Daily Archive: October 18, 2001

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I Signed Up For What?!?

I liked this one in Plastic. A growing number of “conscientious objectors” have apparently realized that being in the armed forces means you have to, shock horror, fight and kill people and get shot...

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Peanut Mystery

Today my farts smell like peanuts, and I haven’t even eaten any peanuts in days. What kind of crazy world is this?

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Pre-Emptive Strike?

Did Bin Laden (or whoever) give the go-ahead for 9/11 as a pre-emptive strike against threatened US action to topple the Taliban due by the end of 2001? Another conspiracy theory.

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Transsexual Trailer Park Castration Killer

This story has it all: transsexual castration fetishist kills sixth husband during botched operation! trailer park! vomit suffocation! meth labs! dead turtles! dead parakeets! strung-up dead cats! piles of animal shit! “permission note” from...

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Gerald Ford the Good Soldier

Long before his eerily similar role in the Nixon story, through his Warren Commission service Gerald Ford actively and passively helped to protect knowledgeable and guilty individuals and groups, including government officials, who in...

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Just Playing Around

America is “just playing around” according to some understandably eager Northern Alliance commanders, chomping at the bit to get into Kabul on the tails of a US bombing campaign and presumably indulge in a...

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Atrocity TV

Surely with barbarity now commonplace in the media and warfare now fully integrated into TV’s entertainment schedules it’s time to make a movie out of Jim Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition, possibly one of the...

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Ripper Politics

A good review of From Hell, the new Johnny Depp movie based on Alan Moore’s stunning graphic novel. The central thesis of this marvellous conspiracy fiction about the motives of Jack the Ripper are...