Newt Gingrich, like many other Americans on the far right, has a problem with Mosques, more specifically the planned Islamic community center near Ground Zero. This doesn’t come as a shock in the least, his reasoning (H/T Justin Elliott at Salon) is that there aren’t any churches in Saudi Arabia and also, New [...]

Aaron just finished a small mini issue of This Is The End - aptly titled, This is the End 1.5. This short 8 page black and white zine is an amalgamation of some short essays along with longer pieces Aaron read at our monthly series The Liquid Burning of Apocalyptic Bard Letters. It also contains [...]

Perhaps you’ve heard about the writer who moved in next door to Sarah Palin? Apparently he is in the midst of some kind of scandalous tell all book about her and has taken up residence in her hometown in pursuit of stories.
Resorting to her characteristic histrionics, Palin immediately took to her [...]

In a move that will probably dog him for months to come, the President drew parallels between the BP oil disaster and 9/11. In an interview with Politico, Obama said “In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going [...]

Michael rode trains late at night when the city seemed quiet, when most of the waking world around him slept. There was a feeling then he could almost touch. He listened to the most unbearable music, unbearable by pop standards anyway. A cacophony of soundtracks from post apocalyptic 80’s movies mixed with [...]

“Do you know who I was? Nobody. Except on the day after, I was still alive. This nobody had a chance to be somebody.” Auntie Entity, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome

Years of horror movies and video games have prepared me for just about every tragedy you could imagine, affording me a post-apocalyptic skill set that would [...]

So much of today’s 20 and 30 somethings grew up reading Choose Your Own Adventure books. Who can forget sitting in a bedroom, fingers plucked in several pages, hoping the next page you turn isn’t your last?

Finally, one courageous zinester has made it possible for everyone to become the next RA Montgomery by putting together [...]

The right wing found a new way to say President Obama hates the troops by complaining that he won’t visit Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day. Instead, Joe Biden will lay a wreath at the Veteran’s Cemetery while Obama visits Chicago and tours the beleaguered Gulf of Mexico. Of course, such an action may as [...]

It’s hard for some people to imagine the apocalypse, it wasn’t for him. Enter Nicolas, a man in his early 30s, with dark features and even darker thoughts. Humanity disgusted him, and he lived life with as little human interaction as possible. He worked his cubicle, rode the train, and slept in his studio apartment. [...]