Category Archives: Humor/satire

Antanaclasis that’s what!

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Stephen W. Browne

The part of a journalist’s life we don’t like to talk about involves making phone calls and spending a lot of time sitting at our desks waiting for someone to return them. For those of us raised with a work … Continue reading →

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A modest proposal: my plan to fix this country

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Stephen W. Browne

The Anthony Weiner story is the gift that keeps on giving. Rep. Weiner (D-NY) tweeted/sexted a co-ed and first, pushed the wrong button so it went public, then provided a grateful public with the most delightfully idiotic verbal gyrations as … Continue reading →

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Sometimes life just hands you a joke…

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Stephen W. Browne

I went to Fargo yesterday to consult with an ENT my primary care physician referred me to. Cool side note: my grandfather, who I never met due to him dying before I was born, was an EENT back in the … Continue reading →

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Christmas time is hear by golly

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Stephen W. Browne

Note: An abbreviated version of this appeared as the Christmas weekend op-ed in the Valley City Times-Record. Christmas time is here again, and in the words of that great songwriter Tom Lehrer, time to reflect on what we deeply and … Continue reading →

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The magic wand and the club; a political fable

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Stephen W. Browne

“Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is force, and like fire, a dangerous servant and a terrible master.” –George Washington (attributed) Two brothers were walking through a dark forest one day, when they came upon an object … Continue reading →

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Take the jab!

Posted on October 18, 2009 by Stephen W. Browne

I’m sitting at home writing this, with a temperature of 101 and diffuse aches throughout my body. I’m cold, in spite of layers of thermal underwear. My head feels like it’s stuffed with cotton wool and my throat feels like … Continue reading →

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Anybody notice this?

Posted on July 5, 2009 by Stephen W. Browne

This is the Doonesbury strip from July 1. Mother Boopsie says, “See how many female protestors there are? That’d be impossible in most Arab societies. Images like that are incredibly empowering to gals all over the Middle East.” Daughter remarks, … Continue reading →

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Putin visits Washington, gets refrigerator magnets

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Stephen W. Browne

From the Valley City-Times-Record, Wednesday, April 1. In a historic first, the likes of which Washington has not seen since “Gorbymania” during the Reagan administration, Prime Minister of the Russian Republic Vladimir Putin made a historic visit to the United … Continue reading →

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Dialog: Left and Right

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Stephen W. Browne

Since I’ve been accused of being a Right-winger and a Conservative (though I must have missed it when that went from being a description of a political position to high crimes and misdemeanors) I thought I should find a representative … Continue reading →

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Famous Last Words

Posted on December 17, 2007 by Stephen W. Browne

Last night I stayed up entirely too late, absorbed in Paul Johnson’s book ‘Heroes’, of which I will write more anon. The book was worth the price of admission if only for reminding me of the reply Lord Lovat gave … Continue reading →

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