Essay
Archive
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Random Sampling
Hallucination Engine Revisited
The Psycho-dynamic Obsolescence of General Motors
Enhanced
Performance
Manny
Ramirez meets the Future Farmers of America
Heaven and Earth
Thoughts on Baseball, Art, and Other Altered
States
Do I Hear a Changelujah?
New Wave Progressive, Reverend Billy of the
Church of Stop Shopping, asks "What Would Jesus Buy?"
American
Cannibalism
Eating
Ourselves for Entertainment
My
Country, Your Country
Iraq at the Academy Awards
Why
Yellow Isn't Green
Bioengineer
Tad Patzek Shucks General Motors’ Maize Alternative
A Very Good
Reason to Get Worried
Seymour Hersh's Advice: Keep Your Second Passport Alive
Eating
Ingrid Newkirk
Victimless Meat at the Vegetarian Steakhouse
For
the Strangers Who Were Taken In
An Alternative "National Day of Prayer" Prayer
What
Do We Tell Our Children?
Harold Schechter's Savage Pastimes Versus Hillary
Clinton’s Moral Outrage
The
Left Bank of the World
Politics in the World of Chimpanzees and Bonobos
Engaging
the National Gag Reflex
Lou Dubose on Tom DeLay & the Ghost of Terri Schiavo
CIA
Mom: Master of Disguise
John Negroponte . . . meet Melissa Boyle Mahle
"I
Will Fight For It."
Former
FBI Wiretap Translator Sibel Edmonds' Petition to
Release the Truth About the FBI and 9/11
What
We Can Rub in Bush's Face
Garrison Keillor's
Post-Election Strategy Version
2.0
Playing
War with Boy George Bush
The Nation's Ian Williams on the
Deserter in Chief and McCain's Reaction to the Anti-Kerry
Swiftboat TV Spot
A
Dictatorship is a Heck of a Lot Easier
Ray McGovern's 2004 Election Day Premonition
What
Can We Do About Kansas?
Thomas
Frank's Unanswered Heartland Question
Drafting
Women
The Cult of Masculinity's Day in Court:
An Interview with Carol Burke
War
and Peacenik
Memorial Day Thoughts with George McGovern
Where's
the Evil?
Mahmood Mamdani’s History of Terror and
the One Word Missing from Bush's Speech
The
Transfixing Power of Image
Karen
Kwiatkowski, Abu Ghraib and the $700 Million Misdirection
Put
Down Your Guns and Pick Up A Book
A
Talk with Paul Krassner on the Draft, Magic Mushrooms,
Russ Kick, and Levitating the Pentagon
Bush’s
Less Than Average Brain
Author James Moore
on the Puppet Presidency Versus the 911 Commission
The
Human Cost of War
Award-Winning Reporter Mark Benjamin
on Casualties, Psychosis, and How the Pentagon May Have
Screwed Up
Democracy at the Point
of a Gun?
Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern on
Osama’s Delight and the Effects of Vietnam Morass
Syndrome
My
United States of Whatever
Politics
in the New Age of Hired Guns. An Interview with P.W. Singer, author
of Corporate Warriors
Nowhere,
But California
With an Amended Three
Strikes Initiative on the Ballot this November,
California's Next Victims May be its So-called “Tough
on Crime” Politicians
Empire
Falls
Chalmers Johnson on Why Things That Can't
Go On Forever, Don't
My
Briefing with Ray McGovern
George
Tenet, Iraq, Neo-Conservatives, Vietnam and 911 through
the eyes of a 27-year CIA analyst
Psychoanalyzing
John Ashcroft
Dissecting
the current U.S. Attorney General with psychotherapist Tina
Tessina, PhD
Errol
Morris’s Oscar
Thanking
Robert S. McNamara and other Academy Award Scenarios
Unprecedented,
Uncovered, and Unconstitutional
Robert
Greenwald, director of Uncovered:
The Whole Truth About the Iraq War talks about Bush,
Dean, civil liberties and the final part of his "Un" Trilogy
From
the Mouth of the Master of Low Expectations
George W. Bush’s Most Memorable
Quotes of 2003
George
Bush on Ecstasy. Scott Ritter on Caffeine.
Our
President's Irrational Exuberance over Saddam
in a Hole
New
Age American Gothic
Cultural Creatives, Green Branding
and the Marketing of Beliefs in Suburbia
Lord
of the Lumpens
"B-1" Bob
Dornan is running for Congress again…
and it's time to cash in.
Reagan
Remembered
It
will be monumental…
Tiger
and Ralph
An
excerpt from “Confessions
of a Cabana Boy”
Substances
American Justice in the Age of Rush and Chong
Illiterature
for the Masses
Recommended Reading: The Official Voter Information Guide for the California
Recall Election
Flight
A Patriot Day Perspective
Farewell,
Fat Head
How
Monica Lewinsky Changed My Life
Operation
Prayer Offensive
With
Thanks to Pat Robertson
A
Benediction on the Occasion of National Flag Burning Day
It began as a day of national decontamination
The
Schlomo Effect
A
50-50 Proposition
Heat
is Murder
Sunscreen
and serial killings
Gay
Relatives
Dick
Gephardt comes out
Bipolar
Planet
Worldwide
Manic Depression Day
Balanced
Spin
Spinsanity
spins a spinning Bush
Who
Would Jesus Bomb?
The
Captain reports
The
Year of No Safe Thing
Philip
Morris and the lesson of ultra lights
My
Letters to George Argyros
The
Secret Correspondence
Car
Crash Crucifixion
The art of Register photographer Mell
Kilpatrick
You
Don’t Deserve This Home
Joseph Eichler’s mass-market
conceit
Live
Noir
Henry Ford McCracken’s 1952
Santa Ana murder trial launched the age of broadcast voyeurism
Remembering
the Future of Orange County’s Great Park
Here, the sublime is accessible
A
Reality Shrine for a Wired World
Coffeehouse founder Carl Diedrich's
Memorial Van
Dear
Mr. Fuentes
Letters to the most powerful Republican
in Orange County
One
Year, Two Summers
Real life in Southern California
The
Big Reason
My Grandmother, the Celts and Truth
in Advertising
Little
Beasts
I am not myself today
Newkirk
Nuggets™ haven’t hit the supermarket shelves
yet. The tissue-engineering technology is in its infancy.