Red Star Over India*
Comrade Hyperlinkov! Capitalist communists doing well in Indian state elections... Maoist rebels in Nepal... in the name of John Foster Dulles, are the people in South Asia even paying attention? The Cold War is over! And guess what? Communism (as original flavor Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, and whatever -ism the Khmer Rouge used to justify their crimes against humanity) lost! The Soviet Union is kaput, consigned to the dustbin of history along with Nazism, Fascism, and the notion that France is a global power. North Korea has been reduced to bullying the aid workers who are trying to feed its starving people. China and Vietnam are increasingly less poor (not yet wealthy) only because they've enthusiastically embraced the Japanese/South Korean model of export-based economic growth. Communism is, was, and forevermore shall remain a bad idea. You chumps are arguing on the wrong side of history. Of course, I guess that's what chumps do, isn't it? That's what makes them chumps. *scoff* Chumps.

Lies, Damned Lies, and the News
*A reference of course to Edgar Snow's infamous Red Star Over China, another fine piece of objective journalism from the American press. Supposedly, the book is a journalistic account of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party in the years of the Yan'an Period following the Long March. In actuality, it is a hack job by the leftist fellow-traveller Snow, a fawning love-letter to Mao and the Communists, adoringly praising their virtues and downplaying or outright denying the horrific and arbitrary violence they inflicted on anyone who didn't want to be a Communist. Egdar Snow, may he rot in hell, made Dan Rather and Bill O'Reilly look like newsmen of the highest integrity. I can't think of anything more insulting than saying someone is lower than Bill fucking O'Reilly, yet even that is better than Edgar Snow deserves.