Giving TV News a Black Rock Eye
The following are excerpts from publisher McMillan, Bloedel, Wayne & Schuster's recent release Giving TV News a Black Rock Eye: An Insider's View of CBS News, written by Irving Vasterre.…
Joey’s Little Secret
(ITEM: The Pentagon has recently become concerned about toy model manufacturers who have designed weapon model kits that bear an uncanny resemblance to weapons currently being designed for military deployment.…
Finance Minister Feelgood’s Patented Economic Tonic
With a whoop and the tinkle of a broken down player piano, twirling his bamboo cane and waving his straw hat, Finance Minister Feelgood took the stage. It was a…
Partying in the Nineties
"Oh, Hildie, he's such a darling man!" "G. Gordon Liddy? Honey, I can think of a lot of ways to describe one of former President Richard Nixon's Watergate henchmen, but…
Reverend Righteous Confronts the Disbelievers
Ladies and gentlemen, Reverend Oral "Pat" Righteous: "Sin. Forgiveness. Redemption. Neat stuff, eh? My friends, this is the great wheel upon which all our reputations are driven. It happens so…
Hither and Yon Economics
"Now, gentlemen," Deputy Minister of Miscellaneous Government Activity Roger Overbudget said, shifting his not inconsiderable bulk in his chair, "who would like to elucidate current government policy regarding regional economic…
The Wages of Cynicism
When people stop me on the street to ask me to autograph their dog or stay away from their small children, they've started to ask me, "Ira, what makes you…
The Politics of All Things Harmonious
On a distant mountaintop in a distant land lives a distant old man. Nobody knows how old he really is, although it is rumoured that he may be responsible for…
Brain Salad Misery
She was the most beautiful woman Neil had ever seen. She was petite, with strawberry blonde hair down to her waist; she had an ample figure; her face was round…
Appropriating the Issue
"Is anybody here prepared to explain why a Conservative government would adopt socialist measures?" Deputy Minister of Miscellaneous Government Activity Roger Overbudget roared. The members of the Subcommittee for New…
Entertainment Right Now
"The 'Shroud of Vanna' - artifact of a real media superstar or major rip-off? Thousands are paying 25 cents just to touch it and see..." "Hollywood celebrates the hundredth anniversary…
An Oliver North Iran/Contras Hearing Fantasmagoria
"The good, the bad and the ugly... I never carried out a single act, not one, in which I did not have authority from my superiors... I lied every time…