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Category Archives: Satire

Reaction to UN resolution condemning Holocaust denial

Some satirical relief about “singling out Israel” (a common refrain one hears when you justifiably protest Israel’s crimes, in addition to how outlandishly against it the UN is always supposed … Continue reading

29 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

Colbert roasts O’Reilly, or, Colbert is a comic genius II

Colbert is rightly regarded as a comic genius and The Colbert Report is a comedic institution. Mickey Z thinks O’Reilly is also in character — interesting hypothesis … I saw … Continue reading

23 January, 2007 · 6 Comments

USA Inc. Product Recall: Faulty Post-Invasion Democracy

Thank to my friend Abe in Sydney for forwarding this. I had initially missed this bit of larrikin Aussie humour last month, but then I’m not a regular reader of … Continue reading

22 December, 2006 · 3 Comments

Off its rocker: apartheid state beating war drums

While the UN high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, condemns massive human rights abuses in Gaza even as Israel launches raids, the fear-mongering about Iran by Netanyahu continues, with … Continue reading

21 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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