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Welcome to the 61st edition of the Carnival of Satire. Enjoy! (Or there will be wailing, and gnashing of teeth.)

The Richmond Democrat has unearthed a copy of The text of Cheney’s speech to the General Assembly. (We were surprised by the amount of stage directions in the notes — those Vice Presidential speech writers don’t leave anything to chance.)

Big Picture Guy as a harrowing tale of the “bistro blabber” and the dangers of Sex Appeal.

Divided We Stand United We Fall has parody with Nancy Pelosi tempted by the One Ring.

Arun has ruminations on how the American male is out of wooing ideas in Bar Culture: Expensive for Tools, Free for Women!

Madeleine Begun Kane presents limerick for your delectation: O’Donnell v. The Donald.

Long or Short Capital posits a disturbing theory about climate change in Cephalopod Positions Rising from Underwater. Continue Reading →

Happy New Year, and welcome to the first edition of The Carnival of Satire for 2007. We start, appropriately, with a couple of New Year’s posts:

Jon Swift has new Predictions for 2007, including this gem: “In the season finale of Lost we discover that it was all a dream by Hurley who wakes up in Bob Newhart’s hotel.”

Mad Kane’s also has some New Year’s satire some legal boilerplate: It Is Hereby Resolved.

Ahistoricality has found A Modest Proposal on the Draft and Higher Education.

TimeCheeze.com has news about the Schottenheimer Effect in San Diego Chargers and Marty Prepare for Patented Playoff Meltdown.

Bile, Snark, and Sneer presents Where’s Mark Foley when you want him?

SimplyJews presents For your well-being: Allahrobics.

And to take us out on a flappy note, bobbarama.com has an odd interview in Soaring into uncharted waters.

Thanks to everyone for submitting their satire, and thanks to these fine folks for helping us with webby-stuff: the Blog Carnival for their form; and the listings at the Ubercarnival, and at the Blog Carnival too. Thanks to Eliya for the pelican pic!

The next edition of the Carnival of Satire will be January 4th.

Welcome to the Carnival of Satire at The Skwib, where we are equal opportunity offenders. This week’s edition includes robots, orcs, hobos and it will all go down better if you have diminished expectations. To start, we are going to break the first rule.

You all know the first rule. No talking about Taliban Club. Jon Swift has the rest of them with Taliban Club Rules.

Feel the outrage. bobbarama.com is Going off the deep-fried end.

Bitter Tonic notes How Prozac Saved My Marriage.

Peace Moonbeam returns to the Carnival of Satire with a whale of a tale: Mammal/Fish.

Madeleine Begun Kane learns the joy of having her age questioned in What A Card!

Hey, look, it’s a robot’s blog. Does that make it roblog? Whatever you call it, SumBOTe has thoughts on Kramer’s Transgression Continue Reading →

Welcome to this politics-free edition of the Carnival of Satire. This week’s carnival also features many new voices to our weekly festival of irony. We hope you enjoy it!

Bad news if you’re mantra includes an Omâ„¢. YogaDawg has just learned that it has been Trademarked.

Gabe Recchia has the only post that comes close to politics this week, in: This is every negative campaign ad ever.

We enjoy books. We also like well-designed books (Thag especially likes books with soft, creamy paper.) We even enjoy bad book covers. Particularly with funny commentary, such as this one about Chewbacca, and this Penguin classic.

Daniel Brenton has some disturbing testimony on the UFO front, in an edition of his Round Files.

The Soft Rant lives up to its name admirably, with Dance Team Remixes Lead To ADHD and Eating Disorders.

General Kang was outraged that Mad Kane’s Humor Blog has produced its own Gift Giving Guide. He should just relax and admit that its all an homage to Dave Barry.

While shopping, you might take Surfer Sam and Friends up on a few suggestions for how to make it more fun. Or at least chaotic. Continue Reading →

GrrlScientist has discovered an Escher painting of the Bush Administration Showing Us The Way Out of Iraq.

The festive season is upon us and Drink at Work is doing a marvelous series of lost holiday specials; we liked an evening with Rudolph.

The Banterist has more accurate Wikipedia warnings. (Link goes to a non-blog site.)

Madeleine Begun Kane has an astute Ode To Prosperity.

Jesus’ General has a review of Hot House Flowers that is worth checking out.

Anticipating The Skwib’s upcoming holiday gift guide, Jennifer Miner has the sarcastic What Not to Buy for Christmas: This holiday season’s worst gift ideas. Continue Reading →