Trivia, Humor & Satire

Hounding the Headlines: September 13, 2019

I heard this week that the Golden Deceiver fired John Bolton.  What did he expect when he appointed Bolton?  From my own experience, I don’t want to be near two alpha dogs when they are in the same room.  The biting, the growling, and the marking of territory guarantee that eventually one of them is going to send his rival packing with his legs between his tail or, in Bolton’s case, under his moustache.   

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Satire: Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, and Kim

Trump (turning to Pompeo): Hey Mike, I know that I am meeting Putin tomorrow, but I would like to have coffee with him, just to chat about the shenanigans that are going on.

Pompeo: Yeah, why not… Oh, look there, Kim Jong Un seems to be having a good time with Netanyahu. I know they never met before, but they seem like real good buddies.

Trump: You know that Netanyahu is a fox and Kim is trickster, totally unreliable but I can outfox them both any time of the day.

Pompeo: Boy, do I know that – uh, I mean it complementarily, sir.

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Alon Ben-Meir, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Humoring the Headlines: September 11, 2019

On Monday President Trump told reporters: “I don’t want to allow people that weren’t supposed to be in the Bahamas to come into the United States, including some very bad people and some very bad gang members and some very, very bad drug dealers.”  The seeds of his 2020 stump speech have been planted.  Here’s our forecast of what he’ll say.

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Jewish trivia quiz: Vaping

…A more complicated issue is whether a cigarette smoker could switch to vaping as a step towards cessation of all smoking, and on this authorities are still quite divided. There is rabbinic precedent that allows substitution of a less serious halachic violation for a more serious violation, i.e., that vaping, while harmful and generally forbidden, would be acceptable when replacing cigarette smoking, which is more dangerous. Authorities in this debate point to what other example where rabbis might allow a less serious transgression of Jewish law in lieu of a more serious one?

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Jewish Religion, Mark D. Zimmerman, Science, Medicine, & Education, Trivia, Humor & Satire