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Political Culture: Partisan Bipartisanship

Jon Cummings March 25, 2010 7

A couple of extraordinary things happened this past week. One was a big f’ing deal indeed, but the other was a bit more personal. As Sunday night’s Democratic victory on health care turned into

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Reissue, Repackage, Repackage: Producer Ernst Jorgensen on Burnishing Elvis’ Musical Legacy

Jon Cummings March 22, 2010 5

The keeper of Elvis' musical flame discusses the King's misremembered Vegas comeback, as well as his own role in restoring rock's most prodigious catalog

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Political Culture: How To Train Your Teafoxlican

Jon Cummings March 18, 2010 14

We’re supposedly just three days away from the final House votes on health care, and still nobody’s sure how it’s going to go. If you listen to Fox News, there’s no way Nancy Pelosi

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Dw. Dunphy On… Ignorance as Defense Mechanism

Dw. Dunphy March 11, 2010 3

We ’80s kids don’t have a lot to hang on to, so far as social achievements go. It was a difficult decade to grab a hold of. We had pop culture, and lots of

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Popdose Flashback ’90: Sinead O’Connor, “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got”

Jon Cummings March 2, 2010 14

We soon learned that what she "hadn't got" was her marbles. But do we have to ignore the crazy to remember what a great album this is

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Adventures Through the Mines of Mellow Gold 52

Jason Hare February 26, 2010 15

In his latest edition of Adventures Through the Mines of Mellow Gold, Jason Hare explores the phenomena of "gentle rocking," brought to us by a Lebanese Canadian hunk in

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Ticket Stub: Chilliwack in Bermuda, March ’83

Matt Wardlaw February 25, 2010 3

Alright, let me get something off my chest right away:  I’m lying when I tell you that this show took place in Bermuda. The truth is, that no one is quite sure where this

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Popdose Flashback ’90: The Black Crowes, “Shake Your Money Maker”

Jon Cummings February 22, 2010 5

A favorite trope among the British Invasion bands of the ’60s was the notion that they took the R&B, country and early rock music that America had exported during the ’50s, put it all

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Political Culture: Let Obama Be Bartlet (Or at Least Bush)

Jon Cummings February 18, 2010 10

The most thrilling, and also the most ridiculous, presidential speech of modern times came not from an actual president, but from a fake one. Michael Douglas’ off-the-cuff remarks at the close of The American

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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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