There’s a website that I worship in this twisted, love/hate relationship. It’s the Babylon Bee. I’d add a “dot.com” to it, but management frowns at such shameless and non-hometown promotions. The Bee’s motto? “Fake News You Can Trust.” The Bee is a rare animal, a conservative satire site. Frequently, I’ll read a sampling of their prose and swear, which one shouldn’t do concerning something, even in a delightfully twisted way, involving Christianity.

You see, I suffer from the sin of envy. That darn Bee. They write stuff — RARELY AND SOMETIMES — funnier than my stuff, which we just can’t have, can we. I mumble frequently, “I wish I had thought of that.”

Example? After our Los Angeles Dodgers lost the first game of the World Series, 11-4, The Bee came out with a tongue-in-cheek lead story about how President Donald Trump would be imposing a 7-run tariff on teams outside the United States playing in Major League Baseball’s championship.

Then there’s newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Let’s see if this one gets by the copy desk — Zohran “Wham Bam Thank You” Mamdani. I know Gotham has a reputation of being rude, but this is the first time NYC face-planted themselves and elected a self-avowed terrorist-cheering commie B-word. I can’t exactly blame the Big Applers. Wham Bam was running against the big East Coast cooties word — a conservative. Worse? Curtis Sliwa, founder of the local vigilante committee there, the Guardian Angels, didn’t help what slim chance he had by campaigning in a fetching red beret made popular by Monica Lewinsky.........

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