Monthly Archives: June 2012

Headlines: 06.29.12

By Smaktakula Look–you can read the articles if you want, but we get all we need to know from the headlines. Cher ticks off Australian city ~ Heretofore merely a domestic shame, the braying pop-relic has transcended the bonds of regional … Continue reading

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Blogger Interview: Talking Smak...

Reblogged from Frankly, my dear: Today I bring you a post of unbelievable awesomeness. You’ve read his blog. You’ve wondered about the real man behind the mysterious, enigmatic humorist… today, I disclose scandalous tales of drunkenness, debauchery and an affinity … Continue reading

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This Day In History: June 28, 1914 CE

On which, in an unlikely Balkan backwater, a Serbian crazyman formally inaugurates the 20th Century with a bang. *** *** If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as … Continue reading

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Why Mom And Dad Will Spend Their Golden Years In A Substandard Nursing Home

By Smaktakula Here’s why: We found a place we think you’re really gonna like–they did a whole segment about it on 60 Minutes. ∞ T.

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You’re Stupid. So’s Your Kid.

By Smaktakula It turns out that your baby may not be able to read after all. The tiresome do-gooders at the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood have found a new way to make the world just the teensiest bit safer: by highlighting … Continue reading

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Convenient Truths: Comic Strips

By Smaktakula Mary Worth is a nosy old bitch. Someone had to say it. This fabulously wealthy widow with too much time on her hands has been ruining lives since the Roosevelt Era.

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Puppy Killing: Why We’re Against It

By Smaktakula Typically, we choose not to take a firm stance on controversial issues, preferring to pepper our words with outrageous half-truths and innuendo, to a large degree obfuscating our actual intent, granting us an exculpatory escape hatch of credible–or … Continue reading

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Tardsie’s True-Ass Tales: A Lesson From Smart-Mouth Eddie

By Tardsie I taught at an after-school clinic in Southern California for a while after I graduated college. The pay blew ass, but to this day it remains the job I have most enjoyed doing, and in which I believe … Continue reading

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Helpful Hints For Everyday Life: Jerks

By Smaktakula Every now and again you’ll find yourself in the uncomfortable position of having to cooperate for a short time with an asshole. Ever the consummate gentleman (or gentlelady), you will no doubt make the best of a bad … Continue reading

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Warning Labels Weaken The Nation!

By Smaktakula Natural selection is the process by which external forces eliminate nature’s weaker elements, leaving a more genetically advantageous stock to breed. This phenomenon is experienced throughout the animal kingdom, not only by simple creatures like sea anemones, butterflies and … Continue reading

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