But if you want to hear about such things readily — at least as national news — you need to go to the British Press first. Because here at home, reality is a social construct managed by spin and perception and manipulated by media, which is why we’re to celebrate our first post-racial President, while at the same time limiting our criticism of his policies to avoid charges of racism.

Each and every day, some American citizen, whether he’s building a stock pond on his own property — with local government approval — or exercising his religious freedom by refusing to use his own labor to create a custom cake he doesn’t wish to bake, is being harassed, harangued, demonized, coerced, molested, and ensnared in costly legal battles intended to break his spirit and deplete his assets (should he not

Fittingly, presented in the form of a comic strip, given that it seems we’ve been living inside a copy of MAD Magazine for the past 6 or so years. And yes, I fully expect the back cover fold-in to reveal a hammer and sickle, or maybe the Lightbringer in Che beret and framed with a halo.