A Website of the Radical Imagination
Hillary Clinton’s shot and a beer in Scranton reminded me of that old X song “The Have-Nots” — “How does it feel to have your own bottle of booze behind the bar, how does it feel?” Hillary, the $109 million dollar woman, is very different sort of insider yet she’s once again fabulating a felt … Read more
Jesus taught me to love the hell out of my enemies. –Jeremiah Wright It takes an extraordinary faith in Barack Obama to believe, in early April of 2008, that Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president is somehow doomed. We can recite primary results and rattle off probable scenarios all we like, but the truth is that … Read more
When the radical feminist and new journalist Ellen Willis died last fall, a black rock critic mourned her as “the Mother of us all.” Another well-known black writer – and notorious macho man – referred to Ellen as “God” when she was editing his pieces at the Village Voice. Ellen may have come to be … Read more
The anti Obama claptrap from Black people is most times Negro trickery, either they are with Bill 2 (Hillary). I read there’s even a Negro for Biden, or else like the anarchist minded folks who come on Super Left, they are so militant they opt for passivity & content themselves with merely calling their perceived … Read more
“They’re like a cult!” exclaimed a Clinton supporter working the crowd outside Zabars. She may have been looking my way because my little boy had an Obama button on. I felt a bit silly about that but his mama is from Africa and she’s rooting hard for her homeboy. (Not to say I’m not!) While … Read more
George Trow sent us the following squib lampooning Tina Brown and her circle as he was composing “Is Dan Mad?” for First back in 1999. It shouldn’t be confused with his more serious “media studies,” but it’s not quite a throwaway either. Trow’s New York Times obituary gave Tina Brown the last word when it … Read more
Your parents had a third parent – television. If you went back to 1952, you would be surprised. Many people – of all kinds and conditions – had just two parents. George W.S. Trow When the American writer George W.S. Trow died in Naples last fall, having exiled himself from his country, a youngish culture … Read more