Digital Issues (PDFs)

Every other Friday we realize with a shock that we are still un-incarcerated, after all these issues…

Thanks in large part to our small team of volunteers, thousands of copies of our conveniently-sized paper—small enough to pocket and pass on to another reader—are now available, for free, here in Portsmouth and environs.

If you click here, the whole thing, in digital form, will appear more or less miraculously on the glassy screen of your gadget of choice.

Despite our insistence on practicing a fairly uninhibited sort of journalism here, at a time when the powerful frown on such behavior, we have survived yet another fortnight.

Thousands of copies of our conveniently-sized paper—small enough to pocket and pass on to another reader—are now available, for free, here in Portsmouth and environs.

If you click here, the whole thing, in digital form, will appear more or less miraculously on the glassy face of whatever gadget into which you’re now peering.

It is easy to see how a reasonable person keeping up with the news might conclude that the people in charge of this country are hell bent on destroying it. Either that, or we’ve been underestimating the destructive power of collaborative incompetence. Whichever it is, it’s distressing as hell.

We, however, have gone to considerable effort to put ourselves in a position which obliges us to read and write about what more and more looks like the dissolution and degradation of a flawed but promising attempt by a bunch of evolutionary flukes to govern themselves.

Normal persons grappling with such a task might be tempted to go the sackcloth and ashes route. Futile though our task may be, we’re determined not only to keep on publishing, but to do so without giving in to despair, or even losing our sense of humor.

You may click here to see how we’re doing with that.

How bad is it? So bad we’re betting we don’t need to define “it.”

“It” is everything you can think of, and a whole lot more that you never thought required your attention, all of it being intentionally made worse by a horde of trolls and cretins who should never have been given power over anything more dangerous than a marshmallow.

Things have gotten so rotten that, for this fortnight, anyway, we’re dropping our ritual pretense of detachment to make a suggestion.

You can read about it by clicking on this link right here.

Because we are so fortunate as to not yet have been thrown into some stinking cell for an imaginary crime existing solely in the misfiring mind of a puffed-up grifter who only retains power through the avarice and cowardice of a slew of reprehensible flunkies, we decided to celebrate by doing what we love best: putting out yet another newspaper.

You can read it by clicking on this link right here.

Another fortnight, another no-show from truth, justice, and the American Way.

Like our favorite forgotten Founding Father, we hold monarchy in contempt as a form of government.

Here’s what Thomas Paine had to say about William the Conqueror, who ruled England after the Battle of Hastings in 1066: “A French bastard landing with an armed Banditti and establishing himself king of England against the consent of the natives, is in plain terms a very paltry rascally original.”

Despite our antipathy towards all things regal, in this issue we had a kind word for one of King Billy’s predecessors.

Strange times, indeed. To learn what has come over us, just give this link a click.

Well, the nation appears to have survived the Fourth, provided one overlooks the cage match on the White House lawn and the arrest of an Olympian for interfering with the swampy Reflecting Pool.

But the trap just set by the so-called Justice Department, to ensnare and terrorize honest election officials, makes us wonder if our democratic republic will survive Election Day.

A digital facsimile of our latest issue is available here and now. Just give this link a click.

With the 250th Anniversary of the Glorious Fourth just over a week away, we meditate on the generally-ignored conspiracy which led to the Declaration. Tricorns off for William Hogeland, whose Declaration [Simon & Schuster, 2010] so brilliantly brought the plot to our attention.

For that and a whole lot more, just give this link a click.

For those of us used to living and working in the home of the First in the Nation™ Presidential Primary Election,® it’s a little disorienting: the whole country is suddenly focused on a single election, and it’s over on the other side of the river.

What could have caused Maine Democrats to nominate an ogre for Senate? Maybe they listened to what he was saying, rather than what people were saying about him.

To see the latest iteration of a newspaper so old that it reported on the American Revolution, just give this link a click.