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Michael James : Bill at Chester’s Hamburger King
Bill at Chester’s Hamburger King, Chicago, Fall 1977. Photo by Michael James from his forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord James’ Pictures from the Long Haul. Pictures from the Long Haul: Bill at Chester’s Hamburger King A classic Chicago cross-over place, you … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Chicago, Memoir, Michael James, nostalgia, Pictures from the Long Haul, Restaurants
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Alan Waldman : ‘My Hero’ is Droll Britcom About Alien Superhero Adapting to English Town Life
Waldman’s film and TVtreasures you may have missed: A very funny cast supports comic laffmasters Ardal O’Hanlon and James Dreyfus in 51 highly original episodes. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | May 21, 2013 [In his weekly column, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Waldman, Ardal O'Hanlon, British Television, Criticism, James Dreyfus, My Hero, Vintage Television
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BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : Albert Camus and the Liberal Dilemma
Algerian Chronicles: Albert Camus and the liberal dilemma These writings do much toward describing the plight of the Algerian people, but suffer from an inability to acknowledge, much less examine, the root cause for their situation. By Ron Jacobs | … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Algeria, Algerian Chronicles, Books, Existentialism, French Colonialism, Literature, Ron Jacobs, Self-Determination
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Lamar W. Hankins : Texas Atty. Gen. Greg Abbott’s ‘Demagoduery’
Kountze cheerleaders. Screen grab from ABC News. Image from Austinist.com. Gimme a ‘G’: Texas Atty. Gen. Abbott’s ‘demagoduery’ It is beyond conjecture or opinion: the Kountze cheerleader banners expressing religious views are government speech. By Lamar W. Hankins | The … Continue reading
Harry Targ : The REAL Scandal at the IRS
“Can’t make ’em see the light? Make ’em feel the heat” — Hugh Fike, coordinator of the Heritage Society for America’s “Sentinel” program. The IRS ‘scandal’ is notwhat opportunists claim it is If the Internal Revenue Service is to be … Continue reading
Bob Feldman : Texas Governors Bush and Perry, and Their Network of the Ultra-Rich, 1996-2011
Texas Gov. Rick Perry with then President (and former Texas Governor) George W. Bush at a 2002 campaign event in Dallas. On the left is Texas Sen. John Cornyn. Photo by Larry Downing / Reuters. The hidden history of Texas … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Feldman, George W. Bush, Rick Perry, Texas Big Rich, Texas History, Texas Politics
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Robert Jensen : The Collapse of Journalism
Graphic treatment by James Retherford / The Rag Blog. The collapse of journalism and the journalism of collapse:From royal, to prophetic, to apocalyptic When we strip away supernatural claims and delusions of grandeur, we can understand the prophetic as the calling … Continue reading
BOOKS / Jonah Raskin : Blake Slonecker’s ‘New Dawn’ Tells the LNS Story
A New Dawn for the New Left: Blake Slonecker’s valuable history of LNS “By distributing a common news packet to underground outlets, LNS enabled local rags to cover national and international news to an unprecedented degree, curbing their isolation and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Media, American History, Blake Slonecker, Books, Jonah Raskin, LNS, New Left, Sixties, Underground Press
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Michael James : Doing the Whirlpool at the Paradise
Whirlpool at the Paradise, Chicago, 2003. Photo by Michael James from his forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord James’ Pictures from the Long Haul. Pictures from the Long Haul: When the water was flowing atChicago’s Paradise bathhouse I’ve been in lots of … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago, Fitness, Memoir, Michael James, nostalgia, Pictures from the Long Haul, Whirlpools
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Alan Waldman : ‘Wire in the Blood’ is a Gripping British Crime Series
Waldman’s film and TV treasures you may have missed: Robson Green is powerful as an eccentric, troubled clinical psychologist who helps police solve gruesome Yorkshire crimes. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | May 14, 2013 [In his … Continue reading
BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : Wu Ming Does the Middle Ages
Masterful job by writers’ collective:Wu Ming does the Middle Ages The reader is propelled into a tale of spies for and against the Church; of bloody feuds between armies of the Church and peasant rebels; and of communities organized along … Continue reading
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Tagged Altai, Books, Fiction, Middle Ages, Q, Ron Jacobs, Wu Ming
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Lamar W. Hankins : Guantánamo Turns Us All Into Monsters
Photo by AP. Image from Salon. The nation’s shame: Guantánamo turns us all into monsters The President says the right things, but he doesn’t seem to have the political will to release those wrongly imprisoned in Guantánamo. By Lamar W. … Continue reading
