Holy Terrors

Long Bets?

So what odds will anyone give me on one or more of these Jesus Camp kids flying an airliner into Mecca (or even the Vatican) sometime in the next ten years?

Cheap Oil for US Citizens: No Thanks

Palast interviews Chavez.

Ironic how the War on Terror appears to be propagating popular democracy after all -- in Latin America. Guess the CIA must be finding it tough to look South and East simultaneously.

Shutout

Results of the Superfrankenstein/CBS poll, "Who's the Man?"


Congratulations President Chávez! And President Bush: I thought you might lose this one, but a goose egg? Awful.

Wouldn't You Like To Be A Pepper, Too?

Good Lyric

Who do the fightin' for these rich white folks, and they wars
No it ain't Drew Carey, Dennis Miller or stars
Fox News, Mike Savage, Bruce Willis or Rush
Won't be MSNBC, CNN or a Bush
Never Toby Keith, Hannity, O'Reilly or Clint
Ain't ClearChannel - know they ain't supportin' dissent
Ain't Blair, Kid Rock, or Tom Cruise or vows
Of James Woods, Rob Lowe, Tom Selleck or Powell
Not Arnold Schwarzenegger, he ain't gonna shoot, or
Ted Nugent cause in war the targets got weapons too
Ain't Cheney, Rumsfeld, Halliburton or Ridge
Or Ann Coulter, or Joseph Lieberman or the rich
Or any bitch up in congress, they just make laws
When it comes to fightin' - we the ones that end up in gauze
So when you say "support that murderer," I have no applause
Even if he got his jumpsuit on - we pay the cost

From Sheep To The Slaughter, by Paris, from the 2003 album Sonic Jihad. I love the line about Ted Nugent.

Outlaw Nation (fiction)

Go here for a juicy preview of fellow Monster Force-er Jamie Delano's OUTLAW NATION, now collected in one giant volume. I was the commissioning editor on this book, back several lives ago, and it's great stuff. Goran Sudzuka's art looks sharp and expressive in black and white, and the price is rock bottom -- it works out to less than a dollar an issue. NATION was always meant to be read in big chunks, and this is about as big as chunks get. Git it!

The Firestorm of Earth 2(a)(c+)

Every once in a while you find a gem like this on the message boards.

"Thumbs? Oh yeah, they just went up."

The two guys who wrote this thread are, almost to a mathematical certainty, really ONE guy. If he/they/it wrote comics, I'd give 'em a try.

News From Home

The woman got in the car and the two went to a nearby parking lot to negotiate a price for sex.

She asked the cop if he was a cop.

The officer said "no."

"That's OK, because I am," the woman told the officer as she pulled out handcuffs and a two-way radio.

Fake John Vs. Fake Cop
Syracuse Post Standard
Contributed by Monster Force Junior Correspondent Bake.

Nation Column On The Torture Pact (Brief & Pissed Off)

Coals To Newcastle

On this list of suppliers doing business in Iraq: 3B Scientific, a dealer in "skeletons, torsos and human organ models."