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Pundits keep trying to portray the president-elect as playing three dimensional chess when he is barely able to play one dimensional checkers.
President Trump hasn’t posted anything to Twitter for 24 hours? Don’t believe it; it’s just the calm before the tweetstorm…
“President-elect who? Ronald McDroopysloppypants?” asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhoohayu. After a couple of seconds, he broke into a hearty laugh with just a hint of cruelty. “Oh, I’m just messing with you! Believe me when I say, any friend of war criminals is a friend of mine!”
On the blog:
20 Years of Satire on the Web
12 From 20
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Les Pages aux Folles, monthly samplers of different features of the web site have been produced and will be available for free download.
In addition to the content culled from the web site, each volume contains an introduction explaining the creation and/or evolution of the feature, as well as The Back Story, an exploration of the history and evolution of Les Pages aux Folles itself.
ALWAYS TRUST A SMILING HUMOURIST
Volume One
ALL THE INTERNET'S MY PLAYGROUND
Volume Two
ALTERNATE REALITY AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE
Volume Three
WHAT THE HECK DO YOU KNOW?
Volume Four
DELICATE NEGOTIATIONS
Volume Five
SATIRE FOR THE HARD OF THINKING
Volume Six
HAIR OF THE DOGGEREL THAT BIT YOU
Volume Seven
NEW MILLENNIUM SAME OLD STORY
Volume Eight
ANGELS OF OUR BITTER NATURE
Volume Nine
DEPLORABLE IS AS DEPLORABLE DOHS
Volume Ten
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Volume Eleven
ALL THE NEWS THAT CAUSES FITS WHEN PRINTED
Volume Twelve
ARCHIVE
Articles on Les Pages aux Folles are periodically collected into books and placed in the archive. It now contains 44 books: 35 collections of prose articles (including 12 collections of Alternate Reality News Service articles) and nine collections of cartoons.
About Ira Nayman
Satirist. Aardvarkist. Sci fi writer. Swift Satire Award winner Ira Nayman gets around. The Ugly Truth, the eighth novel in his Transdimensional Authority/Multiverse series published by Elsewhen Press, came out in July, 2022. “Girls Rule the Steampunk World!”, his 24th published short story, appeared in Brave New Girls: Chronicles of Misses and Machines round the same time.
In addition to his work as an author, Ira was the editor of Amazing Stories magazine for three years. During that time, he edited seven issues of the magazine as well as seven Amazing Selects, including work by Allan Steele, John Stith and David Gerrold.
Oh, and as you may have noticed, Les Pages aux Folles, Ira’s web site of political and social satire, is now 20 years old. In internet time, that’s positively ancient!
FOR YOUR READING PLEASURE...
In addition to Les Pages aux Folles, Ira has written eight published novels and two dozen published short stories; he was also the editor of Amazing Stories magazine for three years. Below are links to where you can buy some of his work. For a complete list of Ira's publications and where to buy them, go to the Les Pages aux Folles book store
Multiverse Series (in order)
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