Larry Bowlden reviews "Divergent" by Veronica Roth. The book is written for
youth, but Larry recommends it for older readers too. It looks at a
futuristic dystopia in which five rigidly defined social "factions" structure
society like into personality type castes - kind ...
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Joe Clement talks with Geoff McDonald and Peter Oxforn about the wage system.
Geoff recently wrote an article for CounterPunch urging more critical
questions about the wage system than exist in the minimum wage debate. This
discussion builds on those arguments and takes ...
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Clayton Morgareidge hosts the show and we hear radical takes on how to run
elections, a venue for leftist comedy at the Red & Black Cafe, the neoliberal
soul, Richard Sherman's post-game rant, and class war and the security state.
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Clayton Morgareidge hosts this Old Mole and we hear:
Bill Resnick talks with Andrew Spencher of FairVote about the politics of
how our elections actually happen.
Joe Clement talks with Lif Bowers about a comedy night at the Red and Black
Cafe.
Clayton reads ...
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Joe Clement talks with Lif Bowers about an open-mic comedy night at the Red
and Black Cafe (SE 12th and Oak) happening on Wednesday the 29th 7-10pm.
Union members, workers at co-ops, and those with Food Cards can enjoy
discounts on food and drink.
It is taking the plac...
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Clayton Morgareidge reads Chris Masiano's incisive take on the toxic
individualism of neoliberalism and how it undermines our collective
sensibilities. Published first in Jacobin as Chicken Soup for the Neoliberal
Soul, then in Salon as Wolf of Wall Street Syndrome.
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Bill Resnick offers a commentary on Richard Sherman's boastful remarks after
a monumental play in which he kept the other team from scoring a crucial
touchdown. The remarks have been ill-recieved in a not so subtly racist vein,
as evidenced by the tongue-in-cheek usage o...
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Bill Resnick talks with Andrew Spencher of FairVote about the politics of how
our elections actually happen. Bill starts by pointing out that democracy is
much more than elections, but that they are still relevant. Andrew talks
about what FairVote is and is trying to do,...
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Clayton Morgareidge reads three articles on the national security state. The
first by Gleen Greenwald appears in Common Dreams. The second, by Tom
Dispatch, appears in Portside. The final one by Noam Chomsky appears in
Salon. The collectively make the point that the nati...
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Denise Morris and Frann Michel review Spike Jonze new (quasi science
fiction) romantic comedy "Her". Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore, an
introverted man who goes through a divorce with his child-hood sweetheart,
only to fall curiously in love with his new, hyperintellig...
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