When I'm not writing humor columns, limericks, song parodies, and spoofs about politics & government; marriage & family; the law; career & work; money, business, & the IRS; technology, privacy, & computers; Bush, the White House, & the GOP; the media; music; and the news, I'm scrounging around, searching desperately for satire ideas. Thank heavens for offbeat news items like the ones you'll find here. Very often they save my hide.

• Weird News Snark "I’m introducing a new regular feature today — Weird News Snark. How regular? That totally depends on news craziness … and Mad Kane laziness. ..."