YOU'RE BACK ON TWITTER AFTER A BRIEF, POST-STICK HIATUS. WHO WILL YOU TERRORIZE NEXT? If extremists are going to say crazy things about me, I guess I might as well own it. There are so many good candidates for my scary metaphor-based left-wing terrorism. The wealthy who use the Cayman Islands as tax havens. Union-busting corporations. Oil companies that pollute the planet. But if I'm really going to fight evil, I think I have to direct my power against the Transsiberian Orchestra, which objectively is the worst band in the world. I mean, really, every December we are all oppressed by bombastic faux-metal orchestral arrangements. Has a greater evil ever plagued the human race? No.

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