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By Ron Whitehead GonzoFest Louisville co-founder and Chief Poetics The first time Jack Nicholson called he was furious, pissed off, screaming. It was August 1995 and my grandmother, Louverine Render, had died. Right after the funeral my family and I headed out, in a rented car, for a 5,000-mile-out-West road […]
from anonhq.com A document leaked from New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services reveals that Federal Bureau of Investigation considers Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond a possible terrorist organization member, and put him on the multi-agency Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB), alongside individuals suspected of ties to Al-Qaeda, Somalia-based extremists Al-Shabaab, […]
from The Intercept In 2003, Sami Al-Arian was a professor at the University of South Florida, a legal resident of the U.S. since 1975, and one of the most prominent Palestinian civil rights activists in the U.S. That year, the course of his life was altered irrevocably when he was indicted on […]
by Barrett Brown from the DailyBeast.Co, Not long ago I was a mild-mannered freelance journalist, activist, and satirist, contributing to outlets like the Guardian and Vanity Fair. But last Thursday I was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison in a case that Reporters Without Borders cited as a key […]
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 […]
On January 28, 2015 Ron Whitehead inducted Hunter S. Thompson into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame. The ceremony took place, with a standing room only audience, at The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Kentucky. After Hunter’s induction, Wendell Berry became the first living author to be […]
Or a promising first step with a sour aftertaste by Mark Linnhoefer On Sunday, the people of Greece voted for their new government, and the winner was the far-left Syriza party whose leader – and since Monday officially the new Greek Prime Minister – Alexis Tsipras has vowed to end […]
by Johann Galloway What’s your typical day like out here?” I asked. “Well… you do a lot of walking and a lot of reading.” I wondered how folks like him ended up in such dire circumstances. Are they all drug addicts, alcoholics, degenerate gamblers or violent anti-socials who deserve their […]
Interview with Rev. Dudely Noted of the Church of the Latter-Day Dude Unless you’ve lived under a rock for the last 17 years, or you’re too young, you’ve probably seen the movie “The Big Lebowski”. I have a sweatshirt that I wear quite a bit that says “The Dude Abides” on the front […]
Or the political week of hypocrisy by Mark Linnhoefer From Charlie Hebdo, over to Mitt Romney all the way to Boko Haram. There have been quite a few controversial to downright horrific events these past days, and the reaction of the political power structures to them has been quite questionable […]
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