop Ca...
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Saturday, February 15, 2020

Saturday Snippet: a fake nun in the Army in Northern Ireland

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The late Australian author Russell Braddon was one of the most extraordinary writers to emerge from World War II.  His prolific output inc...
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Saturday, January 18, 2020

Saturday Snippet: "The Night Life of the Gods"

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Thorne Smith was an American satirical author who flourished in the first half of last century.  Two of his books were made into successfu...
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Saturday, August 10, 2019

H. L. Mencken's recipe for dealing with activist judges

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Both sides of the political spectrum in the USA have from time to time expressed "reservations" (euphemism!) at the decisions of...
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Thursday, August 1, 2019

So much for Beyond Meat!

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The Babylon Bee hits another one out of the park . Look out, Beyond Meat -- a new competitor has emerged in the market of turning veget...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

The snark intensifies

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Many of us have long enjoyed satirical Web sites such as Duffelblog or the Babylon Bee .  Now comes news that IMAO  is putting up politica...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Star Wars - Australian edition

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This parody fan movie dates from 2013, but until reader Snoggeramus directed my attention to it, I'd never heard of it.  Half an hour o...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2018

You and your ammunition

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A giggleworthy article at the Gunmart blog classifies you, as a gun owner, in terms of your choice of carry (i.e. defensive) ammunition.  ...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Move over, Kama Sutra - it's time for the Archisutra!

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Caution:   mildly NSFW content below the break.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018

TOOOOO funny!

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A parody Twitter account using the name "Assocaited Press" (with a logo closely resembling that of the venerable Associated Press...
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Friday, July 21, 2017

The REAL housewives of ISIS . . .

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. . . according to the BBC - with tongue firmly in cheek! Peter
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