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BOOKS | ‘Life Is a Butt Dial: Tales from a Life Among
the Tragically Hip’
It’s A greezy, slippery slope to fun! By Mariann G. Wizard | The Rag Blog | September 11, 2021 When it’s the Dog Days and the second summer of Covid and the headlines are ugly and even Cousin Junebug has … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Cleve Hattersley, Greezy Wheels, Life Is a Butt Dial, Memoir, Rock and Roll
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BOOKS | Alice Embree’s ‘Voice Lessons’
This important book tells the story of Alice Embree’s struggle to be heard at a time when women were especially marginalized. By Sharon Shelton | The Rag Blog | August 26, 2021 Voice Lessons by Alice Embree (Briscoe Center for … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Austin History, Books, Feminism, Rag Bloggers, Sharron Shelton, Voice Lessons, Women's Movement
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PUBLIC HEALTH | Gov. Abbott’s pandemic failure
It is not a personal health decision when the failure to protect oneself endangers the lives of everyone. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | August 19, 2021 Like many Americans, I have been pondering how we could … Continue reading
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FOREIGN POLICY | The elephant in the room
United States global hegemony is coming to an end. By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | August 19, 2021 [This article was adapted by the author from a 2017 post that appeared in The Rag Blog.] An empire in … Continue reading
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Tagged Globalization, Harry Targ, Rag Bloggers, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Imperialism
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TEXAS HISTORY | Forgetting almost all I ever learned
about the Alamo
The men who fought there may have been brave, but I no longer count them as heroes. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | July 29, 2021 As a child in the 1950s, it seems that almost everything … Continue reading
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BOOKS | Rails and roads
Novelist Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Underground Railroad,’ is an epic novel of bondage and liberation. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | July 29, 2021 Near the end of The Underground Railroad, his epic novel about bondage and freedom, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Colson Whitehead, Jonah Raskin, Literature, Rag Bloggers, The Underground Railroad
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BOOKS | Look for the book: ‘Exploring Space City!’
Our much-anticipated book about Houston’s historic underground paper will be published before the end of the year. By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | July 22, 2021 Exploring Space City!: Houston’s Historic Underground Newspaper. Yes, our much-anticipated book about … Continue reading
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Tagged Exploring Space City!, Kerry Fitzgerald, Rag Bloggers, Space City!, Thorne Dreyer
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BOOKS | The threat to democracy continues
Revisiting Nancy MacLean’s groundbreaking 2017 book, ‘Democracy in Chains.’ By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | July 15, 2021 Nancy MacLean, in her groundbreaking 2017 book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Democracy in Chains, Harry Targ, Nancy MacLean, Rag Bloggers, Salvador Allende, Voter Suppression
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BOOKS | ‘By the Light of Burning Dreams’: Everybody
is a star
The book honors ‘the triumphs of the Sixties,’ though it does not neglect ‘the tragedies.’ By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | July 8, 2021 Near the end of his days as a cultural revolutionary, Abbie Hoffman explained, facetiously, … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Books, By the Light of Burning Dreams, David Talbot, Jonah Raskin, Margaret Talbot, Rag Bloggers, Sixties
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BOOKS | Ethel Rosenberg’s life story told in new book
I found the book to be painfully sad due to the injustice and the cruelty of the execution. By Allen Young | The Rag Blog | June 13, 2021 COLD SPRING, N.Y. — On June 19, 1953, the government of … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Young, Books, Ethel Rosenberg, Rag Bloggers, Rosenberg Case
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