Mar 31, 2015 | Gender and Sexism, Satirical Essays
Published: Good Men Project (March 31, 2015) Human beings are clumsy, hairless monkeys obsessed with looking beautiful. How is that not funny? ___ For as long as I can remember, I have found the emotion of awkwardness to be endlessly amusing. It’s why I enjoy TV shows...
Dec 18, 2014 | Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues, Salon.com, Satirical Essays
Published: Daily Dot (December 18, 2014), Salon (December 20, 2014) Seventy-seven percent of the country believe in angels. Only 40 percent concede climate change is a reality In a video that went viral this week, Bill O’Reilly has spoken, not only for himself but...
Apr 10, 2014 | Democrats, Political Parties, Republicans, Satirical Essays
Published: mic (April 10, 2014) Over the past couple weeks, while President Barack Obama has taken to podiums everywhere to rally support for raising the minimum wage, members of Congress have been rushing to support him. "I think the American people should know that...
Dec 31, 2013 | Arts and Entertainment, Democrats, Liberalism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama, Satirical Essays
Published: mic (December 31, 2013) In the final press conference before 2014, President Obama refused to acknowledge that 2013 was the worst year of his presidency. While it wouldn't be realistic to expect a president to admit that he's dropped the proverbial ball,...
Dec 3, 2013 | Conservativism, Democrats, Extremism, Liberalism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans, Satirical Essays
Published: mic (December 5, 2013) It's all but official. The 113th Congress is the least productive federal legislature in American history, passing only 2% of all the bills that were introduced, an all-time low. How rare was it for legislation to pass Congress this...
Oct 25, 2013 | Conservativism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans, Satirical Essays
Published: mic (October 25, 2013) "The only shame is to have none." –Blaise Pascal While the 17th century French mathematician may not have had Ted Cruz in mind when he penned the aforementioned aphorism, few words are more fitting for the Texas senator and his...
May 10, 2012 | Conservativism, Conspiracy Theories, Extremism, Liberalism, Political Ideologies, President Obama, Salon.com, Satirical Essays
Published: PolicyMic (May 10, 2012) My fellow American liberals, I would like to make a modest proposal. For far too long, we have been accused of terrible things. In the last decade alone, our opponents have said that we're un-American, that we're Communists, that...
Apr 1, 2012 | Arts and Entertainment, Pennsylvania, Political Parties, Republicans, Satirical Essays
Published: PolicyMic (April 1, 2012) When I first heard that Arlen Specter was going to hit the stand-up comedy circuit, I was pretty excited. If nothing else, such a decision from an ex-Senator shows cojones, a commodity that is in distressingly short supply...