Search results for "war on terror"
Strings Attached
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Congress recently passed an Act that would grant the President nigh-unlimited power to imprison anyone without trial, even US citizens, for the duration of the “War on Terror,” which is another way of saying “forever.”
No Further Questions
Saturday, October 15, 2011
I originally wrote this gag for President Bush. In a way, that’s all that really needs to be said about Obama’s approach to the “War on Terror”–his policies have become so similar to those of the Bush Administration that they’re practically interchangeable…
The Bigots’ Crusade
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Meanwhile, on the oppression side of things, a “crusade” against the Civil Rights of homosexuals in the United States continues to this very day…
Separate but Equal Justice Under Law
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
The entire justice system in the U.S., and not just the police, is still racially-biased against darker-skinned minorities; almost as if one of the things “Justice” measures, when determining the guilt or innocence of the accused, is how white that person is.
Losing Our Heads
Saturday, September 20, 2014
The darkly absurd, feedback loop-type relationship between terrorist actions and U.S. military responses…
World Wrestling
Thursday, March 27, 2014
International superpowers, like the US and Russia, express the “superiority” of their respective cultures, economies, or systems of government, by using smaller, less-powerful countries, like Iraq and Ukraine, as the venues for gaudy, muscle-flexing sideshows…
Privacy Stalls
Saturday, January 25, 2014
The very people crying wolf over Edward Snowden’s actions appear to be wolves themselves…
Dumb Dynasty
Sunday, December 29, 2013
I’ve hated Duck Dynasty for quite some time, as much as Phil Robertson apparently hates gay people. It symbolizes everything I despise about modern television: paying random jackasses with marginal skills/talents, and no thoughts of consequence or value from one day to the next, hundreds of millions of dollars to make fools of themselves, while puttering around doing basically nothing, for a target audience of culturally-illiterate morons…
The Curse of Mr. Iraqyzptlk
Friday, September 6, 2013
“An attack on Syria, no matter how well-intentioned, is bound to result in a staggering amount of collateral damage, and a tremendous number of civilian casualties, much like the fight between Kal-El and General Zod in the recent Man of Steel film; A Good Cartoon.”
Undermining Liberty
Saturday, June 15, 2013
The idea of a database containing who-knows-how-much personal information communicated by who-knows-how-many people, with no individual or public oversight of its contents, is awe-inspiring, and terrifyingly Orwellian, whether it’s being kept in the name of “fighting terrorism” or “the free market.”
