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I love doing the semiannual “Great Nonfiction Pieces Online For Free” lists (here’s the one from the end of 2012), but it has one obvious drawback: The amazing stuff that’s gated doesn’t get any love from this blog. So a quick note that if you are behind on your New Yorker reading so far this year and have yet to look at Jon Lee Anderson’s piece about Venezuela (“Letter from Caracas: Slumlord”), you need to catch up on it. Yes, it’s subscription-only, but completely worth the investment.

Oh, an equally amazing piece from the same publication, Patrick Radden Keefe’s new article about the Amy Bishop murder case (“A Loaded Gun“) is completely free and ungated. It’s likewise a must-read.

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These are the brand of raisins I prefer should you go to the market. (Image by Carlosar.)

Before getting to our featured country, let me first thank the fine people of Lebanon, Poland, Latvia and Spain, who have been frequent visitors to the idiotic site known as Afflictor in September. You are the wind beneath my fucking wings!

A special thanks goes out to all the people in Venezuela who have visited Afflictor so far this month. It’s been nice to have you with us. Best known as a country where kidnapping at gunpoint is the main form of aerobic exercise, Venezuela likely has such a high rate of violent crime because it is the domain of an insecure, controlling, thuggish sack of crap known as Hugo Chavez. He applies the country’s Constitution very selectively to gain revenge on those who disagree with him. Some genius Americans like Oliver Stone and Sean Penn  support Chavez for the type of behavior that would outrage them coming from their own President. They are irresponsible d-bags.

Venezuelans apparently need to rely on Afflictor for opinion, since having a free opinion there is so dangerous. We’re glad to be of service. A warm Afflictor welcome to you, the fine people of Venezuela!

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