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SH*T MY UNCLE SAYS: Where All The Money Went
Click HERE to enlarge BY WILLIAM C. HENRY Ever since I read Glenn Greenwald’s piece regarding “scandal, legalization and the Panama Papers,” it’s become harder and harder for me to believe that hope is anything other than a four letter word. I’m finding it nigh unto impossible to reconcile my own feelings about fairness, truth and equal justice with the fact that there is obviously a percentage of the American (and the world’s) population that has been created (or cultivated) too narcissistic, too shallow, too callous, too egocentric, too avaricious, too uncaring, too dispassionate, too sociopathic, too just plain old […]
BECAUSE REALITY HAS A LIBERAL BIAS: Q&A w/ Comedian & ex-Totally Biased Host W. Kamau Bell
Illustration by GARY TAXALI© BY JONATHAN VALANIA Comedian W. Kamau Bell has been fighting the good fight in the stand-up comedy trenches of San Francisco since the phat pants ’90s. It was there that Chris Rock discovered him and eventually brokered a deal with FX for Bell to have his own TV show. In 2012, Totally Biased, a much-buzzed-about late night sketch comedy show starring Bell and produced by Rock, debuted to strong reviews and a big enough viewership to justify a second season until its ill-advised migration from FX to FXX, subsequent plummet in audience share and ensuing cancellation […]
BEING THERE: Berniedelphia
Bernie Sanders speaks to 10,200 @ Liacouras Center by DYLAN LONG It’s a chilly Monday afternoon and I’m sitting in my dorm at Temple University dicking around, and I get a text from one of my closest friends. It reads, “Bernie Rally Wednesday night??” I ask her what she’s talking about, assuming it’s some locally sponsored rally for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders that’ll draw maybe a thousand people in support. She sends me a link to Bernie’s website that has the official event at the Liacouras Center listed in full detail, telling me that Bernie Sanders is coming to speak […]
HELLO KENOSHA: The Bird Is The Word
UNCUT: A new Wisconsin poll shows Bernie Sanders widening his lead over Hillary Clinton ahead of the state’s April 5 primary. The poll, conducted by Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, is seen as the gold standard of polls in the Badger State. Today’s poll results show Sanders is ahead of Clinton by 4.3 points (49.2-44.9), with less than a week to go before Wisconsin voters cast their ballots. MORE NEW YORK TIMES: Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont spent Wednesday crisscrossing Wisconsin, hosting events in three cities and arguing that his stances on trade deals, campaign finance and foreign policy make […]
SH*T MY UNCLE SAYS: It’s The Plutocracy, Stupid!
BY WILLIAM C. HENRY Have you noticed how little Republican wind is being expended on waving the “corporate treachery” flag. Barely a whiff. Don’t you find that a little odd given the make up of the “base” of the party. You know, that segment who, along with the rest of us, always bears the brunt of corporate America’s penchant for shoving truth, fairness and accountability further and further up the ass of America’s middle and lower classes. On the other hand, maybe it’s not an oddity at all. Maybe it’s flat out predictable. Why? Because, if right wing candidates […]
JUST SAY NO: Nancy Reagan Turned Down Rock Hudson’s Desperate Plea For Help Getting Medical Treatment Nine Weeks Before He Died Of AIDS
BUZZFEED: On a Sunday evening in July 1985, just hours after arriving in Paris from Los Angeles, Rock Hudson collapsed shortly after checking into the famed Ritz hotel. The 59-year-old actor was once one of Hollywood’s hottest stars throughout the 1950s and ’60s, seen as the embodiment of “the American man” — tall, dark, and handsome. A constant fixture on the big screen, he starred alongside leading actresses like Elizabeth Taylor in Giant — netting an Oscar nomination for the role — and Doris Day in a series of popular romantic comedies. By the mid-1980s, though, while still close […]
ZERO DARK THIRTY: A Q&A With Investigative Journalist & New Yorker Staff Writer Jane Mayer
BY JONATHAN VALANIA William S. Burroughs famously said “A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.” Cold comfort for the likes of Hillary Clinton who was widely derided back in 1998 for claiming there was “a vast right wing conspiracy” leveraging its colossal wealth and powers of persuasion to bring down the Clintons and the liberal progressive agenda they had come to represent (if not quite embody). Dark Money, the latest must-read by acclaimed investigative journalist and New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer, reveals overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence that Clinton was in fact right. And then some. […]
Portrait Of The Angel Of Death As A Young Man
NEW YORK TIMES: Mr. Cruz, the most ardent death penalty advocate of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist’s clerks in the 1996 term, became known at the court for his signature writing style. Nearly two decades later, his colleagues recall how Mr. Cruz, who frequently spoke of how his mentor’s father had been killed by a carjacker, often dwelled on the lurid details of murders that other clerks tended to summarize before quickly moving to the legal merits of the case. “That, I think, was a special interest of his,” said Renée Lerner, then a clerk for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, […]
WORD: How The Tea Party Became The Troll Party
Artwork by CHAD WHITE EDITOR’S NOTE: Rick Wilson’s piece originally published on the Daily Beast on September 16th, but it remains the definitive analysis of the pathologies at the heart of the Trump phenomenon. Sadly, three months later, it continues to get truer every day. THE DAILY BEAST: The Troll Party’s central characteristic is an ever tightening spiral of self-reinforcing and self-referential purity tests that makes communicating with anyone beyond the febrile and furious a nearly impossible task. The people pushing for this transformation aren’t a majority yet, but when a virus infects the body politic, its minuscule size belies […]
NOTHING IS REAL, EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED: Howard Hunt & The JFK Assassination Conspiracy
Illustration by PRINT MAFIA The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt He was the ultimate keeper of secrets, lurking in the shadows of American history. He toppled banana republics, planned the Bay of Pigs invasion and led the Watergate break-in. Now he would reveal what he’d always kept hidden: who killed JFK BY ERIK HEDEGAARD/ROLLING STONE EDITOR’S NOTE: Ordinarily we would tease a few paragraphs from the story and then send you to RS’s web site, but for reasons unclear this article is no longer there. Hence we have run it here in its entirety. It originally ran in the […]
COMMENTARY: GOP’S Carnival Of Shame
BY WILLIAM C. HENRY In Houston recently Republican troglodytes voted down a proposed city ordinance that would have afforded protections against discrimination based on sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, familial status, marital status, military status, religion, disability, genetic information and pregnancy. The reason? They claimed the ordinance would have allowed Houston’s women’s bathrooms to be overrun by nefarious transgendered individuals who’d been born as men, and that said transgendered would use the toilet stalls as well as various gagging devices (or worse) — okay, I’m paraphrasing a bit here, but you get the picture — to deflower […]
COMMENTARY: Bushwhacking Benghazi
BY WILLIAM C. HENRY I just heard the Chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi state that in no way had the committee targeted Hillary Clinton intentionally or otherwise, “They’ve simply been determined to do their job and hold someone accountable for the senseless death of an American ambassador.” Folks, if you truly believe that, I’ve got a well traveled New York bridge that can be yours for mere pocket change. OF COURSE that’s their sole intent. And once they get Hillary’s noose properly sized they’re going to go directly into hearings concerning the blatant lies and flagrant […]