Humor

John Ostwald: A rock among pebbles - Troy Record
I hadn’t seen Joe Marro since I last visited him when he “beat” two inoperable, malignant brain tumors. He explained that it was a hard road through chemotherapy and radiation, but he was feeling better. I wasn’t aware that his cancer had returned

Anheuser-Busch to party in Super Bowl ads - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
This year’s Bud Light and Budweiser Super Bowl ads concentrate more on fun and partying: New tag lines include “A sure sign of a good time” and “Here we go.” MILWAUKEE – An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane

Humor is back in Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl ads - Eagle-Tribune
MILWAUKEE — An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane crashes on an island? Drink more Bud Light. Really love Bud Light? Why not build your house with cans of it and then drink up? Longtime Super Bowl advertising leader

John Ostwald: A rock among pebbles - Troy Record
I hadn’t seen Joe Marro since I last visited him when he “beat” two inoperable, malignant brain tumors. He explained that it was a hard road through chemotherapy and radiation, but he was feeling better. I wasn’t aware that his cancer had returned

Anheuser-Busch to party in Super Bowl ads - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
This year’s Bud Light and Budweiser Super Bowl ads concentrate more on fun and partying: New tag lines include “A sure sign of a good time” and “Here we go.” MILWAUKEE – An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane

Humor is back in Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl ads - Eagle-Tribune
MILWAUKEE — An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane crashes on an island? Drink more Bud Light. Really love Bud Light? Why not build your house with cans of it and then drink up? Longtime Super Bowl advertising leader

Anheuser-Busch’s Super Bowl ads aim for ‘light’ humor - Nashville Tennessean
MILWAUKEE — An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane crashes on an island? Drink more Bud Light. Really love Bud Light? Why not build your house with cans of it and then drink up? Longtime Super Bowl advertising

High spirits - Boston Globe
Nice name, considering it’s a depressant. It’s a political joke more than anything. The label was initially rejected by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, because they thought we were saying it had a beneficial health effect

J.D. Salinger: “Rye” Humor - Wall Street Journal
J.D. Salinger died this week and already all the phonies are cracking jokes. Or maybe the real phonies are the ones writing all the tributes, and the reassessments, and all the kinds of things Holden Caulfield would probably properly label crap

Oy! Tracey Ullman Tells Rachel Maddow She Wanted to Avoid Looking Too - News Busters
British-born comedian Tracey Ullman is quite the mimic. On “The Rachel Maddow Show” Thursday night, Ullman morphed into actress Halle Berry without realizing it. Berry landed in hot water back in October 2007 on the “Tonight Show” when she told Jay

Why Aren’t Conservatives Funny? - Gawker
On the surface it makes no sense. Why should political ideology affect humor when it doesn’t affect earnings potential or charity-giving or most anything else? If the Teabuggers, whose idea of hilarity is at the ‘dress up funny’ level of high

At Race for the Cure, humor is best medicine for breast cancer - Palm Beach Interactive
WEST PALM BEACH -— They laughed at the pink poodle. They grinned at the lavish latrines. They were tickled by the pink T-shirts. Young and old, strong and not-so-strong, roughly 22,000 runners and walkers packed Flagler Drive on Saturday morning

Anheuser-Busch’s Super Bowl ads aim for ‘light’ humor - Nashville Tennessean
MILWAUKEE — An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane crashes on an island? Drink more Bud Light. Really love Bud Light? Why not build your house with cans of it and then drink up? Longtime Super Bowl advertising

High spirits - Boston Globe
Nice name, considering it’s a depressant. It’s a political joke more than anything. The label was initially rejected by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, because they thought we were saying it had a beneficial health effect

J.D. Salinger: “Rye” Humor - Wall Street Journal
J.D. Salinger died this week and already all the phonies are cracking jokes. Or maybe the real phonies are the ones writing all the tributes, and the reassessments, and all the kinds of things Holden Caulfield would probably properly label crap

Oy! Tracey Ullman Tells Rachel Maddow She Wanted to Avoid Looking Too - News Busters
British-born comedian Tracey Ullman is quite the mimic. On “The Rachel Maddow Show” Thursday night, Ullman morphed into actress Halle Berry without realizing it. Berry landed in hot water back in October 2007 on the “Tonight Show” when she told Jay

Why Aren’t Conservatives Funny? - Gawker
On the surface it makes no sense. Why should political ideology affect humor when it doesn’t affect earnings potential or charity-giving or most anything else? If the Teabuggers, whose idea of hilarity is at the ‘dress up funny’ level of high

At Race for the Cure, humor is best medicine for breast cancer - Palm Beach Interactive
WEST PALM BEACH -— They laughed at the pink poodle. They grinned at the lavish latrines. They were tickled by the pink T-shirts. Young and old, strong and not-so-strong, roughly 22,000 runners and walkers packed Flagler Drive on Saturday morning

Using Humor in a Campaign Supporting the Disabled - New York Times
A national effort to encourage businesses to employ workers with disabilities is not your father’s hire the handicapped campaign. A print ad from a new campaign using comical labels, intended to encourage employers to ignore labels when hiring

Obama adds some humor to State of the Union speech - China Post
The president made sure to throw in a few laugh lines in his State of the Union address Wednesday. Referring to his struggles in getting a health care bill passed, Obama said dryly: “By now, it should be fairly obvious that I didn’t take on health

Bob Newhart had one-of-a-kind Grammy album - Houston Chronicle
It can seem a quaint recording by today’s standards. Newhart’s trademark stammering has been drowned out in His approach to humor is clean, as modern as tomorrow’s newspaper, funny as hell.” Unlike the Tidelands, New-hart is a midcentury

Using Humor in a Campaign Supporting the Disabled - New York Times
A national effort to encourage businesses to employ workers with disabilities is not your father’s hire the handicapped campaign. A print ad from a new campaign using comical labels, intended to encourage employers to ignore labels when hiring

Obama adds some humor to State of the Union speech - China Post
The president made sure to throw in a few laugh lines in his State of the Union address Wednesday. Referring to his struggles in getting a health care bill passed, Obama said dryly: “By now, it should be fairly obvious that I didn’t take on health

Bob Newhart had one-of-a-kind Grammy album - Houston Chronicle
It can seem a quaint recording by today’s standards. Newhart’s trademark stammering has been drowned out in His approach to humor is clean, as modern as tomorrow’s newspaper, funny as hell.” Unlike the Tidelands, New-hart is a midcentury

It’s A Wonderful Afterlife - Screendaily
The cast is as broad as the humor, with curry as this era’s stage banana peel. Gurinder Chadha’s burlesque farce should find its best audience in the UK, and throughout India, although the US, where its raucous, physical Ealing-style comedy may

It’s A Wonderful Afterlife - Screendaily
The cast is as broad as the humor, with curry as this era’s stage banana peel. Gurinder Chadha’s burlesque farce should find its best audience in the UK, and throughout India, although the US, where its raucous, physical Ealing-style comedy may

San Francisco Mayor Showing Signs of a Sense of Humor - NBC Bay Area
Now that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has abandoned his quixotic quest for Governor of California — and may be quitting politics entirely — his mood seems to have lightened. For starters, a weird but interesting piece of Gavin-inspired art has

9 reasons you didn’t get hired - WPTV
Lacking humor, warmth or personality. Don’t be too one-dimensional during interviews. Focus on selling yourself, but also show qualities that can be a plus, including humor in good taste, warmth and understanding. Failing to set yourself apart from

Out on DVD - Herald Tribune
Warning: You MUST have a sense of humor; there’s never a dull moment in this over-the-top horror flick. The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Complete Sixth Season Finally, you can watch “Chuckles Bites the Dust” any time you want!! — quite possibly the

Former BYU humorist returns as a Sundance film critic - Deseret News
PARK CITY — During hard times or sober moments, the cliche phrase is often repeated: “Someday we’ll look back on this and laugh.” But Eric D. Snider’s philosophy is “Why not laugh about it now?” The popular humor writer has made a career laughing

All The Saints Have To Do Is Show Up (Humor) - Bleacherreport.com
Look, all Sean Payton’s team has to do is show up in Landshark or Sun Shine or whatever it is they call Dolphins Stadium now on February 7, 2010. For one thing, there’s all this talk about the Colts just showing up for half the Pro Bowl, then leaving

San Francisco Mayor Showing Signs of a Sense of Humor - NBC Bay Area
Now that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has abandoned his quixotic quest for Governor of California — and may be quitting politics entirely — his mood seems to have lightened. For starters, a weird but interesting piece of Gavin-inspired art has

9 reasons you didn’t get hired - WPTV
Lacking humor, warmth or personality. Don’t be too one-dimensional during interviews. Focus on selling yourself, but also show qualities that can be a plus, including humor in good taste, warmth and understanding. Failing to set yourself apart from

Out on DVD - Herald Tribune
Warning: You MUST have a sense of humor; there’s never a dull moment in this over-the-top horror flick. The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Complete Sixth Season Finally, you can watch “Chuckles Bites the Dust” any time you want!! — quite possibly the

Former BYU humorist returns as a Sundance film critic - Deseret News
PARK CITY — During hard times or sober moments, the cliche phrase is often repeated: “Someday we’ll look back on this and laugh.” But Eric D. Snider’s philosophy is “Why not laugh about it now?” The popular humor writer has made a career laughing

All The Saints Have To Do Is Show Up (Humor) - Bleacherreport.com
Look, all Sean Payton’s team has to do is show up in Landshark or Sun Shine or whatever it is they call Dolphins Stadium now on February 7, 2010. For one thing, there’s all this talk about the Colts just showing up for half the Pro Bowl, then leaving

MadTV’s iPad Video: Sketch Show PREDICTED Apple Product - Huffingtonpost.com
As soon as the iPad was announced our office broke out laughing in a moment of grade school humor. Either this was created by a group of daughterless men who don’t know that the word pad is inextricably linked to menstruation for most women or they

Anheuser-Busch to bring humor back to Super Bowl ads - KSDK
The brewer is not going to focus on the horses, but on humor during football’s big game. Five minutes of Super Bowl ad time will be devoted to products like Budweiser and Bud Light. Last year, many ads featured the trademark Clydesdales, meant to

MadTV’s iPad Video: Sketch Show PREDICTED Apple Product - Huffingtonpost.com
As soon as the iPad was announced our office broke out laughing in a moment of grade school humor. Either this was created by a group of daughterless men who don’t know that the word pad is inextricably linked to menstruation for most women or they

Anheuser-Busch to bring humor back to Super Bowl ads - KSDK
The brewer is not going to focus on the horses, but on humor during football’s big game. Five minutes of Super Bowl ad time will be devoted to products like Budweiser and Bud Light. Last year, many ads featured the trademark Clydesdales, meant to

Vic Cianca, who directed traffic with grace, humor, has died - PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Nobody directed traffic like Vic Cianca. During 38 years as a traffic cop, Cianca’s combination of dance moves, genuflections and exaggerated facial expressions made him a Pittsburgh — indeed, national — icon when “Candid Camera” creator Allen

Humor is back in Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl ads with nod to “Lost,” a - Los Angeles Times
MILWAUKEE (AP) — An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane crashes on an island? Drink more Bud Light. Really love Bud Light? Why not build your house with cans of it and then drink up? Longtime Super Bowl advertising

Chicken Tonight - New York Times
Clark laced the article with just the right amount of humor and interesting stories to keep me reading through. As someone who prefers thighs, I was glad that I now have a chance to have diverse choices.

Cheese9.com looks to become the YouTube of comic strips - TechFlash
The comic strip has been entertaining the masses for ages , usually driven by the creativity of an individual artist. Now, a new Seattle startup called Cheese9.com is hoping to create the next incarnation of this powerful storytelling device, relying

9 reasons you didn’t get hired - ABC2 News
Lacking humor, warmth or personality. Don’t be too one-dimensional during interviews. Focus on selling yourself, but also show qualities that can be a plus, including humor in good taste, warmth and understanding. Failing to set yourself apart from

NFL: Humor is back in Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl ads - Honolulu Advertiser
MILWAUKEE — An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane crashes on an island? Drink more Bud Light. Really love Bud Light? Why not build your house with cans of it and then drink up? Longtime Super Bowl advertising

Humor is back in Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl ads - Forbes
MILWAUKEE — An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane crashes on an island? Drink more Bud Light. Really love Bud Light? Why not build your house with cans of it and then drink up? Longtime Super Bowl advertising leader

Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl ads find way back to humor - Journal Record
MILWAUKEE – An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane crashes on an island? Drink more Bud Light. Really love Bud Light? Why not build your house with cans of it and then drink up? Longtime Super Bowl advertising

Vic Cianca, who directed traffic with grace, humor, has died - PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Nobody directed traffic like Vic Cianca. During 38 years as a traffic cop, Cianca’s combination of dance moves, genuflections and exaggerated facial expressions made him a Pittsburgh — indeed, national — icon when “Candid Camera” creator Allen

Humor is back in Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl ads with nod to “Lost,” a - Los Angeles Times
MILWAUKEE (AP) — An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane crashes on an island? Drink more Bud Light. Really love Bud Light? Why not build your house with cans of it and then drink up? Longtime Super Bowl advertising

Chicken Tonight - New York Times
Clark laced the article with just the right amount of humor and interesting stories to keep me reading through. As someone who prefers thighs, I was glad that I now have a chance to have diverse choices.

Cheese9.com looks to become the YouTube of comic strips - TechFlash
The comic strip has been entertaining the masses for ages , usually driven by the creativity of an individual artist. Now, a new Seattle startup called Cheese9.com is hoping to create the next incarnation of this powerful storytelling device, relying

9 reasons you didn’t get hired - ABC2 News
Lacking humor, warmth or personality. Don’t be too one-dimensional during interviews. Focus on selling yourself, but also show qualities that can be a plus, including humor in good taste, warmth and understanding. Failing to set yourself apart from

NFL: Humor is back in Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl ads - Honolulu Advertiser
MILWAUKEE — An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane crashes on an island? Drink more Bud Light. Really love Bud Light? Why not build your house with cans of it and then drink up? Longtime Super Bowl advertising

Humor is back in Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl ads - Forbes
MILWAUKEE — An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane crashes on an island? Drink more Bud Light. Really love Bud Light? Why not build your house with cans of it and then drink up? Longtime Super Bowl advertising leader

Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl ads find way back to humor - Journal Record
MILWAUKEE – An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane crashes on an island? Drink more Bud Light. Really love Bud Light? Why not build your house with cans of it and then drink up? Longtime Super Bowl advertising

Humor is back in Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl ads - ESPN.com
MILWAUKEE — An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane crashes on an island? Drink more Bud Light. Really love Bud Light? Why not build your house with cans of it and then drink up? Longtime Super Bowl advertising leader

NFL: Humor is back in Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl ads - Honolulu Advertiser
MILWAUKEE — An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane crashes on an island? Drink more Bud Light. Really love Bud Light? Why not build your house with cans of it and then drink up? Longtime Super Bowl advertising

Teacher, former student find gender-specific humor on life topics - Everything Alabama Blog
She is a petite, suburban mother of three who does four loads of laundry a day and worries about looking like a hussy because her skirt is a half-inch above her knees. He is a gangly, married-without-children entrepreneur and classic-car buff who

Book review: ‘The GM’ offers humor, insight and adventure - Saratogian
“The GM: A Football Life, a FinalSeason, and a Last Laugh” by Tom Callahan, received four out of five Hudy Heads from The Saratogian sports reporter and book reviewer Stan Hudy. (Image provided) The Saratogian’s Stan Hudy reviews “The GM: The Inside

Prolific writer, Charles Johnson, featured as ABR speaker - Victoria Advocate
For more information, call 361-570-4848 or go to www.americanbookreview.org. He is one of the pre-eminent and prolific writers of our time. And he’s coming to little ‘ol Victoria. Charles Johnson is the author of four novels, three collections of

West metro school briefs - Minneapolis Star Tribune
School calendars OK’d for next two years The Hopkins school board has adopted calendars for the next two school years, including an early start this fall. In 2010-11, school will begin on Aug. 30 instead of the traditional day after Labor Day. State

Vic Cianca, who directed traffic with grace, humor, has died - PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Nobody directed traffic like Vic Cianca. During 38 years as a traffic cop, Cianca’s combination of dance moves, genuflections and exaggerated facial expressions made him a Pittsburgh — indeed, national — icon when “Candid Camera” creator Allen

Tina Fey tries Vogue-ing - Boston Globe
Kudos Anna Wintour. It appears you have a sense of humor as sharp as your bob. “30 Rock” star Tina Fey will appear on the cover of the March issue of Vogue. Fingers crossed they go easy on the Photoshop. Over-glaming Fey would be a definite deal

Humor is back in Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl ads with nod to “Lost,” a - Los Angeles Times
MILWAUKEE (AP) — An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane crashes on an island? Drink more Bud Light. Really love Bud Light? Why not build your house with cans of it and then drink up? Longtime Super Bowl advertising

Humor is back in Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl ads - ESPN.com
MILWAUKEE — An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane crashes on an island? Drink more Bud Light. Really love Bud Light? Why not build your house with cans of it and then drink up? Longtime Super Bowl advertising leader

NFL: Humor is back in Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl ads - Honolulu Advertiser
MILWAUKEE — An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane crashes on an island? Drink more Bud Light. Really love Bud Light? Why not build your house with cans of it and then drink up? Longtime Super Bowl advertising

Teacher, former student find gender-specific humor on life topics - Everything Alabama Blog
She is a petite, suburban mother of three who does four loads of laundry a day and worries about looking like a hussy because her skirt is a half-inch above her knees. He is a gangly, married-without-children entrepreneur and classic-car buff who

Book review: ‘The GM’ offers humor, insight and adventure - Saratogian
“The GM: A Football Life, a FinalSeason, and a Last Laugh” by Tom Callahan, received four out of five Hudy Heads from The Saratogian sports reporter and book reviewer Stan Hudy. (Image provided) The Saratogian’s Stan Hudy reviews “The GM: The Inside

Prolific writer, Charles Johnson, featured as ABR speaker - Victoria Advocate
For more information, call 361-570-4848 or go to www.americanbookreview.org. He is one of the pre-eminent and prolific writers of our time. And he’s coming to little ‘ol Victoria. Charles Johnson is the author of four novels, three collections of

West metro school briefs - Minneapolis Star Tribune
School calendars OK’d for next two years The Hopkins school board has adopted calendars for the next two school years, including an early start this fall. In 2010-11, school will begin on Aug. 30 instead of the traditional day after Labor Day. State

Vic Cianca, who directed traffic with grace, humor, has died - PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Nobody directed traffic like Vic Cianca. During 38 years as a traffic cop, Cianca’s combination of dance moves, genuflections and exaggerated facial expressions made him a Pittsburgh — indeed, national — icon when “Candid Camera” creator Allen

Tina Fey tries Vogue-ing - Boston Globe
Kudos Anna Wintour. It appears you have a sense of humor as sharp as your bob. “30 Rock” star Tina Fey will appear on the cover of the March issue of Vogue. Fingers crossed they go easy on the Photoshop. Over-glaming Fey would be a definite deal

Humor is back in Anheuser-Busch Super Bowl ads with nod to “Lost,” a - Los Angeles Times
MILWAUKEE (AP) — An asteroid is about to hit Earth? Drink some Bud Light. Your plane crashes on an island? Drink more Bud Light. Really love Bud Light? Why not build your house with cans of it and then drink up? Longtime Super Bowl advertising

Walmart clown commercial - good humor or bad taste? - Gather.com
A new Walmart clown commercial seen this past weekend really has people buzzing! The giant retailer has unveiled a new advertisement on television showing how much money a couple was able to save on their daughter’s birthday party by shopping at

Do it Yourself with the Help of Sylvia Cochran and Jennifer Wagner - Associated Content
It is finally time to get to the largest “Most Intriguing AC Writer” category - non-fiction. I apologize to those writers who have been waiting patiently for their highlight moment. This year’s group of nominees was large and it took a lot of time to

Book review: ‘The GM’ offers humor, insight and adventure - Saratogian
“The GM: A Football Life, a FinalSeason, and a Last Laugh” by Tom Callahan, received four out of five Hudy Heads from The Saratogian sports reporter and book reviewer Stan Hudy. (Image provided) The Saratogian’s Stan Hudy reviews “The GM: The Inside

Injured snowboarder to be moved from critical care - WTOP
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Injured snowboarder Kevin Pearce was set to be transferred out of critical care at University of Utah hospital, a positive sign in his recovery from a severe head injury. An update provided by his family Monday said Pearce

Album Review: ‘End Times’ have Eels’ Everett bummed - Carroll County Online
While the emotions here are mostly difficult, E leavens the hurt with shifting textures and tempos and his trademark humor. “A Line in the Dirt” kicks off with one of the funniest opening lines in memory — which sadly can’t be reprinted here

HUMOR: Deadly downpour driving - Daily Aztec
For the past week, unrelenting storms have bombarded our fine city with rain, confirming my long-held hypothesis: San Diegans, rain and automobiles do not mix. You’d think that was pretty obvious. After all, cascading water makes driving difficult

Signs point to humor beside the road - Sacramento Bee
Funny on the first read, the second and beyond, “Signspotting III” is author Doug Lansky’s newest collection of photos of hilarious signs from around the world. Subtitled “Lost and Loster in Translation,” the 154-page paperback (Perigee, $10.95) is

Flood Waters Cause Ronceverte Locals to Evacuate Homes - The State Journal
RONCEVERTE — Mother nature appeared to have a sense of humor Monday afternoon. As dozens of people evacuated their homes along Monroe Avenue, in Ronceverte, a rainbow was shining brightly above. Keith Morgan, a Ronceverte resident for over 40 years

Humor: Corporate armies gain strength from the highest court in the - Crosscut.com
The 5-to-4 decision followed last week’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that the First Amendment applies to corporations, and therefore the government cannot limit their political spending. Writing for the majority Chief

Walmart clown commercial - good humor or bad taste? - Gather.com
A new Walmart clown commercial seen this past weekend really has people buzzing! The giant retailer has unveiled a new advertisement on television showing how much money a couple was able to save on their daughter’s birthday party by shopping at

Do it Yourself with the Help of Sylvia Cochran and Jennifer Wagner - Associated Content
It is finally time to get to the largest “Most Intriguing AC Writer” category - non-fiction. I apologize to those writers who have been waiting patiently for their highlight moment. This year’s group of nominees was large and it took a lot of time to

Book review: ‘The GM’ offers humor, insight and adventure - Saratogian
“The GM: A Football Life, a FinalSeason, and a Last Laugh” by Tom Callahan, received four out of five Hudy Heads from The Saratogian sports reporter and book reviewer Stan Hudy. (Image provided) The Saratogian’s Stan Hudy reviews “The GM: The Inside

Injured snowboarder to be moved from critical care - WTOP
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Injured snowboarder Kevin Pearce was set to be transferred out of critical care at University of Utah hospital, a positive sign in his recovery from a severe head injury. An update provided by his family Monday said Pearce

Album Review: ‘End Times’ have Eels’ Everett bummed - Carroll County Online
While the emotions here are mostly difficult, E leavens the hurt with shifting textures and tempos and his trademark humor. “A Line in the Dirt” kicks off with one of the funniest opening lines in memory — which sadly can’t be reprinted here

HUMOR: Deadly downpour driving - Daily Aztec
For the past week, unrelenting storms have bombarded our fine city with rain, confirming my long-held hypothesis: San Diegans, rain and automobiles do not mix. You’d think that was pretty obvious. After all, cascading water makes driving difficult

Signs point to humor beside the road - Sacramento Bee
Funny on the first read, the second and beyond, “Signspotting III” is author Doug Lansky’s newest collection of photos of hilarious signs from around the world. Subtitled “Lost and Loster in Translation,” the 154-page paperback (Perigee, $10.95) is

Flood Waters Cause Ronceverte Locals to Evacuate Homes - The State Journal
RONCEVERTE — Mother nature appeared to have a sense of humor Monday afternoon. As dozens of people evacuated their homes along Monroe Avenue, in Ronceverte, a rainbow was shining brightly above. Keith Morgan, a Ronceverte resident for over 40 years

Humor: Corporate armies gain strength from the highest court in the - Crosscut.com
The 5-to-4 decision followed last week’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that the First Amendment applies to corporations, and therefore the government cannot limit their political spending. Writing for the majority Chief

Share this on Twitter - Odds & Ends: Weekly News/Humor Roundup - DAILY KOS
I post a weekly diary of the historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I feature weekdays in “Cheers & Jeers”. For example .. It’s not only the

Kin remember beauty, humor of Irish teen - Boston Herald
T he grief-stricken Irish family of a South Hadley High freshman who committed suicide after allegedly being cyber bullied and harassed by classmates is remembering the girl as gifted, creative and an “exceptional beauty.” “Phoebe will forever

Califon folk artist uses humor in his art - Recorder Community Newspapers
CALIFON — You fall in love with a painting, a sculpture or a collectible. You really want to take it home, but the price tag is a bit too high. What do you do? Browse the store frequently and look at it with longing? Try to bargain with the seller

Share this on Twitter - Odds & Ends: Weekly News/Humor Roundup - DAILY KOS
I post a weekly diary of the historical notes, arts & science items, foreign news (often receiving little notice in the US) and whimsical pieces from the outside world that I feature weekdays in “Cheers & Jeers”. For example .. It’s not only the

Kin remember beauty, humor of Irish teen - Boston Herald
T he grief-stricken Irish family of a South Hadley High freshman who committed suicide after allegedly being cyber bullied and harassed by classmates is remembering the girl as gifted, creative and an “exceptional beauty.” “Phoebe will forever

Califon folk artist uses humor in his art - Recorder Community Newspapers
CALIFON — You fall in love with a painting, a sculpture or a collectible. You really want to take it home, but the price tag is a bit too high. What do you do? Browse the store frequently and look at it with longing? Try to bargain with the seller