I don't know any Americans who agree with our president's assessment that releasing the hundreds of torture photos uncovered in the congressional investigation "puts our troops in danger". Maybe some will pop up in this poll. This is the old "locking the barn door after the horse was stolen" reas...

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I stumbled on this artist by accident not long ago; when I first heard him singing my reaction was "whaaaat the f**k?!" (The man can't sing) He called himself a "Rock and Roll poet", and he is. Was. Backstory: His name was Wesley Willis. He was a homeless man in Chicago, with one of the saddes...

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In a chilling report straight out of George Orwell's worst nightmare,The Real News interviews professor Giles Ji Ungpakorn, who faces 15 years imprisonment in his native Thailand. Professor Ungpakorn's offense? "Lese Majeste", or insulting the king. Professor Ungpakorn wrote a bestselling book last ...

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U.S. president-elect Barack Obama, has shifted his position a bit on the Death penalty; he now supports it. In his memoir, he stated that capital punishment "does little to deter crime." However, on his campaign site he stated: "I support capital punishment for heinous crimes. I cannot, how...

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"The lesser of two bads is not good enough for the American people. We need the best." **An October 10 CNN interview featured Republican congressman Ron Paul, who discussed both Obama and McCain's stands on: War The U.S. economy Civil liberties The constitutional rights of today's v...

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We are. -For having blind loyalty to a party without checking up on that party's candidate. -For letting television tell us what to think instead of thinking for ourselves. -For being lazy and uninformed (I'm going to vote for the black guy because he's the first black guy to runI'm going...

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***The bill has passed, but it's not too late to let Congress know exactly what "Joe Sixpack" (gag) is saying.. Alright, Americans--speak your piece while the window's open 'cause it won't last long. It's time we changed how we are depicted to anyone who watches T.V., including our own governmen...

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Across America, millions of pub-goers throughout the ages have started sentences with the phrase: "If I were president, I'd...." I'm reasonably sure it's the same everywhere else, even if that statement has to be whispered for fear of "repercussions". Human beings are thinking creatures, and all ...

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Yes, it's been there all along in the music business; prejudice and bigotry have played a part in musicians' lives for decades. If you're looking for a story about white musicians rejecting a black player, look elsewhere. To paraphrase jazz legend Ben Webster, "Players don't look at each other, t...

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Well, Orbleites--after many many hours of agonising deliberation I've managed to come up with the perfect candidate to follow up the notoriously hard-to-follow David. Someone who is pretty much the polar opposite of the Black Knight but whose work has garnered an equally voluminous amount of hea...

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Now, let me preface this post with: I've been working hard on my next "Legend of Orble", but hey--you try and find an act to follow David, the Black Knight! I can't think of anyone else I can feature who could elicit such a wide spectrum of comments, from offended to hero-worship and everything in b...

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So I met this bloke today from Melbourne. Name of Schleyer. Anyone know him? Yeah, I know Oz is HUGE and it's a long shot but stranger things have happened. One time I met a dear friend of whom I'd lost track for 5 years; he lived in California and I was stationed in the Philippines. Know wher...

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English is a real bastard of a language to learn, whether it's your first or your second. Everyone knows that. That's why I'm here to help clear up one of the many points in English that make no sense whatsoever. No logic to the rules, but there you are..it's English. Apostrophe S ('s) has co...

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For the first in this hysterical series, I think it apropos that we begin with the Black Knight himself, David. Wikipedia's definition: A black knight is a soldier or knight who either is not bound to a specific liege or does not want his liege, or himself, to be identified and so does not be...

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Hi everyone, I'm posting this from a really crappy computer in a really crappy bandhouse in Upper Bumwad, Pennsylvania...yep, still on the road. It's been ages since I've posted and I'm hoping this one goes through on this dinosaur circa Windows 95 P.O.S. computer. Some of you webhounds have s...

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