Peter Murmann

Maureen Dowd at her best. Her column about the dismissal of Rumsfeld and her speculations how it happened are hilarious. By MAUREEN DOWD (NYT) Poppy Bush and James Baker gave Sonny the presidency to play with and he broke it. So now they The defense chief got hung out to dry before Saddam got hung. The president and [Read More]

Need some short piece of comedy to cheer up your workday.  Then check out the funny TV episodes of Sacha Baron Cohen as Ali G and Borat.  Go to Youtube.com and search for Ali G or Borat.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of Japan giving an Elvis impersonation during a tour of the house of his emotional King. This must be one of the most honest moments in the life of a politian that I have ever seen. His amused audience are, besides George Bush, the former wife and daugher of Elvis. Multimedia Show [Read More]

For millennia writers have employed mistaken identities as a tool to create drama and surprise. This morning I learned that real life tragedy resorts to the same device.  The story that follows also shows one more time that the line between comedy and tragedy is often razor sharp. Weeks After Accident, a Twist of [Read More]

At least Chris Bay thinks so in his new handbook, No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress High Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days. Bay tells us in the opening pages of his treatise that he once believed that you needed several things to start writing a novel in descending order of importance: [Read More]

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When I planned my humor weblog, I had no idea that I would frequently encounter promising entries that would be funny and very serious at the same time. Here is another piece of black humor. It is far too early to tell what the fallout of this bureaucratic snafu will be. Unsatisfied Bob Doles? By [Read More]