Friday, January 06, 2006

Theatre of the Absurd!

With the dramatic downturn in Sharon's health, the last few days have been particularly grim. So here's a change of pace:

Which of These Stories Is Actually From Scrappleface?

Though it's an unfortunate fact that not all of these items are satire!

  • Just hours after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named Comedy Channel news anchor Jon Stewart to host this year’s Academy Awards show, the White House announced that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been tapped to deliver the GOP response.

    The Oscars Rebuttal Show, part of ABC-TV’s commitment to fairness, will attempt to refute and debunk the anti-Bush administration remarks that naturally flow from Mr. Stewart and his colleagues as they give little golden statues to people who make up stories and who pretend to be other people.

  • George Galloway: Reality TV star!

    There are few better reasons to pack up and move to Britain right now than the opportunity to watch TV there: Imagine what their new season of "Celebrity Big Brother" is like ... Never before have I wanted to watch reality TV so badly!! ... (Galloway's odds at winning the competition on Paddy Power at the time of this posting are 9-1.)

  • Palestinian terror groups condemn kidnappings. Palestinian terrorist groups issued a joint statement Friday condemning abductions of foreigners and attacks on Palestinian government buildings... In the statement read by masked, armed men, the terrorists did not acknowledge involvement in the abductions. "We condemn the kidnappings of foreigners and we consider this a violation of the Palestinian national agreement," the statement said.


  • Did Jesus exist? Italian court to decide

    An Italian court is tackling Jesus -- and whether the Roman Catholic Church may be breaking the law by teaching that he existed 2,000 years ago.