While I have my issues with Don Henley, I do think he’s a talented musician. And I kinda enjoyed when he skewered news broadcasters several years ago.
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From 2012, this entry by Keln still makes me laugh. — The Editors
R’lyeh, South Pacific (NPN) – Potential presidential candidate Cthulhu has made it official: he has decided not to run as a third party “greater of evils” option in this year’s U.S. Presidential race.
The Dread god is sitting this one out.
“I just don’t see the point,” a somber Cthulhu said. “I mean, my platform has always been the total and utter destruction and subjugation of the human race, starting with the United States. But this year, there is already a candidate who can help accomplish these things.”
Cthulhu worries that running for president could jeopardize the Obama campaign by stealing votes from the misanthropic and nihilist segments of the Democrat base, which are sizable, but not enough to win an election on.
“The worst thing that can happen here, is that people select the lesser of evils, Mitt Romney. I just can’t be party to that, when I am such an outspoken proponent of the greater of evils in an election.” said Cthulhu, while eating one of our reporters. “Mmm nom nom, um, if Obama keeps up what he is doing, burrrrrp, then I could take the election in 2016, and the United States will be so broken by then, it will be child’s play to finish the work I intend to do.”
In other news, while it was speculated that General Zod would also enter the race again, very little has been heard out of his camp. Zod himself was unavailable for comment when asked about it, but a spokesperson did respond to NPN’s inquest.
“The General has not made a decision on whether he will run this year, or, more likely, simply take over the world.” said the Zod spokesperson. “Kneel before Zod.”
I’m talking about “The Room,” sometimes called the worst movie ever. If it’s worse than “Manos: The Hands Of Fate,” I either need to watch it now, or run away as fast and far as I can.
Maybe I’ll watch it this weekend. All y’all come over. Bring pizza.
The Scarecrow is Biden obviously, the Wicked Witch/social worker is, well, that’s obviouser, the Wizard is Obama, he bs’ed his way into the job and promises a whole lot he can’t deliver, the GOP/never Trumpers are the horse of a different (ever-changing) color and Trump is, again obviously, the Good Witch.
The NYTimesWashPostCNNABCNBCCBSetc is the flying monkeys and guards.
Now if we could just build the wall like Oz has…
— Veeshir
Remember that old South Park episode where the kid kept yelling “‘The Simpsons’ did it!“? Well, I kinda feel that way about trying to write satire.
It’s hard. Really hard. Let me show you.
Here’s an idea for a parody story. You got Democrats calling for gun control, right? So, how to poke fun at that?
How about having a candidate calling for the government to seize private weapons at a place where the government infamously killed Americans? So, where would be the most inappropriate place for someone to call for government to be the only people with guns? How about Kent State University?
So, to write a satirical news story about a candidate going to Kent State to call for seizure of private weapons and …
Oops! The Democrats really did that. Seriously.
That’s why I can’t write funny stuff. Well, that and not being talented enough. But about 60-40 because Democrats are already a parody of a political party.
