Headline: Funny or Offensive?

Travis the Chimp Commits Suicide by Cop; Attack Injures Woman

liz | 2:14 PM | Funny or Offensive?

Breaking: Depressed Man Collaborates With Depressed Neighbor

liz | 11:49 AM | Funny or Offensive?

Funny or Offensive? WARNING: GRAPHIC MATERIAL

Ooh boy, I really gotta set this one up. Below is a DEPRESSING, GRAPHIC, SPOILER-CONTAINING clip from the show Battlestar Gallactica. After the clip ends, there’s a commercial … and you’ll quickly understand why my colleague Joel Mathis alerted me to this video (called “Worst Commercial Placement Ever”). The clip isn’t funny, of course. But the juxtaposition of clip + commercial image + song on the commercial? So awful that it might just be funny. Might.

liz | 4:29 PM | Funny or Offensive?

Remember Funny or Offensive?

One of the highlights for me was the book Bunny Suicides, which became the subject of First Amendment debate when a parent in Oregon sought to ban it from her son’s school library. From the Spectator blog at Seattle U.:

Complaints began when Taffey Anderson’s son brought home a book entitled The Book of Bunny Suicides by Andy Riley. In the book, bunnies are committing suicide in various ways and this concerned Anderson enough to complain to the school board. Since October, the school board has voted multiple times on whether the book should be banned from the high school library.

Today, the first amendment one a minor victory, as the members of the board voted to allow the book to remain in the library, unrestricted and available to students.

And thank God, ’cause this shit is funny:

liz | 1:10 PM | Funny or Offensive?, cute fix