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Bo Diddley : Who Do You Love?
Bo Diddley. Photo © Neal Preston/CORBIS.Bo Diddley’s beat changed the course of rock music. And his lyrics evoked a history that reached all the way to Africa. By Ned Sublette This article appears in the August issue of Smithsonian magazine. … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, Entertainers, Music, Musicians, Popular Culture, Rock 'n Roll, Songwriters
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Texas Appeals Court Takes New Look at Use of Post-Conviction DNA Evidence
‘We know the criminal justice system needs reform,’ By Grits for Breakfast | The Rag Blog | August 7, 2008 There was a time not so long ago when the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals didn’t think too highly of … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform, DNA, Innocence Project, Texas, Texas Courts
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If There Were a God, We’d Be in Them Ourselves
The Home of the CravenBy Jerome Doolittle / August 7, 2008 WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is segregating violent Iraqi prisoners in wooden crates that in some cases are not much bigger than the prisoners. As a boy I was … Continue reading
Paris Does John and Maybe Barack, Too
See Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad and more funny videos on FunnyOrDie.com See more funny videos at Funny or Die Source / Bad Attitudes The Rag Blog
Quote and Picture of the Day – Zoriah
Zoriah Miller writes of being a passenger in an armored vehicle convoy travelling through Iraq. I have come to realize that it is like being in jail, with a window looking out onto another jail. Zoriah, Photojournalist Source / ZORIAH … Continue reading
Houston Cong. Ted Poe : ‘Our Country Cannot Deceive Its Citizens’
Hah, hah …. Who is Ted Poe trying to kid? Living in Amerikkka is one gigantic deception, dude !!! Just where do you think you’ve been all your life? Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog Threats, Lies and AudiotapeBy Amy … Continue reading
A Twenty-First Century Cancer on the Presidency
Did Dick Cheney Give Bush Plausible Deniability?by Johanna Neuman “Cheney’s been very effective in setting up his deniability and always being the failsafe for Bush. Unless they start waterboarding the vice president, which is not too likely, he is the … Continue reading
Climate Change: Prepare for Global Temperature Rise of 4 Degrees
Drought-resistant plants such as these in the Majorelle gardens in Marrakech, Morocco, would become more common in British gardens. Photo by Clay Perry / Corbis.‘We need strategy to adapt to potential catastrophic increase’By James Randerson / August 7, 2008 Great … Continue reading
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Tagged Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, Global Warming, Great Britain
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Our Future: Way More Killing Than Is Necessary
“What Do You See in Your Future?”The Unnecessary Execution of Jose Ernesto MedellinBy Greg Moses / August 6, 2008 If at 9:59 pm Central Time on Tuesday night you were refreshing your browser to “sort by date” the latest news … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital Punishment, Criminal Justice, Death Penalty, Militarism, Texas, Texas Death Row
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Arianna Huffington : John McCain, Paris Hilton, and the Politics of Nothing
Illustration by André Carrilho / New Yorker.‘it’s not exactly a surprise that the Republican election machine would resort to trying to make the entire election into an issueless sideshow’By Arianna Huffington / August 6, 2008 With just ninety days left … Continue reading
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Tagged Campaign Tactics, Marketing, McCain, Media, Obama, Obama Smear Campaign, Paris Hilton, Political Strategy, Presidential Campaign
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Sad News About Iraqi Provincial Elections
Iraq parliament fails to pass elections billBy Ned Parker and Said Rifai / August 7, 2008 Iraq lawmakers break for vacation, unable to agree on oil-rich Kirkuk, which the Kurds want to annex to the semiautonomous Kurdish region. BAGHDAD — … Continue reading
The ‘War’ on Terror : It Just Doesn’t Work
Calling it a ‘war’ is a boon to terrorist recruiters.By Seth G. Jones and Martin C. Libicki / August 6, 2008 ARLINGTON, Va. – Military might against Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups isn’t working – and no wonder. After … Continue reading
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Tagged al-Qaida, Counter-terrorism, Militant Islam, Terrorism, War on Terror
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