POLITICAL SATIRE

Authors Washington Irving and James Fennimore Cooper both use political satire in their stories to ease the anxiety and tension throughout the United States surrounding the changes in government.

Why is political satire so mundane and tasteless? Read on, dear reader, read on.

Obamawaffles.com is selling waffle mix for $10 per box. Pricey breakfast or political satire? You decide.

The longer I live the more I'm convinced I am surrounded by idiots.

A satiracle look at the actions, thoughts and ministrations of contemporary national government.

Could a sitcom that features three men talking about public policy actually be funny? Yes, Minister, a TV series that aired on the BBC in the early 1980s succeeds in that improbable challenge.

Take a step past the plethora of perpetual political pieces, and give yourself a chuckle. Because if history starts repeating, hold onto your horses. . .

Although much has been explored and conjectured about the effects of entertainment news programs such as The Daily Show, there is ambiguity surrounding the effects of these programs. A review of current literature is offered and a new hypothesis proposed.

If you've been disappointed in Barry Levinson's movie satires lately--perhaps his new political documentary called "PoliWood" (arriving in 2009) will provide something that works much better: Real-life or unintentional satire.

A review of the Future Art Festival, and of the headlining artwork, David Karave's animatronic art installation: a controversial robotic sculpture satire of the Homeland Security Color Code Alert System.

Political opinion of an average American.

Making fun of politicians is an integral part of American culture. Halloween is probably the best time to do it. You wear a costume anyway, so you might as well get some attention.

Saturday Night Live is making fun of Sarah Palin (Tina Fey), the same as giving ridicule to Gerald Ford (Chevy Chase) more than three decades ago. The Clintons also have been targets. What's the purpose?

The only way to escape it is to crawl in a hole and keep yourself there until you hear Christmas music in the air. Of course these days Christmas music begins in early November so you better wait until you hear champagne corks flying and the singing of Auld Lang Syne.

According to some, satire has just stepped over a major line or in dire need of resuscitation at the time of this writing no thanks to the Obama cover in The New Yorker. However, some repairs could be made if the magazine did one thing...

Just in time to teach the folks at The New Yorker about how to do true political satire, the folks at JibJab.Com have come out with a new animated video "Time for Some Campaignin," sung to the tune of Bob Dylan's classic "The Times They Are Achangin."

A political system as capricious as the wind maybe the real perfect storm.