Our Status as A Free People

End Year Note and New Years Greeting from the Chipsters at Woodchipgazette [here]

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Crime & Cowardice

On the country's moral indifference [here]

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Holiday Bashing

Another round of pope-bashing and the text of what Benedict really said [here]

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The Ins and Outs of Christmas

What kind of Joy is celebrated at Christmas? Some woodchips [here]
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So that Government of the Bank, by the Bank and for the Bank shall not perish from the Earth

Why the United States is the best last hope for the up-trodden [here]

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Shoeless in America

Bush is acclaimed for bringing peace and destruction to Iraq. [here]

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Senior Pup

Fips gets his leg pulled. [here]
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Smellavision isn't Everything

A difference in perceptions and how dogs don't see things [here]

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Back to the Big River

In memory of habits passed [here]

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New York Times Shields U.S. from Incoming Truths

Once again, the Times services Bush Administration policy. [here]

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Armistice Day

A day to remember [here]

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Delirium Tremens

Misgivings -- after the party after [here]

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Nightwalks

Fips & Rosco welcome shorter days [here]
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Extending Zones of Democratic Peace

In a "quick-take" the U.S. incursion into Syria is put into historical context. [here]

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Phyrric Elections

The Gazette discusses the absurd way we elect our government and the need to change to a ministerial parliamentary system. [Click Here]

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The Woodchip Gazette Endorses . . .

The Woodchip Gazette announces its endorsement for president and explains why [click here]

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Murkan Mantra, Bimbo Bugaboo & Robinson Crusoe

A quick lesson to Joe the Dumber on what McCain knows that he doesn't [CLICK HERE]

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Fips Takes a Pad About

Fips decides to go for a walk. [click here]

The Voice of Respectability Shrills Again

As Chicago Bankers demand their due. [here]

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These Empty Times

Judith Warner of the New York Times on the anguish of mere toast. [here]

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Palin Bats Eye Lashes in Triumph

Instalysis of the Veep Debate ...[here]

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Doggie Manners

Fips and Rosco chomp chops and show heart. [here]

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Synderesis Identified As Cause of Wrecked Brain Syndrome

Chip's latest Idle Observation discusses the discovery of synderesis as the cause of combat related Post Traumatic Distress Syndrome, and explains why so many U.S. soldiers are increasingly be returned home as damaged goods.

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The Pig Sings

Woodchip takes a quick look at Piglip Palin's first weigh-in . [here]

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The New Constables

Chipster discusses the the creation of a full spectrum military is the correlative of the Government's doctrine of a full spectrum military and how both result in the brutalization of society abroad and at home.   [ read]

You can't Out-Pander a Palin

The futility of Democrat self-gutting [here]

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Fips Lets it Be Known....

A frosty reunion.... [here]

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Four Postcards from Mexico - IV

In the fourth and last Postcard from Mexico, the Gazette takes leave of fulfilled country life and returns to urbanity [click here]

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Four Postcards from Mexico - III

In this third Postcard from Mexico, the Gazette takes a spin around Puebla's zocalo and reports on a mountain fire. [click here]
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Four Postcards from Mexico - II

In the second of four Postcards from Mexico the Gazette visits an echo of haciendas past. [click here]

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Four Postcards from Mexico - I

In the first of four Postcards from Mexico, the Gazette describes the journey from mega-metropolis to rural hacienda. [click here]

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Las Primarias....

The gravity of the electoral season [here]

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God's Dachshund, Part IV - Facing A New Dark Age

In this fourth and final installment, Woodchip Gazette reviews the historical and theological antecedents of Pope Benedict's papacy and provides an answer to whether Joseph Ratzinger is a liberal, conservative or something else. [click here]

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Palm Sunday Pay Day

Congress thinks about imitating Jesus [here]

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Bread Today, Hunger Tomorrow

A Spanish housewife tells what she things about stimulus handouts [here]

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God's Dachsund, Part III - Crusading for Logos

Benedict's most publicised pronouncement was not an encylical.....

Part III of the four part series: Benedict's overtures to the Muslim World

Mothers for Perpetual Safety Strike Again

Arma virumque [here]

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All the Fetish that’s Fit to Print

The New York Times likes to affect a tone of magisterial objectivity and liberality when it is in fact just a cunning screed for corporate imperialism, as this analysis by the Gazette's chief acorn-cracker shows [here]

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God's Dachshund, Part II - This Cannot Continue.

Following his trip to Hispanic America, Benedict issued his second encyclical which was to a certain extent, an answer to Liberation Theology....

Part II examines the basis of Benedict's Social Doctrine

Why Blending In Matters

CIA chief announces new threat from "blendables" [here]

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Why Hispanics Should Despise Clinton

The Clintons were no friends to Hispanics [here]

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Dignity

Lessing majesty [here]

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Rambo Endorses Wacko

A ringside endorsement [here]

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God's Dachshund, Part I - Gotterdammerung of the WhistleBlowers

Joseph Ratzinger has been branded God's Rottweiler and the Nazi Pope. Part I, of a four part series, begins with an examination of Pope Benedict's pronouncements on love, eros and homosexuality.

Every Dog's Right to Bark

What business is it of the German Government what nonsense Tom Cruise wants to believe in? [More]