“The Insidious Nature Of Panics…” JoAnn Wypijewski

“The insidious nature of panics is that they exceptionalize the ordinary, and then make ordinary the legal machinery supposedly instituted for extraordinary circumstances.”

JoAnn Wypijewski: What We’ve Become. The Nation, June 7, 2010 (Vol. 290, No. 22)

IMPUNITY, n.  Wealth. Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce. The Devil’s Dictionary (The Peter Pauper Press 1958)
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THE FAITH CARD: FAIR AND BALANCED

 
Nothing matches the shrill accusation that an assertion is not “fair and balanced.” Make a claim. Someone hollers “not fair and balanced” from the wings (more…)

Guerrilla Comics: THESE GOATS ARE TIRED.

“These Goats Look Tired. Maybe We Should Rest ‘Em For A While.”

WIKKI STIX: An Innocent Toy?

DON”T BE FOOLED. 

These Are WICCAN VOODOO DOLLS.

You think you innocently bend them into an amusing, harmless-looking stick figure.

A Lesbian in an alternative café down the block is contorted into writhing pain.

Or Camille Paglia is thrown to the ground in shock and agony, wherever she might be.

THESE PEOPLE ARE IN YOUR TOWN.

“Crude Parodies Which No-One Has A Right To Erase:” Camille Paglia

“There are very few instances where speech properly falls under government scrutiny (more…)