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HOWARD DEAN (left), a presidential candidate in 2004 and former chairman of the Democratic Party, defies media ‘wisdom’ and predicts surprises for political pollsters on November 4. An unnamed woman (right) begs a photo opportunity with Rick ‘Specs’ Perry, the Republican Tea Party dotard who governs Texas. She gestures a rude opinion of his presidential ambition. ‚Butt-Kicking‘ Time U.S.A. to Repugnant Party: ‘Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry?’ by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK CITY, near America The American mainstream media, which now more thanRead More
Henny-Penny Politics Fear! Bombs! Fear! Bombs! etc., etc. by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock BOSTON, Massachusetts U.S.A. The past few months have brought the world a bushel basket of headline barbarism, courtesy of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his disciples in the cause of murderous depravity, rape, and religious lunacy. We are duly frightened, of course, if not altogether rightly so. Of late, I am thinking hard on the “rightly” aspect of this fear; on how an unseen few of my fellow citizens will reap political and financialRead More
Victory for the Filthy Rich Old fools lie, young suckers die …Meanwhile, the One Percent goes shopping By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock EAST GREENWICH, Rhode Island U.S.A. Here am I in a postcard-pretty small town on the Atlantic coast, a proudly historical place where every Wednesday evening the lads of the Kentish Guard gather in Peirce Street. There, they take up old-fashioned fifes and drums and play a medley of martial tunes, to the delight of passersby such as myself. The idea is to commemorate aRead More
Singing the U.S.A. Blues The ‘banality of injustice’ An echo of the Battle of The Bogside by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK,near America How striking are parallels between the small city of Ferguson, Missouri, in this August of 2014, and the small city of Derry, Northern Ireland, back in August of 1969. How similar the sorrows, how kindred the festering tribulations, how obscene the homicides. We may call the inevitable violence in Ferguson the same as a recent chapter of Northern Ireland’s bloody history: “TheRead More
‘The Whole World is Watching’ Fascist frenzy in Ferguson, Missouri by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK,near America Back in August of 1968, the late Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago turned a blind eye to what federal investigators ultimately termed a “police riot” in the streets outside the Democratic Party national convention of that year. Swarms of Mr. Daley’s meaty cops spent most of a sultry night bludgeoning hundreds of conscription-aged demonstrators expressing their opposition to the pointless war then raging in Vietnam, a warRead More
Heads are Exploding! … and other casualties in the ‘War on Whites’ by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America As the late and gloriously sardonic New York radio host Steve Post often observed, “Just when you think you’ve scraped the bottom, you find you’re only scratching the surface.” Such is the situation nowadays in the absurdist capital of America, Washington, D.C., from whence came a recent warning of imminent racial conflagration. Sounding the alarm was Congressman Morris Jackson Brooks Jr., of Huntsville, Alabama. “Mo”Read More
‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses—’ by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014—Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America Anxious about corruption and political instability in their ancestral country—and threats to their child from murderous street gangs—an impoverished couple made their way to a land of opportunity on the other side of a desert divide. For much of the journey, these undocumented immigrants traveled by foot and under cover of darkness. They were determined to provide a constructive future for their son, though it meant being uprooted from theRead More
MONTEBANKS & USEFUL IDIOTS (clockwise from top left): Bill Kristol, right-wing dunce and shill for the U.S. armaments industry; Paul Wolfowitz, architect of the disastrous (first) Iraq war and creepy personal hygienist; Paul Bremer, clueless envoy to Baghdad in 2003; ex-Vice President Dick ‘Shooter’ Cheney, famous for firing buckshot into a hunting companion’s face; Fox TV harridan and gubernatorial quitter Sarah Palin; a posse of ‘ammo-sexuals’ on the march in Texas, with sweethearts slung over their shoulders; bumbling cocktail lounge habitué and Republican Tea Party headman John Boehner. ‘Descent intoRead More
‘Enough Already!’ America’s Disgust with Piggy Plutocrats & Repugnant Pols Payback time comes this November by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK CITY, near America There is a moral force on the rise in the United States that is, at the moment, invisible to conventional political seers on the payrolls of corporate media. Never mind them, and never mind opinion polls insisting that most of us are so delighted with the amalgamated Republican Tea Party that we will elect even more of them to public officeRead More
American Terrorists & Their Cheerleaders ‘If you’re white, you’re all right!’ by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK CITY, near America Had he shouted Black Power! or Allahu Akbar! from the caged backseat of a police cruiser, where he sat cuffed and shackled in the wake of three murders in mid-April outside a Jewish community center and retirement home in suburban Kansas City, the American people might have recognized that something must be done about Frazier Glenn Miller and people like him. As it was, theRead More
Impeach U.S. War Criminals …With help from Hollywood, via ‘Reality TV’ (Better late than never) by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK CITY, near America In Hollywoodspeak, the term “elevator pitch” refers to hasty conversation between Scriptwriter with a hot concept and Studio Executive physically trapped into listening during the minute or so it takes to get from one floor to another. Due to the time constraint, and the famously short attention span of the average studio exec, brevity is the soul of a sale. FromRead More
Off with Their Heads! Peewees pucker up for the billionaires by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NORTH CHATHAM, N.Y., in America Next Monday, the ring-kissing season of American right-wing presidential politics begins with a pilgrimage to Las Vegas by four little men in search of a Big Man’s golden benediction. After performing their songs and dances in the fleshpot and slot machine capital of Nevada, the minikins will go their separate ways and variously roam the land to shimmy for two others of the opulent set. Oh,Read More
‘Vaginaphobia’ Scourge of America’s Right-Wing Scaredy-Cats by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America Proudly obsessed with Victorian-era notions of feminine probity, the men of America’s amalgamated Republican Tea Party are hell-bent on siring a new nation of government-enforced misogyny. Evidenced by their rhetoric and legislative conduct, true-believing party men holding public office feel called to noble purpose: as godly guardians of vaginal virtue. Like other unhealthy preoccupations, vaginaphobia dwells in the sweaty darkness of inchoate fear. Reason and rationality do not penetrate the scaredy-catRead More
Who Lies? Who Dies? Who pays? Who profits? by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America The tiresome ballet of war is a pas de deux in which opposing sides claim to uphold all that is moral and civilized. First comes the performers’ entrée. Next—the adagio, variations, and coda. Thus goes a deadly dance as old as dirt: Enter the schemers, and their lies. Trumpets announce a parade of the very latest in military arts required to cull the combatant populations of their young menRead More
‘Let Them Eat Nothing’ Three blind mice of callous conduct by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America Like much of the third world, the United States is ruled by a trinity of plutocrats, corporate oligarchs, and political hirelings. As we may conclude from the horrors of history, such confederation is the classic story of three blind mice: an imperious Rodentia unable to envision the consequences of their callous conduct. They blunder forward in simple-minded pursuit of profit and power, to the ultimate detriment ofRead More
They Walk Among Us Almighty Joker sends ‘Pod People’ to Planet Earth by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America Being a rum joker, and semi-fond of mankind, God has given the world Stupidity. Infidels and the faithful alike may agree on my theory: call it Origin of the (Idiot) Species—square one of idiotic impulse, that evident force of human nature beyond anything we know from the laws of physics. In paragraphs to come, let us consider how the theoretical Satus (Plumbeus) Proprius appliesRead More
News Flash! Rich get richer, poor get poorer By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock UNITED NATIONS, New York They are in every city and every village of the world: live bodies fallen to a field scattered with dead-ended souls. It hurts us to look at them, and so we have made them invisible. We are nimble in sidestepping these men and women and children with nowhere to go for the simplest of privacies. We hold our breath, discreetly, as we pass them by; we mean no offense,Read More
Bluto for President? by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near New Jersey Christopher James Christie, the bully-boy governor of New Jersey and potential Republican Tea Party presidential candidate built like a pink refrigerator that learned how to walk, is mired in a swamp of criminal suspicion that could land him in the Graybar Hotel for a number of years. Accordingly, Mr. Christie has retained a legendary Manhattan mouthpiece, about which I shall more to say herein. Prior to current scandals on the front pages ofRead More
DISGUST with the execrable U.S. House of Representatives, presided over by Republican Tea Party Congressman John Boehner, was caricatured in the New York Daily News cover page of October 1, 2013. The cynicism of Boehner-era Washington is likened to a bitter roman à clef—the popular television series “House of Cards.” ‘We won’t wait. We’ll do it now.’ Happy New Year! Exit the ‘Raw Deal’ in 2014 by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America According to my calendar, prognostications are in order for life inRead More
Who’s Afraid of a PAF? Dead End for the Red Bogeyman by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America Among the first card-carrying communists of my acquaintance was Arvo Kustaa Halberg—better known as Gus Hall, a name he was obliged to invent after being blacklisted from gainful employment due to his role in a bloody general strike by workers in Minneapolis during the spring and summer of 1934, a struggle that forced the city’s corporate establishment and its brutal police force to recognize labor unions.Read More
RED ALERT! Determined to summon the better angels of our nature, clockwise from top left: Bill de Blasio, alleged socialist as mayor-elect of New York City; Kshama Sawant, proudly socialist city councilwoman-elect of Seattle, by way of Mumbai; Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Christian trouble-maker, aka Pope Francis of Rome; Bernie Sanders, beloved socialist U.S. senator from Vermont, probable presidential candidate in 2016; Ty Moore, socialist trouble-maker of Minneapolis; and ‘Reverend Billy’ of the “Church of Stop Shopping.” Dangerous People At the vanguard of times a-changin’ in America by Thomas Adcock CopyrightRead More
THIS MAN is an unrepentant alcoholic crack-head from a family of drug dealers who has issued at least one death threat, knocked down a granny, and who consorts with the Toronto demimonde. Naturally, he seeks stardom in the world of “reality TV.” Amerikanische Schadenfreude? Toronto’s mayor is not an American—thank heavens Canada’s own Tea Party problem, eh? by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2013 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near Canada In the United States—home to so many of the world’s determinedly stupid and obnoxious public officials—we may now look northRead More
Darkness Lifted Bum’s rush for the spawn of Ronald Reagan At long last—really & truly— ‘Morning in America’ By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2013 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America Months after his inauguration in January 1981 as fortieth president of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan made a state tour of Latin America. His itinerary included Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Mexico. On his return to Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, under cover of night, the new president—a grandfather with boyish pompadour and Hollywood teeth—was metRead More
ACHTUNG, BIGOTS! Out-of-uniform Ku Klux Klan oafs unfurl the stars-and-bars flag of the Confederate States of America during a 1957 demonstration against racial integration of public schools in Nashville, Tennessee. So Leave, Already! The modern case for Southern secession By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2013 – Thomas Adcock Seven score and four years ago, as Abraham Lincoln might say were he alive by some trick of time, the Confederate States of America was quashed in a nineteenth-century civil war that pitted the abolitionist, industrial North against an agrarian plutocracy ofRead More
The Racketeer & the Christian Taliban By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2013 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America In two hundred-plus years of national history, we Americans have not witnessed anything quite like the conjoining of two iniquitous forces now shadowing the United States. Their names are Ted Cruz, a freshman U.S. senator from the state of Texas whose father is a failed entrepreneur turned multi-millionaire religious grifter, and what should be properly called the American Christian Taliban. As the world saw during the past few weeks ofRead More
Another Day, Another Massacre Gun industry shills to America: ‘Ho-hum’ By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2013 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America Here’s what happened the other day to two motorists engaged in a tiff over traffic etiquette in a small town of the Middle West, a region of the United States that enjoys touting itself as chock full of dear hearts and gentle people: each man drew a pistol from his belt and commenced blasting. What might have been merely a pair of punched noses are instead twoRead More
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She knows how to hang puppies, Santa Stella!, murmelt der irre Wissenschaftler und zieht stante pede von dannen, „stante pede“ ein Ausdruck, den schon sein Vater gerne benutzte. Auch Wissenschaftler haben Väter, oder hatten sie irgendwann. Während also alle Welt zuhause bleibt, ist der irre Wissenschaftler seit Monaten unterwegs. Mars – Alpha Centauri – und ganz zuletzt der Nordpol. Perché il Polo Nord? – Auf einmal redet alle Welt Italienisch! Muss an der Liebe liegen, oder an der Sehnsucht unseres Helden nach seinem Vater, der fortging, lang, lang ist’s her... Besuch beim Weihnachtsmann. AIUTO, das Herz blutet! Merry Christmas, tröstet der Santo Santa.
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