Monthly Archives: October 2010

Promethean Short Short Stories: The Doomed Man

By Smaktakula While the old folks couldn’t agree on the name of that long-ago stranger, they accorded that his aims had been righteous and his grievances valid, ignoring that those had been their aims and grievances too. In half-remembered youth … Continue reading

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Could You Be An Asshole? Calvinism

By Smaktakula It doesn’t matter if he’s praying or pissing; a knock-off Calvin on your car proclaims far and wide the staggering size of the ass capable of supporting an asshole like yourself. So really, you’re not just an asshole, … Continue reading

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Sheen’s Latest Rampage Results In Institutionalization

By Smaktakula Charlie Sheen’s tenuous hold on sanity took another hit recently after a bizarre hotel incident found the notorious wife-beater institutionalized and forced to undergo a psychological evaluation.  Until this incident, Sheen’s most recent confinement had been an August … Continue reading

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OJ’s Appeal Denied

By Smaktakula Orenthal James Simpson, the unpunished murder-turned-sports memorabilia patsy, recently received some unwelcome news.  The Nevada Supreme Court refused to overturn his recent conviction for successfully beating an ironclad double-homicide rap 1995 as well as for a minor incident … Continue reading

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Indonesia Beset By Twin Disasters; Robertson Silent

By Smaktakula A freakish double-disaster has claimed the lives of at least 137 people in Indonesia.  On Monday, parts of the island nation were stuck by a tsunami, killing a least a hundred people and leaving many more homeless.  The … Continue reading

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Words To Stop Using: ‘Shall’

By Smaktakula Although the poncey contraction shan’t has long since gone the way of the dodo, its equally-insufferable positive counterpart shall still clings tenaciously to the underbelly of common usage. It’s time to let shall die. Shall has been a loyal … Continue reading

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Star Whackers Target Hollywood D-Listers

By Smaktakula Is there a secret cabal of assassins intent on taking down Hollywood one actor at a time?  Cretinous bumbler Randy Quaid and his wife Evi think so.  Fearing such a shadow force, the Quaids appeared before Canada’s Immigration … Continue reading

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Remembering The Sixties

By Smaktakula When an aging Baby Boomer wistfully opines, If you can remember the Sixties, you weren’t there, he wants to give the impression that life during the 1960s was like this: When in all likelihood, reality was just a … Continue reading

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Historical Figures With Unfortunate Nicknames: Beaver Dick

By Smaktakula Of the British-born Richard Leigh, who would rise to relative obscurity as the mountain man Beaver Dick, little is known or cared. Said to trail in fame only Jim Bridger and a handful of other mountain men no … Continue reading

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Jenny McCarthy: All Growed Up

By Smaktakula MILFy autism activist Jenny McCarthy is growing as a person.  After her five-year relationship with tiresome Canadian import Jim Carrey ended, McCarthy found a new love and a new way of looking at life. By her own admission, McCarthy has spent … Continue reading

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