6:28 pm CST


Arrest Warrant Awaits Rumsfeld in Germany

5:38 pm CST
The Fourth Reich


The Rise of the Fourth Reich

Fourth Reich? The  Bush-Rove-Schwarzenegger Nazi Nexus

The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Bush Family Oligarchy

5:36 pm CST
World War III?

Massive US Military Movements Move World to Twilight of War

Bush: World Must Speak with One Voice on Iran Nukes

US warned of 'burning hell' as Iran marks Islamic revolution

Blair refuses to rule out joining any US action against Iran

Austrians sold 800 sniper rifles to Iran; U.S. protests

N. Korea finally admits: We have nuke weapons

Witness: US War Crimes & Atrocities in Fallujah

War Crimes of George W. Bush & Donald Rumsfeld

Bush's War Was Not Worth My Son's Sacrifice

Sgt. Kevin Benderman: Why I Refused a 2nd Deployment to Iraq

5:34 pm CST
Police State USA

ACTION ALERT: Tri-national ID card

Gun-toting cops on drug raid bust 2-year-old's birthday party

Pentagon to broadcast to millions of U.S. homes

White House pet faux-reporter exposed as gay military pimp

'Jeff Gannon'' of TalonNews/GOPUSA Quits Washington-Bureau in Disgrace

8:32 pm CST


It occurs to me that this blog could use more graphics. So tonight I implement this new policy with the above classic pulp magazine cover (one of my all-time favorites). As you can see, it is a continuation of the Scary Dummy theme (begun below). Look for more visual thrills in the days/weeks/months/years/decades/centuries/millennia etc. to come.

While I’m talking about things I plan to do, I should add that very soon I will be updating the playlist of RADIO MACK with new music, new comedy, new commentary, and new sonic strangeness very soon. Stay tuned …

7:51 pm CST
TV reporter gunned down in Iraq

CNN Executive Says G.I.s in Iraq Target Journalists

7:50 pm CST
Zero tolerance for zero tolerance:

On Handcuffed and Felonious Children

7:32m CST
Taser Report

Teen suffers cardiac arrest after stun gun

8:32 pm CST
The CIA and Nazi War Criminals

New Life in Sirhan Defense

Paranoia Grips the U.S. Capital

UK Edges Closer to Outlawing Religious 'Hate Speech'

Gary Webb's Last Story: The Killing Game

Security cameras patrol New Orleans

Utah Troopers Learn to Draw Blood from Suspects

AustinTollParty - Mayor's Aide Attempts to Bribe Petitioner Jimmy Gardner

4:00 pm CST
Author: George H. W. Bush was “Deep Throat”

3:56 pm CST
Taser Report

The article states that it's not being done in response to any problems in the school:
St. Paul Police Add Tasers to School Patrols

This incident conveniently provided an opportunity for pro-Taser propaganda. TV news stations across the nation played video of the incident over and over:
Police Taser Brawling High School Basketball Fans

Here's more information about the prisoner who died last week after being Tasered nine times. He had been arrested for loitering:
Suspect hit by Taser on 9 occasions; 41-year-old died 4 hours after his arrest at art museum

3:47 pm CST
I’m ready for the photo below to start shuffling its way down to the bottom of the page where it won’t be the first thing you see when the page opens. The more I look at it, the more wrong this photo seems. It’s disturbing—the sort of thing nightmares are made of.

Fun Sites I Found This Week


The photo of the strange couple above was found on the official site of Vent Haven Museum, a museum of ventriloquism located in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky.

Other fun sites I found this week:

Unusual Museums of the Internet

The Art of James Bond

Television History

Lileks.com

12:48 pm CST
My good friend HipBilly sent me the following email regarding the recent corporate plane crash in New Jersey. I had not previously heard this information. It is very interesting …

Mack,

Sorting through the news and crunching the numbers, I find it a bit odd that yesterday's crashed jet in New Jersey carried executives of Kelso Investments, a firm that was recently shut out of acquiring a Shell oil refinery by Pacific Energy on behalf of Flying J Oil. Also, on the "crashed" plane was an Irish businessman that previously escaped the Twin Towers on that September day.

Odd don't you think?

12:45 pm CST
One of the more popular features on this site over the past couple of months has been “The Dictator Fashion Show.” Recently, Los Angeles magazine Citizine published it in its on-line edition. (Link) Coming soon to Citizine’s print edition: an article by myself about the New Freedom Initiative.

6:53 pm CST
The third-graders who were arrested, handcuffed, and charged with a felony for drawing a "threatening" picture of a classmate will not be prosecuted. Instead, the Florida State Attorney's Office has directed that the boys undergo five-to-seven months of "anti-aggression and anti-bullying counseling." While this outcome is not as bad as prosecution would have been, it is still disproportionately harsh for what was nothing more than normal childish nonsense. No one was physically hurt by the drawing and there is no credible evidence that the boys intended to act out the drawing; therefore, as aggression or bullying, this incident barely registers on the scale and does not merit subjecting the boys to a half-year of psychotherapy.

However, if a grown man had done such a thing—that is, graphically expressed his violent thoughts towards someone on paper—that would be serious. Coming from someone old enough to know better, such a sadistic work might be construed as a viable threat; also, were it to be published in a national magazine where it might influence others to act on his words, it could be reasonably viewed as an attempt to incite violence.

I am not speaking hypothetically; I am referring to New Republic writer Tom Frank who has called for the torture and killing of anti-war activists Arundhati Roy and Stan Goff.

Frank’s offense is similar to that of the third-grade boys, only he is not in the third grade and he did not express his sadistic fantasies towards these individuals by drawing stick figures on a piece of paper for his own amusement; no, he is a grown man who presents himself to the world as an Informed Political Commentator, and who published his sick rant in an influential publication.

Now, Frank might argue that the piece was intended merely as satire. But the third-grade boys thought their drawing was funny too, and that did not get them off the hook, did it?

No, I’m sorry to say, Frank should be arrested, handcuffed, and charged with making terroristic threats. If a pair of third-graders can take such treatment, then surely this grown “man” can take what’s coming to him.

6:57 pm CST
Democracy Comes to Iraq

Officials Give Iraqis Choice: Vote or Starve

The Bloody Charade of the Iraq Election

Iraq officials admit irregularities in poll

What They're Not Telling You about the 'Election'

Thousands of Blank Ballots Handed out to Pro-Occupation Candidates

6:47 pm CST
Taser Report
Man Shocked with Stun Gun 9 Times Dies

8:22 am CST
The Village Idiot

We are of course not surprised whenever a “neo-con” makes a point based on a false premise, and when this occurs we naturally attribute it to dishonesty on the neo-con’s part. However, after reading the transcript and viewing the video of a CBC interview with Ann Coulter, I have come to the conclusion that, at least in her case, such a judgment is unfair, and possibly even too harsh. That is, I do not believe that her insistence on the readily-proven untruth that Canada sent troops to fight in the Vietnam War is due to a desire to deceive (i.e., lie), but rather, is due to idiocy.