He stalks the land, wielding power with natural ease, authority unquestioned. Infallibility assured. Evidence in reported word and deed. Proof of potency performed by proxy in exotic locales. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, incomprehensible acts proclaim their own irresistible force. Ineptitude is simultaneously real and s(t)imulated. Breakdowns serve a purpose. They confuse the ignorant, occupy […]

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“Bush is well on his way to causing the great cataclysm that will mean the end for humanity and the return of the Old Ones,” said Cthulhu at a hastily arranged press conference. “What can I say? I have run my last two elections on the ‘destruction of mankind’ theme, but now the GOP owns […]

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Photo reportage at high speed through the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster area. Alternately provocative, trenchant, amusing and depressing. A simple use of html and digital images that hits more powerfully than scores of more complex and tangled web presentations. Via notes from somewhere bizarre.

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Still swingin’ after all these years I can’t decide what’s more remarkable about this exchange — Don Rumsfeld backing off that cocky disdain he has with the press, or Tom Friedman playing the heavy: SCHIEFFER: Well, let me just ask you this. If they did not have these weapons of mass destruction, though, granted all […]

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