Showing posts with label Satire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Satire. Show all posts

2.15.2010

New Marriage Initiative Encounters Controversy

I think this news item is meant more to satirize the heated debate in the United States over gay marriage then it is to poke fun at conservative middle class America, although it certainly does that. (The Onion)

1.30.2010

And ... Action!

I'm not vouching for the authenticity of this video clip showing outtakes from a recent Public Service Announcement that former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush did to appeal to Americans for aid for earthquake-ravaged Haiti, but it doesn't seem out of character. (Break)

1.24.2010

More Grey Cup Fallout

This is a joke post, and is not intended in any way, shape or form to suggest that there's even the remotest link between the Rider Nation and the Aryan Nation that Hitler once led. Neither is this post intended to diminish the incredible suffering, sacrifice, death and destruction that occured during the Nazi era by equating it with the simple loss of a football game. Got it? Good. (YouTube)

1.23.2010

A Wall I Can Get Behind

Maybe this is something we should think about doing? (Onion News Network)

1.19.2010

U.S. Abortion Law Update

At least, I think this is satire. (Onion News Network)

12.31.2009

Onion News Tops Prairie Dog

Decade in review, schmecade in review. The Onion News Network recently looked back on the entire history of Earth. Ranking high on its list of notable occurrences, as you might expect, is God's miraculous creation of the planet and the rest of the firmament approximately 6000 years ago. (Onion News Network)

12.15.2009

More Copenhagen-Inspired Pranksterism





















The Oswald/Harper photo cited in this CBC report is undoubtedly in poor taste, but equally undoubtedly there are plenty of Canadians who wish Stephen Harper and his government weren't representing Canada at the climate summit in Copenhagen. Some of the other photos that people entered in the contest, like the one pictured above, are pretty funny too.

12.01.2009

GOP Select New Leader


Better than Sarah Palin, I say. (Onion News)