9:30 am CDT


Avian Flu: Vaccination Fraud Debunked

12:16 pm CDT


12:14 pm CDT
Dubya's Double

DREAM: I wander into a top-secret lab where scientists have developed a gorilla-human hybrid who bears a remarkable resemblance to George W. Bush. The plan is to substitute the hybrid for the real Bush, the reason being that things aren't moving fast enough to suit the globalists. Americans were supposed to get so fed up with Bush and the Fourth Reich they would have ousted him by now and allowed a complete UN takeover, but apparently there is no limit to their tolerance for the ever-worsening fascism and the idiocy of the Commander in Chief. Therefore, it is thought that the gorilla-human hybrid will test the limits of their tolerance; surely, once he begins committing various alpha-male ape atrocities--throwing excrement during a press conference, say, or savagely mounting White House aides and Young Republicans in public--the American people will finally demand his ouster. So the switch is made, but unfortunately the gorilla-human hybrid turns out to be a good president who begins signing executive orders that undo decades of globalist work ...

5:56 pm CDT
Katrina

Former Naval Physicist: Government Can Control Hurricanes

Spike Lee, filmmaking "provocateur," targets Katrina

FEMA Scam: Chertoff 'Helps' Carnival Cruise Line

3:35 pm CDT
Bush Family History on a Theatre Marquee



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12:29 pm CDT
Mack and SMiles on ACTV: "The Freeman Perspective"

Tomorrow night (Tuesday, 10/11) at 8 pm on Channel 10 (Austin Cable Access), my friend SMiles Lewis, proprietor of Elfis.net and Parapolitics.info, and myself will be guests on The Freeman Perspective. Don't miss it!

9:33 am CDT
Code Red--er, Yellow--er, Orange--er, Red--er (?) ...

Bush is urging vaccine stockpiles and warning of massive quarantines, but his health secretary says the pandemic will probably never happen ...
US Sends Mixed Message on Bird Flu Threat

"Most specific threat to date." "No hard evidence." "Doubtful credibility." Subway system flooded with cops, but subway riders report no cops ...
N.Y. Commuters Head to Work Despite Terror Threat

9:28 am CDT
Katrina Aftermath

The missing 10,000:
New Orleans Corpses Disappear in Bureaucratic Limbo

Leaked Pentagon report:
Iraq War Delayed Katrina Relief Effort, Inquiry Finds

Explosives cause this kind of "structural" problem:
'Heave' Points to Structural Problem, Not Levee Topping

"Rebuilding" the Lost City:
Historic Jazz Building Unnecessarily Demolished

Can the Soul of a City Survive a Hurricane?

9:15 pm CDT
The Long, Strange Summer

Summer lasts a long time here in Central Texas. Doesn't matter what the calendar says; if it's hot outside, it's summer. And that's the way it's been here the past couple of weeks-highs in the upper 90s, sometimes higher (two weeks ago the thermometer hit 107!). Until today, that is. A cold front blew in today, bringing us welcome relief; tonight the low will drop to 53 degrees, and tomorrow's high will climb no higher than the mid 60s. It is, as I say, a welcome relief.

And the days are growing shorter. It is dark when I leave for work in the morning, and in the afternoon there is a gentle quality to the sunlight and a deepening of the shadows. And night falls earlier; it is dark outside as I write this, at an hour when two months ago there was still plenty of sunlight.

Yes, the long summer is over, and autumn has begun-autumn, the season of dead leaves swirling in the chilling winds-autumn, the season of deepening darkness; autumn, the time when we look back on the summer that is gone and reflect ...

Early in the summer, there were bombings in the London subways-bombings perpetrated, we were told, by suicidal zealots who curiously bought two-way tickets for their one-way trip-and the cold-blooded shooting in the subway of a Brazilian by the police, for no apparent reason at all. Strange ...

Then came August and warnings that "al Qaeda" might blow up an American city with briefcase or backpack nukes. It didn't happen, as we all know now, but no one could be sure at the time. And, later, when a four-star general was mysteriously fired for "adultery," there were rumors he might have been fired because he had prevented an inside-job nuclear attack on an American city. Strange, very strange ...

And meanwhile, the war in Iraq raged on, with no end in sight and for no good purpose, and the anti-war movement was all but dead-until Cindy Sheehan began her vigil outside Bush's ranch while he vacationed. Bush bicycled, watched baseball games, took naps, played with himself, etc., and Cindy waited in the Texas heat for the answer to a simple question: For what noble cause did her son die? And she received no answer, only shrill slanders on her character from the Bush propagandists. Strange, and stranger still ...

And then there was the horror of Hurricane Katrina and FEMA blocking the rescue effort every step of the way and Bush's bizarre indifference and his speech in a blue shirt in a blue-lit Jackson Square promising a better New Orleans to be rebuilt by Halliburton-a "better" New Orleans, of course, meaning a less-black New Orleans, a Disney-fied New Orleans, a militarized New Orleans. Stranger, and stranger, and strangest of all ...

And Hurricane Rita, and rising gas prices, and more talk of more federal control in Times of Emergency, and a greater role for the military in civilian affairs ...

Yes, it's been a long, strange summer.

And now autumn begins with the indictment of Tom Delay for violations of campaign finance law, and rumors that there may be indictments of Karl Rove and other Bush administration officials as a result of the Valerie Plame affair, and rumors of an increasingly drunken, out-of-control George W. Bush. And in this context Bush gives a speech warning darkly that, should Bird Flu break out, it might be necessary to grant him the dictatorial powers for which he has always openly lusted, and get rid of Posse Comitatus and call in the military to enforce a quarantine of entire sections of the country.

The long, strange summer is over, but a much stranger winter may soon fall ...

5:35 pm CDT
My Latest Publication



Here it is, my latest publication: Roadstrips: A Graphic Journey Across America ...

Edited by Pete Friedrich, Roadstrips is a theme anthology that "explores the national psyche of America." My piece, entitled "1963," describes my experiences growing up in the Dallas area at the time JFK was killed. It is basically a comic-strip version of my article "Dealey Plaza and the Dream" on this site.

The book was edited by Pete Friedrich. Contributors besides myself: Peter Bagge, Gilbert Hernandez, Jessica Abel, Peter Kuper, Carol Tyler, Mary Fleener, Martin Cendreda, Megan Kelso, Brian Biggs, Robert Gregory, Doug Allen, Richard Sala, Keith Knight, Terry LaBan, Matt Kikndt, Lloyd Dangle, Phoebe Glockner, Jeremy Eaton, John Porcellino, Dan Nadel, Chris Offut, Pat Scanlon, Rich Tomasso, and Jack Boulware. Quite a line-up!

This book should be hitting bookstores any day now, if it hasn't already. You can also order it direct from the publisher: Chronicle Books.

My next publication will be a piece in the upcoming anthology Hotwired to be published by Fantagraphics. This work is currently in progress; in fact, that is why there were no updates to this blog over the weekend--I was chained to the drawing board, working to meet the deadline!