Thorne Webb Dreyer, Editor
RECENT POSTS
Tag Archives: American Society
This Is Just the Beginning of Stories Like This
Tightening a Belt with No Notches Leftby Nicole Colson / June 14, 2008 Clip coupons. Stop eating at restaurants. Grow a vegetable garden. Learn to do without. Everywhere you look, the mainstream media–finally waking up to the economic reality facing … Continue reading
New Record : 7.2 Million in Criminal Justice System
And the chicks are coming home to roost. The number of women in prison “rose faster in 2006 than over the previous five years,” mostly in Hawaii, North Dakota, Wyoming and Oklahoma, the Bureau of Justice Statistics report said. Roger … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged American Society, Criminal Justice, Drug War, Prison Overcrowding
1 Comment
A Country of Vast Designs and Expectations
Our Friend Betsy Gaines, who sent this article to me, remarked, “I love this article. I am an optimist.” Perhaps I am less so, but I want to be. Just last night, I shared something I have come to believe … Continue reading
The Hummer Dumber Song
The Hummer Dumber Song(All Over Utopia) (This is satire; not an instruction manual.) blow up a Hummer, as it rolls off the lineblow up a Hummer, and pay a small fineblow up a Hummer, and all of its kindblow up … Continue reading
Books : David Sirota Dissects the New Populism
David Sirota’s The UprisingBy Alex Thurston / June 2, 2008 David Sirota’s new book The Uprising offers an intriguing map of today’s populist movements, leaders, and parties. Sirota profiles movements like the Minutemen, the antiwar “Protest Industry” and the progressive … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged American Society, Authors, Books, Politics, Populism, Right Wing, The Left
Leave a comment
America, Incorporated, L.L.C.
we built this business up from scratchwith all the real estate we snatchedwe used resources down the hatchwith all the labor we could catchmythologized confabulatedself-congratulatedAmerica, Incorporated for a new place did real welllots of smokes and folks to sellway far … Continue reading
Rachel Ray in Keffiyeh : Donut Terrorist?
Drivel Dragon Disses Doughnut DivaBy Dark Wraith / May 28, 2008 Global doughnut franchiser Dunkin’ Donuts has removed from broadcast an ad featuring television chef Rachel Ray because Right-wing extremist Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin claimed that, in the ad, … Continue reading
Posted in RagBlog
Tagged American Society, Capitalism, Dining, Madison Avenue, Media, Terrorism
Leave a comment
Put Your Best Foot Forward
The Onion. / The Rag Blog
Books : Dick Reavis Sees John Howard Griffin in Available Light
Pardon for the Cult of Black Like MeBy Dick J. Reavis / The Rag Blog / May 27, 2008 In November, 1959, with the help of doctors and dyes, a white Texan briefly became a black man in Dixie as … Continue reading
Posted in Rag Bloggers
Tagged African-American, American Society, Authors, Books, History, Literature, Photography, Racism, SDS, The Left
Leave a comment
With Equal Parts Grace and Calamity
The Conlin-Beavan family experiment requires that lights be low in their Fifth Avenue apartment. Photo: Nicole Bengiveno/The New York TimesThe Year Without Toilet PaperBy Penelope Green / March 22, 2008 DINNER was the usual affair on Thursday night in Apartment … Continue reading
What’s That in His Hand?
The Wool Over Our Eyes: A Nation of SheepBy Richard Rhames “The Labour proposal is modeled on a compulsory system in America where parents are threatened with jail if children are not immunized.” “No MMR jab, no school under new … Continue reading
