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Look in the Sky…It’s Mayor Cory Booker!

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Look in the Sky…It’s Mayor Cory Booker!
Ben Krull
Ben Krull
Ben Krull is a Family Law attorney in New York and a freelance writer. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, Baltimore Sun, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and other publications.
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Recently released FBI statistics show that crime in Newark New Jersey has plummeted 75 percent, ever since Mayor Cory Booker began his one-man night patrols around the once … Read more

The Republican Plan to Improve the Economy if They Take Over… er… Are Elected

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The Republican Plan to Improve the Economy if They Take Over… er… Are Elected
Roger Freed
Roger Freed
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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How GOP candidates will improve the economy if elected: Start a new war to refocus attention away from the bad state of national affairs, and to bolster arm … Read more

Lost Journal: The Case of the Hungry, Stupid Mover

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Tim Mollen
Tim Mollen
Buy your copy of "Lost Journal - the Book" at www.timmollen.com.Each Lost Journal column is a journal entry written in retrospect. In other words, Mollen chooses a different day from his past, and writes about it as though it were today. The date may be last week, Halloween 1980, or the day he was born (May 4, 1969). Some of you may be asking, “But how would he have been able to write a journal entry on the day he was born?” To you he says: “Lighten up. It’s a humor column.” Mollen is a nationally syndicated columnist and actor, and he is available as a speaker on writing and humor.
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By Tim Mollen Journal entry:  March 21, 2002 (age 32) If helping someone move is socially challenging for the best of friends, it is colossally awkward for complete … Read more

Angrier Birds: The Republican Primary Race

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Angrier Birds: The Republican Primary Race
Will Durst
Will Durst
The New York Times says Emmy-nominated comedian and writer Will Durst “is quite possibly the best political satirist working in the country today.” The Humor Times says "Durst is the Sage of Satire, the Learned Lampooner, the King of Political Satire!" Check his website for upcoming stand-up performance dates. Will's books, including Elect to Laugh! A Hilarious, Common Sense Guide to American Politics are available at Amazon and better bookstores all over this great land of ours. From Ulysses Press.
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By Will Durst Some small-minded pundits are guaranteed to grouchily opine this is neither the time nor the place to be re-circulating unfounded conspiracy theories. Then again, mightn’t … Read more

Do You “Like” My Brilliant New Facebook Idea?

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Roz Warren
Roz Warren
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.
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By Liz Lowe and Roz Warren Since Facebook isn’t going to start charging us for membership, I’ve decided to go ahead and institute my own membership structure and … Read more

GOP Presidential Contenders’ Goofy Greed

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Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower
National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the book, "Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow," Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks.

Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower is a modern-day Johnny Appleseed, spreading the message of progressive populism all across the American grassroots.

He broadcasts daily radio commentaries that are carried in more than 150 commercial and public stations and on the web.
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Even though some are out and some are in, the GOP presidential contenders that are/were in the race continue to spread their goofiness around for all the country to … Read more

Fun with the News: Repubs & More

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Argus Hamilton
Argus Hamilton
Argus Hamilton is the man Robin Williams once called "the Will Rogers of the Baby Boom." Argus' daily column of jokes on the news, now carried in over 100 newspapers across the United States, including the Humor Times, is also read and heard by millions on the Internet and on radio stations across the country.
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James Bond will change his drink to Heineken’s Beer in the new movie Sky Fall. For fifty years he’s ordered a martini, shaken not stirred. In the new … Read more

Lost Journal: Embracing the Inner Old Guy

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Tim Mollen
Tim Mollen
Buy your copy of "Lost Journal - the Book" at www.timmollen.com.Each Lost Journal column is a journal entry written in retrospect. In other words, Mollen chooses a different day from his past, and writes about it as though it were today. The date may be last week, Halloween 1980, or the day he was born (May 4, 1969). Some of you may be asking, “But how would he have been able to write a journal entry on the day he was born?” To you he says: “Lighten up. It’s a humor column.” Mollen is a nationally syndicated columnist and actor, and he is available as a speaker on writing and humor.
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By Tim Mollen Journal entry:  September 15, 2005 (age 36) This past spring, on a shoe-shopping trip with my in-laws, a pair of black sneakers caught my eye.  … Read more

A Naked Face In The Crowd

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Danny Tyree
Danny Tyree
Welcome to Tyrades! By Danny Tyree. Controversial author Harlan Ellison once described the work of Mr. Tyree as “wonkily extrapolative” and said his mind “works like a demented cuckoo clock.” Tyree generated a particular buzz on the Internet with his column spoofing real-life Christian nudist camps. A lifelong small-town southerner, he graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications. Danny welcomes reader e-mail responses at [email protected] and visits to his Facebook fan page "Tyree's Tyrades."
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By Danny Tyree A concerned mother makes an emergency trip to her child’s school without applying lipstick or mascara. A conscientious junior executive misses her manicure and hairstyling … Read more

Fun with the News: Washington & More

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Argus Hamilton
Argus Hamilton
Argus Hamilton is the man Robin Williams once called "the Will Rogers of the Baby Boom." Argus' daily column of jokes on the news, now carried in over 100 newspapers across the United States, including the Humor Times, is also read and heard by millions on the Internet and on radio stations across the country.
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The Weather Channel aired spectacular footage of twelve tornadoes roaring through Dallas on Tuesday. It’s part of a twice-a-year ritual in the Southwest. Every Christmas and April families … Read more

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