Name: Mark Schannon
Dateline: Washington, D.C.
Weblog: parodieslost.typepad.com
Articles: 180
First Published: Thursday, March 31, 2005
Last Published: Friday, November 21, 2008
Currently listing articles 180-151:
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Satire: The Non-White Man's Burden - God's Vengeance— Having failed to destroy humanity with the Tower of Babel, God is now embarked on establishing the Cuisine of Babel which will finish the task.
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Bush And Obama: What Really Happened at the White House— What really happened when President Bush and President-elect Obama met at the White House? Here's the real dope.
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Stephen Colbert and Jameson Irish Whiskey: I Learn From The Master— Stephen Colbert has taught me the fine art of begging. And so I beg, you, Jameson Irish whiskey... show me the money.
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Obama’s First News Conference: Questions We Wish They’d Asked— What might we have learned had reporters asked the right questions at Obama's first news conference as President-elect.
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The Lisa P. Maxwell Agency's Radical Approach to a Business Web Site— This public relations firm needs to do a lot more website testing before promoting its new online approach.
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Obama: It's All In The Numbers— The numbers don't lie. Absent a deus ex machina, our next president will be Barack Obama.
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BC Politics Rocks! Take That!— BC Politics rocks! And that's the truth... sort of.
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It's Just An Election... Relax— Stop demonizing your opponents and start hugging them. It may be the only solace we get for a long time.
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Experience, Judgment, and the Presidency— America can’t afford a maverick president.
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Satire: Iraqi-Mania… And What Do Americans/Iraqis Want?— Ever feel like you were watching the world through one of those fun-house mirrors?
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Is A Reasoned Approach Possible With Gun Control?— The gun control issue will never be resolved until we admit the 2nd Amendment is flawed and start negotiating with empathy and understanding.
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Satire: Another Week With No News— Bush never existed, Hillary's a stalking horse for Bill, illegal immigrants are dying, and Osama Bin Laden is Jewish. What a week!
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Could It Get Any Worse for Bush? Sure, Just Watch— It's hard to believe that things could get much worse for Bush...but they will.
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People Aren't Human And Never Have Been— We may have more success in creating a just world if we realize we have to overcome own barbarism to achieve it.
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Satire: The Most Stupid Game in the World - Golf— Golf is a game for brain-addled masochists who refuse to believe that nothing they do will ever improve their game.
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Grading The Bush Administration, Part II: Domestic Policy— How's Bush doing on the domestic front? Ask a liberal, then ask a conservative. Then shrug and tend your garden.
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Grading The Bush Administration - Part I— Objectively grading the Bush Administration is just about impossible, but one must start somewhere.
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The Naked Emperors of Immigration— The immigration bill is simply dumber than dirt. It makes no sense. It can't be fixed. It's an embarrassment. And the Emperor Congress is
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A Pox on All Their Houses — White, Senate, and House— Bush and the Democrats seemed determined to depress the hell out of all of us while destroying America. God bless America.
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Through the Looking Glass With Norman Lear— Interviewing Norman Lear started off odd and devolved into the absurd. But he still sold me on his youth vote program.
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Norman Lear’s Latest Venture: Lighting A Fire Under America’s Youth To Register to Vote— Norman Lear doesn't care for whom young people vote — as long as they get out there and do it.
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Iraqi Muslim Leader Declares War on U.S. Forces— Shiite cleric Al-Sadr asks his followers to oust U.S. forces in Iraq.
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A Whole New Way of Looking At Booze— Drinks for everyone, named for everyone, including Mel Gibson, Anna Nicole Smith, George the Busher.
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2007 Masters, Minute By Minute, Sort Of (Special Attraction: Find the Satire)— Some of the most boring stuff about the Masters you could imagine... but blame the Master Masters for not letting us see the damn game.
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Machiavelli Offers Solution to Iraq and Bush— We can get rid of Bush, Cheney, and the war in Iraq... and avoid getting Pelosi as President. Renaissance thinker Machiavelli shows us how.
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Clinton to Dems: Push Bush on Iraq - Bush to Dems: Chickens - Halle Berry's Chickens— Maybe if Halle Berry were president, you know, she and Hillary could get together and straighten out, like, Iraq... or something?
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Perfection in Marrying Cigars and Cognac— The extraordinary taste of a good cigar that has been swirling in a glass of cognac cannot be described. It can only be savored.
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Taste: A Matter of Opinion or a Matter of Fact?— If you confuse "I like that" with "It's good," you'll wind up thinking corn dogs and Oreos is darn good food.
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War Support Drops, So Do Old People, Gates Has Left The Building, and We Have WMDs in Iraq— Is this a great country or what? From Medicaid to wars to WMD to generals who've lost their teeth, ain't never a dull moment.
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Let Iraq Burn— A hard decision, but it's time to wave goodbye to the Iraqis and let them kill each other in peace.
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