If you live in the Austin area, I hope you will drop by Austin Books tomorrow, Wednesday, February 20. I will be signing copies of the just-released comics anthology Hotwire 2, along with copies of my other comics (Bush Junta, Villa of the Mysteries, Mutant Book of the Dead, etc.) and a few out-of-print publications and rarities. I’ll also have a few freebies, including copies of my Operation Northwoods comics pamphlet and the first two issues of the print edition of Anomaly Magazine. So, please try to make it. I would very much like to meet you. Austin Books is located at 5002 N. Lamar Blvd., and the event will run from 5 to 8 pm.

by Mack White

Police Chief Acevedo wants to keep you safe. He wants it more than he has ever wanted anything. Why, he stays up late worrying about your safety. He walks the floor at night, he loses sleep, he frets, he wrings his hands, he cries bitter tears, so great is his concern. For you are his pet, his darling one, his treasure, and he wants so badly to keep you safe.

And now, at last, he has come up with a plan. In his nocturnal pacing and fretting, and crying, and rending of garments, and gnashing of teeth, he has come up with a plan to keep you safe. It is a foolproof plan, a fine plan, a noble plan, a grand plan that will (cue the drum roll, sound the trumpets) end all violence for all time in the City of Austin. And here it is … Read more »

I’ve read about various disagreeable things Glenn Beck has said on his CNN program, but had never seen a clip from the program—did not even know what the man looked like—until last week when Dave vonKleist came to Austin to screen his documentary 9/11 Ripple Effect.

The documentary features an excerpt from the edition of Beck’s show on which Dave was a guest. It was included in the documentary as an example of how the mainstream media never seriously addresses the issues raised by 9/11 researchers, but rather, attempts to discredit the research by associating it with UFOs, tinfoil hats, Bigfoot, ghosts, and the Second Coming of Elvis. And there he was in the clip, Glenn Beck, doing just that, heaping ridicule on his guest, Dave vonKleist, without once asking a serious question.

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