I am a big fan of satirical writing and enjoy doing a bit myself, just to be silly. In November 2001 I volunteered to help at "An Evening with Bill Clinton" when Bill Clinton flew to Calgary and spoke at the Round-Up center. Before the event, there was a VIP reception and I was helping out. As luck would have it, I managed to sneak in and get my photo taken will Bill. Naturally I couldn't just let this pass by so I wrote Bill Clinton and Jon Hyatt Sign Historic Deal about a fictitious deal between Bill and I.

In July 2002 I was working for a failing software company (they were a dime a dozen, at that time) that had just gone through a second round of lay-offs. The work environment was so bad that I had to quit to preserve my sanity. As a fancy way to tell people I had left my job I wrote Good-Bye Corporate Overlords.

In the summer of 2004, I was scheduled to go for a Mountain Bike ride with two friends, Dave Long and Mike Leb. Mike called just before the ride and cancelled, citing some lame excuse that he had to “return a hat to the store with his girlfriend”. I wrote Mike Leb reveals secret hat fetish just to make fun of his new domestic habits.

SatireWire used to be my favourite satire site, but they have vanished off the web. The best is now The Onion which always has plenty of satire to write with Republicans in the White House.