Category: Culture

Charlie Fuqua

Good solid pro-family evangelical Southern Baptists By Fred Clark, 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 — should be the basis for all civil law. It’s called God’s Law: The Only Political …

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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 stretch of triumphalism – think of it as the real “American Century” – from World War I to …

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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… Given how simple-minded Arkansas politicians have once again embarrassed themselves and their constituents and our kinda unnatural state, is there any doubt now that Republicans are the preferred party for Islamophobic racists? After WW2, …

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Blighted by imperialism

Colonised and coloniser, empire’s poison infects us all By George Monbiot, 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 Lenin’s gulag: “Through Labour – Freedom!”. Over the gates of the Ngenya detention camp, run by the …

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Poignant riptide

BB King at 87: the last of the great bluesmen By Ed Vulliamy, 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 a small crowd on the lawn beside a railroad track that cuts through the cotton fields …

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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, some people feel like their vote doesn’t count – but it does. It contributes to …

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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 of the logos. The litter of the low goose. The glitter of the glow loose. At …

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