Author: Wallace Runnymede
Charlie Hebdo Anniversary Tribute (I): Every Truth is Blasphemy
Dedicated to the unforgettable and shining martyrs of Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher. I am still Charlie. To start off a series of fake news satire anthologies with a volume on religion seems very appropriate, given the vicious massacre of…
Neurodiversity Bloggers, Autism and Violence
Note from Wallace: This blog post from October 2015 remains thought-provoking. For my part, I would suggest that beatifying us autistic folks is no more reasonable (or realistic and practical) than demonizing us. *** The mass shooting in Oregon by…
Clinton & Bush Condemn Trump for Upstaging the Good Guys
The Clinton and Bush Dynasties have released a joint mutual solidarity statement condemning Trump’s recent (allegedly) divisive populist policies… As exclusively revealed on Glossy News over the course of the past 48 hours. This typically balanced and dispassionate artefact of…
Latest Populist Policies Carrying Trump to Victory (2/2)
4. BAN STUPID MUSIC FROM CLUBS!!! Why can’t we just have the clubs play proper music that you can actually dance and sing to? Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, I mean, hell, even Creedence Clearwater Revival, just throwing that one out there!…
Latest Populist Policies Carrying Trump to Victory (1/2)
The Trump is on a roll. For, as even George W Bush himself admits: ‘The unstoppable rise of Donald Trump looks pretty much unstoppable by now!’ But how has Trump managed to maintain momentum? Well, here are a few contentious…
Putin’s Taking the Piss over Human Rights, but Let’s not Be Too Smug
It turns out that the authoritarian Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has signed a law allowing Russia (or rather, the Russian state!) to avoid following rulings from international human rights courts… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/russia-human-rights-law_566fc6bbe4b011b83a6c7040 Making such rulings subject to the authority of the Constitutional…
Open Letter to the ‘Noble Liberals.’ Did Paris Victims Bring it on Themselves? (2/2)
I really don’t know what they found more offensive; a cartoon of their prophet, or people standing around, dancing and singing and loving and having fun? So, there’s your dilemma. If Charlie Hebdo brought it on themselves by unnecessarily ‘causing…
Open Letter to the ‘Noble Liberals.’ Did Paris Victims Bring it on Themselves? (1/2)
After the massacre at Charlie Hebdo, the magazine’s defenders were ridiculed as being ‘freedom of speech fundamentalists.’ The ‘semi-non-apologists’ of Coulibaly assumed the usual attitude: Sure, it’s NOT THAT GREAT to kill someone merely for being a cartoonist… but… OMG,…
Putin & ISIS: Tyranny’s Latest Flamboyant Supergroup
Universally beloved plastic pop enterprise X Factor has finally lost its shine. Yup! No-one ever believed this classic of early 21st century manufactured inanity would ever end up being discredited by a flamboyant and sexually doubting, um, sexually dubious former…
Accepting Refugees: Don’t Judge Eastern Europe too Harshly…? (2/2)
From last time: Do you think that Greece can welcome and integrate as many refugees as Germany? Let’s not forget, at the risk of sounding patronising, that many countries in Eastern Europe are not as prosperous as some of the…