...changing intellectual diapers since 1915. 

"One of the basic rules of humor: When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. When you tell people that you slipped on a banana peel, people laugh with you. It's your joke, and they're on your team." - Nora Ephron

100 Word Rant

HUMOR VOCABULARY ESSENTIALS

Tone and Mood Vocabulary

Essay Guidelines/Advice

Citing Online Sources

Logical Fallacies 101

Plagiarism Guidelines & FAQ

Kayla Cross ('13): "Cross's Law"

Laugh at these or I'll fail you: 

McSweeney's Internet Tendency

The Onion

Richmond's answer to The Onion: The Peedmont

The military Onion: The Duffel Blog

The Daily Squib - The British version of The Onion

Mr. Svab's Cartoon Collections

Types of Humor (According the the Internet)

7 Types of Humor You Can Use

More Types of Humor

And more...

The Nacirema

"The Body Ritual of the Nacirema"

"The Mysterious Fall of the Nacirema"

"Get Fuzzy" understands the concept

Student Example 1: Brunch, Defamiliarized. 

Other examples of defamiliarization

Tragedy + Time = Comedy? 

Using 9-11 for profit? (These are real.) 

Commemorating appropriately? 

Aristophanes

Women at the Thesmophoria - Online text

Satirical Scene Assignment

Edith Wharton

Xingu - Full Text

Jonathan Swift

Your Own Modest Proposal Assignment

Examples of Modest Proposals

"A Modest Proposal: The GOP Meets To Solve The Problem Of Children Separates From Their Parents" (McSweeney's)

"Why Alabamians Should Consider Eating Democrats' Babies" (humor writer Alexandra Petri of The Washington Post, in response to the US Senate campaign of Roy Moore of Alabama in fall 2017). 

"A Modest, Modern Proposal - Updated For The Trump Administration" (Susan Straight for The Guardian, in response to Trump administration immigration policy proposals) 

"The Time For Term Limits For Teachers Is Now" (Randy Turner for The Huffington Post). 

FLOTSAM

Other Satirical Nonsense

The Onion's Planned Parenthood article

Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ) on Planned Parenthood

New Anti-Abortion Legislation Requires Doctors To Scale 18-Foot Wall Surrounding Clinic

Salon's Alex Pareene on a Planned Parenthood clinic being fire-bombed

Not understanding the joke...

Trudeau takes on the abortion debate (March 2012)

Tips For Being An Unarmed Black Teen (Aug. 2014)

Cowboys Halftime Show Execution

Facebook Introduces "Satire" Tag For Idiots

Andy Borowitz's website

Selling beer using 9-11

The Onion's take on 9-11 sales

The Onion's front page one week after 9-11-01

Can the JFK assassination be funny? 

Texas Executions in The Onion

Actual execution statistics