Mossy Vimes

AFRICA DISPATCH: The Great Humanitarian Theater of Selective Outrage

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By Mossy Vimes, War Zones & Weird Smells PRETORIA/BAMAKO — The exquisite choreography of Western humanitarian concern has reached peak performance art this week as international organizations express shocked bewilderment at the discovery that anti-immigrant vigilantes in South Africa are denying healthcare access to foreigners—apparently forgetting that this exact same humanitarian principle magically evaporates whenever … Read more

# “The Atomic Apiary: When Mother Nature Gets a Security Clearance”

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By Mossy Vimes In what can only be described as the most terrifyingly predictable development in the annals of Cold War environmental management, wildlife workers at the Savannah River Nuclear Reservation have discovered that local arthropod populations have been moonlighting as unauthorized radiological contractors. Four separate wasp nests, each glowing with the warm embrace of … Read more