The Other McCain

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In The Mailbox: 04.04.23

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Urgent Breaking News: SNL Is … Funny?

Of all the important events happening in the world recently — bank failures, war in Ukraine, whatever — nothing is more shocking than this: Saturday Night Live actually did something funny this week. What’s it been, 15 years? Just about the time Obama became president, the writers at SNL lost the ability to do satire. […]

Headline of the Week

An instant classic: EXCLUSIVE: ‘I have no other talent’: Gold Coast influencer breaks down in tears as she loses followers on ‘porn’ website OnlyFans due to the coronavirus pandemic and can no longer pay her rent Australia’s Gold Coast is near Brisbane, and I have no idea why this particular bimbo would think she could […]

Jim, Jim and John Get Zany Mail

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When Your Silly Haiku Tweet Turns Into An Impromptu Songwriting Session

by Smitty To put this mess in context, I was tweeting the G-File with a haiku, and copying @HaikuJonah. Then @Corduroyalist had to make everything weird. @HaikuJonah offers the perfect review. This is an example of how fun Twitter used to be all the time. It’s only an occasional pleasure anymore. @jonahNRO When your haruspex […]

#Evergreen New York Times Ditty

by Smitty If you want to win a bet,Go against truth in the NYeT:Pravda-on-the-Hudson likes it wrong. (1/2) — IGotOverMachoGrande (@smitty_one_each) September 2, 2017 Facts always seem to hide,From their lyin' Commie pride,Like talent from a wretched hip-hop song. (2/2) — IGotOverMachoGrande (@smitty_one_each) September 2, 2017 Retweet these to Stick It To The Man.

Those ‘Turbo’ Thingies

by Smitty With your approval, then: pic.twitter.com/Jv6In9m8v7 — IGotOverMachoGrande (@smitty_one_each) July 16, 2017

Herbert Kornfeld Was Certainly Smarter Than Krugman, My Basset Hound. Also, The NYT Economist Dude. #TrudeauEulogies

by Smitty Those who’ve been on the net for a while may remember Herbert Kornfeld, tragically felled by a politically correct scythe right around the time Barack Obama rose from useless to famously useless, back in 2007. Apparently, the Northern Lightbulb is a little less dim for having been pilloried by pretty much the entire […]

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