My first reaction to the details of the alleged crimes for which Interpol is chasing Julien Assange ( CALL INTERPOL! A Condom Broke! (WikiLeaks Farce)_) was to laugh. OK, actually, first I snorted, then I guffawed. But now I’m wondering. Many of the crimes for which Interpol pursues people – genocide, mass murder, etc. – […]
CALL INTERPOL! A Condom Broke! (WikiLeaks Farce)
Given the breathlessness of U.S. media coverage, one would think that WikiLeaks’ Julien Assange was wanted for raping half the virgins in Sweden. The reality is far less saucy. The New York Times summarized the charges against Assange: H/T Salon According to accounts the women gave to the police and friends, they each had consensual […]
WikiLeaks Interview: Trashing Congress, Hillary Clinton, & the American Media
Brian Wilson, talk show host extraordinaire at WSPD Toledo, and I had a great time on the air today raising hell over Washington’s reaction to WikiLeaks. It is a damn outrage to see kowtowing congressmen, a strutting Secretary of State, and groveling American journalists as far as the eye can see. You can listen to […]
TSA Misses the Biggest Bomb in the Land
from Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles’s Sketchpad today – At a time when the White House and Homeland Security are yammering about how the TSA needs to squeeze our butts for our own good, the feds are screwing the economy with enough deficit spending to wreck practically everyone’s future. Or at least wreck the […]
WikiLeaks: Best Thumbnail Retort to Whining Govt. Officials
From the Guardian:
Three More Cheers for WikiLeaks, Exposing More Official Lies
Anyone who favors self-government should support the efforts by WikiLeaks to expose official lies. Their latest release of hundreds of thousands of State Department diplomatic cables will hopefully undermine the piety and pretentiousness of U.S. foreign policy for years. The Obama administration is rolling out the same old “people will die!” hobgoblin in response to […]
TSA: Attitude Fines for Complaining About Being Molested
The Transportation Security Administration has a long history of stretching power far past the bounds of sense of decency. This 2008 piece from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily exposes the perils of a bad atttiude at the airport.. Freedom Daily, June 2008 Federal Attitude Police by James Bovard The Transportation Security Administration has […]
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Jim
Ms. Podojil, thanks very much for your kind words
catherine podojil
Mr. Bovard,
Thank you for laying it all out so