Your News Dissector turns to Willie Nelson, that long-haired bearded, ageing and talented force of country and culture to close out the year for us with a new song geared to what was once called a season of peace. He raises a question that must be pondered. The Kucinich campaign is the beneficiary of Willie’s [...]
BLOGGING BACKWARDSMEMORY LANEHOPING FORWARDSI remember many songs from my news dissecting days on the radio. One line comes to mind again as the theme of the day: “All the news just repeats itself like some forgotten dream that I once knew.”And so I dipped back into the blog-chives of this year to arbitrarily offer some [...]
WAR IS OVER? EMBEDDED WINS ONE DID MICHAEL ABUSE OR IS HE BEING ABUSED? How nice to find a full page ad from Yoko Ono in the Sunday Times (and Village Voice) telling us again war is over if you want it. Bur is it ever over? After going to see the movie Cold Mountain [...]
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