Articles on Humor - page 15

The Clever Bluegill Sunfish: It Can Detect Toxins In Water Better Than A High-Tech Wonder


This week we’re excused from having to pick our Clever Monkey of the Week from the human performers on the world’s stage, because they’ve been outdone by the bluegill sunfish. This...
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What If The Most Powerful Nation On Earth Was Iran?


Is everybody happy with the way the US is behaving as the world’s most powerful nation? No? Well, when has everybody ever been happy about anything? So let’s think about what other...
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Bin Laden Dead Or Alive? Since Nobody's Sure, We Wrote Both Articles


Bin Laden Dead

Osama Bin Laden is dead.

We know this for certain, because, after five years of knowing only that he had access to a tape recorder, we were...
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Clever Monkey Of The Week: Tony Blair, For saying “mad anti-Americanism” among European diplomats isn’t fair.


The U. S. may be down and out as far as current allies go, but we still seem to have at least one ally without an alibi: Tony Blair, who has just dared to say that the world needs America...
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Quick Question: Does God Advocate Murder?


It appears, scandalously enough, to be the question Islamic terrorism foists on us. Of course, there are times when a chancy question can diplomatically be allowed to slip by unanswered,...
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New Surgeon General’s Warning: Caution: Eating Spinach May Be Hazardous To Your Health


The surgeon general, noting the widely publicized outbreak of e.coli in 20 or so states, has issued a new health warning on spinach.

There were, of course, comments aplenty...
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Oui, Monsieur, The French Are Not Immune; Si, Signore, Even The Pope Must Do The Rope A Dope


In a world caught up in effects, with scant attention being paid to causes, we find that France – which has, in the understatement of the current issue, abstained from a full-throttle...
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Microsoft Introduces Zunetti. The First Music Player You Eat.


Microsoft, in its ceaseless quest to out hip Apple, has just introduced a music player of its own, called Zunetti.

In announcing the dazzling mini-innovation, Microsoft CEO...
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U. S. May Become Nonaligned Nation; Cites Worldwide Ingratitude


In case you haven’t heard, there is a brash new movement afoot to make America a nonaligned nation. The principal motivation behind the movement is worldwide ingratitude for the sacrifices...
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Israel Weighs Recognition of Palestine’s Right To Exist


After decades of refusing to admit that Palestine has a legitimate right to exist, Israel inched toward possible approval of the idea it has opposed as part of its militantly anti-Palestine...
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