Volume 269 | No. 11

Mon, Feb 10

2020—“You know, a lot of people think [Covid-19] goes away in April with the heat,” predicts Dolt #45. 2014—Donald J. Trump tells Fox “News,” “When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell, and everything is a disaster, then you’ll have riots to go back to where we used to be, when we were great.” 2010—Innovative tax protestor Joe Stack flies a fuel-laden Piper into the IRS Field Office in Austin, Texas, killing another person, injuring 13, and causing damage in the millions. 2003—The G.W.[MD] Bush Administration touts plastic sheeting and duct tape as a first line of defense. 1968—General Westmoreland, U.S. commander …

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Sun, Feb 9

2007—A Pentagon report concludes that Douglas Feith’s policy office inappropriately manipulated intelligence on Iraq. Punished? Hell, no. 2001—The USS Greeneville, demonstrating an emergency ballast-blowing maneuver for 16 “Distinguished Visitors” onboard, half with Texas oil and Bush connections, sinks a Japanese high-school fishery training ship off Hawaii, killing five adult crew and four high-school students. 1982—George Herbert [Hoover] Walker Bush denies ever having used the term “voodoo economics.” NBC obligingly plays him the tape. 1980—Ted Bundy gets married and is sentenced to die. In Florida, of course. 1971—Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player inducted into the Hall of Fame. 1967—NYC cops bust cellist Charlotte …

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May the Gods Preserve Us

To the Editor, If you’re looking for the Antichrist look no further than His Excellency: the antithesis of Jesus, who preached love, compassion, acceptance, truthfulness, fidelity, and humility among other beatitudes; the epitome of Lucifer, a faithless, deceitful, hate filled narcissist devoted to demeaning, misleading, and corrupting. So shame on all who identify as Christians who voted Lucifer over their professed Savior; were Speaker Johnson to read, and understand, the forgoing, it might occur to him that should the Rapture to which he seems to so look forward materialize he will likely find himself among those the Celestial Finger flicks into the fire. Shame, too, …

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13 Ways of Looking at Presidents’ Day

I. Let us combine Washington’s birthday with Lincoln’s birthday so that we can add a holiday for the man who once described the United States government as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” II. There are 14 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr. on his memorial in DC, but the quote above was not included. III. Are we supposed to honor all our presidents on Presidents’ Day? IV. William Henry Harrison was our president for 32 days, barely enough time to screw things up. Lucky man. V. Warren G. Harding appointed a US Army deserter to be the first director of the …

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Predictable Chaos

As expected, it took a fortnight for the general tone of the second term of the Dunning-Kruger administration to reveal itself. This is not to say there have been no surprises. Who knew Donald Trump was a Maoist? “There is great chaos under heaven; the situation is excellent.” We certainly did not expect to hear, on National Polite Radio, such a devastatingly accurate assessment of the President’s declaration, on Tuesday, of Nakba II. “I understood this as the meeting between a convicted felon, in the White House, and an indicted war criminal, in Benjamin Netanyahu,” Yousef Munayyer told Steve Inskeep. “So the expectation was, there …

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