Charity

Distant encounters of a personal kind. [ read ]
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Yet Another Empty Comemoration

 

The BBC has run a supposed special on the Nuremberg Trials held 75 years ago which manages not to be very special at all.  [ read ]

 

The Satrap Punches Back

 

In 1911, Col. House, kitchen cabinet advisor to Woodrow Wilson, told the Mexican ambassador, "Your flag will be our flag."  That, pretty much, was the blunt of the matter.  But Mexicans had other ideas. [read]

Hurray! The Result is in.

Chipster calls the election and explains why nothing will change. [read]

Tuesday's Travesty

Since states lost their mythical foundations in 1789, they have desperately sought to legitimize their existence by one means or another. The justification cranked up by liberal democracies is that the State is legitimized by the Consent of the Governed, for whose Welfare the government labours tirelessly. In the case of the United States, this vaunted self justification no longers has a shred of plausibility... The issue on Tuesday is whether one wishes to uphold or call out the farce. [ read ]
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High Priests of Sacrificial Rites

Chipster discusses how the criminal justice system became institutionalized sadism. [ read ]

The Fires at Tin Can Ranch

My Dog & His Flag

Sodom and Gomorrah - The Theology of Capitalism

As fire and plague grip California, Chipster ponders the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah. [ read ]

Gemeinschaft

How the United States has failed to grasp the concept and practice of community.  [ read ]

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Bernie's Cock-a-Doodle-Doo Moment

Bernie Sander' has been listed as the first night's first speaker at the upcoming Democratic National Cabaret. A more pathetic denouement could not be imagined. [ read ]

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Come, Let Us now praise Ineffective Men

Chipster reflects on the career and apotheosis of Congreaseman John Lewis [ read ]

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The Antiquated Second Amendment

Chipster takes a look back at the Second Amendment in light of the thuggery of federal troops in Portland.  [ read ]
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T'is truly a Gift to be Simple

 

 Schlepping ever so simply, in the Hamptons  [ read ]

American Goon Staat

Chipster discusses the origins of the militarization of the police and its connection to our foreign policy. [ read ]

Mask-exploitation

How our wonderful country meets the challenge of producing enough masks  [ read ]

Fact-washing

Chipster grumbles about how the liberal mainstream press sanitizes facts so as to massage reality and preclude people from reaching their own conclusions. [read]

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Make America Grovel Again

On making masks available. [ read ]

Images of the State - 2020, Ch. 3

One of the images of the state in 1984 is that of the windowless, faceless ministry.  The ministry can see out at and into everything but no can see into the ministry which remains impenetrable to the outside.   [read more]
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Rubble of Self

Chipster discusses how the present socio-economic dissolution is a harsh but necessary thing. [ read ]

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Images of the State in 2020 - Ch.1

What's really behind the latest cop-killing of yet another Black.  [read]

Blowhard Bernie

Chipster has some further reflections on the pathetic fizzle of Bernie's faux revolutionary campaign [ here ]

Soap Box Bernie

On Bernie Sanders fading into the din [read]

The Hucksterism of Political Homiletics

Chipster discusses how Americans' addiction to moralizing and supposedly uplifting homilies has destroyed political thought.  [read]   The latest Biden ad completely proves the point.

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The First Golden Brioche Award for 2020

Ahead of schedule Woodchip Gazette announces the Golden Brioche Award for 2020.  And the winner is..... [find out]
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The Gentrified Progressive

Warren's endorsemen of Biden silently speaks volumes. [here]
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Pro Quo?

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The New York Slime printed a gushing story about how Bernie has endorsed Biden.  Chipsters have a question.  [read]

Someone is Meddling

Once again, the New York Slime reports that the Russkies are "meddling" in our elections, yet again.  Yet again, we parse the Orwellian Bullshit.  [read]
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The Supreme Court's Frisk-A-Negro Doctrine

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 Chipster discusses the nasty secret of the stop and frisk doctrine [ read ]
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Dazzled by Bullshit

Why Gentrified Liberals are so enthralled by the vacuities of  Sneaky Pete Buttigieg  [read]

Enough Democracy!

The social cost of endless electioneering  [read]
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Raging at Own's Own Frustrated Incompetence

The New York Slime sputters high toned moralities as Corporate Democrats are left stammering, blubbering, spitting, aghast and outraged at the expected, foreseeable, predictable, you-would-have-to-have-shit-for-brains-to-think-otherwise result of Trump's impeachment trial in the Republican controlled Senate.    [read]

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