Tag Archives: j. edgar hoover

heavin’ hoover

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: this is a classic of paranoid right wing madness. in this book, dear sweet j. edgar hoover (the original g-man and cross-dressing sweetie) sets forth the evidence of a mad commie conspiracy to control our minds (and … Continue reading →

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image and the shadow

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Dave

Ernest Hemingway. He created a dazzling public persona for himself and mostly lived up to it. He seldom spoke of how deep his war wounds had gone and what psychic jackals stalked his later years… Early and late in life, … Continue reading →

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old wild men

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Dave

The terse mottoes, the defiant songs. These were the liturgy and hymnody of the One Big Union’s cause.To the hard-bitten laborers of the I.W.W., the union was a home, a church, and a holy crusade.It lived always in the blast … Continue reading →