Tom Attea

About Tom Attea

Tom Attea, creator of Newslaugh.com, has had six shows produced Off-Broadway and has written comedy for TV. Critics have called his writing ""delightfully funny" and "witty" with "good, genuine laughs."

Old Man Potomac, He Just Keeps Rollin’ Along

Some days when we contemplate the divisive and deluded doings in DC, it helps to look away from the grandiose and revered buildings that have hosted our government since it was moved there from Philadelphia in 1800 and to contemplate the broad,...
Date Posted: September 08, 2006

Depressed Rabbit Attempts Suicide

A male rabbit named Furball had lost all hope. The female rabbit he had lived with for an entire year had left him for another rabbit. The owner of the garden he usually dined at had just put a fence around it. A fox had nipped one of his ears.
Date Posted: September 08, 2006

About Time: Somali Woman Flogs Islamic Leader

An Islamic woman in Mogadishu finally did it: she inflicted eleven lashes on an Islamic leader for threatening to flog her for selling cannabis.To justify the intended flogging of the woman before she turned on the male who had ordered it, the...
Date Posted: September 07, 2006

Chicago Criminalizes Foie Gras

The Chicago City Council has voted to criminalize foie gras. An alderman who is a member of the questionable culinary group maintains that the delicious delicacy represents a case of cruelty to animals, since the geese and ducks that produce it are...
Date Posted: September 07, 2006

Foiled Again! The Attack Of The Citizen Killers

Thanks to British intelligence, with a little help from a wise and noble Muslim informer, another attack by Al-Qaeda has been foiled. And just in the turban of time.
Date Posted: September 05, 2006

Survey Shows Americans Not As Polarized As Politicians And Newscasters

A new survey by Whew! Research reveals that Americans are not as polarized as politicians and newscasters on supposedly divisive issues like abortion, gay marriage and stem cell research."Despite talk of 'culture wars' and the high...
Date Posted: September 05, 2006

France and America Agree On An Issue; Both Nations Declare National Holiday

Mark this date on your calendar: August 8, 2006. It was on this day that the rarest diplomatic event of modern times took place. France and America agreed on something, specifically, the wording of the resolution before the UN on the cessation of...
Date Posted: September 05, 2006