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A Modest Proposal

Big Blue wrote 1 day ago: I’ve come up with an idea to fix all our financial problems.  You can view it here: A Modest P … more →

Tags: domestic politics, Economy, Jobs, Finance

A Modest Proposal Redux8 comments

Big Blue wrote 1 day ago: The economy is tumbling.  Americans are suffering.  Nearly 50 million of us don’t have health … more →

Tags: Economy & Finance, america, Big-Blue @ TPZoo, Budget, elderly, Humor, Senior, Seniors

The healthcare debate's Jonathan Swift, Ed Morrissey, has a 'Modest Proposal': government-funded legal counsel. I beg you, put down the quill, Sir, you bugger madness.

toma wrote 1 day ago: The government paying for your lawyer? I have fallen out of my chair, I haven’t the words. Did … more →

Tags: Healthcare Reform, wingnuts, Defense, Defense lawyers, doctors, Ed Morrissey, Healthcare, hot air, Indigent

Friday night funny: high school, lawyers, CIA, Obama, knighthood3 comments

Wintery Knight wrote 2 days ago: High school then and now ECM sent me this comparison of high school in 1959 vs. 2009. Scenario 1: Ja … more →

Tags: Humor, booty, chivalry, CIA, High School, Horse, Knight, knighthood, Lady

Morrissey's Modest Proposal3 comments

Rob wrote 3 days ago: Ed Morrissey, the man behind HotAir.com, has written a modest proposal that supporters of Obamunism … more →

Tags: Barack Obama, collectivism, Health Care, Hotair, LegalCare, Morrissey, Obamacare

Sunday Shrinking

smpctryphys wrote 2 weeks ago: This is a second try. Somehow Firefox + Scribefire managed to eat my blot. No assistance from Arab P … more →

Tags: False Authority, Neandertal gene, Pursuit of Extinction, Southern Fried Cynicism, Stamp Collection Science, Technology La Brea

A Modest Proposal for Health Care1 comment

Mr. M. Conway wrote 3 weeks ago: After some morning reading of the current news, I have realized the solution to this nation’s … more →

Tags: Health Care, health-care reform, Satire

Books!2 comments

Shannon wrote 1 month ago: I ordered 10 books off Amazon the other week and they are on their way! Amazon says they’ll ar … more →

Tags: Ce La Via, Dracula, Iliad, The Republic, French, Treasure Island, frankenstein, dr. jekyll and my. hyde, Satire

Crime and Punishment

smpctryphys wrote 1 month ago: The other day some of my colleagues and I were discussing the soil bank and the impending era of foo … more →

Tags: Neandertal gene, society and culture, Southern Fried Cynicism

Publishing Corruption

smpctryphys wrote 2 months ago: It seems that the journal publisher Elsevier has admitted to publishing six ‘fake’ journ … more →

Tags: Blogroll, Coprolite Management, False Authority, Pursuit of Extinction, Southern Fried Cynicism, Stamp Collection Science

Musings

smpctryphys wrote 2 months ago: Two questions occurred during my sojourn at gymnasium this morning: What do television news programs … more →

Tags: False Authority, Pursuit of Extinction, society and culture, Southern Fried Cynicism, Coprolite Management, media, Television, News, humans

Calculator Cognitions

smpctryphys wrote 2 months ago: The sweet nagging of the nerd calculator is not to be so lightly satiated with yesterday’s blo … more →

Tags: Southern Fried Cynicism, Simple Country Physics, Technology La Brea, Neandertal gene

Nerding Latency

smpctryphys wrote 3 months ago: Nerd conferences, the good ones at least, have the enjoyable effect of leaving little thought chains … more →

Tags: False Authority, Pursuit of Extinction, Simple Country Physics, Coprolite Management, Technology La Brea, Management, Computer, Internet, Evil

A Solution in Satire...

Jus10-OD wrote 4 months ago: A Modest Proposal: For the elimination of the issue of Illegal Immigration, by means of the Most Ext … more →

Tags: By Justin O'Donnell, Immigration, Satire, Jonathan Swift, absurd, Welfare, taxes, mxc

Inadequate Contentions1 comment

smpctryphys wrote 4 months ago: That Amazon is disabling the text-to-speech feature of the  Kindle is no longer quite news. [Li … more →

Tags: False Authority, Pursuit of Extinction, Southern Fried Cynicism, Coprolite Management, Technology La Brea, Computers, format, Publishing, eBook

Time's Modest Proposal

acebrock wrote 5 months ago: In the latest issue of Time magazine a proposalto save the online news industry was made. The propos … more →

Tags: Economic, News, time, Blogging, Profits, ad revenue

Nor Package Nor Parcel

smpctryphys wrote 5 months ago: By now those who give attention span to national news have heard of the Yankee postal service whinin … more →

Tags: False Authority, Pursuit of Extinction, Southern Fried Cynicism, Simple Country Physics, Coprolite Management, Government, mission, Organization, PostalService

A New Voting System...

Matthew wrote 7 months ago: An assignment for one of my classes was to propose a new voting system.  I felt the following was a … more →

Tags: Misc, election, Humorous, Politics, Voting

My Modern Proposal (and no, not a song title, sorry).2 comments

Havok wrote 7 months ago: The assignment: to write your own Modern Proposal, Swift-style.  Be sure to be sarcastic, and exagge … more →

Tags: Post Category - Unknown, Essay, Language Arts Class, Assignment, Opinion, Change the World, Swift, sarcasm, exaggeration


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