View in your browser. "This goes a long way toward solving our problems," House Speaker Jim Black said of the North Carolina Education Lottery when legislation establishing it passed the…
Saturday’s Wall Street Journal featured a column by Holman Jenkins, Jr. that was a delight to read for its sizzling sarcasm — directed at those who won’t face reality with…
[MOANING, MEANDERING BASS TONES] In a courageous stance for righteousness, the Tryon Town Council decided to abolish RV’s [SCREECH! SCREECH!] from its jurisdiction. According to the Tryon Daily Bulletin, the…
Evidently more than a few people didn’t catch Greensboro resident Ed Philpott’s sarcasm in his recent letter to the editor “attacking” the Tea Party. I’m not the brightest guy in…
Because there is no such thing as a stupid question, I don’t know what this is: What is the origin of the expression “profit motive”? From mass media reports, one…
I was just about to post a comment on this news item, an Israeli-developed program for detecting sarcasm and irony in text format. They used Amazon.com reviews as the raw…
In the news: A US company has created a punctuation mark that it hopes will be used to express sarcasm. It can be downloaded for a small charge and then…
This week, the editor of a major weekly news magazine recounts the hard-hitting investigative techniques he used to assess a presidential candidate’s fitness for the job: On the bus that…
The Rhino’s John Hammer says context is important when listening to the Wray-Brady tapes: However, in the one concerning Wray’s neighbor, Brady didn’t know he was being taped. People say…
Jon, actually, that was meant to be sarcastic, since the entire MSM had deemed the hilarious anti-Ford ad in Tennessee “controversial.” I meant to put the scare quotes around “controversial”…
Once again my e-mail inbox receives a sterling example of The Rant. As I said before, however, I don’t pass along everything I get resulting from my expos? of Jane…