"SPEAKING OF BURNING HUMANS -- actual ones, as opposed to ones who existed only in Alex's imagination -- in the late 1970s, a left-wing Filipino journalist named Satur Ocampo was arrested in Manila by President Ferdinand Marcos' soldiers. He was manacled, blindfolded and electrocuted, while soldiers poured cola on him (which apparently makes the electrocution more painful). His nipples and genitalia were burned. He survived, but thousands of Marcos' other enemies were "salvaged," Marcos' term for torturing and mutilating them before dumping them on a roadside for public display. Ferdinand Marcos was a client of Paul Manafort and Roger Stone's lobbying firm. He paid it an annual retainer of $950,000 to "tamp down concerns about [his] human rights record," according to Politico magazine's Kenneth P. Vogel. Anti-elitism was Alex's thing, but all that seemed pretty elitist to me. Did Alex care about that?"