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The Loudest Voice in the World: Part 2

April 12, 2021February 23, 2021 by Brant von Goble

(Part 2 of 6) Khiem—Kim, as pronounced by Elmer—is an odd duck. Not foreigner odd—she didn’t sound foreign when she spoke (which was not often) and Elmer guesses that she was raised in the States. She’s odd odd—no eye contact, flat voice, keeps counting spoons. Maybe she’s just terrified. People do strange things when they’re … Read more

NATO wants Carbon Neutral Tanks. This is Fascism and Here’s Why

April 12, 2021February 17, 2021 by Ian Kummer

NATO Chief: War Must Be Good for the Environment

Jens Stoltenberg recently suggested that our battle tanks should be solar-powered. This is actually an interesting idea, but there are problems, and the worst problem has nothing to do with the tanks themselves.

The Loudest Voice in the World: Part 1

April 12, 2021February 17, 2021 by Brant von Goble

A band of light torques around her finger and then it drops. The rest flows down from her head and out in all directions—a messy, not-quite halo, hanging far too low, obscuring her otherworldly face.

Nazis Take Over America and Establish a New Reich

April 16, 2021February 13, 2021 by Ian Kummer

With Joe Biden safely in the White House, America’s most powerful corporations have launched a new privatized reign of terror almost identical to Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s.

Nazism Ascended and America Defeated; Triumph of the Will

April 12, 2021February 11, 2021 by Ian Kummer

Nazis have lurked among us for decades, unnoticed and without restraint as they diligently worked toward a most ambitious goal. Time passed, and their shadow nation grew like a tumor. It shivered in the darkness at first; now it unabashedly operates in the open, as if a pus-oozing boil was supposed to be there all along.