By Dan Geddes WASHINGTON – In response to the growing epidemic of “fake news,” President Obama today announced the creation of a new department of…
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Dan Geddes is the author of The Satirist: Volume 1 and the editor of the online journal The Satirist: America's Most Critical Journal, an astonishing collection of satires, reviews, reviews of imaginary works, fiction, essays, poems, and satirical news.
Geddes' satire and serious criticism in The Satirist online has been widely cited in books, English courses, academic papers and journals, newspapers, and websites. Geddes has written for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Dry Bones Review, and The Modern Word. His satirical work has also appeared in GlossyNews.com.
Geddes has also written several unpublished works, including a literary comic novel, a feature-length screenplay, and a collection of European travel stories.
He lives in Amsterdam.
Spoiler alert: This essay contains plot-spoilers. Gone Girl (2014) is a satirical commentary on the state of contemporary marriage. It is a well-made film, following a…
By Dan Geddes BERLIN – Germany’s law against insulting the leaders of foreign governments will be put to the ultimate test when billionaire Twitter personality Donald Trump…
To: Irving R. Sheen, Tax Inspector From: Saint Nicholas of Myra, alias “Sinterklaas”, “Santa Claus” Taxpayer ID: 000-00-0002 Date of Birth: 5 December, 343 A.D.…
By Dan Geddes NEW YORK – After a week of new allegations of Donald Trump’s past sexual predations, campaign spokesman Dirk Digger stated that Mr.…
By Dan Geddes Instructions The U.S. Congress requests that all candidates for U.S. President take the following the ethics test. Dear Candidate: For each question,…
NEW YORK – The incredibly addictive Pokemon-Go app, which has sent countless millions of people out into the world to stare at their cell phones…
By Dan Geddes ATLANTA– A recent CNN poll of American citizens found that a solid majority (72%) believes that “the United States of America is…
By Dan Geddes CLEVELAND – An unemployed man in Cleveland, Ohio believes that the US government’s vast overseas empire and interventionist foreign policy benefit him…
By Dan Geddes AMSTERDAM – According to secret terms of the TTIP treaty, recently leaked by Greenpeace Netherlands, the U.S. must finally be allowed to…
By Dan Geddes 10 April 2016 WASHINGTON – U.S. State Department spokesman Milo Minderbinder announced today that ISIS must sign the TTIP [Transatlantic Trade and Investment…
By Dan Geddes 21 November 2015 NEW YORK – Fox News issued a statement today proclaiming that “yellow journalism is now a thing of the past.”…
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