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February 2010
Vanitas

2010: The Hummer died this week, not because of an American backlash that has been growing increasingly wrathful over the past eighteen years, but because of a failed deal with China, who determined the monster truck was simply not a good investment for the future of the Chinese car... ...

Death and Taxes

2010: Before crashing his plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, software engineer Joe Stack wrote a suicide note explaining that bloodshed is both the modus operandi of the ruling class and the sole recourse for its overtaxed victims:

We are all taught as children that without laws...
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Esprit de Mort

2010: A series of photos taken at Brooklyn morgue were published this week in the New York Post, revealing less than deferential treatment of the city’s dead.

Grinning mortuary technicians use corpses as props in dozens of disturbing Polaroids obtained by the Post.

Perhaps most disturbing of all is...
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