Joe “Strummer”: the hippie behind the mohawk. Today’s Defendant: Joe Strummer Statement of the Grand Inquisitor: The damnation of this walking forgery is a matter of choice: for which of his many unpunished crimes should he be damned? For the…
Sep 18, 2008 | Comments Off on Daily Inquisition: Joe Strummer
Last summer, I grossed out a bunch of my guests at a small party I had at my apartment. We watched a gruesome beheading video that was posted on the Internet that day. The video showed two masked Russian skinheads…
Sep 18, 2008 | Comments Off on Russian Hate Crime: Brutal Beheading Caught on Tape, Case Solved?
These photographs, dating back to early June, are from a graduation ceremony for Moscow’s MVD Academy. These totalitarian tyolkas almost make you wish that Russia would come and occupy your country (i.e. our country). Serve up some of that sovereign…
Sep 18, 2008 | Comments Off on Tyolka Thursdays: Totalitarian Babe Academy
Today’s Defendant: Cancer Statement of the Grand Inquisitor: Reports have reached us of a “breakthrough” in the treatment of Cancer via the extirpation of cancer stem-cells. This must not be. The Economist, the demonic publication gloating of this “breakthrough,” dares…
Sep 16, 2008 | Comments Off on Daily Inquisition: Cancer
Last week, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin declared that she was willing to go to war against Russia on behalf of Georgia. Palin wasn’t talking about launching World War III on behalf of our Georgia–you know, the adorable Southern…
Sep 16, 2008 | Comments Off on Say Hello To Sarah-geddon
Daily Inquisition: David Foster Wallace Statement of the Grand Inquisitor: David Foster Wallace should have been dead to begin with—and it finally hit him, at age 46. That is, 46 years too late. The crime isn’t the suicide, but the…
Sep 15, 2008 | Comments Off on Daily Inquisition: David Foster Wallace
What’s so funny? If you really want to appreciate the highly realistic portrait of America the Coen brothers have been working on for twenty-odd (very odd) years now, I recommend reading the “viewer responses” to Burn After Reading on a…
Sep 15, 2008 | Comments Off on BURN AFTER READING: Another Fine Documentary by the Coen Brothers