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  • In the Church of the Reverend Gary Davis, Ernie Hawkins Is St. Peter
    Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 22:00

    So here we are in the eighth term of the Reagan administration, in the middle of a heat wave, in the middle of the hottest year on record, in the middle of a likely mass extinction event.

    It’s not quite time to say good-bye to your friends and family. It would be time to have a general...

  • In the Church of the Reverend Gary Davis, Ernie Hawkins Is St. Peter
    Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 21:59

    So here we are in the eighth term of the Reagan administration, in the middle of a heat wave, in the middle of the hottest year on record, in the middle of a likely mass extinction event.

    It’s not quite time to say good-bye to your friends and family. It would be time to have a general...

  • Barky Python’s Plagiarized Dead Pelican Society
    Monday, June 21, 2010 - 06:43

    CUSTOMER: I wish to register a complaint.

    CLERK: Sorry, mate, it’s time for lunch.

    CUSTOMER: Never mind about that, my lad. I wish to complain about this pelican that I purchased not half an hour ago from this very Oval Office.

    CLERK: What’s wrong with it?

    CUSTOMER: I...

  • Does the Ruling Class Really Want to Commit Suicide?
    Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - 22:14

    Last March I went to the Left Forum in New York, which is a yearly gathering of liberals, progressives, anarchists, socialists, communists, hippies, punks, mystics, conspiracy theorists and anti-conspiracy theorists who are all trying to figure out how to get to a decent future from the indecent...

  • Lone Star Cheesehead Versus The Lesser Of Two Medievals
    Wednesday, June 2, 2010 - 06:01

    The Texas State Board of Education is a lot like the weather. Everyone talks about it, nobody does anything about it.

    Except Judy Jennings. She’s running for the Texas State Board of Education in District 10, which stretches in vast zigzags from the ‘burbs of Austin to the ‘burbs of...

  • Channeling the Pentagon Channel: The New Socialist Realism
    Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 08:47

    The Pentagon Channel is not the Military Channel. The Military Channel is Hitler plus top ten lists. You wanna know about the failed plot to assassinate the Fuehrer in 1944 and then learn the ten best attack submarines of all time--the Military Channel is your meat. It’s the NFL Network with a...

  • Radio Free Maine: Today Augusta, Tomorrow the World
    Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 12:57

    In the spring of 1994, I went to the Socialist Scholars Conference in New York where I encountered a large red-faced man with white hair. He had the look and manner of Santa Claus, minus the beard, and he was standing behind a table from which he was selling audio and video cassettes of lectures...

  • More Cynicism
    Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 12:30

    That famous definition of a cynic as someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing has come to define this present moment of American politics.
    --Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

    I know that I criticize you [Bernie...



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