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Alan Waldman : Anglo-Welsh Sitcom ‘Gavin & Stacey’ is Wacky Gem
Waldman’s film and TV treasures you may have missed: Englishman James Corden and Welshwoman Ruth Jones wrote and performed in one of the freshest, wackiest TV comedies in years: the award-gobbling, Anglo-Welsh sitcom Gavin & Stacey By Alan Waldman | … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Waldman, British Television, Criticism, Gavin and Stacey, Vintage Television
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VERSE / Don Paul : Word Passed Down through Forbidden Radio
Don Paul and Chuck Kinder at Stanford, January 2002. Photo by April Smith.Word Passed Downthrough Forbidden Radio for Chuck Kinder and John Sinclair on their birthdays, October 2012 The voices beside your pillow, friends past midnight,Wailing from the River, whistling … Continue reading
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Tagged Chuck Kinder, Don Paul, John Sinclair, Literature, Poetry
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Harry Targ : The Real Romney Foreign Policy
Will the real Mitt Romney please stand up? Image from Foreign Policy.Unleashing the military:The real Romney foreign policy Military spending would grow in a Romney administration, especially because of ties to the neocons and a hawkish Congress which promotes military … Continue reading
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Tagged Foreign Policy, Harry Targ, Imperialism, Mitt Romney, Peace Movement, U.S. Military
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IDEAS / Bill Meacham : Is Religion a Parasitic Meme or a Helpful Adaptation?
Moai at Easter Island. Moai are the living faces of deified ancestors. Image from Wikimedia Commons.Religion:Parasitic meme or helpful adaptation? That humans are religious is indisputable. Like morality, religion in one form or another seems to be a universal aspect … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthropology, Bill Meacham, Evolution, Ideas, New Atheists, Philosophy, Religion
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Lamar W. Hankins : Paul Ryan Makes War Against People, Not Poverty
President Lyndon Johnson marked the start of the War on Poverty with a visit to Tom Fletcher’s front porch in Martin County, Kentucky, in April 1964. Photo by Walter Bennett / Time magazine. Image from Daily Yonder.Paul Ryan’s war:Not against … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative Politics, Head Start, Lamar W. Hankins, LBJ, Paul Ryan, Sixties, VISTA, War on Poverty
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The Kinkster, who was our guest on Rag Radio, said he’s seriously considering a second try for governor of Texas in 2012, this time as a Democrat. Singer-songwriter, mystery writer, and social satirist Friedman talks about politics, music, “political correctness,” … Continue reading
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Rag Blog Digest: “Weimar Moment?” by Jay Jurie; Dreyer interviews Kinky Friedman; “Reds Under Romney’s Bed!” by Mike Davis; Jonah Raskin on “Uncle Tom Vs. Simon Legree” — plus Alan Waldman, “Texas Cheerleaders for Jesus,” “Do the Romneys Own Your … Continue reading
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Jay D. Jurie : ‘Weimar Moment’ or Chicken Little?
“Pillars of Society.” Painting by militantly anti-Nazi German Dadaist George Grosz, 1926, during the Weimar Republic. Image from Alpha History.It can’t happen here:A ‘Weimar moment’ or Chicken Little? Whether or not the U.S. is at a ‘Weimar moment,’ those who … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Fascism, Jay D. Jurie, Nazi Germany, Weimar Republic
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RAG RADIO / Thorne Webb Dreyer : ‘Texas Jewboy’ Kinky Friedman Mulls Second Run for Governor’s Mansion
Rag Radio podcast: The Kinkster talks music and politics and second run for Texas governor Kinky Friedman in the studios of KOOP-FM in Austin, Texas, Friday, October 19, 2012. Photo by William Michael Hanks / The Rag Blog. By Thorne … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Country Music, Humorists, Interview, Kinky Friedman, Podcast, Rag Radio, Singer-Songwriters, Texas Musicians, Texas Politics, Thorne Dreyer
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Author Tova Andrea Wang and journalist Harvey Wasserman were Thorne Dreyer’s guests on Rag Radio, produced in the studios of KOOP-FM in Austin, on Friday, Oct. 5, 2012.Rag Radio podcast:Tova Andrea Wang and Harvey Wassermanon voter suppression in America By … Continue reading
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BOOKS / Mike Davis : The Reds Under Romney’s Bed
The reds under Romney’s bed The image of the Red Cavalry going into battle with the Book of Mormon in their saddlebags is quite a stretch; most of us, on the contrary, would probably vote for Mormon ‘socialism’ as the … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Books, Brigham Young, Mike Davis, Mitt Romney, Mormon Church, Socialism, Utah
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