Category Archives: World Affairs

Revealed: Why John Adams Became President

By Smaktakula 1) He couldn’t play guitar. 2) Unlike his cousin Sam, a successful brewer to this day, he had no marketable skills. 3) His career as a psychic proved a bust when he made well-publicized but shitty predictions like this … Continue reading

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This Day In History: July 2, 1776 CE

On which the Founding Fathers tell the tyrant King George III what he can do with his onerous taxes and hated Redcoats.

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LiLo’s Got The Meth Mouth

By Smaktakula True? False? That’s what the gossip sites are reporting, anyway. More accurately, they’re claiming that the self-destructing former starlet and Flower of American Skankhood has a mouth full of rotting teeth, from which Promethean Times irresponsibly infers that … Continue reading

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This Day In History: September 10, 2001 CE

On which Dougie McGinnis has high expectations for tomorrow’s grand opening of the Omaha Middle Eastern restaurant into which he has invested his entire life savings and mortgaged his home,  Allahu Akbar: An Eatery For Infidels. What’s an Osama?

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Meg: A Clear And Present Danger To The Golden State

By Smaktakula When Promethean Times first commented on the phenomenon of kids using nutmeg as a recreational hallucinogen (see Sweet Lady Meg), we believed–perhaps foolishly–that these were isolated incidents, and that the so-called ‘nutmeg epidemic’ would evaporate, as with Jenkem … Continue reading

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Remember America’s Fallen By Making A Purchase

By Smaktakula It has become easy to think of Memorial Day as simply a time to squeeze in that last vacation before summer comes to an abrupt and aching end, an excuse to drive somewhere and there to cook a piece of meat, … Continue reading

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Careless Boy’s Mother Ruins A Good Thing

By Smaktakula Livermore, California: A local skank faces 67 charges related to sexual acts with teenage boys.  Christine Shreeve Hubbs, 42, is said to have engaged in the scandalous behavior with two junior high school students, both in her home … Continue reading

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Meet Tomorrow’s Tyrants Today: Even Littler Kim

By Smaktakula The question of succession in North Korea weighs heavily on heads of state across the globe.  This is particularly true for neighbors of the belligerent Asian nation, who fear the possible future of a North Korea even more despotic and mercurial than the current … Continue reading

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Man, The Discovery Channel Really Pissed That Guy Off

By Smaktakula Self-loathing nutjob James Lee stormed into the Discovery Channel offices Wednesday looking for justice.  Instead, the environmental radical bumbled his way into a delicious pile of irony. Lee’s apparent purpose was to serve as a sort of homicidal … Continue reading

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Jimmy Carter Makes Modest Headway In Ongoing Bid For Historical Relevance

By Smaktakula Historical footnote Jimmy Carter has managed to secure the release of Aijalon Gomes from North Korea.  Gomes had been sentenced to eight years hard labor under the autocratic regime of the dying, but still comically despotic Kim Jong-il. … Continue reading

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