International Society of Supervillains

A Few Things Worth Announcing

HATE YOU FOREVER. You can buy it.

Stuff: It's a-happenin'.

Here It Comes

ISS Mailbag: Capt. Black, Part 2

Hate You Forever. It exists.

Countdown to HATE YOU FOREVER: The Blurbs

The second of many messages from real-life superhero Captain Black.

Creating the Ultimate Supervillain Football Team, Part 1

Coming next month!

ISS Mailbag: Capt. Black, Part 1

Now that the American football season is winding down with talk of the Superbowl and Saints and Mannings we here at the ISS have devised our own sinister football team using what our scientists have dubbed "The Monstars Effect." For those unfamiliar with the concept of Space Jam, watch it. What we have now is a complete offensive line with which to utterly destroy the typical football teams and show those second-rate villains, the New England Patriots, exactly how football evil is done!

HATE YOU FOREVER Preview: The Cover

"Real-life Superhero" Captain Black drops us the first of many lines.

Other Things Democrats Can't Do Now

HATE YOU FOREVER: HOW TO CHANNEL YOUR RAGE INTO EFFECTIVE SUPERVILLAINY is coming soon from ISS Press.

8 More Effective Places to Hide Bombs

People thought the Democratic supermajority was capable of stuff. Those poor, naive fools.

2009: The Year What Was, Part 2

On Christmas, a terrorist bomber on an Airbus flight to Detroit unsuccessfully attempted to detonate a bomb hidden his underwear, effectively ruining one of the last possible places for us villain types to stash away explosives. Now, the security types are even talking about using full-body x-ray scanners to see if people got any gunpowdery stuff stashed on their person. What's a productive explosion artist to do now? Here's some ideas for places one might now be able to effectively stash away a boom-maker.

2009: The Year What Was, Part 1

Our look at 2009 continues with more jokes about stuff that happened in entertainment, sports and science/technology.

Well, we've come to the end of the last year of the aughts, the decade Time Magazine called the "decade from hell." We'd like to think we played a part in that distinction. Luckily, 2009 was just as hellish as most other years this decade, with impending global environmental doom, people railing against health care reform and celebrity deaths up the wazoo. We can't think of anything to tell jokes about than those things. So here's some jokes!

ISS Christmas

Countdown to HATE YOU FOREVER: Meet Treachero

This season is a bitch for forces assembling to teach bad guys the "error" of their ways. Whether it's ghosts, Santa, God, Kids, magic remote controls, creepy janitors that turn men into teenagers, Robbie Coltraine, Morgan Freeman, any number of Superheroes or a selection of Muppets the universe just can't stand to let a good bad-guy be bad!

Kill Demons the ISS Way, Part 2

Meet the mascot for our new book, HATE YOU FOREVER: HOW TO CHANNEL YOUR RAGE INTO EFFECTIVE SUPERVILLAINY, coming next year.

Kill Demons the ISS Way, Part 1

The conclusion of our guide to demon destruction.

ISS Mailbag: Bred by Outlaws

We have, on several occasions, summoned demons to do our bidding. Unfortunately, the demon summoning kits located in the villainous thrift stores lack instructions for the removal of demons once you're done with them. The kits will let you summon all the demons you want, but, when you have to pay a sacrificed goat for a cup of coffee, you begin to realize the skewed economics involved. As such, we, in an altruistic (seriously, pay up) gesture, present how to slay a demon in twelve easy-to-follow Necronomicons.

The ISS Takes on: The AP's Attempt to Fact-check Sarah Palin's Book

Here at the ISS, we occasionally get e-mails. Some of them compliment us for our continual destruction of all that is good and noble in the world. Some are from superheroic douchebags who don't get us. And some of them are crazy people who want to join our fictional supervillain organization.

ISS Track By Adam WarRock

The AP's problem is that it's trying to fight Sarah Palin with facts. That ain't gonna work, guys.

HATE YOU FOREVER Excerpt: 9 Corporations Supervillains Should Emulate

War Rocket Ajax co-host, People You Don't Know host and god emcee Eugene Ahn, a.k.a. Adam WarRock made this incredible track about me and the ISS this week (it even includes some awesome promotion for our upcoming book). Give it a listen and have an eargasm.

ISS Mailbag: Internet Marketing

Here's your first look at what will be in our new book, HATE YOU FOREVER: HOW TO CHANNEL YOUR RAGE INTO EFFECTIVE SUPERVILLAINY, coming next year.

Things You Can Believe If You Want

Oh, great, somebody wants to help me promote my website! Nobody e-mails me about that.

Blasting You To Hell in 2010

After this we are dropping the topic.

The ISS Takes on: Commenters on Internet Comedy Articles

The first ever book from ISS Press. HATE YOU FOREVER: HOW TO CHANNEL YOUR RAGE INTO EFFECTIVE SUPERVILLAINY.

The ISS Takes On: Celebrities Defending a Child Rapist

That's right. YOU.

Supervillainy on a Budget, Part 2

Exhuming this dead horse so that we may beat it.

Supervillainy on a Budget, Part 1

Last week, we did you a public service and provided you with some ideas for ways to wreak havoc without breaking the bank. Now we're giving you more! It's like we're doing you a favor or something.

ISS Mailbag: The Crash Puzzle

Every supervillain needs some time off from developing death rays. This is primarily for two reasons (aside from prison): (1) Grand schemes take months or even years to fully develop, fund, and enact, and (2) Grand schemes have the potential for the burn out of funds, manpower, and, most importantly, the villainous mindset. Supervillains need to enact minor schemes which, though they may not result in global domination, will keep the supervillain at the top of his/her game until the next meteor with space bacteria passes through the solar system.

The ISS Takes On: A New York Times Editorial About Stranding Old People on Mars

Here at the ISS, we occasionally get e-mails. Some of them compliment us for our continual destruction of all that is good and noble in the world. Some are from superheroic douchebags who don't get us. And some of them warn us of an impending stock market crash brought on by...troops?

No, really.

It's Labor Day...

The ISS Takes on (Bonus Edition!): The Right Brothers

Enjoy your Labor Day. It may be the last one you spend not laboring for us.

Common Supervillain Blunders

Oh man, you guys. Oh man.

The ISS Takes on: More 'Real-life' Superheroes

"Ha ha.. you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is: Never get involved in a land war in Asia. Only slightly less well known is this: Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ahahha!!! Ahhaha!!! Ahh..." - Veccini, allegedly a Sicilian No, my friend, you fell victim to one of the classic supervillain blunders. But what are these blunders? Why do they happen? And is there anything we can do about it?

4 Reasons to Dominate the Earth

We are taking the fight straight to the heroes. Apparently, there are vast underground hardcore groups of heroes who have begun uniting to make the world a better place. In order to prevent these do-gooders from creating the equivalent of a real world Justice League, I've gone undercover to infiltrate and eventually undermine these efforts.

The Educational Tale of Dr. Merciless

We here at the ISS believe in reaching out to the masses, in an effort to manipulate public consensus and eventually weaken the populaces defenses against us. Therefore, let us take this time to explain the reasons why we want to rule the earth.

Being a Supervillianous Parent

Be really careful when picking out your minions. Sure mutant animals and top-heavy lovlies sound great (as opposed to mutant lovlies and top heavy animals which is at best sad and at worst severely disturbing.) but you have to exercise some quality control. Don't be this guy, in other words.

Kids. They're tricky little buggers. On the one hand you want to groom them to the horrors of the world so they can seize the day with an iron fist of evil and make you proud.

Villain Swap

The ISS Charity Drive (No Shit.)

Welcome to Villain Swap. This week East-end hard nut and tough guy slaphead, Grant Mitchell will be swapping lives with skull-faced, egomaniacal closet-gay Skeletor. For the first week each villain will have to live according to a set of rules laid down for them by the other. It's day one and Grant is having a little trouble with Skeletor's schedule.

Choosing Your Evil Pet

by Operative Rache

Sooner or later, every evil genius needs a companion. I don't mean a sidekick or living sex toy, I'm talking about something you can trust not to stab you in the back or betray you when an agent from MI5 comes along.

The ISS Takes on: Sarah Palin's Resignation Speech

Help save the world so that there's something left for us to destroy.

ISS Mailbag: Watchwomen Redux

In a shocking move, Sarah Palin resigned as Alaska's governor last week. In a move that was less shocking, she did it with a speech that made no goddamn sense.

The ISS Takes on: South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford

We get a lot of mail here at the ISS. Some of them are from aspiring supervillains, hoping to learn some of the tricks of the trade. Others are from sadly misguided souls attempting to contact the International Space Station. And every now and again, one of them stems from the computer of one of the very simpletons who have incurred our wrath and lived to compose bitchy emails about it. Here, a nude revue's ringmaster/head pimp attempts to justify the frankly unjustifiable strip show Watchwomen. (We reviewed it here, in case you repressed the memory.)

Coming Soon From ISS Press

Mark, Mark, Mark. You thought you had it all worked out, didn't you? Ditch your security detail, jump on a plane, head to Argentina. Hang out for a few days, bone your mistress, and come back. No one's the wiser, right? But you forgot one thing, governor: You are a governor. Of a state.

The ISS Takes on: CNN

by The Catastrophe Syndrome

I'm writing to you from one of my many hiding places across the globe, keeping my head down after my last public appearance; It always sucks when you manage to piss off multiple governments at once, you gotta hide from things that are hard to mind control, like scud missiles. I've been going more insane than usual, because I've been in this particular safety bunker for a couple weeks, and my computer is messed up. The only website I can access aside from my e-mail for some reason is CNN.com. I've killed at least a dozen IT professionals already because their sage suggestion to reboot my machine did not work. Now out of geeks, I've taken to reading the headlines on CNN.com and making the stories about me, or just not reading them and taking them horribly out of context for my own entertainment; not that they've been making that difficult. I'm starting to believe that many of these things actually happened the way I said. It might be because they did. Fuck, I don't know, I've been in a hole for two weeks.

King Oblivion Ph.D., in comic form.

ISS Mailbag: Race War

by MW's Head on a Robot Body

An enterprising young man asks an (in)appropriate question.

Supervillain Motivation

The ISS Takes on: The Letterman/Palin Feud

There are many good reasons to become a super villain. Perhaps you crave to rule all you see, utilising your awesome intellect. Perhaps you have stumbled upon great power and fancy making some easy cash. Perhaps you have been transformed into some monstrous grotesque and seek revenge on those who so wronged you. Perhaps you're simply insane and driven to crime. Perhaps you're an evil creature from the depths of hell. Perhaps you're German. All fine reasons. But alongside these understandable reasons (of COURSE he's a Supervillain- as a skull-faced crazy who secretes pure fear from his pores what else could he be? A babysitter?) there are a few Supervillains with a perhaps more... questionable motivation.

A Collection of Jokes from My Twitter Feed

Sarah Palin and David Letterman had an extremely public spat last week. We wish it had taken place in hell.

The Tale of Misanthropic Meals

In our latest exercise in narcissism, ISS writers share their favorite posts from their accounts on the popular microblogging service Twitter. Why no, we're not running low on article ideas! Whatever gave you that idea?

by The Catastrophe Syndrome

Recently, after reading some of the delightful ramblings of one of my most cherished and aristocratic female colleagues, my eyes became unfocused as I remembered a specific group of people who consistently made me want to tie them to trees, set fire to them, and then tickle them as they burn so that they die confused about how to feel... yet without them I wouldn't be the intrepid supervillain I am today. Their pure, unparalleled evil was at once the bane of my existence and an inspiration. The people I speak of are fast food restaurant employees.

The Schedule: It Changes

Dr. Inside-out's Cat-astrophic Misadventure

Fools, Two things we feel that we must note, not because we want to inform you of anything necessarily, but because we like to type so much. You may recall that we were doing a "Profiles in Superpowers that Seem Good But Might Actually Suck" every Saturday. They will now be posted every other Saturday. We will generally alternate it with a "Villains Opine on..." piece, but only when we feel like it. Note this in your various calendars, datebooks and schedules. Fools!

by Dr. Inside-Out

I found myself looking about my ponderous lab of doom one day. As I observed the Plasma Cannon Death Ray, the Laser Satellite, and the '86 corvette, hood adorned with baby skulls; it came to me that I was missing something. Every supervillian has a diamond-encrusted breach laser pistol, a Sarin-injected puppy catapult, or their own version of a nuclear chamber enhanced popcorn popper. I needed something that would give me... an edge.

Tips For Budget Supervillainy, Part 1

The ISS Takes on: The World Superhero Registry, Round Two

In these harsh economic times not everyone can afford henchmen, lackies, lickspittles, grunts, ninjas, minions or droogs. Oh you can SAY that you have ten thousand ninjas, its just that no one can see them but is anyone buying it? Really? So what's the obvious answer? Animals.

The ISS Interviews Captain Freedom part 2

Oh we're not finished with them yet. Not by a long shot.

The ISS Interviews Captain Freedom part 1

Lady Unpleasantries completely and utterly destroys Captain Freedom in this heart-stopping interview, at long last. Part 2 of 2.

Feud Update: When Supervillains Clash

Lady Unpleasantries completely and utterly destroys Captain Freedom in this heart-stopping interview, at long last. Part 1 of 2.

The ISS Takes on: The World Superhero Registry

As some of you may know about us Supervillains, there are time when we decide to take a break from fighting our nemesis, and instead turn to a more domestic...

Potential Heroes and Villains on Yahoo! Answers

We have met the enemy, and he is retarded.

A Humiliating Defeat at the Hands of Captain Freedom

Recently, I have noticed a trend where new Superhero's and villains become confused about their budding new powers, and reach out to the public to find out if they are the only one. By keeping ourselves informed, and paying attention, we are narrowing in on a few potential hero's and/or villains in the making...

I'm not proud of what I'm about to explain to you all. Not even a little bit. In fact, I'm so disgusted that I almost don't notice the crippling shame of being verbally abused by my own henchmen when they found out. Get help before it's too late and this happens to you.

Other Pirate Vows

How To Be Evil in Everyday Life: Business Meetings

"Pirates Vow Revenge." What else are pirates vowing to do?

How To Be Evil in Everyday Life: Teaching

Just because you're not a supervillain doesn't mean you can't bring evil into your everyday, mundane existence. Like, say, your daily business meeting.

Rocket Fuel in Baby Formula... WHAT???

Its a hard fact to face but not everyone can be a supervillian, you may not have the time, the powers, the money, the right physique for spandex... But don't despair, here at the ISS we welcome even minor evil. To this end here is the first in a series of articles detailing how to bring a little more Eeeeeeeee-vil into your everyday life. Here, we discuss being a teacher.

A Darkside Moment in History, Vol. 1

I'm going to be honest here, I don't really know what to write. I don't see how anything I could add to this news article could make it any worthier of space on a supervillain website.

Agenda Item From Last Bi-Monthly Meeting

We figured out what George W. Bush was thinking on the morning of 9/11. The McDonald's stuff, we can understand. The other stuff, not so much.

3 Great Exercises for Today's Supervillain

As most of us know, last Friday was the bi-monthly "State of the Society" meeting, where we share secret strategies, listen to guest speakers, and plot against one another. Of course everyone truly knows that these meetings mean 3 things: * Free coffee and donuts. * Watching a Super villain training video (i.e. "Sexual Harassment in the Villainous Workplace: A How To Guide", or "Lab Accidents and You: How NOT To Create a Super-Nemesis".) *Complete and unadulterated boredom.

An Inconvenient Question

by The Computer King

Someone once asked me, "Why supervillainy?" After I disintegrated them out of hand, I actually thought about the question. Why, indeed, would someone purposefully pit their wits and abilities against those who claim to be on the side of right?

by Captain Dracula

It pains me to say it, but the modern super villain is getting lazy. Sure, we've always had orbital death cannons and 50-foot killer robots, but at the end of the day we all still found the time to get our stomach crunches and bench presses in. But now? Well, let's just say that Lex Luthor didn't switch from the pink spandex shirt to the power suit for fashion reasons alone

Discount Doomsday Devices For All Occasions

by Professor Innocuous

Mad science is in my blood. With a name like "Murderstein," there weren't many other jobs for us in the civilized world. Ranging from the Viking merchant and chemist, Olaf the Hairy, to the more recent (WWII) robotics expert, Wilhelm von Murderstein III, several doomsday devices and formulas are cluttering up the family castle's loft. I've decided to sell some of the items.

Presenting: The Schedule

So, You Want to Be a Supervillain

Here at the new, much more talkative ISS, we're introducing a brand new concept never before seen on any blog or any other website in the history of the internet: Weekly features. In fact, we've already started slipping them in your drink like so much humor roofie. But now we're bringing you in on the secret. Here are the things you can expect to see here every week from now until we finally destroy the Northern Hemisphere.

Becoming a Supervillain: Honing Your Skills

Hey, graduating seniors! Not sure what to do next with your life?

Why not consider villainy? The pay isn't very good, and the benefits suck, but you get to crush your enemies and rob banks and shit. That's a fair trade, right?

An Assortment of Messages from Our New Twitter feed

Being a top level super-villain is difficult. Fitting in the plots, the world conquering devices, the evil, all while keeping minions in line and leaving a little me-time. It's hard.

But here at the ISS we've identified some Training courses to help you out. You can sign up for them at the rec center, but mind the explosions.

Introducing The (Sort of) New (Marginally) Improved ISS

The ISS now has an official Twitter feed. You should follow it, because there's some funny, exclusive all-caps crap on there.

6 Real-Life Mad Scientists

Hello, fools. You may have noticed some minor changes to the main page here. Well, rest assured these changes fit in perfectly with our world domination plans, and have been in the works all along. Seriously. The main thing you may have noticed is the full posts here on the main page. You may have also noticed that they are very long. They won't be this long in the future. Brevity is the new evil.

by Darth Obvius

Over the centuries, strange scientists have abounded. Humphry Davy was so addicted to laughing gas he died from it. Francis Crick thought life on Earth was seeded by aliens. Eccentric? Yes. But compared to these guys, they are the very models of sanity.

Here, we honor science's finest nutjobs.

Developing Your Supervillain Persona: Name and Costume

It's Not Just About Getting Super Powers and Robbing Banks, Mr. Lee

So you’ve decided to be a supervillain. Hopefully at this point you’ve taken the quiz and found out your level.

But regardless of whether you’re a Red Skull or a Stilt-Man there are some issues that every supervillain, regardless of status, needs to consider.

by Synthrax

A treatise on the origin of a villain, the awful hideous might of breakfast cereal and purposelessness.

Also plurals, or the lack thereof.

Ideas for Other Obama-Branded Stuff

If there's one group for whom Barack Obama's election has meant an instant end to the recession, it's peddlers of worthless crap. In the past two months, Obama's face has been on such crap as coins, commemorative plates, and a Marvel comic. But it seems that peddlers of garbage have missed out on several other Obama branding (or as I've just termed it, Obranding) opportunities. Now that Obama's officially president, here are some promotional ideas I'm providing to whoever wants them, free of charge.

2008: The Year What Was

10 Celebrities We'd Like to Recruit

Boy, 2008 was some year, wasn't it? The economy collapsed, the presidential election was nasty as ever, terrorist attacks and natural disasters killed thousands, riots broke out in Europe, and a bunch of beloved celebrities died.

What better year to joke about than that? In that spirit, here are some jokes about those tragedies, and other stuff.

ISS Quiz: What's Your Supervillain Quotient?

If you were wondering what was on our Christmas list, it's these people.

(To join us in evil and raise us to prominence. Although it would be nice if they were our slaves, too.)

Articulating Evil: Four Steps to Craft Your Villainous Creed

So you’ve decided to become a supervillain? Good for you! Too many kids these days want to become ‘Heroes’ or ‘Doctors’ or ‘Firemen’ and such. And let me tell you, those jobs are all extremely overrated.

But take note: supervillainy's not that easy. So let’s find out just where you fit in the whole supervillain hierarchy.

Tips For the New President

Imagine what it would have been like if Karl Marx had written about supervillainy instead of international economics and ownership rights.

It probably would have looked kind of like this.

The ISS Election Day Survival Guide

Today, the United States elects a new president. Odds are, he'll fuck up some stuff.

But not if he very closely follows these carefully crafted hints, which are not at all designed to weaken the state of the nation so that we, who we remind you, are supervillains, can easily kick a few guys in the junk and take control.

Four Ways To Help the U.S. Out of Its Rut

With Election Day only a few short days away (or, if you're reading this after November 4, about four years away), we thought it best to provide you, the ISS reader, with a handy guide to just how to get through such an all-around stressful occasion.

This is especially true if you're John McCain or Barack Obama, who we hope to hell are reading this.

Upsides To the Economic Meltdown

Ladies and gentlemen, the end is nigh!

Maybe. But before panic too much, let's take a look at how we might actually save the good old U.S.A. from impending disaster. At least temporarily, before we can actually be the cause of the disaster ourselves.

Tips for Rookie Villains

by The Think Tank

So you've gotten your hands on a death ray or some radioactive space rock, but you're not sure what to do next.

Well, don't worry, because on your journey through high-yield specialized populace terrorizing (HYSPT), or supervillainy, as some call it for tax reasons, you don't need hyper attack bees or a trans-dimensional thought vacuum to sow chaos, it just helps.

Much Better Things To Do With $700 Billion

With the House's failure to pass the economic bailout bill Monday, people are panicked that the economy is about to implode right in their faces, banks will fail and we'll have another Great Depression on our hands. But another Great Depression won't be so bad. Here are some examples of just some of the numerous silver linings we'll see if the 2010s end up like the 1930s.

ISS Mailbag: One-Year Review

This week, Congress is being pushed to cough up $700 billion to make sure the incomparably wealthy executives from Wall Street investment banks can keep their businesses up and running and keep getting giant golden parachutes. Sure, that's diabolically evil and all, but is it really the best way to spend 70 trillion pennies? "I could come up with a dozen ways to spend that money better," I said as soon as I heard about the bailout plan. And so I did.

by MW's Head on a Robot Body

Here at the ISS, we occasionally get e-mails. Some of them compliment us for our continual destruction of all that is good and noble in the world. Some are from superheroic douchebags who don't get us. And some of them ask us for genuine help. Here, a wage slave asks about gaming the system.

Diet Domination: An Industry's 4-Step Plan to Take Hold of the Hearts of Millions

by TrickTech

It has come to my attention that there is someone out there more evil than any supervillain: The dieting industry.

Not only are they calling everyone fat, but now they assume we are stupid, too. So I set to debunking their lies, and coming up with some better tips.

Palin or Biden: Who's the Supervillain Running Mate?

Obama or McCain: Who's the Supervillain Candidate?

Last month, we made our historic first endorsement and named John McCain the most supervillain-friendly candidate on the ballot.

But now the running mates have stolen some of Obama and McCain's headlines away, and we're left with the question: Could a supervillain be a heartbeat away from the presidency? We aim to answer that question through our patented system of thoroughly vetting the contenders.

ISS Mailbag: Online Pimping

This whole presidential election process has been nothing but people jabbering on and on about who'll have the best health care plan or who would end the war the fastest or who's better friends with Jesus, but frankly none of that stuff matters to us.

Here's what matters to us: Who is, at heart, a supervillain? We've conducted a scientific study based on seven major criteria of the two major-party candidates (we could include the third parties, but we already know Nader's got that one) to try to get to the heart of the matter.

Here at the ISS, we occasionally get e-mails. Some of them compliment us for our continual destruction of all that is good and noble in the world. Some are from superheroic douchebags who don't get us. And some of them are so dumb we have to post them publicly and answer them. Here, a pimp(?) tries to talk us into doing something involving a cash machine. It's confusing.

Victory Speech

The Karl Marx Drinking Game

Now that he's elected, the new Representative from the 3rd District has one main goal:

Wipe out the handicapped.

ISS Mailbag: "Last Minute Dark Knight Videogame & Clips!"

The Russians played a slightly different version of this game.

The rules were, "Drink all the time."

Time Warp 2005: Chuck Norris Facts Redux

Here at the ISS, we occasionally get e-mails. Some of them compliment us for our continual destruction of all that is good and noble in the world. Some are from superheroic douchebags who don't get us. And some of them are so dumb we have to post it publicly and answer them.

Here, a correspondent invites us to play a terrible game based on a film.

Presidential Campaign Gear Reviewed

Though his presidential candidate went down in flames this year, Chuck Norris has been making a resurgent comeback. In honor of this, we decide to go back and re-write some of the Internet-based jokes for which he was so popular a few years back. Enjoy.

Favorite TV Characters of the Presidential Candidates

Voter and buyer beware, not all presidential campaign gear is created equal.

Like Consumer Reports does with TVs, we now do with election stuff.

Even when they're hitting the campaign trail the presidential candidates still have time for a little television. This begs the question: Which TV characters do the candidates identify with most? The ISS has the answers.

2007: The Year What Was

Recent Entries From Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Blog

What can we say about 2007? It had 12 months. And weather. There was definitely some weather. People died. Also, people were born (so was The ISS). Oh, and a whole bunch of things happened. Some good, some not so good. Truly, it was a year unlike any other. Here's a rundown of some of the year's biggest events.

The Website Debates, Part 8: Yahoo! Mail's Executive Correspondence

Even presidents need a place to vent.

Here's what's been going on in the wild and crazy world of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

President Bush Takes Further Steps to Improve Thanksgiving

Tonight, several months after Democrats squared off in a YouTube debate, Republicans will answer questions submitted by YouTube users in a debate of their own. In response, a number of other popular websites on the national internets have decided to get in on the act and hold debates. We continue our preview of these upcoming presidential shout-offs with a look at the latest debate, sponsored by Yahoo! Mail.

The ISS Responds To Its Critics

Today, I say fear Thanksgiving no more.

Rejoice, with food and harmony, as our ancestors did so long ago.

6 Possible Dystopian Futures (And Why They Might Be Doubleplusgood)

We get a lot of feedback here at the ISS. Some of it's good, but a decent-sized portion of it seems to come from a group that takes internet humor so seriously that they would like to see us killed over an Internet comedy piece that they didn't have to read in the first place. Then, some are legitimately angry about our world domination plot and our need to destroy all goodwill in the world.
Here, we answer those last two.

The Website Debates, Part 7: The Match.com Match of Wits

Yes, yes, we all know the story. Some group of dastardly villain-types take over the world and re-shape it into their image and a protagonist's life is horrible because of it.
But did you ever think it might not be so awful? We did. Here's some examples of why you'll love us someday, depending on how we decide to steer things.

The Website Debates, Part 6: The Mr. Skin Symposium

With the popularity of the Democratic YouTube Debate a couple months ago and the soon-to-come Republican YouTube Debate, a number of other popular websites on the national internets have decided to get in on the act and hold debates of their own. We continue our preview of these upcoming presidential shout-offs with a look at the latest debate, sponsored by Match.com.

The Website Debates, Part 5: The Craigslist Stream of Consciousness

With the popularity of the Democratic YouTube Debate a couple months ago and the soon-to-come Republican YouTube Debate, a number of other popular websites on the national internets have decided to get in on the act and hold debates of their own. We continue our preview of these upcoming presidential shout-offs with a look at the latest debate, sponsored by MrSkin.com.

Great Moments in Evil Democracy

With the popularity of the Democratic YouTube Debate a couple months ago and the soon-to-come Republican YouTube Debate, a number of other popular websites on the national internets have decided to get in on the act and hold debates of their own. We continue our preview of these upcoming presidential shout-offs with a look at the latest debate, sponsored by Craigslist.

by Baron Von Monocle

We here at the International Society of Supervillains are peerless masters of strategy and evil, but it never hurts to learn from others. Ming the Merciless really makes a cape work, Blofeld is a model for those juggling global dastardism and proper pet care, and Darth Vader taught us that if you're already the ultimate badass then don't risk screwing it up with an origin story. But even these magnificent menaces cannot compare to your "American Politics." And so we look now at some historical political figures and their achievements in these, some of democracy's greatest evil moments.

The Website Debates, Part 4: The eBay Issue Auction

The Website Debates, Part 3: The Wikipedia War of Words

With the popularity of the Democratic YouTube Debate a few weeks ago and the soon-to-come Republican YouTube Debate, a number of other popular websites on the national internets have decided to get in on the act and hold debates of their own. We continue our preview of these upcoming presidential shout-offs with a look at the latest debate, sponsored by eBay.com.

The Website Debates, Part 2: The Weather.com Presidential Forecast

With the popularity of the Democratic YouTube Debate a few weeks ago and the soon-to-come Republican YouTube Debate, a number of other popular websites on the national internets have decided to get in on the act and hold debates of their own. We continue our preview of these upcoming presidential shout-offs with a look at the latest debate, sponsored by Wikipedia.org.

The Website Debates, Part 1: The MySpace Debate

With the popularity of the Democratic YouTube Debate a few weeks ago and the soon-to-come Republican YouTube Debate, a number of other popular websites on the national internets have decided to get in on the act and hold debates of their own. We continue our preview of these upcoming presidential shout-offs with a look at the latest debate, sponsored by Weather.com.

With the popularity of the Democratic YouTube Debate a few weeks ago and the soon-to-come Republican YouTube Debate, a number of other popular websites on the national internets have decided to get in on the act and hold debates of their own. Here, we look at the first of these upcoming presidential shout-offs, which is being produced in conjunction with MySpace.com.

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