Trivia, Humor & Satire

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Shortly before he was killed by a policeman, Michael Brown was caught on videotape stealing cigarillos from a convenience store.  Stopped for illegally selling individual cigarettes from a pack, Eric Garner was choked to death by a policeman trying to subdue him.  What is more hazardous to heath, tobacco products […]

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ China’s State Administration for Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television has banned the use of puns in state media because it’s not funny to be living under communism 25 years after the end of the Cold War. * Orthodox leaders have condemned Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of Teaneck, New Jersey for

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ President Obama told George Stephanopoulos that he felt like a dinged-up used car and that the voters would be looking for a new model in 2016. Picking up on his car analogy, many Republicans hope he will be recalled before the next election. * The new Lammily doll is less

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Fox News’ reporters are apoplectic about Obama’s Executive Order to defer the deportation of millions of undocumented aliens.  They accuse him of permitting potential carriers of Ebola, drug dealers, felons, and terrorists to remain in the country.  Meanwhile, the FCC has requested the network to change its slogan from “Fair

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Congressional Republicans are outraged that President Obama plans to issue Executive Orders liberalizing immigration policy during the lame duck period between the elections and the inauguration of the next House and Senate.  Obama justifies his actions as an appropriate response to the last two years of a dead duck Congress.

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ A new Gallup poll indicated that 42 % of those queried have a favorable view of the Republican Party compared to only 36 % who view the Democratic Party favorability.    While many analysts attribute this to President Obama’s mishandling of the ISIS and Ebola crises, others believe it is just

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Upon stepping off of Air Force One at Beijing Airport, President Obama was besieged by Chinese creditors demanding that he pay off loans they made to the United States. * Breitbart News erroneously alleged that President Obama’s nominee for Attorney General Loretta Lynch had served as the Clintons’ lawyer in

An election wrapup… By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ John Boehner and Mitch McConnell celebrated the GOP’s control of both the House and the Senate by offering to work cooperatively with President Obama to accomplish their aims.  In this spirit of bipartisanship they changed the GOP’s campaign slogan from “Stop Obama; Fire Reid” to “Stop Ebola;

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Somewhere in hell Joseph McCarthy watched last night’s election results.  Not knowing that television networks now designate Republican states as red and Democratic ones as blue, he looked at the electoral map and commented, “I warned them the communists would take over the United States!” * Boko Haram reported that

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ The current buzzword in American politics is “quarantine.” * Governor Christie imposed a quarantine for all people returning from travel in Ebola-stricken areas of Africa and interned a nurse who had worked there in a make-shift tent near a hospital.  After yielding to pressure to allow her to return home,

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─  As the world spins out of control, these new reality shows are being readied for broadcast. * Survivor:  Three contestants will be parachuted into areas ISIS occupies.  One will be wearing a cross and an American flag lapel pin; the second will be wearing a Jewish star and an Israeli

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ President Obama chose Ron Klain as the country’s Ebola Czar.  Carried away with his new title, Klain plans to instigate a pogrom against the epidemic. * Eric Duncan was the first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States and die from the disease.  Two more Americans subsequently