Category: Government
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Colorado Wildlife Officials Unveil Plan to Rebrand ‘Frankenstein Bunnies’ as ‘Nature’s Little Experiments’
In a bold move to mend relations with an increasingly aggrieved public, Colorado Wildlife Officials have announced their latest initiative to rebrand the controversial “Frankenstein Bunnies” as “Nature’s Little Experiments.” These creatures, which have long been the subject of local lore and legend, are famed for their uncanny resemblance to rabbits, though some descriptions include…
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Historic First: White House Fight Night to Feature Cage Match Between Policy Promises and Actual Legislation
In an unprecedented move aimed at increasing government transparency, the White House announced Tuesday that it will host its first-ever “Fight Night,” a nationally televised cage match pitting unfulfilled policy promises against the realities of actual legislation. The historic event is scheduled to take place next Friday in the East Room, which press secretary Carla…
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India Prepares Strategic Initiative to Build Dams Over Pakistan’s Sense of Humor
In an unprecedented move this week, Indian authorities have announced a comprehensive infrastructure project aimed at constructing a series of metaphorical dams over what remains of Pakistan’s sense of humor, citing “recurring floods of oversensitivity” as a regional threat to security and mutual understanding. “We can no longer ignore the torrents of outrage every time…
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Underfunded Cybersecurity Task Force Discovers Fast Food Chain Secretly Outsourcing Customer Complaints to Fictional Email Addresses
WASHINGTON, D.C.—After months of exhaustive investigation and exactly zero dollars in additional funding, the National Cybersecurity Task Force announced Monday that it had uncovered Subway’s most creative cost-cutting measure yet: outsourcing all digital customer complaints to fictional email addresses, including “helpful.hamster@freshmail.net” and “manager404@inboxless.org.” “We’d been tracking a suspicious decline in complaint resolution rates among major…
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U.S. Unveils New Foreign Policy Strategy: Roll of Dice Determines Sanctions for Oil Purchases
In a groundbreaking move set to redefine global diplomacy, the U.S. State Department this week unveiled its new “Dice of Destiny” foreign policy, in which the application of oil sanctions against foreign nations will now be determined entirely by rolling a pair of regulation Las Vegas casino dice. Addressing the press from a hastily assembled…
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Western Australia Announces New Hospital Policy: Patients Encouraged To Self-Treat Using YouTube Tutorials
PERTH, AUSTRALIA — In a bold move celebrated as “21st-century healthcare reform” by its architects and “utter madness” by just about everyone else, the Western Australia Department of Health unveiled a new policy Thursday encouraging all hospital patients to opt for self-treatment—provided they follow instructions from high-quality YouTube tutorials. The initiative, titled “Operation Do-It-Yourself,” was…
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Congressional Committee Accidentally Approves Bill Granting Land Rights to Genetically Modified Sea Cucumbers With Exploding Anuses
Capitol Hill was thrown into chaos Tuesday after the House Subcommittee on Agriculture, Aquaculture, and Explosive Posteriors inadvertently approved a sweeping bill that extends federal land rights to a recently engineered population of genetically modified sea cucumbers with – according to official language in the text – “regrettably volatile anuses.” The bill, officially titled The…
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EPA Quietly Approves Stomach-in-Mouth Discharge as Renewable Energy Source
WASHINGTON—In a move hailed by vomit enthusiasts and renewable energy investors alike, the Environmental Protection Agency discreetly approved the use of stomach-in-mouth discharge—commonly known as “throw-up”—as a clean, renewable energy source earlier this week. The policy change, buried on page 448 of a 600-page environmental impact report, is already sending ripples through both the energy…