One of America's most prominent Confederistas is Michael Hill, head whackjob at the looney League of the South—an obscure organization that has already declared southern cultural independence.

All of these practices by which the body is voluntarily tortured, disciplined, denie and de(p)leted are part of a larger tendency Paul Virilio calls endocolonization: It's no longer exo-colonization (the age of extending world conquest) but the age of intensiveness and endocolonization. One now colonizes only one's own population […] In the age of endocolonization, then, bodies are disappearng from themselves and (dis)integrating into technology.

[…] and when you raise the 10-cent cigarette, on which you get the same tax as you do on the higher-priced cigarette, the increase in roll-your-owns will go right ahead and cause a diminution in consumption due to that higher cost.

God's sake, speak her fair and canny, or we will have a raveled hasp on the yarn-windles!