World in the Making

Whack a Mohel

When following up the story that some public health officials in the U.S. favor
circumcising all new-born boys in the country, I learned that, believe it or not, there's an organization whose mission is to oppose the practice and discredit it.

Prelude To A Bris

Some public health officials in the U.S. and other domestic "experts" think it might be a good idea, in fighting the "epidemic" of AIDS, to require that all baby boys in the country be circumcised.

NASA's In The Cold, Cold Ground

A funny parody of the documentaries of Ken Burns, producer of The Civil War and Baseball, posted at YouTube.

Writer Steve Sailer thinks Burns cares about nothing so much as including stories about African-Americans, however slight their importance to his subject. Sailer makes a case for his view in a very entertaining column at Taki's Magazine.

It Takes a Village Idiot; or, Gain the World, Zulus Your Soul

The bishop of the episcopal church—a woman—decries the Christian tenet of individual salvation and advocates in place of it a more collectivist notion from Africa.

Middieocracy

In the pursuit of "diversity," the Naval Academy admits blacks and Hispanics who do not meet the requirements for admission required of the other students. Better-qualified applicants lose out, of course, as there are only so many places in a class and no more. This is what passes for fairness and justice amongst so-called liberals.

The Weight of All Flesh

A Japanese researcher says people who have some meat on their bones live longer.

Thin Blue McLine; or, Falling Down's McSyndrome

A Denver cop is suspended for brandishing a gun at the drive-thru window of a local McDonalds, where he was incensed at the slow service.

My Variety Bucket's Got A Hole In It

KFC, the chain of popular fried-chicken restaurants, has offered to fix potholes in the streets of Chicago. 

A spokesman for the municipality said it has a lot of questions about the Colonel's offer, one of which is, what kind of asphalt does the Colonel use?

You can probably choose Original Recipe or Extra Crispy.

A Chicken in Every Pothole

KFC, the chain of popular fried-chicken restaurants, has offered to fix potholes in the streets of Chicago. 

A spokesman for the municipality said it has a lot of questions about the Colonel's offer, one of which is, what kind of asphalt does the Colonel use?

You can probably choose Original Recipe or Extra Crispy.

Bow Deep Is Your Love

More on the super-bow made by the President of the United States to the King of Saudi Arabia.

Prostrate Cancer

Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States, bowing deep as the ocean to the King of Saudi Arabia.

Dish-Soap Opera

Residents of Spokane County in Washington State head to Idaho for decent dishwashing detergent that is unavailable in the county after the sale of detergent containing phosphates was banned.

Goodwrenching Decision

President Obama forces the resignation of the CEO of GM, Rick Wagoner, and guarantees the warranties of newly-purchased vehicles manufactured by GM and by Chrysler. With the president running the show at GM, the next new vehicle to be brought out may look something like the one in the accompanying image.

CzarMax

President Obama says the federal government will guarantee the warranties of newly- purchased vehicles made by GM and Chrysler; and may buy vehicles themselves from those manufacturers to "modernize" the government fleets, another way of subsidizing their failing businesses.

The logo was created by Doug Powers of the website The Powers That Be.

A Shroom of One's Own

On a visit to a soup kitchen in the nation's capital, first lady Michelle Obama
is reported to have plated, for one of the kitchen's patrons, a serving of "mushroom risotto."

Rear Guard Inaction

Patients who, over the last four years, underwent colonoscopies at a Veterans Hospital in Miami were exposed in the course of the procedures to the risk of infection from improperly sterilized equipment.

Goat-To Guys

 The book Last in Their Class, by James S. Robbins, tells the story of cadets at West Point who finished at the bottom of the class—the "goats"—or otherwise did badly there, but went on to accomplish great things. Among those profiled are George Armstrong Custer, General George Pickett, Jefferson Davis, Edgar Allan Poe, and James M. Whistler.

Senator John McCain is a graduate of West Point; he finished 894th in a class of 899.

Barry's Kids

President Hopey Change brings his superior, progressive, nuanced view of the world to dissing the kids who compete in the Special Olympics.

The photo accompanies an article at the website of the Onion Sports Network entitled "Wheelchair-Basketball Players Stunned by Thunderous Slam Dunk."

Uncle Tim's Cabinet

President Obama said he will not accept the resignation of his Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, even if Geithner were to tender it.

The Audacity of Hoop; or, Bracket Creep

President Obama, a big basketball fan and a player on his high school team, analyzes the upcoming NCAA tournament and offers up his picks to win in each of the rounds.

Drood Awakening

Three novels have recently been published that are all of them based on an unfinished novel by Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Green Piece; or, Water Under the Bris

A doctor in Australia encourages men to get circumcised as a way of saving the environment.

A Bitter Dill to Swallow

An amateur historian tells the story of the last eunuch in China, once an attendant to an emperor and his wife, whose hopes for riches and power, through his connection to the emperor, were dashed in the Communist revolution.

The woman in the photo is Zhang Ziyi, a Chinese movie actress.

The Morte the Merrier

In the state of New York, students seeking job security prepare for a career as funeral directors.

At right: The Funeral of Shelley, by Louis Edouard Fournier (1889).

Fart from the Madding Cow; or, The Methane of Cowdor

             Air is foul, and foul is air. 

On the pretext of fighting global warming, government in Denmark and Ireland seek a tax on livestock, for their flatulence.

Die Run; or, Suicide Mission Creeps

A government mole claims that a group that advocates for the right to commit suicide not only provides information on how to do it but also assists others in actually doing it. 

I found the image at right at  freakingnews.com, a site that holds contests for photoshopped images relating to items in the news and posts the entries.

In the Tweet of the Night

Humorist Andy Borowitz has a funny piece on the efforts of the CIA to capture Osama Bin Laden by using social networks. 

The photo, from GQ magazine, is of Bin Laden's niece Wafah Dufour.

Janitor in a Plum

Seven hundred people apply at a junior high in Ohio for the single position of janitor.

Galternative Minimum Tax

As productive Americans discover their president plans to soak them while turning their free country into a socialist hell, they begin to resist; and interest grows for the novel by Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, which tells the very same story.

Laughter the Best Proscription Medicine

A motorist in England is pulled over for laughing behind the wheel.