"F*****S WERE MAD": THE EARLY DAYS OF THE HOMO MAFIA

by Andy Nowicki

Comedy can sometimes function as prophecy. In the 1980s, the "PC" police hadn't yet sprung into action. With a few exceptions, there was no real "SJW" activism in evidence.

It certainly wasn't like today, wherein open season has been declared against wrongthinkers far and wide, and no holds are barred in attempting to ruin those dastardly ideological deviants (your humble scribe included) wherever they have the effrontery to manifest their hateful heresies.

Still, the late 80s began to see the coalescing of a certain censorious proclivity among some critics, and like geiger counters detecting radioactivity, or canaries apprehending poisonous air, comedians were the first to notice, and comment upon, this shift.

EXTRAORDINARY SYNODS AND CHEAP GRACE

by Andy Nowicki

There is at present a good deal of "Chicken Little-ing" going on amongst conservative Catholics with regard to the Extraordinary Synod of the Family now convening in Rome, under the questionable leadership of glib, grinning mountebank extraordinaire Pope Francis, nee "Father Bergoglio," as he apparently still likes to call himself when dispensing exceedingly dubious pearls of "wisdom" to members of his flock.

THE BUGGERING STATE

by Andy Nowicki

The USA is becoming a bone fide police state, albeit a superficially benign one which retains many of the trappings of what is traditionally known as “freedom.” Though the vast majority of citizens (or more properly, subjects) of these United States (make that this United State) have no power to restrain their rulers’ rapacious appetites for plunder, graft, and outright murder, they are nevertheless permitted to criticize these propensities of the ruling class, with as much vitriol as they see fit, and with overall legal impunity. Indeed, pretty much anyone can mouth off about pretty much any major issue, brazenly taking the anti-establishment side, and can pretty much get away with it, after a fashion.