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Welcome to the dog days of summer edition. We hope this keeps you going over an extra-long break — we’ll return to our weekly schedule on September 7th. Until then, woof.

AmericanInventorSpot.com is a dog (though you can never be sure on the web) to suggest 10 Ways to Freak Out Your Date. Of course, Dr. Tundra doesn’t need any help in this regard. Neither does General Kang. And Thag is no Cassanova either.

Madeleine Begun Kane at Mad Kane’s Notables has a howlingly funny tune for us: The Ballad Of Joementum Joe Lieberman (To be sung to the tune of Danny Boy)

Ahistoricality has been digging massive holes in the yard and found this great bone to play with: Great Americans!!!!!! Like Plato!.

SickSadWorld has a second lovely list for us this edition, with This is not a cry for help, I swear.

Ahistoricality also was good enough to dig up this science spoof: Spooked911 Moon landing faked!.

Stiknstein has no mercy has a cunning plan for Cuba Continue Reading →

We hope the wait has been worth it — we think it has, and we’d like to delay the next Carnival too. So it will be on August 10th. See you then!

Even though it’s mid-summer, we begin with some thoughts about school. Dana has some tongue-in-cheek-itis with Naming Our Homeschool, A Request for Assistance.

Continuing with an educational theme, Ahistoricality has found How to Write a CoHE “First Person” Essay: A Handy Multiple-Choice Guide, written by The Little Professor. In case anyone else is wondering, we’re pretty sure CoHE refers to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Michael McCullough has a different take on the G8 in Putin gropes Condi Rice at G8 Summit!.

Lyrois has some food for thought during the bbq season in The Transition from Eating Mindlessly to Eating Consciously.

Dada alert! Darcy Xenophon has been to NY, and found it’s a Dada kind of town. Continue Reading →

Welcome to the 42nd edition of The Carnival of Satire. Maybe it’s the heat, or maybe it’s the humidity, but for whatever reason, we seem to be less ironic than usual. So instead of running another edition next week, we’ll hold back until July 27th. Until then, check back at The Skwib for our continuing quest to update The Devil’s Dictionary.

Dr. Deborah Serani has discovered a new psychological disorder called Ringxiety.

Ahistoricality discovered the coverage of a news-conference you might want to know about, particularly if you are interested in the history of WWII, and Roosevelt: Rumsfeld arrives in Afghanistan; 30 Taliban killed (posted at The New Chainik Hocker.)

Kneon Transitt sees naked people in: Punxsutawney Phil. And nudists.. Continue Reading →

As we move into the silly season, here are a few morsels of satire to keep you sane. Enjoy!

Tommy at The Kag Report takes us to wonderland in A Press Conference On The Issues.

If you’re interested in non-verbal satire, then you will enjoy some of the photographs of strange statues from around the world, many of them just odd, but many satirical too.

Madeleine Begun Kane at has a little ditty worth noting: Bush Isn’t God. Who Knew?

Dr. Sanity has an exclusive of Osama doing his best Celine Dion impersonation in The Jihad Must Go On.
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Welcome to the 40th Carnival of Satire, where we have satire that’s transcendent, transhuman (including the transpapal), transgendered and, we hope, transgressive.

A special thanks to Ahistoricality for finding The Straight Man’s Guide to Lousy Sex at Susie Bright’s Journal. Though to be fair, we think about 80 percent of straight men don’t need a guide.

Ali Eteraz has satire so deep and dark you’ll need a spelunking helmet and headlamp in: Muslim Satirists Commit Mass Suicide.

Buckley F. Williams has news of the New York Times revealing Timmy Durgin’s Hiding Place.

More treats from Ahistoricality, who has also found a discussion of How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Revisited. We have blogged about this book, but have yet to purchase it, mostly because we’re jealous we didn’t think of it first. And on a related note, there’s this satirical quiz: what kind of transhuman are you?

Anonymous Educator digs up more dirt as a member of the Beautification Committee.
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Welcome to the 39th edition of The Carnival of Satire, where our correspondents wax ironic or just monkey around with a little parody.

We’ll start this week with Madeleine Begun Kane at Mad Kane’s Notables has a masterful limerick only a woman could write (and get away with): Ann’s Master Plan.

Jon Swift has reasons why The Retirement of Bill Gates from Microsoft Is No Big Deal

Furries creep out Thag. And apparently they do the same for Kneon Transitt, as you’ll see with Real-life furries just around the corner?.

We have decided BiBi Cambridge’s The Street finds its own use for Technology (or BlueJacking) is satire. If it’s not, BiBi, shame on you.

On the topic of mobiles, Ahistoricality turned up A Sermon, on the Current Disputes Over Turning Off Cellphones in the British Library Reading Rooms; Delivered on June 20, 2006, in Islington (at The Little Professor.)
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