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What. The. F?!??!?

(I came waaaaaay too close to writing out that full word, folks. Only the better angels of my nature intervened, but not nearly enough.)

“It’s a joke. It’s all a joke.”

Except it’s not. This is actually happening.

Why? Well from the story at IGN’s Comics News…

“It’s our responsibility as publishers to find new ways to keep all of our characters relevant,” said DC Entertainment Co-Publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee. “After twenty five years, the Watchmen are classic characters whose time has come for new stories to be told. We sought out the best writers and artists in the industry to build on the complex mythology of the original.”

DiDio and Lee don’t have an effin’ clue, do they? Makes me wonder if they’ve even read Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ classic graphic novel. Me, I’ve read Watchmen at least 200 times since ...

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If you have small children anywhere in the vicinity, please have them leave. Because there are going to be things that I say here, and images that will be shown, that in days of enforced polity would no doubt have resulted in me being hung until dead, and then the house burned down and the ground sown with salt.

But may God have mercy, I’m not gonna hold back on this. I’m probably going to blow all the “goodwill” that I’ve earned as a “Christian writer” with this wad… but this is gonna be said and I don’t give a flying rat’s ass…

It’s official: Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton took his own life, rather than go to prison. Monday he got the letter ordering him to report to federal penitentiary on Friday of this week. Later that afternoon he sent his wife to town for some errands. Shortly after she ...

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Electronista is reporting about policies with the Department of Homeland Security that now allow its agents to legally detain laptop computers from anyone it wants to who’s crossing the border into the United States… and never return them to their rightful owners. This includes American citizens, also.

As of last month, Homeland Security (still the most Nazi-ish name for an American government agency that has ever been) can seize not just laptops, but iPods, videotapes and DVDs, books, and pretty much anything else it wants, without there being any suspicion of wrongdoing on the part of the person entering the country.

If this does not violate the undue search and seizure clause of the United States Constitution, then I don’t know what does. No doubt that a lot of DHS employees are looking at this as a goldmine of opportunity: “Hey Bob, didn’t your little girl want a new iPod? ...

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