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Humor: The noble public service of Goldman Sachs

Posted Sun, Nov 1, noon

Far from humbled by recent financial stumbles, Ron Rapacious offers a new line of derivatives: betting on future legal settlements.

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Humor: Our motto's better than your motto

Posted Sun, Oct 11, noon

By Steve Clifford

"Not so fast" ("Alki," more or less) has a nice ring to it, fitting for our dispassionate state and these hard times. Other states' sayings are "not so swift."

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Humor: That's a lot of potatoes!

Posted Sat, Sep 26, 10:54 a.m.

By Steve Clifford

Some are even edible, and they come with a great deal of Irish lore and meaning for the author's fragile sense of identity.

Humor: Another American business in decline

Posted Sun, Sep 13, noon

By Steve Clifford

We used to excel in making decades, but now they don't even last 10 years and we're going to have to start importing them from China.

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Humor: Down the royal road to AutoCare

Posted Sat, Sep 12, 6:08 p.m.

By Steve Clifford

Defending our sacred right to the best possible automotive treatment, and fending off the menace of socialized care.

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Humor: Flouting the rules is hard work

Posted Mon, Aug 31, 3:29 p.m.

By Steve Clifford

Glenn Beck may think people who play by the rules are angry with their country. He's doesn't know the half of it.

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Humor: Let's get those death panels going!

Posted Sun, Aug 23, 6 a.m.

By Steve Clifford

An Obama enthusiast hopes to volunteer for a stimulating new program

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Everett: God's gift to Seattle politics

Posted Wed, Aug 12, 6 a.m.

By Pete Jackson

It's understandable that Joe Mallahan, a son of Everett (the Athens of Puget Sound), will be shy about lording it over his Seattle fellow-candidates. And that Dow Constantine would drip Everett-envy.

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The eggs and us

Posted Thu, Jul 30, 6 a.m.

By Gardiner Davis

A classic Northwest story (and fantasy) is re-enacted on a run-down farm on Lopez Island

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Humor: The Zombocracy and the Upticrats

Posted Sun, Jul 26, 11:29 a.m.

By Steve Clifford

One nation, under Zombies, with repression and injustice for all.

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Humor: Another Republican sex scandal

Posted Sun, Jul 19, 6 a.m.

By Steve Clifford

A leading anti-bestiality candidate confesses his affair with a goat, raising 'barnstorming' to a new level

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Humor: Another fatal blow to newspapers

Posted Sun, Jul 12, 10:26 a.m.

By Steve Clifford

An obituary for the newspaper obit, as the Web steals another franchise by resorting to grave-robbery

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Humor: Failure we can believe in

Posted Sun, Jul 5, 10:15 a.m.

By Steve Clifford

An exclusive interview with President Obama, in which he unveils his new strategy: 'Build on Failure'

Humor: Let those grudges fly!

Posted Sun, Jun 28, noon

By Steve Clifford

It's National Grudge Week, and naturally Seattle is crowded with fun events.

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Humor: An exegesis of my nemesis

Posted Mon, Jun 22, 6 a.m.

By Steve Clifford

"Cameron" invariably comments derisively on the author's essays, deploying the fine arts of the poet. He is the greatest poet of our time.

Humor: We need to do a better job at lying

Posted Sun, Jun 14, 12:29 p.m.

By Steve Clifford

Standards for lying have declined deplorably. We need to professionalize it, and there's no better place to start than at our major universities.

Man, did you catch her pheromones?

Posted Sun, May 31, 2:39 p.m.

By Steve Clifford

Flip Side's first personal ads, surging with eosinophil and phagocytes. If you have to ask, don't bother replying.

Humor: The secret of happiness is discovered

Posted Mon, May 25, 2:15 p.m.

By Steve Clifford

Alas, buying a Ferrari is a terrible thing to do to your Suck-Up Ratio.

Humor: Rating my neighbors, through recycling

Posted Mon, May 11, 6 a.m.

By Steve Clifford

You can learn all you need to know about your neigbors by pawing through their recycled wine bottles. Here's last week's scores, with our vain author winning as usual.

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Humor: Fix the economy? Leave it to me.

Posted Sun, May 3, 3:05 p.m.

By Steve Clifford

Including an exclusive interview with Larry Summers

Other flip media

Michael Kinsley: Meet Barack Obama, a prize winning machine This just in: He's won the Booker Prize for fiction, and the Nobel for physics. There's no stopping the guy!

WASHINGTON POST

Palin's farewell address, as edited by Vanity Fair What if that rambling speech had been properly fact-checked and copy-edited? The magazine helpfully provides the result.

VANITY FAIR

Maureen Dowd takes another whack at Sarah Palin Unable to resist, the columnist channels Palin's diary. "So people should stop being so stinkin’ mean to me because this is a goal-setting thing, a full-court press, a sub-four marathon. Karl Rove thinks I’m not prepared for the national stage??? Pundits think I should read a book before I write one??? Man, I feel a grizzly rising up in me!!!

NEW YORK TIMES

P.J. O'Rourke: Breaking up with GM is hard to do That's because Detroit is all about romance and poetry. That's because driving a car was really riding a horse, a noble steed that made you a cavalier. Or so the man says.

WALL STREET JOURNAL

Maureen Dowd: Has Bush finally rid himself of his Cheney obsession? It may have finally happened, though it's a little late

NEW YORK TIMES

Blog posts

Flip Side picks a mayor

Posted Tue, Oct 27, 3:34 p.m.

by Steve Clifford

Our can't-miss endorsement. After all, he's not Greg Nickels.

Flip Side, the surprise Nobel Prize winner!

Posted Fri, Oct 16, 6 a.m.

by Steve Clifford

Awarded apparently for what he might achieve later, the Crosscut "humor" columnist fakes nonchalance about his imagined coup, then dreams of other "achievements."

Guardians against farelessness

Posted Sun, Sep 20, 11:26 a.m.

by Matt Fikse

Link Light Rail's unintentionally funny new "Fare Enforcement Officers" should lose the Kevlar and Velcro and try instead to channel their inner old-school train conductor.