Yearly Archives: 2009

Jim Jarmusch, Bradford Cox, and No Age’s Randy Randall: Cortez the Killer

By Ray Watkins | Published: December 30, 2009
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Good News, Maybe

By Ray Watkins | Published: December 28, 2009
We're haunted by a reactionary Republican party; it's "reactionary" in a specific sense, too, unwilling to posit any ideas other than to resist the Democratic majority. No push to privatize Social Security or the public schools, not even a 'balance the budget' neurosis to push. All we got were Tea-bagging flash in the pans. I didn't buy Reagan, either, but it's hard to take Palin seriously. So it's impossible to see any mainstream political idea as unambiguously good news. Even if you are one of the 30 plus million slated to be helped with health care, the news is mixed. You have to wait, for one thing (hoping that you don't get ill or die) and who knows...
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