Category: Carnival of Satire

This week’s Carnival of Satire covers a lot of territory, and most of the important issues of our day, really: politics, beards, global warming, squirrels, issues of finance, and robots of course. You always have to be worried about what the robots are up to. We had a lot of submissions for the 81st edition, so we’ll have an extra COS next week:

Gavin R. Putland has John W. Howard’s Flowchart for Political Success. Gavin rightly points out that while this isn’t satire, it accurately demonstrates how sometimes life is more absurd than satire.

Then again… Rickey Henderson reminds us all of adventurers such as Ernest “Almost” Shackleton and Robert “Frozen on the Spot” Scott in his Beard Watch 2007 Update.

Aloysius is rightly concerned about the Black squirrel cult invasion of Minneapolis. As anyone who has read John Hodgman’s The Areas of My Expertise will recognize, this means the return of the hoboes. But are the squirrels black enough?

Ahem. Alexei finally reveals the identity of Obama’s Nemesis. (Not squirrels, but he should be concerned about them.)

Then there’s the nemesis of Bush II, as provided by Xco (not a robot), as he answers a question on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

We note with interest that Blue Skelton has a sent an open letter to Mr. Apocalypse. Clearly, he has been watching for the Forty-Seven Signs.

We’re glad the Yid with a Lid isn’t a terrorist, because his post: If I Was a Terrorist this is what I’d do is terrifying.

Xco (not a robot, we’re pretty sure) has an excellent explanation of a variety of forms of Capitalism in cows

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From the Beijing Olympics, to Russian interference at the North Pole, this Carnival of Satire has an international flavor, and speaking of flavor, we begin with a hilarious review of The Food Network from Riding with Rickey.

Conservathink has disturbing, less-than-jolly breaking news: Following Russian claim of Arctic sea bed, Santa Claus falls ill; President Putin denies culpability.

We’re a year away from the Olympics in China, and Madeleine Begun Kane has The Real Poop on Chinese exports.

You can find a few of our own satirical take on the next Summer Olympics in our Beijing Olympic mascot series for new Chinese demonstration “sports”: Tibetan Dissident Bi-athalon, Organ Relay, Hu Flung Falun Gong? (pictured at left), Forced Sterilization Footy and Press Clubbing.

Speaking of atrocities, Hurty Elbow examines the issue of photo retouching in the magazine industry, with this Redbook cover (if Redbook and retouching had been around during the time daVinci painted Mona Lisa).

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Welcome to our regular roundup of satire on the blogosphere (or the part of it that submitted something, anyway). We have some great stuff this week, beginning (predictably, for you regulars) with a post that has the word “monkey” in it:

Ahistoricality found this gem, The Monkey’s Paw, at Bouphonia.

It’s the dawning of the Age of the iPhone, and just in time, alejna has a review of the iPhone: good features, but falls short of design expectations.

However, this modest technology solution to the fairness issue, provided by Divided We Stand United We Fall, looks like a winner!

Madeleine Begun Kane is always a little controversial, but this week she wants us to Pity The Poor Lawyer (Limerick).

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We may be in the dog days of summer, but this edition of the Carnival of Satire is anything but a woofer. Though it might make you bark with laughter:

The Thuder Gott of Cyber Space (TM) notified us of this brilliant musical satire of “Tie a Yellow Ribbon” [This is a video, and you’ll have to grin and bear a bit of Barber Shop for 30 seconds before you get to the good stuff. But it’s worth the wait!]

Strap on your dosimeter! Jeremy has found Marie Curie’s Secret Diary. Yummy.

Madeleine Begun Kane has a Swiftian limerick: A Modest Dating Proposal For Anxious Guys.

Then again, the parents of all those anxious guys might have invested in Gay Insurance [also a video], via the Dirty Bitch Society

Jon Swift returns to the Carnival with his essay: David Vitter: Another Victim of Gay Marriage.

Rickey Reviews “Transformers”, and here’s a taste:

Rickey’s a big fan of Michael Bay’s work and make no mistake, this is his opus. What can we say? The man was born to make a movie about giant robots hitting each other.

Bobbarama has a satirical look at eating at Denny’s for a man who lives there: Steaking out my favorite booth.

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