Tuesday, June 24, 2008 The Homeland Security State: Boyz With Lethal Toyz Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen. — NietzscheTerror must be maintained, or the Empire is doomed. It is the logic of history. –Wise Fictional Character to be named later*Couldn’t the county simply have paid him […]

Friday, June 13, 2008 Habeas Corpus and Bush-bot Bulimics Swallowing that would hurt, at least twice: Stevie Starr is an illusionist who performs under the stage name “The Regurgitator.” Here he prepares to swallow a billiard ball that will (apparently) return via a reciprocal route, which would be the (slightly) less painful alternative. Thanks to […]

Friday, June 27, 2008 The Heller Misdirection Freedom! Glorious freedom! A young American celebrates the freedom to pee under the kindly gaze of one of our nation’s many fine paramilitary police officers. “A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master, who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not […]

Friday, July 4, 2008 Happy Insurrection Day! Our Glorious Insurrectionary Heritage:Minutemen gun down soldiers of the Empire, April 19, 1775. Sic semper tyrannis!It has often been said that if voting actually changed things, it would be illegal. In much the same sense it could be said that if the genuine meaning of the event commemorated […]

Thursday, July 10, 2008 When Patriotism Becomes a Cult The State uber alles: Roman patriarch Horace offers his sons as a sacrifice for the State, as rendered by18th Century revolutionary French artist Jacques-Louis David. The heroic, stiff-armed pose offered by the sons was to become a salute favored by totalitarians of various hues. “Patriotism is […]

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 It Begins Saddled up and not sparing the whip: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”If they’re hungry, they can eat grass, or their own dung, for all I care.” –Andrew J. Myrick, a trader affiliated with the notorious mid-19th Century “Indian Ring,” responding to complaints from Sioux that they were starving […]

Thursday, July 17, 2008 Women And Children Last Compelling confirmation that we’re in the early phase of a world-historic economic collapse can be found in this fact: Our rulers are moving quickly to redistribute blame for the disaster from those who precipitated it to those who are seeking to protect themselves from it. In the […]

Saturday, July 19, 2008 The Economic Show Trials Begin The inverted pyramid of corporate socialism: The wealthiest are subsidized, through inflation, by those who can least afford it. Could it be that our ruling elite has effectively transcended hypocrisy? As the aphorism informs us, hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue; it is […]