Humor

Dave Gradwell 2-01-2009

I enjoyed Ed Spivey Jr.’s dry sense of humor in his video about the economy (“It’s All His Fault,” December 2008 Web Extras).

Ed Spivey Jr. 1-01-2009

Made you look. Anyway, the world economy continues to spin downward despite my previous column on the subject, which was intended to bring needed comic relief to struggling world markets.

Ed Spivey Jr. 12-01-2008

The following is an excerpt from economic philosopher Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations treatise, one of the driving intellectual forces behind contemporary market theory.

Ed Spivey Jr. 11-01-2008

Editor’s Note: Okay, Ed, the lawyer has finished looking through your column to make sure it’s totally nonpartisan and that it doesn’t favor or oppose either candidate. With a few minor deletions, he says it’s good to go.

As Election Day approaches, more Americans are anxious about the nnnn future. With the world economy in nnnn—for example, Afghanistan’s opium crop is down by almost 19 percent—America’s nnnnn has never been more needed. And yet, after a grueling nominating process, no nnn candidate has emerged that could reassure the world that Washington, D.C., can be anything more than a big nnn pile of scheming nnnn.

But enough about Dick Cheney’s small group.

On the nnnnnnnn side, the candidate is nnnn nnnn, except for the fact that he’s nnnn and was born in Indonesia, or possibly Illinois, and that he fathered two children with a woman in Chicago. His campaign is promising a quick, bipartisan nnnn to every nnnn problem facing this nation, except for the problem of creating false expectations for bipartisan nnnn.

And let’s be honest, he’s a little more nnnnnn than the rest of us.

Ed Spivey Jr. 5-01-2008
Here at Sojourners, we neither toil nor spin.
Teach Your Children Well
Ed Spivey Jr. 4-01-2008
Worried about your financial future? Have a Life Saver.

I's late at night. I walk in the door after a meeting and my wife is laughing her head off.

Ed Spivey Jr. 3-01-2008
The voice of the people. Even the crazy ones.
Ed Spivey Jr. 2-01-2008
The Prosperity Gospel lets us have our cake and eat it, too. Also cookies. And donuts.

I just read Ed Spivey Jr.’s piece about his first public recital (“Seriously, Is This What Hell is Like? December 2007), and I have to say it was inspired.

White-collar life in the information age.

Ride the Curl Jesus is cool again! He rides a motorcycle, plays soccer and football, enjoys the occasional rodeo—plus, he surfs!

Ed Spivey Jr. 12-01-2007
Someone foolishly suggested I should actually play in public.
Ed Spivey Jr. 9-01-2007
Our neighborhood has changed. It's now delicious.
Ed Spivey Jr. 7-01-2007
Is this the end of productive society as we know it?
Ed Spivey Jr. 5-01-2007
Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Although, some less so than others.
Ed Spivey Jr. 1-01-2006
This Christmas, avoid the partridge in the pear tree. If it sneezes.
Ed Spivey Jr. 10-01-2004
I've always wanted a lawyer. I have a plumber, but it's not the same.