Joe Morgenstern, erudite film critic for the Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio, reviews Woody Allen’s new movie “Scoop.” Click this to hear. He seems to like it.

“Never make fun of people unless they are different.” - Wise Man

Here’s Some Quick Headlines!

Prayer! Not Just for Talking to God Anymore! - Scholastic Surveys, a company that studies the trends and habits of school-aged children (and delivers hickory-smoked BBQ ribs), found that especially junior high- and high-school aged children are now tossing aside the cellular telephone and the Sidekick text-messaging devices in favor of prayer. Realizing that this standard method for speaking to God can also be used to communicate with their friends at zero cost, America’s students are increasingly falling to their knees, sometimes in the middle of class, to ask their buddy in another classroom if he’s going to the game that night or to tell a girlfriend the newest juicy gossip.

“We have to stop this,” said Kendra Bryson or Branson, a teacher at Mirror Creek Jr. High in Claremont, CA. “Just today, one of the children in my home room class got down on his knees while I was taking attendance, clasped his hands together, clenched his eyes shut, and said, ‘Oh, dear Geoff, did you study for the Earth Science quiz yet?’ We have to ban school prayer. Kids are getting carried away with it.”

Widow Wins More Than Enough in Tobacco Lawsuit - Margarie Dukanen, widow of Terrence Dukanen, who died of cigarette-induced lung cancer, won a lawsuit today against R. J. Reynolds at the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, CO. The cigarette manufacturer, whose marketing schemes and addictive products Mrs. Dukanen blames for her husband’s death, must pay her $438 million in personal damages for the loss of her husband who died in the fall of 1998. “A lot of people are saying to me, ‘Yeah, you got all that money, but that can never make up for the loss of Terry.’,” said Mrs. Dukanen to reporters outside of the courthouse. “And I did love him so much. But this is $438 million dollars. I’m sorry, that not only makes up for my loss, but also, according to my accountant’s calculations, there’s a couple hundred thou left over after that, making me, in the end, happy my beloved husband died. And that’s what this lawsuit was all about.”

Hey! Today we introduce our new comic strip! “Kollateral Damage” tells the wacky story of Private Dunder, Sarge, and Mjr. Spot at Camp Blumper in Iraq!

Through the years, MAD Magazine has skewered everything from movies to other things with its particular brand of blecccchy parody! Check out how they finally take down one of pop culture’s biggest icons, The Economist!

“You’ve Been Had!” is a prank show that’s somehow different than the others! Produced by Paper and Plastic Films, directed by John P. Nelson, and written and co-starring one of our VPs of Marketing, in this first episode we take a look at gay marriage.

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Here’s a prank to do!

1.) Go to the movie show with two friends (use tickets)!

2.) Make it so it looks like you’re in a scene in the movie kissing the star or starlet!

3.) Watch the jaws, of those same two friends you brought, drop as they think you’re in the movie!

Israel was cool enough to drop culturally-sensitive leaflets from planes to the population of southern Lebanon before commencing bombing. Here’s a sample (translated to English):

Hey, Dr. Science-Patterson! What does my older brother mean when he says “spanking the monkey”? - Huh? in Harbor, AK

Dear, Huh? This is a popular phrase with junior high- and high school-aged children of America. For better or worse, we should all know what it means. If not, we’re just living in dangerous ignorance. But, through use of logic, you can answer your question yourself by breaking the phrase down into its component parts. You know what spanking is, right? And you know what a monkey is, right? Well, there you go.

An update to the classic “Make Love, Not War” sticker!

Click for cute cubicle posters!

Click for another bumper sticker!