Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
[…] go to her own funeral without her purse – or a properly straightened nose. What I must do is what every doctor takes an oath to do. Kill cancer – one of Christ’s covered-up commandments. Primarily because this group desires to kill me. And that is self-defense – and it is the primary law […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] Serra. (10) Google’s Italian–to-English translation of the Corriere text showed that the original story did not claim that Stasi files showed the KGB told the Bulgarians to kill the Pope at all. As Google’s mechanical translator put it, the key section said: ‘the letters, in which the intelligence agencies of the DDR they ask […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
Anne Hessing Cahn Penn State University Press, 1998, $19.95, p/b The ‘Team B’ episode of 1976/7, the subject of this book, which saw a group of the CIA’s critics on the right being given access to the Agency’s raw intelligence data, was one of the key moments in the counter-attack against detente with the … Read more
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
Free Ride Department Meanwhile the Rand Corporation (that liberal think tank in Santa Monica which helps decide which Russian cities should be atom-bombed) has declared that the federal government must continue to support an obscure military satellite system known as Global Positioning Network. Much beloved by high-tech hikers and rental car enthusiasts, the GPS supposedly … Read more
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
[…] received wisdom, it seems, you can say pretty much what you like.Richard Metzger, interviewing someone called Howard Bloom, asks why it is that all Arabs want to kill Jews; Bloom explains that it’s not all Arabs – it’s all Moslems.’ Again, Edwards is being startlingly dishonest. Metzger’s question never mentions ‘killing Jews’. It is […]