It’s a Wonderful Life – FBI claims “commie propaganda”
Good old BoingBoing reminds us of how the FBI did a serious investigation of Frank Capra’s Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful Life,” which it considered a subversive film. Blogger Will Chen writes, I...
View ArticleThis Land Is Your Land
To celebrate this nation’s birthday, why not honor Woody Guthrie, who wrote one of America’s finest anthems? I found this photo at the website known as If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There’d Be a...
View ArticleFlashback 1998: Bin Laden wanted crude oil to sell for $144 a barrel
ThinkProgress has a jaw-dropping reminder of what Osama Bin Laden said in 1998: In a 1998 interview, discount Osama bin Laden — the terrorist organizer of 9/11 who still roams free — listed as one of...
View ArticleGoodbye Shea Stadium
Goodbye Shea Stadium. I never went to Shea, but I’ve certainly heard of it Last night, Billy Joel, the last scheduled performer at Shea Stadium before it would be torn down, was joined by none other...
View ArticleAttack of the Zombie Wingnuts
(a posting also shared at Barack Obama NOW!) Twenty years ago on election night, I decided to go out to the movies. I went to go see a new John Carpenter movie called “THEY LIVE,” which was a story...
View ArticleProject Censored 2008
Every year, Project Censored, a media research and analysis group based at California’s Sonoma State University, publishes a list of important stories that were completely ignored by the mainstream...
View ArticlePaul McCartney as Buffalo Bill, and other reincarnations
Here’s an odd one…. Imagine Paul McCartney as the reincarnation of Buffalo Bill Cody. How about George Harrison as Jesse James? John Lennon would be Frank James. It’s an unusual theory, and that’s...
View ArticleBaby on Nirvana LP is all grown up
Spencer Elden, the baby from the cover of Nirvana‘s “Nevermind,” recently became an intern for Obey Giant, the company created by Shepard Faiery, the artist responsible for those cool Obama graphics....
View ArticlePredicting the Future
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View ArticleThe Price of Death
(Here’s an article I wrote 5 years ago for my old E.P. Rants blog. As I read the comments from a friend that “can’t wait” for the death sentence of the woman that’s been arrested for the death of 8...
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