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86-89--CALL--emails contained audio files of readings going out to musicians & audio artists--email list only

These emails available only to those on email list.  Sorry.  But you will be hearing them, finished, on the air during festival. Read more

Democratic Capitalism: An Oxymoron?

Old Mole Variety Hour: The Well-read RedAugust 4, 2008Democratic Capitalism: an OxymoronGood morning, comrades.  The website  of The International Endowment for Democracy has a page of quotations which I am drawing on for this commentary.For most of human history, we hav... Read more

Queer youth documentary seeking participants

The group of fabulous folks who created Youth Out Loud! (a documentary film and teaching tool) are actively producing an updated version, Youth Out Loud II. They are looking for help in contacting youth, teachers, school administrators and staff who would like to partici... Read more

We Like Our Music Innapropriate, Thank You Very Much

Uptight parent sends her daughter to The Rock N’ Roll Camp for Girls and she’s shocked that she comes back with some decent music: A mother who sent her 8-year-old daughter to a Portland rock music-themed camp for girls says she is shocked by what she thinks is age-inap... Read more

What Digby said

Once again, here's Digby, doing it better than most could even hope.Really, read it. She is one of the best bloggers around.-A Read more

FNB Politics

Apropos of my earlier post, here's Rick Perstein from March 2007:... Rush Limbaugh calls the insufficiently martial Iraq Study Group “James Baker’s Fruit Salad.” To those with good memories who pay very close attention, this is a reference to the former secretary of stat... Read more
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