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Our humorist offers a cheap alternative to last year's "staycation."

Humor: Happy Rebranding to me

Posted Sun, Dec 28, 3 p.m.

No time better than New Year's to do a dramatic makeover of one's tired brand.

Humor: The Fear Olympics

Posted Sun, Dec 21, 3 p.m.

The competition over catastrophizing couldn't come at a better time, and our author is one of the contestants.

Humor: The economy needs a new bubble

Posted Sun, Dec 14, 3 p.m.

Fortunately, a wonderful speculative bubble is right at hand, better than tulips. Think lemons on wheels.

Heckuva job, economists!

Posted Sun, Dec 7, 10:19 a.m.

Test your economics IQ against the worst predictors of our times.

Humor: All you need to know about world history

Posted Mon, Dec 1, 6 a.m.

Just a lecture a day for a month, and you'll get the drift.

Oklahoma City fans adjust to Thunder's losing ways (1-15)

Posted Fri, Nov 28, 7 a.m.

By Mike Henderson

Turns out the answer to how bad could the Sonics get is spelled O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A!

Refurbishing Wall Street

Posted Mon, Nov 17, midnight

Hey, building materials are really expensive these days.

Black, white, and Orange

Posted Sun, Nov 9, 7:11 p.m.

American is colorblind, especially with regard to birthplace.

Why the rich are rich and the poor are poor

Posted Mon, Nov 3, midnight

It's the natural order of things!

Shopping at Neiman-Maverick

Posted Fri, Oct 24, 5:18 p.m.

John McCain's stimulus package would include a Sarah Palin shopping spree which would pump $375 billion into the economy. Or at least it ought to. Let's try it on.

Today's threat level: cyan, for cynical

Posted Mon, Oct 13, 8:57 p.m.

Let's not forget the Department of Homeland Security during these trying times.

The geniuses who aren't on Wall Street

Posted Sun, Sep 28, 2 p.m.

The MacArthur Foundation names 25 people who, together, could probably get us out of this mess.

When brain surgery isn't brain surgery

Posted Sun, Sep 21, 8 p.m.

Other people's smarts will only get you so far. Our mind-numb humorist explores the limits of anti-elitism.

Why vote for Palin when you can vote for real fiction?

Posted Sat, Sep 20, midnight

By Susan Trapnell

Make-believe politics is too dangerous to leave in the hands of a novice. So a theater professional steps onto the stage. Her platform: Make-believe you can believe in.

The porridge he makes is always just right

Posted Sun, Sep 14, 7 p.m.

But never being wrong isn't easy.

Sarah Palance

Posted Sat, Sep 13, midnight

By Jack Lewis

The masculine, populist, Old West spectacle that is Alaska Gov. Palin.

If you haven't been vetted yet, there's something wrong with you

Posted Mon, Sep 8, noon

Through intense psychotherapy, our humorist discovers he wasn't vetted as a child — and the damage of that negligence is all too evident.

In touch with the average American

Posted Sun, Aug 31, 8 p.m.

That seems to be a virtue everyone can agree on this campaign season. So let's define what that means.

The funny thing about Seattle ...

Posted Sat, Aug 23, 4 a.m.

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

Our humor writer shares the top ten jokes he's collected in a not very funny city.

Other flip media

Anonymous snow bard skewers "Mayor Salt Nick" An example: With a politician so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it was Mayor "Salt Nick." More rapid than gun bans, his excuses they came, "To save our environment the roads stay the same!"

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

Tips to liberals in waging war on Christmas Thomas Frank gets into holiday spirit by egging on the Christmas bashers. But remember, the real battle is the War on Easter.

THE NEW REPUBLIC

Art Theil: It could be verse He composes a poem about the year in sports, a kind of Winter Blunderland.

Seven lessons from pop culture, 2008 An example: If you're female you can be smart or good looking, but not both. Also: selling celebrity baby photos and donating the fees to charity really works out well.

THE TYEE (VANCOUVER, B.C.)

Christopher Hitchens: Why I hate Christmas "The core objection, which I restate every December at about this time, is that for almost a whole month, the United States—a country constitutionally based on a separation between church and state—turns itself into the cultural and commercial equivalent of a one-party state."

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Blog posts

Inauguration: the fine print

Posted Tue, Dec 23, 2 p.m. 2008

If it rains, please no umbrellas. If it's cold, please no Cutty Sark. If weak of bladder, tough luck.

Speling and grammer: lost causes?

Posted Mon, Dec 22, 4 p.m. 2008

by Sue Frause

Our author, a spelling champ in her youth, tries to explain across the generational divide

A dance to the future

Posted Sat, Dec 6, noon 2008

by Spider Kedelsky

An inspired evening of imaginary dances, starring such people as George Bush, Greg Nickels, and Hank Paulson.

Sausage Links: the candidates are still human edition

Posted Fri, Oct 17, 2:30 p.m. 2008

by Clark Fredricksen

Today's roundup includes bitter endorsements, big builder groups, and a reference to Alfred E. Newman.

John Anderson's Pennsylvania postmortem

Posted Fri, Apr 25, 5 a.m. 2008

Consecrate a Scandinavian-American in the spirit of Obama-mania and footlight a contradiction: the Audacity of Pessimism.

This just in: Boomers ruined America

Posted Wed, Mar 26, 3 p.m. 2008

On Monday night I went to see Brett Morgen's Chicago 10, an animated/snatches-of-newsreel documentary on the 1968 Democratic National Convention riots and subsequent Chicago Seven conspiracy trial (the filmmaker rounded the seven up to ten to include attorneys Bill Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass as well as Black Panther leader Bobby Seale).

Reporters, 50-ish, continue aging

Posted Fri, Mar 14, 5 a.m. 2008