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Yearly Archives: 2011
Sex, Corruption and the Kool-Aid Massacre By Paul Krassner / The Rag Blog / November 23, 2011 November 18th marked the 33rd anniversary of the Jonestown massacre. Jim Jones, founder of the 8,000-member People’s Temple in San Francisco, once asked … Continue reading
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Sex, Corruption and the Kool-Aid Massacre By Paul Krassner / The Rag Blog / November 23, 2011 November 18th marked the 33rd anniversary of the Jonestown massacre. Jim Jones, founder of the 8,000-member People’s Temple in San Francisco, once asked … Continue reading
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Lamar W. Hankins : Judge Ken Anderson Still Can’t Tell the Truth
Former Williamson County prosecutor Ken Anderson, now a county judge, shown before testifying about his role in the murder trial of Michael Morton. Photo by the Texas Tribune / KUT News.Judge Ken Anderson still can’ttell the truth about the Morton … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice, Ken Anderson, Lamar W. Hankins, Michael Morton, Texas Courts
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Steve Russell : Will Rogers on Occupy Wall Street
Get the point? Image of Will Rogers from the Will Rogers Museum.Will Rogers on Occupy Wall Street By Steve Russell / The Rag Blog / November 23, 2011 It’s all right to let Wall Street bet each other millions of … Continue reading
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Tagged Banking, Occupy Wall Street, Steve Russell, Will Rogers
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Nicole Berland : Occupying Ideas in Austin
Photos from Occupy Austin Reading Group / Facebook.The ideas behind the actions:Occupy Austin Reading Group By Nicole Berland / Fringe Magazine / November 22, 2011 [The Occupy Wall Street movement is often judged by its most visible and dramatic and … Continue reading
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Tagged Nicole Berland, Occupy Austin, Occupy Austin Reading Group, Occupy Wall Street, Social Action
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Image from Occupy Austin Reading Group. Occupy Ideas:Occupy Austin Reading Group By Nicole Berland / Fringe Magazine / November 22, 2011 AUSTIN — When I first heard about the Occupy Wall Street movement, I regarded it with the same attitude … Continue reading
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Rag Radio : Singer/Songwriter, Author, and Actor Bobby Bridger
Bobby Bridger performs live on Rag Radio, Friday, November 18, 2011, at the KOOP studios in Austin. Photos by Carlos Lowry / The Rag Blog.Singer/Songwriter, Author, Actor, and Artist Bobby Bridgeron Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer. Listen to it here: … Continue reading
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Tagged Bobby Bridger, Eliza Gilkyson, Ellen LaConte, Interview, Musicians, Rag Radio, Singer-Songwriters, Sustainability, Thorne Dreyer
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FILM / Jonah Raskin : Eastwood’s Biopic of Kinky Hoover
Former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, the subject of Clint Eastwood’s new biopic, is shown here in a still from a 1936 documentary, You Can’t Get Away With It.Kinky Hoover:Clint Eastwood’s biopic of the FBI director Eastwood presents Hoover as … Continue reading
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Tagged Clint Eastwood, COINTELPRO, FBI, Film, J. Edgar Hoover, Jonah Raskin, Leonardo DiCaprio
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Occupy Fringe: Occupy Austin Reading Group By Nicole Berland / Fringe Magazine / November 22, 2011 AUSTIN — When I first heard about the Occupy Wall Street movement, I regarded it with the same attitude I reserve for my fantasies … Continue reading
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Harvey Wasserman : Stop the Attack on Iran
Bumper sticker on a car in Texas. Photo by Zereshk / Wikimedia Commons.Our future depends on stopping an attack on IranBy Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / November 21, 2011 The global Occupy Movement has come to life just … Continue reading
SPORT / Dave Zirin : The Redemption of Tim Tebow?
One of the hottest items on the sports marketing scene is the Tebow number 15 jersey with “Jesus” on the back.Tebow redeemed?Tim Tebow is awful,but he finds a way to win He’s not awful in the turgid unwatchable way that, … Continue reading
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