Category Archives: Satire

Is John Rachel funny?

Posted on March 9, 2013 by johnrachel

People don’t seem to get my humor. Maybe I’m out of touch. I haven’t been watching much TV lately. So you tell me . . . Continue reading →

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Telling It Like It Is

Posted on February 14, 2013 by johnrachel

“You won’t believe what I read on the internet!!” Continue reading →

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What if they gave a war and everybody showed up?

Posted on January 8, 2013 by johnrachel

Back in the 60s, there was an anti-war slogan popularized by Charlotte E. Keyes, which was then turned into a full-length film: “Suppose they gave a war and nobody came?” Well, I’m proposing the opposite: “What if they gave a war and everybody showed up?” Continue reading →

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Fiscal Cliff Poem

Posted on January 3, 2013 by johnrachel

Haiku me once, your bad. Haiku me twice, my bad. Haiku me three times, I’m a total fucking idiot. Continue reading →

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“Free as a butterfly in a hurricane.”

Posted on September 11, 2012 by johnrachel

I say lift thy skirts, lo! come to my door
I embrace thou even as a common whore
‘Tis the illusion of freedom you implore?
Here you have it, you shall seek no more Continue reading →

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The Right To Bear Nuclear Arms

Posted on September 3, 2012 by johnrachel

Guns don’t kill people. People kill people! Since this is irrefutable logic, I began to wonder why it has been applied so narrowly. The truth is, guns are just one form of lethal entertainment. Thanks to the amazing advances in science and technology, there is a cornucopia of devices which fit the legal definition of “arms” as referred to in our Constitution. It seems to me, the legal framework and the rationale would apply equally to nuclear weapons. Continue reading →

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Repo Man vs. Retro Man

Posted on July 17, 2012 by johnrachel

If Mitt Romney gets knocked out of the race, why not have Michele Bachmann with Ted Nugent as her running mate? Okay. Bad idea. I got it! Ron Paul. Then it would be Repo Man vs. Retro Man. Continue reading →

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Personal message from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to OWS

Posted on October 14, 2011 by johnrachel

Occupy Wall Street No Longer Allowed Tarps and Sleeping Bags In Zuccotti As Of Tomorrow – Village Voice (posted Oct 13, 2011 at 3:04 pm). Continue reading →

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Exploding Hockey Pucks Intercepted at Canadian Border!

Posted on October 5, 2011 by johnrachel

Terrorism has reached new levels of sophistication. Yesterday, a huge shipment of exploding hockey pucks, some of them with the destructive capacity of nuclear weapons, was intercepted coming across the U.S.-Canadian border. Continue reading →

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Terrific Job Opportunity

Posted on September 29, 2011 by johnrachel

The Air Force just announced that due to a huge shortage of pilots to fly the unmanned Predator and Reaper drones we are using to terrorize the planet, they will be training more of them by the hundreds over the coming months. Continue reading →

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