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Sympathy Cards for Billionaires

By Roz Warren, March 20, 2012

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Roz Warren Roz is the author of Just Another Day At Your Local Public Library and Our Bodies, Our Shelves: A Collection Of Library Humor. She writes for The New York Times and The Funny Times. Her work also appears in Good Housekeeping, The Christian Science Monitor, The Philadelphia Inquirer and of course, the Humor Times. Connect with her on Facebook, follow her on Twitter or visit her website.

Craziness: An Essential Ingredient to Survival in Alaska

By Roger Freed, March 20, 2012

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rfreed has a fertile, if somewhat warped, imagination. Read him at your own risk! More laugh gaffes available at Semi-Humorous Humor
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The Soul of Jerry Springer Begs for Release

By P. Beckert, March 18, 2012September 3, 2013

It has been almost 21 years since Jerry Springer’s soul got her first taste of trash TV. She has finally had enough, saying that she’s so over sitting idly by while her host whores himself out on national television. Finally ready to invoke a rarel…

A Reverend Assembly of Clowns

By The Town Scryer, March 18, 2012August 21, 2019

Every year since 1946, on the first Sunday in February, is the Clowns International Annual Service. It is held to honor Joseph Grimaldi, the father of modern clowning, and to celebrate those who play the fool for our entertainment.
Found at my-ea…

A Fear That Ought Not To Be In This Century

By The Town Scryer, March 18, 2012July 22, 2022

AS THE FATHER OF TWO BLACK TEENAGE BOYS, THIS CASE HITS CLOSE TO HOME. THIS IS THE FEAR THAT SEIZES ME WHENEVER MY BOYS ARE OUT IN THE WORLD: THAT A MAN WITH A GUN AND AN ITCHY FINGER WILL FIND THEM “SUSPICIOUS.” THAT PASSIONS MAY RUN HOT AND BLOO…

Early Censorship Protest

By The Town Scryer, March 16, 2012November 15, 2023

In 1934 the MPAA voluntarily passed the Motion Picture Production Code, more generally known as the Hays Code, largely to avoid governmental regulation. The code prohibited certain plotlines and imagery from films and in publicity materials produ…

Local Woman Moves Out of Her Comfort Zone and Into a Condo

By P. Beckert, March 16, 2012November 15, 2023

Local woman, Margaret McDillon, has been moved out of the house on Elm Street that she called home for 57 years and into a condo on Main Street.
“Oh, there are so many new things I’ll have to get used to,” said Maggie, a name she came to feel com…

Scary Thoughts

By Roger Freed, March 15, 2012

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CEO Jokes (You know they deserve them)

By Roger Freed, March 15, 2012

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Romney: Too Naïve to Survive Missouri Caucus?

By P. Beckert, March 15, 2012November 15, 2023

They’s lots more where these come from Willard

While Gov. Mitt Romney did everything he could to fit in with the locals in the Southern states of Alabama and Mississippi, he still ended up third at the polls behind Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.
M…