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Monthly Archives: January 2015

Future Perfect?

© Lee Judge I’ve made my fair share of bad predictions, but at least I try to admit it when I’m wrong. But some people seem to make a career out of being constantly wrong. Take Grover Norquist (please!), who has announced (without irony) that he “would like Republicans to shut up about how bad […]

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Welcome to the New Political Irony

Political Irony is now running on a shiny new private server! Hopefully, this means that it will be much faster and more reliable. It will also handle more traffic. Speaking of more traffic, if you enjoy a post here please think about submitting it to a web aggregator (like Reddit or StumbleUpon). At the bottom […]

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Bachmann Gives Us Gas

Michele Bachmann may be leaving Congress, but she just had to make one last silly gesture. She took to Twitter this week and posted a photo of herself standing under a gasoline station sign with the caption “$2 gas, anyone?” Just in case you didn’t get the message, conservative writer Mollie Hemingway retweeted it with […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“Sony Pictures has canceled the release of ‘The Interview’ due to continued threats from hackers. This means the hackers have accomplished their goal of making everyone in the world want to see ‘The Interview’.” – Jimmy Fallon “Sony has canceled the big Seth Rogen movie, ‘The Interview’. North Koreans hacked their email so Sony said, […]

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Oh Brother!

Jeb Bush Resigns as George W. Bush’s Brother WASHINGTON (Satire from The Borowitz Report)—In the strongest sign to date that he intends to seek the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has officially resigned his position as George W. Bush’s brother. “No longer being related to his brother is a key step […]

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Strange Bedfellows

Who says bipartisanship isn’t alive? Last week Congresscritter Steve Scalise (R-LA) admitted that in 2002 he spoke at a white supremacist organization founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Not overly surprising. Heck, not that long ago Louisiana was as racist as they get. David Duke himself had served in the state legislature […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“Today President Obama announced that the U.S. is working to improve its relationship with Cuba in an effort to normalize full diplomatic relations. For instance, today they released one of our prisoners and in return we sent back one of their shortstops.” – Jimmy Fallon “The White House announced plans to begin normalizing relations with […]

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Balance?

© Keith Knight If there is one thing I believe, it is that we need to have balance. We need to listen to people willing to have serious conversations, no matter their political leanings. If we learned one thing from the midterm elections this year, it is that even though people voted for conservative candidates, […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“President Obama recently said that his day is all about politics, so in the mornings he likes to watch ESPN. So if you get the feeling he’s repeating himself every half hour, that’s where he learned it from.” – Jimmy Fallon “The Danes are causing a bit of trouble. The kingdom of Denmark claimed the […]

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