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Political Culture: Those Condescending Elites!

Jon Cummings February 11, 2010 4

Just in time for last weekend’s National Tea Party convention – an event which will be remembered mostly for the way Sarah Palin had her devotees eating (and the rest of us reading) out

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The Popdose Guide to Patty Griffin

Jon Cummings January 25, 2010 21

To celebrate Tuesday's release of the new Patty Griffin album Downtown Church, Popdose looks back at the catalog of one of Americana's brightest lights

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Political Culture: The Boston Tea Party

Jon Cummings January 21, 2010 14

Whether or not Democrats manage to salvage health care legislation, losing Ted Kennedy's seat is just desserts for their substantive and strategic failures

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Political Culture: The Rapture of Ayn Rand, Part Two

Jon Cummings January 14, 2010 35

Thanks for sticking with me after the first half of this monstrous column wrapping up our series on Ayn Rand and her overlong orgy of Objectivism, Atlas Shrugged. I realize you could have ditched

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Political Culture: The Rapture of Ayn Rand, Part One

Jon Cummings January 14, 2010 14

“We do not tell – we show.” So says the mentor of Atlas Shrugged‘s three key “strikers,” philosopher Hugh Akston … on page 735 of a 1,168-page novel, in a passage that precedes by

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Popdose Flashback ’90: Julia Fordham, “Porcelain”

Jon Cummings January 14, 2010 3

If you were watching music videos during the winter of 1990, you probably saw a lot of Taylor Dayne’s bustiers … watched Michael Bolton as he seemed to strain mightily to release something from

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Popdose Interview: Freedy Johnston

Jon Cummings January 11, 2010 5

Singer/songwriter Freedy Johnston returns from an eight-year recording hiatus with a new album, Rain on the City, and a new outlook on the music business

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Political Culture: Ayn Rand’s Shangri-La of Self-Interest

Jon Cummings January 7, 2010 26

I tried. I tried so hard. You’ve gotta believe me when I tell you how I tried and tried to finish Ayn Rand’s oversize chronicle of obsessive-compulsive capitalism, Atlas Shrugged, over the holidays so

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Political Culture: Maybe Ayn Rand Needed a Little Christmas

Jon Cummings December 24, 2009 17

I have to admit, I’m a bit conflicted this holiday season. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been going through the motions — spending lots of time at home with my family, plotting how I’m

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