U.S. Takes Action on Immigration, Demands Everyone Carry Immigration Papers

Spurred on by Arizona legislature’s new immigration law, the federal government has now taken action to end illegal immigration. Permanently. Like, all of it.

Arizona’s law requires that potential illegal immigrants (e.g. Hispanic people) have immigration documents on them at all times. Supporters and critics of the measure alike agree that it’s the toughest measure on immigration ever seen in the U.S., or at least they did, until today.

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A Call to Arms

I come to you, dear citizens, in a moment of great pain, and ask you all to do your part during this terrible blizzard. My Suggestions?
1. Gather round your pitchforks, fire and cantankerous old men. As an angry mob, we kill the ground hog.
2. Ladies and Gentlemen, please, blast your 1980′s Metal and frolic about outside with your aqua net and hairdryers. One will kindly encourage mother nature’s warm spell, and the other, while less effective, will be much more satisfying.
2.a. I understand that some of you have an allergy to Aquanet. The same effect can be had by ingesting beans, beer, broccoli, and for those of you with the ever so excitable disease lactose-intolerance, have yourself a glass of milk and some mac and cheese.
Methane AWAY!
3. Outside, there is a bunch of fresh, clean, free water falling from the sky. Why is no one melting this and sending it to Haiti? A. Sharing is Caring, and they need it. B. We give people jobs, to melt and bottle the snow, and boost the economy with public works. C. We get the fuck rid of it!

Cap'n Credit Crunch

Important Financial Institution of America Cares About You

Fanatic Mail

July 12, 1919

Dear Mr. Chaplin,

I just wanted to write to say how much of a fan I am of your work! Even here in Munich, whenever a poor paper-hanger like myself can scrap a few hundred thousand marks together, I can think of no better way to spend an afternoon than to watch you “tramp” about! A good joke, yes? I think I have a future as a writer, but am focusing on painting at the moment. I feel I just need a decisive look to define myself, and so I was writing to ask if I could use your trademark mustache to help with my own image?

Thanks again!
Adolph H.

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would you like a bucket of pork bellies

good morning sir
would you like a bucket of pork bellies

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Roughly One Person Still Cares about Sports

According to a recent Zogby International poll, 1.2 Americans still care about sports. Given the poll’s margin of error–1733.8%–the results are best interpreted as either conclusive or inconclusive, but John Zogby wasn’t sure which.

The reasons for this all-time low are manifold. The economy has ravaged working-class communities worse than any other, and no industry has felt the pinch as hard as spectator sports.

“I can’t afford tickets anymore,” said Barry Morgan, a diehard Steelers fan, with a tear in his eye. “Losing my health insurance, my mortgage, and my credit, I can take, but when I can’t go to a Steelers game, life has lost its meaning.” Morgan says that he now pretends to himself that the Steelers never existed. “It kills me to say it, but it’s healthier for my sanity that way.” Since he didn’t seem to know it was there anymore, we gently pulled the syringe out of his arm and set it down, patting his back knowingly.

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Rise and Fall of a Sockpuppet: The j_wilkin Saga

Way back when the Forums were young, when farkle-farkle, nervestaple, and I lived together, when the grass was green and the economy was real, I made a mistake.

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Molest Small Children for Change?

Recently, Barack Obama sent me this email.



Hello. I’m Jon Carson, the National Field Director for the Obama campaign, and I have a special request for you.

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McCain’s Upcoming Desperate Game-Changers

We spoke to Campaign Manager Steve Schmidt on condition of anonymity. Here are the strategies he says McCain is going to try in the next month.

1. When the economy does anything, point the other direction and yell, “Look over there!”

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The Economy is Boring

We’re headed, beyond any doubt whatsoever, for another Great Depression. Hopefully this Great Depression will be even better and greater than the first. And yet, reading Clunkline, you wouldn’t know it. Why? Because the economy is not just impossible to understand—it’s also mind-numbingly boring.

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A Conspiracy of Idiocy

This’ll be my first corner post. I’m not sure yet how I’m going use this, so I guess I’ll have to experiment. For now I’m going to treat it as a blog, and for my first blog post I’m going to rant about one of my least favorite things ever: conspiracy theories.

Personally, I think every single conspiracy theory is wrong. No, I’m serious. I’ve never seen any convincing evidence that any of these crackpot, connect-the-nonexistent-dots, shit-we-made-up “theories” is true. Let’s talk about the two big ones today: 9/11 and Kennedy.

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Out of the Archives: TechCase ’67 – RAM Invented!

Oneida, NY

Computarians John Compaq and William Tandy have invented last week what is being hailed as a marvel of modern computertry. Random access memory, a brave new tool in the revolution to speed up our electronic brain machines.

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Economic Change is Just a Theory

You say you can’t support legislation to mandate your huge corporation to reduce their carbon emissions because it will cost you money in the short term? Are you SURE that you would lose money from it? Like, 100% sure?

Because I mean, I’ve heard that some experts think that won’t happen.

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Nom de Pomme’s Guide to Nations: Bulgaria

Thanks for buying the latest edition of Guide, Guide to Nations: Bulgaria. As westerners, it can be difficult to comprehend the cesspool that is this Balkan state. Therefore, as a world traveler, I have done the hard work and gone to this black hole of reason and law to ascertain its purpose and reveal it to the learned world.

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