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JOE BAGEANT ARTICLES ON HAND
JOE BAGEANT is a senior editor at the Primedia History Group and writes from Winchester, Virginia. A powerful polemicist and a keen observer of contemporary culture and politics, Bageant writes with the passion and courage of a man who fully understands the gravity of the current moment. The old curmudgeon is currently sequestered penning a book on the "red state mentality and all that that entails..."Joe's new personal blog DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS, is located at http://www.joebageant.com/
THE COVERT KINGDOM Read this, if you really want to understand what Christian Fundamentalism is all about.
LAFAYETTE PARK BLUES Musings on the transformations of America from the idealistic 60s to our friendly fascistoid present...and the script is not yet finished.
DRIVING ON THE BONES OF GOD
"I’m quite sure by now I have pushed the reading on your nutcase meter over into the red. Speculating on these sorts of things is a credibility risk, but one I have to take..."
KARAOKE NIGHT IN GEORGE BUSH'S AMERICA "Dissent doesn’t seep deeply enough into America to reach places like Winchester, Virginia. Never has. (Even most blacks here are still pretty much sir-ing and maaming the white folks and staying in their own shabby part of town.) Yet, unlikely candidates that Dot and Dink are for revolution, they have nonetheless helped fuel the right wing revolution with their votes..."
DINING WITH THE RHINOS The latest mordant dispatch from our correspondent deeply embedded in Bush's America. How many wake-up calls can we bet on?
NEW YEAR BAGEANTRY: THE RICHARD OXMAN - JOE BAGEANT (RICH/JOE) INTERVIEW, PART II Memorable insights into the minds of two of the most original minds on the American Left...yes Virginia, liberals and legions of nampy-pambies aside, there is still a real Left in this nation, however miniscule, fragmented and confused it may still be...
POOR, WHITE AND PISSED--A GUIDE TO THE WHITE TRASH PLANET FOR URBAN LIBERALs If this democacy is to have a chance, argues the author, liberals and the Left in general, must make every possible effort to understand and eventually win over the alienated masses currently in the grip of rightwing propaganda. Easier said than done, of course.
Howling in the Belly of the Confederacy How can the region of America that gave us lynching, Jim Crow, Harry Byrd, George Wallace, Taliban Christianity, David Duke, the KKK, Bible hair, Tammy Fay Bakker, congregational snake handling, the poll tax, inbreeding, and chitterlings possibly take another step back down the stairs of human evolution? Beats the hell out of me. But somehow here in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia we have managed it.
PERSONAL NOTES
Joe (L) with fellow souls Beth Arnold and James Morgan, during a
(much needed) recent vac in Southern France.
In the curmudgeon's own words: "So," you might ask, "what's a redneck Marxist doing on the French Riviera?" Well, the same thing that millions of French workers have been doing for the past three-quarter's of a century: not much, other than drinking, eating, breathing clean air, and talking to friendly folks. And, anyway, Karl Marx stayed for a month here in 1882 -- three times longer than my vacation.
More details on this inspiring and replenishing sojourn, may be found here.
