Monthly Archives: August 2015

Up the Ra – Rubber Bandits

August 14, 2015 – 9:43 pm

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children – Bobby Sands To see Up the Ra – Rubber Bandits, please go to this URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBT4ZWy6Lm4

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ROADS OF THE FLYOVER Part 3 by Peter Nolan Smith

August 14, 2015 – 5:56 pm

Threatening clouds roiled over the Iowa cornfields. Monstrous flashes strobed through the thunderheads. The still air was charged with electricity. “Have you ever seen a tornado?” Brock asked with his video recorder out the window. “Only in WIZARD OF OZ.” Twisters killed people and I stepped on the gas. Brock studied the map. We hadn’t […]

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A Shower With Naked Men

August 14, 2015 – 11:50 am

In 2009 Brock Dundee and I drove 3000 miles through the Midwest; Chicago to St. Louis to Kansas City to Iowa City to Minneapolis and back to Chicago. Most of the trip was off the Interstates. Neither my traveling companion nor I saw a single hitchhiker on the side of the road, as if Homeland […]

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We Love Ike

August 13, 2015 – 2:36 pm

The population of Iowa is a little over three million. In 2012 less than 10% voted in the GOP caucus deadlocking creationist Rick Santorum with the eventual presidential candidate the Mormon Milt Romney. At this early point in the campaign the renegade billionaire Trump is # 1 in Iowa polls with 22% to the reactionary […]

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The Police Versus The Us

August 13, 2015 – 1:03 pm

Over a year ago 19 year-old Michael Wilson was shot dead by a Ferguson Missouri police officer. Darren Wilson claimed the stocky high school senior charged at him after an altercation about walking in the middle of a street. Darren Wilson was cleared of any charges by a grand jury setting off a firestorm of […]

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