Take it from Snee: Theater shooting spree a tragedy

As an Internet comedy writer, it’s my job to be funny. Unfortunately, I just can’t do that this week because some … not gonna mince words here … jerk shot and killed at least a dozen people and wounded even more at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises last week.

It’s a tragedy, which means that some topics are not appropriate to discuss, like gun control. And they won’t be appropriate to talk about again until the next shooting spree, which means they’ll be in poor taste again.

You see, it’s time we stand up as a nation and rally around the real victims here: the National Rifle Association and other Second Amendment activists. That’s right: it’s time for another non-joking meeting of the Rick Snee Antidisestablishmentarian Militia. Continue reading Take it from Snee: Theater shooting spree a tragedy

Vive le gullible

This may come as something of a surprise, but those images you see in advertising? They’ve been retouched. Same goes for the models you see on magazine covers who seem to be able to hide their nipples so well.

French people don’t know this. They think their baguettes are really that long. They also think that French President Nicholas Sarkozy is really that skinny. Tre naive. It’s become so much of a problem that some French lawmakers want to require a note on any altered image so the public is not deceived.

Say, is that a picture of Sarkozy storming the Bastille?