NORTH AMERICA DISPATCH: The Great Northern Strike Carnival

By Soot Hackwell, Politics & Poison Department OTTAWA — Nothing quite illuminates the tender mercies of modern capitalism like watching 10,000 flight attendants simultaneously decide that serving overpriced airplane coffee isn’t worth tolerating management’s contemptuous wage offerings, thereby transforming Air Canada into the world’s most expensive fleet of decorative aluminum sculptures.[1] The strike, which began … Read more

The Cotton Conspiracy: When Feminine Hygiene Goes Rogue

By Seraphina “Soot” Hackwell In what can only be described as the most humbling episode in modern feminine hygiene diplomacy, Lady Savannah Millerworth of the Circle’s Seventh Court has confessed to harboring a rogue cotton operative within her imperial chambers for an entire lunar cycle. The twenty-two-year-old aristocrat, known for her appearances at Reality Television … Read more