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Fight Global Warming Denial : George Will Distorts the Facts
Global warming is one of the most urgent issues facing our country and the entire world. In dealing with an issue of such magnitude, the [Washington] Post has a duty to provide the truth to its readers. George Will is … Continue reading
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Saucer Specials?
Cartoon by Ralph Solonitz / The Rag Blog.[Ralph Solonitz’ cartoons also appear on MadasHellClub.net.] The Rag Blog
Long Strange Trip : Austin’s 13th Floor Elevators and Still Trippin’ Tommy Hall
Tommy Hall in his Tenderloin apartment in San Francisco. Photo by Jamie Soja. The story of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators – Austin’s favorite psychedelic sons – is rich, rowdy and textured. They sparked a counterculture, birthed a sound and inspired … Continue reading
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Tagged 13th Floor Elevators, Austin, Musicians, Psychedelia, Rock 'n Roll, San Francisco, Sixties
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Dr. Stephen R. Keister : Where Our Health Care Money Goes
William McGuire, former CEO of United HealthGroup, was paid $54.1 million, not counting stock options. Photo by G. Paul Burnett / NYT. One wonders just what motivates these [Republican] clowns. One could conjecture that it is an abiding, almost religious … Continue reading
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Blind Justice in Texas : Judge Keller Faces Impeachment Trial
Texas Judge Sharon Keller, and Michael Richard, who was executed after Judge Keller closed her door to his appeal. Keller photo by Elena Grothe / Austin American-Statesman. Photo of Richard from Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Sharon Keller – presiding … Continue reading
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Sustainability : Transforming Detroit
Photographer: Fabrizio Costantini/Bloomberg News. Hazel Williams picks green tomatoes at an Urban Farm off Linwood Avenue in Detroit, on Sept. 22, 2008. Photo by Fabrizio Costantini / Bloomberg.Detroit: City of HopeBuilding a sustainable economy out of the ashes of industry. … Continue reading
Fixing Health Care : Rush Limbaugh and the Radical Right
Our health care system is a ticking time bomb and the right wing opposes every effort to fix it. Photo/illustration by Mark Hooper / Stanford Medicine Magazine The science is already published, especially by Scripps Institute, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and … Continue reading
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Texas Toll Road 183-A: The economics and the special interests
Shrinking traffic increases could mean bond default problems for US 183-A. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | February 18, 2009 The road lobby operates as a sort of well-funded shadow government, organized to overcome citizen opposition to unpopular … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Roger Baker, Texas Toll Roads, Toll Roads, Transportation, Transportation Politics, TXDot
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Racism in the New York Post? Sharpton Spanks the Monkey Cartoon
Cartoon by Sean Delonas in today’s New York Post.‘The cartoon in today’s New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys.’ — Rev. Al Sharpton By TMZ / February 18, … Continue reading
Rabbi Arthur Waskow to the Senate : We Need Cloture
Sometimes cots have been set up at the Senate during filibusters. Photo by Stephen Crowley / NYT. Is it possible that an anti-filibuster campaign, grounded on the importance of letting a majority of Americans address this crisis that endangers us … Continue reading
Cable TV : A Republican Punch and Judy Show
Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog. Cable TV news and commentary channels seem to make little distinction between featuring a live two-headed mule on their shows or a live falsehood-spouting politician. By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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