New Fake News, Satire Site Humor Volcano Explodes onto Comedy Scene

For fans of satiric fake news entertainment leaders The Onion and The Daily Show, there's a new kid in town, HumorVolcano.com. This edgy, offbeat, twisted comedy website features a collection of original short articles billed as having "a pseudo-intelligent, liberal slant for the not easily offended." Updated approximately twice weekly, the site has rapidly grown to over fifty laugh inducing articles since its May 2009 launch.

The site specializes in dryly humorous, highly satiric fake news articles written in newspaper style. The intent of most articles is to amuse by stretching the facts and current news events to border on the absurd, leaving the reader to wonder what is real and what is not.

The topics covered in Humor Volcano articles are quite eclectic, but tend to gravitate around a few general themes: the abysmally poor U.S. economy and unemployment, national politics and government, sports, big business, sex, and its home state of Delaware.

On the economic front, Humor Volcano has taken an apocalyptic view. In one article, America's elite scholars have predicted the complete collapse of its capitalist, jobs- and cash- based system within a few short years. To properly prepare students for such a bleak future, U.S. universities are incredibly tossing academic studies out the window. The new focus will be teaching the same urgently needed crude survival skills as those learned by cavemen at Bedrock University many millennia ago.

In a related article, rising seniors will receive a one-year crash course covering how to live and prosper in today's society while unemployed, as most of them will be. Critical classes for those students will include topics like identifying what's safe to eat while dumpster diving, efficient begging techniques, successful pickpocketing, and home and business break-in methods.

Still another related article is 'Grim Reaper Axed in Killer Recession.' Here the Grim Reaper is laid off from his job to save money, leaving the frightfully sick and seriously wounded unable to die until the economy picks up and he can be rehired.

Politics and government are always popular targets for satire, and Humor Volcano eagerly joins the fray. For example, the U.S. federal government legalizes marijuana so that the high taxes levied at government run Head Shops will pull the economy out of recession.

In another fake news tale, U.S. Republicans, recognizing that the Social Security Administration will run out of money in only sixteen short years, is sponsoring Orgy Nights in hotels around the country. Their expectation is that the resulting baby boom will provide an enormous new pool of tax-paying Americans just in time to save Social Security.

In yet another government initiative, new green legislation is passed requiring that 100% natural goats be used to cut grass on all federal property rather than pollution spewing lawnmowers. Cows for lawns at private residences are expected to be mandated soon.

Turning to the world of sports, Humor Volcano finds many areas ripe for ridicule, particularly in baseball. Personal injury lawyers are salivating over the widespread tendency of recently popular maple MLB baseball bats to explode into potentially deadly flying shards. Elsewhere, well known, easily excitable coach Larry Bowa's head was reported to have exploded in a recent Dodgers vs. Phillies game after his team's sloppy play, which culminated in a Jason Werth successful steal of home against LA.

Additionally, several possibilities are raised to explain why fat, dumpy baseball coaches and managers still wear team uniforms in the modern game, even though there's no chance they will actually play. The reasons range from pure vanity (vertical uniform pinstripes are slimming), to mental illness (they refuse to grow up and wear a suit), to disease prevention (fields and dugouts are toxic cesspools of tobacco juice and spit, so protective uniforms must be worn, then incinerated or decontaminated after each game).

In the business world, Humor Volcano has pokes fun at myriad targets. The ruthless, "take no prisoners" skills developed by teens' playing of violent video games is claimed to provide the killer instinct required to become a top business leader. As a result, parents now yell at their kids to get back into their room and master Evil Enemy Evisceraters instead of playing outside or studying.

Humor Volcano pays tribute to the inventors of the corporate debt obligation and sub-prime mortgage loan with a shrine on Wall Street. A huge lever, with a statue of the inventors on one end, and a giant dollar sign on the other, alternately dips ends into an illuminated pool of New York City sewage.

On a lighter note, the current phone texting-Twitter craze is named as the new format for students taking the PSAT and SAT college entrance exams. Ivy League schools, in particular, recognize that 'the best and the brightest' will possess the superior texting abilities they so covet.

Even a subject as serious as sex has attracted Humor Volcano's attention. By studying the records at the Bunny Bop Ranch, researchers found that male erectile dysfunction is a clear cut case of "Use It or Lose It." The greater the frequency of "encounters," the lower the instances of erectile dysfunction. So stay busy, gentlemen, to avoid such problems.

Elsewhere, pharmaceutical scientists, recognizing that women have a near zero general interest in sex, seek a female libido enhancement pill. The praying mantis, nature's only sexually aggressive female (who subsequently eats the male after mating) is the starting point in their search. By isolating and chemically modifying the substance which 'turns on' the female mantis, these researchers eventually do initiate a clinical trial in adult women. The results, unfortunately, show the pill not to work quite as expected.

In a separate scientific study, viewing porn is found to provide far better brain stimulation than doing active thinking exercises like crossword puzzles or Sudoku, and is expected to be a key for prevention of Alzheimer's disease. Although pharmaceutical companies are quite upset not to have discovered a useful blockbuster pill for this indication, they nevertheless jump onto this finding by producing their own porn videos to be readily available at the local drug store.

Little Delaware, Humor Volcano's home state, is also the source of satiric craziness. Because of the recession, Delaware authorities have been busy adding to their state-run casinos to increase state revenues. So while DE leadership was recently in Las Vegas honing their sports gambling expertise, three men, Rubba, Dubb, and Dubb, entered the empty state capital and took over, transferring Delaware's statehood to their native Puerto Rico.

Additionally, to increase slots revenues, Delaware enacted a law requiring that video slot machines be placed in all public restroom stalls throughout the state. The aim is to take advantage of people's idle time while thusly indisposed.

What's more, to attract larger numbers of gamblers to its casinos because they feel like they can win, Delaware is initiating a public gambling skills enhancement program. In addition to TV and radio tip ads and newspaper "how to win" columns, the state's public schools will institute gambling skills development into its math curriculum from elementary school on.

Humor Volcano craziness goes far beyond these topics. Tattoo-sporting grannies go berserk in the mall over a thong shortage at Victoria's Secret. A rogue wave destroys a British soccer stadium, killing thousands. Midwest storm chasers leave the road for trailer parks to improve their odds of intercepting a tornado. Old drug-sniffing dogs become desperate junkies upon retirement from active duty. On and on the insanity goes.

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