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Pop Politico: “The Great Transition”
Ted Asregadoo January 27, 2009 13As the news about the global economic downturn goes from bad to worse, we’re at a point where government inaction is not a palatable option. Something needs to be done, and countermeasures against further
Read More »Political Culture: Obama Ascendant
Jon Cummings January 22, 2009 9“Tomorrow is some shit, people,” Adam Yauch declared matter-of-factly Monday night, after searching for an appropriate way to close out the Beastie Boys’ fearsome inaugural-eve Rock the Vote gig in Washington. He meant it
Read More »Pop Politico: The 44th President
Ted Asregadoo January 20, 2009 24Even if Barack Obama was just another in the long line of white males who have been elected to the presidency, this would still be an historic moment in the United States. There’s a
Read More »Sugar Water: The Year in Science (Last Year, Not This Year)
Robert Cass January 18, 2009 7The Associated Press reported last Tuesday that the bicycles of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, were stolen from inside the Carter Center in Atlanta earlier this month. President Carter responded
Read More »Political Culture: White Like … Who, Exactly?
Jon Cummings January 8, 2009 9We white folks are feeling pretty good about ourselves these days. And why not? A couple months ago, almost half of us voted to put a black guy into what is now ironically called
Read More »Pop Politico: “Happy New Year?”
Ted Asregadoo January 6, 2009 16The optimistic adage that a rising tide floats all boats is less sanguine when one contemplates the obverse. As the Great Recession of 2008 spills over to 2009 with what some are predicting is
Read More »Political Culture: We Said We Wanted a Revolution …
Jon Cummings November 20, 2008 15“Eighty percent of success in life is just showing up.” – Woody Allen For a few years there – as George Bush “won” a pair of shady elections and then repeatedly defied the Constitution,
Read More »Political Culture: Redefining “Bread and Circuses”
Jon Cummings November 13, 2008 8The other day my Popdose colleague Ted Asredagoo posed the question of how President-Elect Obama — once he is wrapped up in the business of actually, you know, governing — will manage to carry
Read More »Pop Politico: “Poetry and Prose”
Ted Asregadoo November 11, 2008 18It’s been said that a political campaign is run on the poetry of promises, while the task of governing is about the prose of policy. As President-Elect Barack Obama sheds his poetic cloak and
Read More »Political Culture: Obama Sews Up My Bleeding Heart
Jon Cummings November 6, 2008 13I didn’t cry for an hour and a half. I watched dozens of other people weep and shout and wail and fling themselves to the floor with happiness; I watched pundits variously expound thoughtfully,
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