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Archive for the ‘political satire’ Category

June 14th, 2008

The San Francisco Treat: Legal Prostitution on Alcatraz

The first big question about the big sexual experience zone on Alcatraz involves basic design. In other words, what the hell should the damned thing look like?
Unfortunately, this poses a bit of a dilemma, since there are two architectural symbols that both would seem to represent the ultimate in debauchery: the White House and […]

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February 21st, 2008

Military Intelligence: The Film

San Franciscans should get in line to see the razor sharp satire film Military Intelligence, which will start a run at the Lumiere Theatre next week.
Military intelligence takes fatuously optimistic World War II era training and B-movie footage, weaving it in with an overarching story line and hilarious voice over.
Writer/director James Dale Kutzera and producers […]

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January 20th, 2008

$800 in Bush Bucks Comin At Ya: Spend it Wisely, Patriots

If the U.S. government learned anything from the much-ridiculed government welfare cheese giveaway of the 1980s, it’s that Saturday Night Live has nothing on our leaders when it comes to conjuring up ludicrous, unbelievable plans to bolster the common weal.
And maybe one other thing, namely that corporations will make more money if you cluster bomb […]

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January 8th, 2008

The Mausoleum of Fame: Careers that Died in 2007

In an effort to overcome the genuine gloom of our obit overview for last year, StarkedSF offers a quick look at careers that perished last year.
A separate piece on Jerry Fallwell is in the works.
Karl Rove: Sure, the Pirates of the Queeribean star wanted to spend more time with his family. Who took the […]

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March 21st, 2007

Political Attack mashups of the Future

Based on the popularity of the Obama v. Hillary Clinton mash video, political attack ads will only get more creative from here on out.
We’re not even into the election year yet, but by the time we are you can expect:

Bush State of the Union Speech vs. Cingular “dropped calls” ad.

La Cage aux Folles makeover with […]

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March 15th, 2007

Bush Offers Organ Trading IRA Option

President Bush hopes to eliminate health care problems and retirement shortfalls in one fell swoop with his new organ IRA, or O-IRA.
The new health account can function like a traditional or Roth IRA held at a brokerage, or it can be established at an organ and tissue bank. In the latter case, retirees will be […]

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March 9th, 2007

One Good Bush Deserves Another: Stuntin Like Daddy

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March 9th, 2007

Lies, Damn Lies, and Political Expediency: The Video

This is a pretty hilarious recap of several highly publicized utterances that the utterers would dearly have loved to take back.

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March 8th, 2007

News That Needs to be Over: Make it Stop!

Here are some recent stories that just won’t die a decent, natural death. Let’s kill them, unless they can take the cheerful new turns we suggest below:

Any story involving the word ’shave’ and Kevin Federline or Britney Spears. Don’t want to hear about it unless Federline also shaves his balls in solidarity with Spears’ […]

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September 24th, 2006

Don’t Mess with the X-Presidents

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