Brainbugs the Beiber Connection

Dizzy: My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything. 

Jean Rasczak: Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that. [to Carmen] You. 

Carmen: They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed. 

Jean Rasczak: Correct. Violence, naked force, has resolved more issues in history than has any other factor. The contrary opinion that violence doesn't solve anything is merely wishful thinking at its worst.

Shocking Revelations: The Ferengi Scrolls

Does this alien control fiscal policy?
Is he responsible for the Kraken's rage?
Does he rub lobes with the Kraken?

The more I have found out about the misunderstood Kraken, the more I feel compassion for him/her/it. Apart from spending millennia swimming through his own excrement, being fed promissory notes instead of gold, being surrounded by rowdy locals that have a habit of rioting and pillaging from each other since consciousness was subjected to the first rule of acquisition*: 

Even in the worst of times someone turns a profit.

The Lying Bastards* are Innocent

Such is the state of our democracy that journalists complain about protesters being 'self-appointed'

and serial bigots the Daily Mail along with serial hackers the Sun (who can never say sorry enough for Hillsborough or for their sister hacking dead soldiers) seem to be directing policy:

Then we hear that following this exchange "for several days there was media silence in France...a decision had been taken not to embarrass the French president":