2012 archive

Charlie Fuqua

Good solid pro-family evangelical Southern Baptists

By , October 9, 2012   Remember when we were told that Dominion Theology is just a myth? Well here’s a new book outlining how the Bible — read “literally,” of course…  [more]

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Power with the equivalent of Tourette’s Syndrome

Overwrought empire: The discrediting of US military power

By Tom Engelhardt, 12 Oct 2012 10:50   Americans lived in a “victory culture” for much of the 20th century. You could say that we experienced an almost 75-year…  [more]

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Awkward questions

One last letter before these portentous elections, a short compendium of awkward questions. Here’s hoping they all survive our small-town editor’s butchery…  [more]

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Blighted by imperialism

Colonised and coloniser, empire’s poison infects us all

By , Monday 8 October 2012 15.30 EDT   Over the gates of Auschwitz were the words “Work Makes You Free”. Over the gates of the Solovetsky camp in…  [more]

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Poignant riptide

BB King at 87: the last of the great bluesmen

By , Saturday 6 October 2012 17.21 EDT   The fat red sun settles itself against the horizon, throwing a last, honey-sweet light through humid evening and over…  [more]

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Why vote?

   

Why are we doing this when Mississippi is a safe red state?

By Casey Ann Hughes PhD, October 3, 2012   National Reasons Mississippi’s 6 electoral votes are definitely going to Romney, no matter what we do. Therefore,…  [more]

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For Mittfist Bombney and Barracks Obomba

words to the foolish letters to the wise

By Jamie Reid, October 4, 2012   Starting from itch, we went to scratch, then to bite. This is the practice of letters, not words. Still less, sentences. Senseless. The letter…  [more]

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