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Yearly Archives: 2010
Distribution of Wealth : Way Out of Whack
Image from OECD / CBS News.Trickle UP theory:The recession and its roots By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / July 15, 2010 Have you ever wondered just what caused the deep recession that the United States is in? Many … Continue reading
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Tagged Economics, Income Gap, Poverty, Recession, Ted McLaughlin, Wealth
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Chief Wahoo — the cartoonish logo of the Cleveland Indians — is arguably the most racist logo in sports, with its “ridiculous, buck-toothed profoundly offensive caricature of a single-feathered native.” With the departure of Lebron James from the Cavaliers — … Continue reading
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Paul Krassner : Remembering Tuli Kupferberg
In the day: Paul Krassner, Tuli Kupferberg, and unidentified woman. Photo by Paskal / The Rag Blog.And about those rumors…Remembering Tuli By Paul Krassner / The Rag Blog / July 14, 2010 [Tuli Kupferberg, beat poet, singer, and a founder … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Deaths, Ed Sanders, Philip Roth, Poets, Rock 'n Roll, Singers, Sixties, The Fugs, Tuli Kupferberg
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Beat poet, humanist, political mystic, rock star… Tuli Kupferberg is dead at 86. When writer Carl R. Hultberg, only 16 at the time, first saw Tuli and the Fugs at the Players Theatre on MacDougal Street in the Village in … Continue reading
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Tuli Kupferberg of The Fugs : Rock’s Inner City Shaman
Tuli Kupferberg. Image from The Poetry Project.Beat poet, humanist, political mystic, rock star:The Fugs’ Tuli Kupferberg dies at 86 Despite all my waspy-whitebread cultural upbringing I fell in love with this individual immediately, even though he was probably the ugliest … Continue reading
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Tagged Beat Generation, Carl R. Hultberg, New York City, Poets, Rock 'n Roll, Sixties, The Fugs, Tuli Kupferberg
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BOOKS / Jonah Raskin : ‘Mockingbird’ is Muddleheaded and Superficial
First edition image from Manhattan Rare Books.To Kill a Mockingbird turns 50:Harper Lee’s muddleheadedNovel for white liberals By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / July 13, 2010 This summer, literate Americans are feting the 50th anniversary of the publication … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Books, Civil Rights Movement, Film, Gregory Peck, Harper Lee, Jonah Raskin, Literature, Racism, Sixties, the South, To Kill a Mockingbird
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SPORT / Chief Wahoo : The Curse of Cleveland
Image from Newspaper RockMost racist logo in sports:Has Chief Wahoo again cursed Cleveland? By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / July 13, 2010 CLEVELAND — Another tomahawk has sailed into the hearts of Cleveland sports fans. Is it the … Continue reading
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Tagged American Indians, Baseball, Cleveland, Harvey Wasserman, LeBron James, Native Americans, Racism, Sports, Sports Mascots
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla : Participants Speak Out
Gaza Freedom Flotilla participants Ann Wright and Joe Meadors spoke in Austin about their experiences. Photo by Alice Embree / The Rag Blog.Col. Ann Wright and Joe Meadors:What really happened on the Freedom Flotilla By Alice Embree / The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Ann Wright, Austin, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza, Israel, Palestinian Blockade, Peace Movement, Rag Radio, Thorne Dreyer
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Jack A. Smith : Israel and Palestine After the Flotilla / 2
A graffiti artist paints the face of a Palestinian child on a wall in Beirut, Lebanon. Image from EPA.Part 2: Breaking the blockadeIsrael and Palestine after the Flotilla By Jack A. Smith / The Rag Blog / July 13, 2010 … Continue reading
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Tagged Foreign Policy, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza, Israel, Jack A. Smith, Middle East, Palestinian Blockade
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Robert Jensen : Coping With Anguish
Art from toonpool.Struggling to be ‘fully alive’:Reports on coping with anguish By Robert Jensen / The Rag Blog / July 12, 2010 I don’t have anything to say that hasn’t been said many times over the centuries. That may have … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Global Crisis, Psychology, Robert Jensen, Social Change
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Marc Estrin : Our Brawling General
General James Mattis, shown here at Kandahar International Airport, Afghanistan, in 2001. Photo by Dave Martin / AFP.‘The lesson was learnt…’Our brawling general By Marc Estrin / The Rag Blog / July 12, 2010 So we have a new general … Continue reading
If you find yourself in a hole, Ed Felien tells us, then stop digging. Unfortunately the Obama administration just keeps digging us deeper into the Afghanistan hole as it pursues a doomed strategy. And it’s a strategy that could also … Continue reading
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