Friday, February 22, 2008 A Parasite’s Priorities (Updated, February 23) “I see nothing! NO-thiiinnng!”: Affable, purblind doofus Sgt. Schultz, the patron saint of German Bank Regulators.Klaus Zumwinkel, former CEO of Deutsche Post — the German postal service and parent of the DHL parcel delivery company — lost his job last week. He may soon go […]

Monday, February 25, 2008 Our Money’s No Good Here The graveyard of discarded fiat currencies: Heaps of Soviet-era rubles decompose in a landfill. Chances are the fraudulent instrument of debt called the “dollar” will soon reach the same destination. For decades, the American ruling establishment has enjoyed the privilege of exporting inflation.This has been done, […]

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 Felonious Hugging Veronica Rodriguez of Hillsboro, Oregon recently completed a year in prison for the supposed crime of hugging a 13-year-old boy. With time off for good behavior, the 27-year-old completed the sentence imposed on her by the judge who presided over her criminal trial.The prosecutors in that case, displaying a […]

Friday, February 29, 2008 The War Criminal on the Twenty-Dollar Bill The village was completely unprepared when the siege began. Propelled by an insatiable lust to avenge the recent destruction of a military installation, the attackers chose the small, undefended community as the target of a reprisal raid. But this wasn’t a battle. It was […]

Tuesday, March 4, 2008 Leniency Is For the Powerful If you’re a veteran police officer who beats, chokes, and sexually assaults a prisoner in the State of Idaho, you can anticipate a wrist-slap so trivial as to defy detection by the human nervous system.If, on the other hand, you’re a law-abiding, 66-year-old retired nun, who […]

Wednesday, March 5, 2008 Prepare To Panic! Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 have been taken captive aboard a U-Boat commanded by their KAOS arch-nemesis, Siegfried.A Navy destroyer pursuing the KAOS sub releases depth charges that detonate nearby.“Look, Siegfried,” Agent 99 exclaims, “your men look like they are about to panic.”“Never!” Siegfried defiantly cries. “My men […]

Sunday, March 9, 2008 George W. Bush Hates America Thanks to the Bush Regime, the spirit of the Axis has triumphed: To paraphrase an eminently quotable line from a pretty decent film, We have become what we once beheld. Treating someone with contemptuous condescension is surely one of the most effective ways to express hatred. […]

Monday, March 10, 2008 Of Prostitutes, Prosecutors, and Other Miscreants Eliot Spitzer, paladin of justice and connoisseur of high-priced prostitutes, seen here in happier days: I know there’s a joke here just screaming to be let out, but I’ll leave the details to you, oh reader most gentle and refined.Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was a […]

Friday, March 14, 2008 Why Aren’t We Furious? “Temperature — rising; vision — blurring; rage — taking over!”A few nights ago, at the end of a day devoted to productive and pacific pursuits, after you had surrendered to a few hours of well-earned sleep, the people who presume to rule us raided your bank accounts.No, […]

Monday, March 17, 2008 Fool’s Gold In the year of the famine, When starvation and Black Death raged across the land, There were many driven by the Hunger To set sail for the Americas;In search of a new life, and a new hope — Oh, but there were some that couldn’t cope; And they spent […]

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 Iraq, Five Years In: They Really Don’t Care (Updated, March 20) Oh, lucky you! What a privilege you’ve been given by your Emperor, who so earnestly wishes he were young enough to join you on the front lines! (Or not. I’m betting on “not.”)The setting was the National Religious Broadcasters annual […]

Thursday, March 27, 2008 Tyranny, The One-War Mirror, and the Criminal Syndicate Called the ATF Thuggin’ it incognito: An armed enforcer for one of the Regime’s official criminal gangs, the ATF, decked out in the familiar terrorist hood. Any resemblance to an anonymous hooded medieval executioner (below, left) is entirely … appropriate. In a republic, […]

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 The Dollar Falls, The Predators Awaken Not terribly long ago, it was common to hear of people “taking money out” of their homes. It was as if those houses were equipped with magic ATM consoles through which some portion of their inflated market value could be transmuted into cash.Many houses of […]

Friday, April 4, 2008 The Bush Regime’s Revolution in Legal Affairs Sure, he was rich, but he wasn’t particularly wise: Lydian King Croesus (enthroned) receives a visit from the Athenian lawgiver, Solon, in this depiction by the Dutch master Gerard von Honthorst.If audacity were wealth, John C. Yoo would be richer than Croesus. But then, […]

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 How Trials Operate in the New Torture Regime What purpose does a trial serve when it’s conducted by a state claiming the power to torture confessions from a suspect, or “evidence” from a witness?Obviously, an exercise of this kind isn’t carried out in the interest of establishing the truth beyond a […]

Wednesday, April 9, 2008 The Bipartisan Brotherhood of Plunder (Updated) “Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a vast scale? What are criminal gangs but petty kingdoms?A gang is a group of men under the command of a leader, bound by a compact of association, in which the plunder is divided […]

Sunday, April 13, 2008 From OKC to Abu Ghraib: The Kenneth Trentadue Case Brothers in better times: Jesse Trentadue (left) poses with his younger brother Kenneth, who would later be murdered by the FBI. It is doubtful that Kenneth Trentadue really understood, as he was being tortured and beaten to death by federal agents, why […]

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 “Your Children Are Ours” (Updated, 4/16) Innocence amid subsidized depravity: The FLDS Church is a cult, and its leaders are corrupt, tax-fattened perverts — but the children are entirely innocent, and they need their mothers.The State giveth, the State taketh away; blessed be the name of the State. –The implicit, but […]

Thursday, April 17, 2008 Collectivist Child Abuse (Fourth Update, 4/18) Support your local child-snatchers: Combat-ready paramilitaries from the Midland County Sheriff’s Department chill next to their LESO-provided APC during the raid on the YFZ Ranch.UPDATE — Judge Walther has ruled — and wasn’t the suspense terrific? — that the 416 abducted FLDS children will remain […]