Trivia, Humor & Satire

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―Embarrassed over leaks that the NSA monitored German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone, President Obama called her on a secure line to apologize.  The next day he received a briefing from the NSA citing his conversation with Merkel verbatim and reminding him, “Espionage means you never have to say you’re sorry.” […]

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — House Republicans are outraged over the glitches in the Affordable Health Care website.  One was overheard saying, “If we would have known it would be done so incompetently, we could have spared voting over 40 times to repeal it and shutting down the government, spent our energy on voting

By Laurie Baron If glitches continue to plague HealthCare.gov, the Affordable Health Care Act is slated to be renamed the Inaccessible Health Care Act. . Dan Snyder, the politically insensitive owner of the Washington Redskins, is considering less offensive names for his team.  Possible alternatives are: The Washington Firewater Drinkers, The Washington Savages, and The

By Laurie Baron (Tune: My Country ‘tis of Thee) My country is shut down Congress has let us down. And we must plead. Land of enormous size, It needs a compromise. Support from Boehner’s side That’s how to lead. Here’s my analysis Of our paralysis. Let the House vote. To fund the government, On debts

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — After seeing the latest polls on the percentage of Americans who disapprove of the Republican strategy of linking the approval of a budget to the defunding of Obama Care, Confucius say, “Those who heed the advice of the junior senator from Texas will find themselves in a Ted end.”

  By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — After several days of the government shutdown, Bain Capital has offered to buy the Federal government, downsize and reorganize it, and outsource most of its services. Bears in the National Parks have petitioned Congress to reopen the parks.  It reads: “You humans are beastly and unbearable.  Please restore

By Laurie Baron Guido Barilla, the owner of the largest pasta company in the world, asserted that he would never feature a gay family in his firm’s commercials because he believes that only a woman and a man can form a family.  Barilla also announced that he would halt production of large shells and manicotti

By Laurie Baron The ghost of Dr. Seuss overheard Senator Ted Cruz’s denunciation and responded with the following text message. I do not like Ted Cruz’s scam. His entire speech was just like spam. When health care is in a jam, His filibuster was a sham. Playing loose and playing fast To defund a law

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — As the Republican Party tries to broaden its appeal, it has developed more factions: The Defundamentalists: Republicans who oppose any bill that does not defund Obama Care. The limmigrationists: Republicans who oppose any bill that creates a pathway to citizenship. Deficit Attentionists: Republicans who oppose any bill that raises

  By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The San Diego State University school year opened with a blatant politicization of an Arabic class.  An Arabic instructor handed out a map of the Middle East which omitted Israel and labeled it Palestine.  After a protest by an Israel advocacy group, the instructor apologized and penciled in