Comment / By Calleaghn / Sept. 9, 2010, 8:37 a.m.

Nice article Ryan! Loved the photos as well. I find the topic fascinating. I have some personal experience with this and I’m glad to know there are some locals putting on events. I’ve heard about this type of suspension, ie- the performance, theatrical, just-for-fun variety. It’s a little reminiscent of things like the Jim Rose Circus (which I love).

Comment / By 1964dw / Sept. 9, 2010, 12:22 p.m.

The cover of this issue was enough to keep me from bringing it home; I don’t need my small children asking me to explain that picture. There simply is no rational explanation and we don’t need a 4 year old trying this out. I suppose if people enjoy pain and leading a life they have to hide, they certainly may do so. An article like this is best inside The Journal, not on the cover.

Comment / By Carol Conners / Sept. 9, 2010, 4:35 p.m.

I am sorry, but I will not be picking up this week’s copy of the journal. The photo should be inside, not on the front cover. I was driving along the 101 corridor and saw this in your newstands, so it is available for children to see.

Comment / By Stan / Sept. 9, 2010, 5:12 p.m.

The cover is deeply disturbing, and frankly, it’s very poor editorial judgment to put such an image on the cover. The editorial team should know better than put something out like this in the community. In terms of a grade for the week, you folks at the NCJ earn an F.

Comment / By BassBunny / Sept. 9, 2010, 6:28 p.m.

The article in the paper says to see video of Kat’s performance, visit this website… but where?

Comment / By flying squirrel / Sept. 9, 2010, 6:55 p.m.

The cover is extremely disturbing and not appropriate for all ages to see, shame on you for very bad judgement NCJ….:(
also not mentioned in this piece is whether or not Kat has her own health insurance, because I assure you that us tax payers would not be happy about paying for the treatment of this morons wounds that are bound to become infected sooner or later.

Comment / By Hank Sims / Sept. 9, 2010, 7:20 p.m.

@BassBunny: Here.

Comment / By Dang / Sept. 9, 2010, 7:23 p.m.

mostly prudes responding eh? Too bad, good stuff Ryan!

Comment / By Joel Mielke / Sept. 9, 2010, 7:55 p.m.

So, do they buy their hardware at Piersons?

Comment / By Meredith / Sept. 9, 2010, 11:51 p.m.

Bravo, Ryan! Part of what I appreciate most about the Journal is the freedom the writers and editor have in terms of content and delivery. It wouldn’t be the same NCJ if writers didn’t take advantage of this. If folks want local news without this latitude Humboldt County has several (much less entertaining) options. As for the generally judgmental tone of some of these comments, we’re talking about consenting adults here, worry about your own damn health insurance. I can think of a few things higher on my list of worries for the decent hard working American taxpayer.

Comment / By Carol Conners / Sept. 10, 2010, 7:25 a.m.

You can defend this as free speech. I don’ care what consenting adults do in private. But I think these images belong in the pages of Hustler not the NCJ. It is an all time low.

Comment / By Greg / Sept. 10, 2010, 7:31 a.m.

I took a copy out of the rack by Loleta Market on my way in to the bakery. My first thought was negative, but I admit my second thought was to show it to the first people I saw. Bob and Elaine, I apologize.

Hank did a very nice job encapsulating the state of the Eureka electorate. It’s too bad so many won’t read his column because they won’ get past the sensationalist “free speech” cover.

Comment / By flying squirrel / Sept. 10, 2010, 7:36 a.m.

really Meredith? and how much do you think surgical debridement of an infected wound and a couple months of IV antibiotic therapy costs? if she has her own insurance to pay for her poor choices then great, but NO I don’t think the state of California or it’s tax payers should have to pay for this idiocy!!! any amount is to much.

Comment / By Bored / Sept. 10, 2010, 7:42 a.m.

If you don’t like the story, images, etc., the worst thing you can do is comment about it. Makes Hank think people are interested and gives the attention whore in the story an added thrill. Best to ignore and wait for it to go away.

Comment / By Joel Mielke / Sept. 10, 2010, 8:27 a.m.

Like many people, I pick up the Journal as I exit Winco. After the phantasmagoric gauntlet inside the store, the “hooked” cover, though lurid, fails to shock.

Comment / By Ryan Burns / Sept. 10, 2010, 9:53 a.m.

Flying Squirrel: Kat has now done this seven times without requiring so much as a Band-Aid.

Comment / By ahole / Sept. 10, 2010, 10:01 a.m.

Yet again the NCJ does a story that’s sitting in their lap. Wow, it was so hard and such incredible journalism to walk down the street. Gosh, did they maybe even come to you with the story? This is such a complete waste of your potential, Burns. The NCJ could have done something that has something to do with a real issue facing Eureka, or could have even tried to do something that required real legwork, like actually getting into a car and going to a story. Since moving to Eureka, all the Journal reports on is Old Town stuff. We are so completely underwhelmed by your recent performance, NCJ, that I’m surprised anyone will even speak to you. I for one will never. In two words: YOU SUCK.

Comment / By Ryan Burns / Sept. 10, 2010, 10:19 a.m.

That’s one sore A-hole.

Comment / By Geoffburns / Sept. 10, 2010, 12:23 p.m.

If you don’t enjoy reading the journal, then don’t read it. good work Ryan

Comment / By celeste masson / Sept. 10, 2010, 2:40 p.m.

I am not a prude. I have never been considered mainstream. The fringe is usually my refuge. But as a mother of a 3 and a half year old I was NOT at all happy to have to explain this cover to her. Very bad choice of a cover, in my opinion. No problem with the photo being inside, that I could have hid from my child but to put it right out there so every passing child on the street can see it? Was that not even considered? I am not talking about older children here, kids that can have a conversation about it and understand such things as symbolism, etc….but preschoolers?? Hello? wtf, guys?!

Comment / By Mrs Tinkle / Sept. 10, 2010, 3:42 p.m.

I personally don’t have a problem with people doing this. If they want to do it in private, whatever. Not my business. But it IS my business when it’s shoved in my face everywhere I go. Luckily my 3.5 year old hasn’t noticed, because I don’t really want to have to explain why people might want to put tuna hooks in their backs. Definitely won’t be picking up NCJ this week.

Comment / By Jimmy McNuts / Sept. 10, 2010, 3:54 p.m.

Ha! I love the way all y’all’s panties get all bunched up like that, it’s downright precious. “Think about the children”. Boo hoo. Did you have to have a difficult conversation with your little Dick or Jane? Cry me a river.

Props to Mr. Burns and the NCJ for writin’ pertier than me, kudos to Kat for her ginormous cahones and a shout out to Joel for “phantasmagoric gauntlet”. Those two words made my day. I doubt a more apt decription of Winco has ever been written.

Comment / By Rose / Sept. 10, 2010, 4:52 p.m.

Sick.

Comment / By Hank Sims / Sept. 10, 2010, 8:58 p.m.

Seconded. “Phantasmagoric gauntlet” is perfection distilled.

Comment / By 100%RUDE / Sept. 11, 2010, 7:22 a.m.

Funny that some of the responders disagree with the picture on the cover but it still intrigued your repulsed curiosity & you still picked it up….either way Ryan Burns got your attention.

Comment / By humboldthunny / Sept. 11, 2010, 7:33 a.m.

I bet this is the most posted comments that NCJ has ever got! I guess it stirred some emotions, huh? What goes on behind close doors would probably set many off as well! Grow up, this is America! I think the Halloween issue would have got more attention

Comment / By Yeah Right / Sept. 11, 2010, 10:06 a.m.

Stirred emotions? Hardly.

The Journal’s lazy, boring and too cheap to hire a photographer. It looks like Ryan Burns took those pics with his phone.

It’s a sad trend. People so used to inferior work that they actually demand it now. Thanks for your contribution Journal.

Comment / By Diane / Sept. 11, 2010, 11:46 a.m.

Those parents who care about the well being of their young children will be disturbed by your cover. I don’t want my kid having nightmares honestly, and if this graphic were on TV it would come with a graphic image warning. But you didn’t give us any choice in the matter. I’ll be avoiding your NCJ box all week when my kids are with me, and I will definitely not be bringing this issue home. Please have some respect for the younger members of our community.

Comment / By Rose / Sept. 11, 2010, 12:31 p.m.

i don’t know what is more sick about this - that this woman is this twisted - the people who actually stand there and cheer - that college age girls feel they have to say “this is cool” when their every instinct tells them this is wrong, but they have to go along to get along - that this woman works as a SOCIAL WORKER - that she works with disabled people who would be lucky to have an intact body as she abuses her own - or that you are comfortable swimming in these waters - Knowing that this is going on in this community - I know from your paper’s standpoint this is ‘provocative’ and thus good. I don’t think you have any idea of the outrage that is spilling out about this as people have been discussing it. But I can tell you, it is not ‘good’ for you or your publication.

Comment / By flying squirrel / Sept. 11, 2010, 2:06 p.m.

@Ryan…….you still did not mention whether or not she has her own health insurance; and, maybe she’s fine for the time being, but I assure you that down the road she WILL end up with a massive bacterial infection in her upper back.

Comment / By Deric Mendes / Sept. 11, 2010, 2:15 p.m.

Flying Squirrel,

Human suspension has been going on for hundreds of years. About 15 years ago it gained some popularity in urban areas. Rarely, if ever, have people ended up with the medical concerns that you seem so sure will happen to Kat.

Comment / By flying squirrel / Sept. 11, 2010, 2:32 p.m.

Deric

Have you googled complications associated with body piercing? this would fall under that category……other risks include Hepatitis and permanent nerve damage…

Comment / By ocean / Sept. 11, 2010, 6:35 p.m.

You could actually be doing a service to humanity by writing about someone helping cancer victims or covering someone helping kids to read or do math…instead you focus on someone abusing their body?? You’ve reached a new low. What is the purpose of this article. I am not longer interested in the Journal. Your priorities are screwed up.

Comment / By Deric Mendes / Sept. 11, 2010, 8:46 p.m.

Flying Squirrel,

I hear your concerns. I personally have no desire to hang from my flesh, however the bigger picture needs to be addressed. According to a 2009 study published in the journal Medscape, approximately 36 per cent of Americans have some form of body piercing.18 per cent of people pierced have it removed in the first couple years. Overall 17% pierced individuals report injury, although more than half of those injured are due to minor infections during the duration of their piercing. It should be noted that people who do suspension don’t even equal one per cent of the pierced population.

So yes, to simplify, less than 3% of the overall population will suffer a moderate piercing injury.

This number pales in comparison to people who will obtain self-induced athletic injuries. I dare you to tell Americans that they should stop playing organized sports. The country will be crying like a four year old who’s accidentally lost grip of a helium filled balloon.

So is the argument of medical expense still worth considering?

As Burns notes in the article, suspension, or O-Kee-Pa (buffalo dance) was initially done as a rite of passage by the Mandans. For some, it’s a part of their fetishism. For Kat, it’s something completely different. To deny people the right to do suspension (or even get pierced, as you seem to want to do) means to deny sexual expression, cultural tradition, cultural evolution and religious freedom. To do so would be a costly and grave mistake.

Comment / By flying squirrel / Sept. 11, 2010, 9:40 p.m.

Deric

As a Registered Nurse I see many an infection from piercing gone awry……. and quite frankly you are missing my point here, I really don’t care what this young woman does to herself as long as she is responsible for her own actions and the tax payers don’t get stuck with the brunt of it.

Comment / By Rose / Sept. 11, 2010, 10:34 p.m.

If only the commanders at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib had known that they could string people up by tuna hooks stuck in the skin on their backs, twirl them around while blood dripped from the piercings as people stood around cheering and getting their rocks off - that this would be considered COOL - if they had only known, waterboarding would have been totally unnecessary. Torture is merely erotic self expression. Dontcha know?

This woman works with disabled people. She is noted as going to a ‘horse-riding’ clinic - where teenage girls serve as volunteers to help give those disabled people a pure and wonderful gift. How many parents know what it is that is present while their daughters are volunteering?

This is not cool. This is sick. And you know it.

Comment / By Joel Mielke / Sept. 12, 2010, 9:03 a.m.

Rose sounds completely loony as she tries to make the case that someone else is crazy.

Comment / By Ryan Burns / Sept. 12, 2010, 10:06 a.m.

@Flying Squirrel: I suspect you missed Deric’s point, not vice versa. You say you don’t care what Kat does to herself as long as she’s self insured. Would you, as a registered nurse, make the same argument for, say, motorcycle riders? Skateboarders? Rock climbers? If your concern truly is the financial burden of risk-takers on the American taxpayer, you’ll have to work through a long list of offenders before you reach human suspension.

Comment / By flying squirrel / Sept. 12, 2010, 11:18 a.m.

Ryan

in your attempt to present an “edgy” story you have mostly disgusted and pissed off a lot of people. driving a car or motorcycle already requires insurance by law, I think the government knows there is risk involved here…..

and yes, if you are going to engage in risky behavior, that is your right, but be responsible about it…….my guess is that Kat also has mental health issues, and should seek help instead of doing this again. and shame on you people for giving her the needed attention she obviously craves…….I don’t think I will pick up The Journal any longer, you all need to grow up a little……..you’re just a little to hipster for me apparently…….

Comment / By Joel Mielke / Sept. 12, 2010, 12:27 p.m.

Jesus, what a bunch of crybabies. Look, I’m disgusted and horrified by tattoos, but that’s just my tough shit. I should be so lucky as to have the ghastly things confined to a single Journal cover that I could choose to look at or ignore.

Consider yourselves fortunate.

Comment / By flying squirrel / Sept. 12, 2010, 12:45 p.m.

yes, but we were not given a choice were we? it was on the cover…..it should have been on the inside with a warning given about the disturbing nature of the images, then it would have been a choice……

Comment / By Joel Mielke / Sept. 12, 2010, 12:56 p.m.

Read my comment again, Squirrel. I’m going to mow what’s left of my lawn.

Comment / By Rose / Sept. 12, 2010, 2:50 p.m.

Look - if they took an animal and hung it up there by its skin pierced by meat hooks, dripping blood, and stood around and cheered, it would be considered sick animal abuse. Depravity.

It isn’t any less sick because it is euphemistically called “human suspension.”

And, the people standing around cheering are as depraved as she is.

Comment / By Deric Mendes / Sept. 12, 2010, 3:28 p.m.

First, it seems some Humboldt residents don’t get out of town enough. The Journal is pretty tame compaired to other alt weekly’s such as the Stranger, or even the SF Weekly. I would love to see the faces of these naysayers after reading Savage Love.

Secondly, one can hardly walk down the street without seeing a torture device displayed as a “hopeful” religious icon. Seven days of this cover photo is nothing, comparatively.

Oh, and Rose, there is this thing called voluntary will. People getting tortured are not volunteering to do so. If you think they are, you may want to look up the definition of torture.

Comment / By Mike Buettner / Sept. 12, 2010, 3:59 p.m.

At least a lot of folks will be looking forward to next weeks Journal.

The only problem I have with it is the fact the hooks don’t look very sharp.

Comment / By Buzz / Sept. 12, 2010, 4:28 p.m.

Readers are so offended, there are hardly any copies left at the two places I pick up the Journal.

Comment / By MetaMe / Sept. 12, 2010, 8:59 p.m.

I like to keep a positive attitude so I want to thank you for this article for the following reasons: - While it ruined my lunch I didn’t need the calories anyway. - Since the issue found it’s way into the recycle bin in record time, I saved all that time I usually spend perusing the advertisements. - I found new appreciation for the Eureka Times Standard as a source lunchtime reading material. Keep up the good work.

Comment / By Joel Mielke / Sept. 12, 2010, 9:23 p.m.

” …it ruined my lunch.”

Now you’re making me sick.

Comment / By in a handbasket / Sept. 13, 2010, 8:36 a.m.

Rock and Roll is gonna be the END OF US. Don’t show Elvis below the hips!!! Oops, did I get my forums mixed up?

Comment / By Holly Blue / Sept. 13, 2010, 11:58 a.m.

Fantastic, non-judgmental article that simply reported an interesting story in a clear manner.

The cover, however, was clearly chosen and designed to provoke shock and controversy. Good story and journalism, lame sensational cover. You totally set the expectation that the story would be about addiction to gruesome torture. You went for the easy shock value instead of keeping in line with the non-judgmental tone of the actual story.

Comment / By cat / Sept. 13, 2010, 2:02 p.m.

Jimmy McNuts, obviously you are not a parent (and hopefully you never will be.)

I walked by this cover again today and got a jolt to my gut. Thursday cannot come soon enough.

Comment / By Deb / Sept. 13, 2010, 3:15 p.m.

Clap if you believe in fairies! Fly, tinker bell, fly! Really, once you’ve seen it, it’s not all that big a deal, in fact, it gets really boring quickly.

Comment / By Tracie Nickle / Sept. 13, 2010, 3:26 p.m.

I completely agree with the opinion that this cover was set for the shock value and totally not necessary. The picture looks like something from a horror movie. I happened to see it while I was eating breakfast and almost gaged. It’s the blood, right. The blood is what makes it wrong for the cover. The photo attached to this article should have been on the cover of the paper. It also would have made people think “what the hell is this.” So I think it sucks that NCJ would be so “media typical” by playing the shock value game to this extent and be willing to subject very young kids to that image for no real reason. Not to mention I almost lost my breakfast in the middle of a restaurant. And to all those who just want to insult the opinions of others with nothing but judments take a step back and ask yourselves if the cover photo was simply put there as a “car crash” so we all would look at it and open up the journal, and could a different photo have been used for the same effect. I personally think the picture of a bloody self-inflicted mess was way over the top and could have easily been replaced with a non-bloody, self-inflicted mess, the bloody one should have been on the inside.

Comment / By Deb / Sept. 13, 2010, 3:38 p.m.

As for kids being exposed to the picture on the front of the magazine, those kids get to see the ads for “Saw” on the TV! If chained up people screaming in terror in some dirty bathroom is not going to damage them, how would this? People are such idiots! ALL of us!

Comment / By Claire / Sept. 13, 2010, 8:31 p.m.

Sri Lankans put on a weeklong procession every August called the Perahera. Sort of Buddihst, but mostly cultural, it’s been going on for hundreds of years, I think. Every night for a week, an enormous parade of dancers and decorated elephants goes by- very colorful. A few groups of dancers are strung up like this gal, thru pins in their backs tied to mulitple ropes held by their trainers that keep them swirling around. They drink a milky liquid that reportedly contains heroin to dull the pain. They are in a whirling trance with the hooks in the back. When it’s brown people doing it it’s deep meaningful “culture”. when it’s a white girl doing it, it’s “sick.” Whatever.

Comment / By Nic / Sept. 13, 2010, 10:24 p.m.

Nice article!

While it may be unusual, this is our culture. It’s nice to see articles that place a spotlight on areas of culture that don’t tend to get much notice. All the better to examine why we do things! As far as the cover, I’ve seen more disturbing images during daytime television- during the commercials!

Who’s got balls!? The NCJ has balls!

Comment / By Rumbustious / Sept. 14, 2010, 12:23 a.m.

I think there’s a difference between children seeing news — which they DO recognize as real life — and TV or movie horror/violence which, on some level they know is make-believe, as disgusting and frightening as it may be. News actually does far more damage to children — since it’s real, they know it could happen to THEM or their family.

I remember, when I was 4 or 5, reading a newspaper story in the SF Call-Bulletin about a 7-year old in Montreal who was playing in a neighborhood (empty lot) baseball game. He walked away with a “man with funny skin” , and was never seen alive again. Instead, he was dismembered and parts of his body were found newspaper-wrapped in trashcans all around Montreal. I remember being very frightened, and asked my mother (who didn’t know I was reading the paper) how far away Montreal was from San Francisco. I knew it was real, and I was worried he could get me. Now this happened 60 years ago, and yet I have this tremendously vivid, detailed memory of it.

Real news can have a huge impact on kids.

Comment / By Rocketman / Sept. 14, 2010, 6:13 a.m.

See the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders:

Paraphilias - 302.81: Fetishism 302.83: Sexual Masochism

‘Nuff Said.

~(Ä)~

Comment / By 1389AD / Sept. 14, 2010, 6:54 a.m.

Putting this on the cover is a new twist on the old rule of thumb in what passes for “journalism” these days:

“If it bleeds, it leads.”

This story is nothing but an all-too-effective distraction. And I’ll admit, it’s hard to look away from a train wreck, even while more vehicles are coming at you from every other direction.

The media is in charge of providing the “circuses” portion of the old Roman “bread and circuses” to keep the public quiet so that they don’t get the idea to rebel against, or secede from, a predatory and tyrannical central government.

As with Rome, our federal government is a republic no longer, and its political class cares nothing for the interests of the citizenry that they once claimed to represent.

Comment / By joecool / Sept. 14, 2010, 6:57 a.m.

Obviously we cannot dictate what people do in private. As a teacher, if my community found out I were doing something like this, they would find a way to get rid of me & I wouldn’t blame them. I want upstanding moral people to teach my kids. Evidently social workers don’t need to be held up as role models. I don’t care if this behavior has been going on for thousands of years or more. So has mass murder.

Comment / By Moonshadow / Sept. 14, 2010, 7:03 a.m.

After hearing about this article on another Humboldt blog I ventured over to have a look. I’m impressed with the tasteful treatment of suspension piercing and Kat. No judgement of what she’s doing … just a clear respectful examination of her art and the fetish of suspension.

Thanks Ryan and North Coast Journal for publishing this.

As a nod to those with objections re: the cover … they do have a point and I do understand that extreme piercing is difficult for some to look at so perhaps a different picture (un-pierced) on the cover?

Comment / By Anoymous / Sept. 14, 2010, 8:05 a.m.

“Joe Cool” smells a lot like “Rose.” So worried they are not “cool.”

Comment / By Ryan Burns / Sept. 14, 2010, 9:24 a.m.

@Rumbustious, @JoeCool: A sharp distinction can be drawn between child-molestation/mass murder and human suspension. Care to take a stab at it?

@1389AD: We’re a propaganda tool for our tyrannical overlords? Shit, man. I need a raise.

Comment / By Washington Carrasco / Sept. 14, 2010, 10:11 a.m.

For being so powerful, you sure look like dorks.

Comment / By Ryan Burns / Sept. 14, 2010, 4:25 p.m.

@Washington Carrasco: True dat!

Comment / By Washington Carrasco / Sept. 14, 2010, 5:42 p.m.

Of course I meant that affectionately, like all of those loving Baptists on the “Beer Me Jesus” thread.

Comment / By Mitch / Sept. 14, 2010, 9:42 p.m.

No, Ryan. You need an editor.

Comment / By Travis Turner / Sept. 15, 2010, 11:35 a.m.

Hank, stop being cheap and hire a photographer. The photos made me want to vomit and not because of the subject matter. The cover photo looked like a thirteen year old took it with a camera phone. The photos inside were even worse but at least they had a bunch of pages covering them up.

Comment / By Andrew Goff / Sept. 15, 2010, 1:38 p.m.

Nice pitch, Trav. Go to more human suspensions and you’re hired.

Comment / By Dan / Sept. 15, 2010, 1:55 p.m.

Hopefully the Journal will do an article on my new hobby, public masturbation. Don’t tell my dad about it though. I’m ok with people watching me spank it in public, but I’m not ready for my dad to know about it. He might cut off my trust fund. So unfair. Public masturbation is a part of our “culture”, just ask George Michael, or Glenn Beck. Maybe the Journal will put me on the cover. I guess that would be repeating themselves though……..

Comment / By DYLANESQUE / Sept. 16, 2010, 6:51 a.m.

Before this analyst comments, please let me see whether it will post.

Comment / By DYLANESQUE / Sept. 16, 2010, 7:40 a.m.

THURSDAY, 7:00 AM SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

With infinite respect, mental disease reigns in this country, culture, world.

In the United States, DOMINANT Sociological cult-ures, on Planet Earrth [stet].

From sociopathic Conservative Corporatist Politicos,

To theocrats – with BATS in the steeple and RATS in the catacombs –,

To misogynist “hoe”-abusing, punk-thug rat-bully gangster rappers,

To dictatorial child- and wife-abusing farther [stet] figure frauds,

To psycho-sadistic Governmental torturers,

To a psychotic “Mother” who abused me for 17 years,

To police officers who display – clear – clinical psychotic conduct,

To neural-arrogant criminally wealthy felons who “unthought of, though, somehow” think they are above complying with requisite commission demands,

To media moguls who think they can brain-dirty, foully condition, and expose even tweenys to constant “soft porn” on television and the Internet,

And – most devastatingly relevant now –

To sociopathic Conservative Corporatist Politicos,

Who have destroyed, humiliated, dissed, discarded, and dismissed the Middle Class!

ADMIT IT, FRIENDS!!

ADMIT – THAT THE SO-CALLED AUTHORITARIAN “AUTHORITIES”;

THE FRAUDULENT FARTHER FIGURE RATS;

THE THEOCRAT PATRIRATS

HAVE SUCCESSFULLY FORCED UPON WE THE PEOPLE

A GROSS CULT-URE OF DECADENCE MUCH WORSE THAN (ANCIENT, MODERN) ROME!!

AND the reactionary Conservative RATS have DOMINATED Us,

and maintained their mentally-diseased HEGEMONY over We the People for two-thousand years plus now.

With infinite respect, Respectfully reported and submitted,

Signed,

DOK-TORS SIGMUND AND ANNA FREUD PINK FLOYD, “The Wall” Street JULIAN ASSANGE

GEORGE OR-WELL ZAGLER AND EVANS ASB2525

Comment / By Carol / Sept. 16, 2010, 9:58 p.m.

Just picked up the Sept.16th Journal- I wanted to see the publishers defense of “Hooked”. You owe your loyal readers and advertisers an explanation and an apology. Your silence on the matter is cowardly.

Comment / By Carol / Sept. 16, 2010, 9:58 p.m.

Just picked up the Sept.16th Journal- I wanted to see the publishers defense of “Hooked”. You owe your loyal readers and advertisers an explanation and an apology. Your silence on the matter is cowardly.

Comment / By Carol / Sept. 16, 2010, 9:58 p.m.

Just picked up the Sept.16th Journal- I wanted to see the publishers defense of “Hooked”. You owe your loyal readers and advertisers an explanation and an apology. Your silence on the matter is cowardly.

Comment / By Joel Mielke / Sept. 17, 2010, 8:25 a.m.

I can’t explain, but let me take a shot at an apology: I, for one, am sorry that the ugly cover photo made some people hysterical.