Wednesday, January 2, 2008 “Turbo”-Charged Idiocy About Torture Roughly thirty years ago, the late Johnny Carson unveiled the masterpiece in his collection of sketch-comedy characters: Floyd R. Turbo, the plaid-wearing people’s pundit. Imagine a genetic experiment that produced a hybrid of Elmer Fudd and George W. Bush (especially the familiar vacant stare) and you’ll get […]

Friday, January 4, 2008 Yoo’s On First: Let The Lustration Begin! Lustration, n. — 1) The act or process of cleaning, purging, or purifying; 2) A rite or liturgy to cleanse people, cities, or armies that have been defiled through crimes or pestilence. The end of the Bush Regime a little more than a year […]

Thursday, January 10, 2008 The Nanny State Goes Nazi “Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.” This instruction was given by President Andrew Johnson during the military occupation of the conquered southern states as a means of winnowing out the real troublemakers for special treatment. Today, being described […]

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 The ADL’s Holocaust Denial What happens when the State has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force: The Anti-Defamation League agrees with the late, unlamented National Socialist regime that this Jewish woman about to be murdered holding her child had no right to take up arms against the government that […]

Thursday, January 17, 2008 An American Pugilist Like countless six-year-old boys before him, and countless who will come after him, Joey Hughes got in trouble for fighting at school. It was nothing serious, just random, unfocused scuffles that messed up clothes and hair but left no permanent marks. Nonetheless, Joey’s mother Audra was furious at […]

Friday, January 18, 2008 Pick-Pockets, Leg-Breakers, and Bigots: One Of These Things Is Not Like The Others “[O]ur rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers […]

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 “Pre-emptive” Nuclear War: The Safeties Are Off 99 [her luminous eyes distended in horror at the spectacle of a nuclear mushroom cloud]Oh, Max — what a terrible weapon of destruction.Max: Yes. You know, China, Russia, and France should outlaw all nuclear weapons. We should insist upon it.99: What if they don’t […]