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GonzoFest 2015: Organizers wooing Bill Murray with viral campaign
by Melissa Chipman; reposted from Insider Louisville It’s buried in GonzoFest’s Indiegogo campaign page: potentially the most exciting part of this year’s event. But it won’t happen without your help. The folks behind GonzoFest are launching a concerted effort and a viral video campaign to convince iconic actor Bill Murray […]
Endless War: Embrace Godwin’s Law
By Kyle K. Mann It’s time to validate Mike Godwin. Not that he needs it, but with Obama’s obscene ramp up to the latest installment of the Endless War, or Long War as military types call it, progressives need to acknowledge the mind-frying truth: America is a fascist state. For […]
United N*****s
by Mark James when this war comes to be blue vs brown and sides are chosen the armed forces vs the united nation flags on their coffins freed and enslaved everything remains my nephew, he’s ordered kill the man standing next to me on this line afraid to […]
Staying Put
by Cody S. Decker Here I sit it’s a sight to see a man of my stature six foot eight in a small man’s chair on a tiny covered porch the rain howls all around it splashes into my drink and dances around this paper flirting with ruining the […]
Film Review – Gonzo: the Life & Work of Hunter S. Thompson
by Deanna Williams Pennell Just finished watching Gonzo on Netflix. It was amazing. I don’t advocate suicide, because in the end you are hurting those around you. Those who need you (which can also put one under pressure). But I do believe Hunter would be even more miserable now. He […]
Fear and Appreciation at the Carnegie Center
by Cody S. Decker I just got home from The Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame induction, where the Grand Poobah of Gonzo became one of the newest members. A lot is going through my head right now. Which means it’s time for me to kick start this old Smith Corona […]
Newly Discovered 1964 MLK Speech on Civil Rights, Segregation & Apartheid South Africa
A Democracy Now! and Pacifica Radio Archives exclusive: newly discovered recording of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On December 7, 1964, days before he received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, King gave a major address in London on segregation, the fight for civil rights and his support for Nelson Mandela […]
Ralph Steadman on Charlie Hebdo, the Right to Offend and Changing the World
BY ROBERT CHALMERS / JANUARY 14, 2015 / Newsweek We were sitting in a bar in Aspen, Colorado, almost 20 years ago, I remind Ralph Steadman, when he first told me that he’d become a cartoonist because he wanted to change the world. It wasn’t the first time he’d made […]
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