Picturing satire. Supposedly the web is a visual medium but I'm not an artist so I can only bring your attention to two outstanding collections of art satirizing the funk our nation has fallen into.

Get Your War On consists of 13 pages (as of today) of brilliantly written comics created out of clip art by David Rees. Unbelievably hilarious and tragic. The link begins with page 13 -- work your way backwards. It's worth it.

Know Your Place! Shut Your Face! is a series of early twentieth century war propaganda posters ingeniously updated for our already sick and tired twenty-first century.

You must visit both.

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For those of you keeping score. Just how evil is the Axis of Pennsylvania Avenue? Check out the Scorecard of Evil. It's all here -- from refusing to fund the UN Population Fund to the Stasi-like citizen spy corps Operation TIPS -- more than fifty acts of evil in the last five months alone (the list only covers 2002, the second year of Bush's dismantling of the American experiment).

We would be worried about these extraordinary acts of evil if the guy weren't so gosh-darned compassionate. Thanks to Media Whores Online for the link.

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Is no one sacred anymore? The den mother of lifestyle porn, Martha Stewart, is back in the limelight because of her relatively trivial insider trade (story by the New York Times) executed by Merrill Lynch. The interest should be not in Martha but in Merrill Lynch, whose shadowy presence behind the Enron debacle is the bigger story, albeit without the celebrity bitch angle.

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