Latest video
CloseVideo from
pontificating over piShake your hips
Tag Archives: rory gallagher
lets drink to that
The narcissism of small differences. When religion meets politics the poetics of demagoguery can launch a thousand careers. Anti-Catholic sentiment in the New World was an almost original sin of the founding settlers. All that was missing was a blood … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged alfred e. smith presidential candidate 1928, Christopher Hitchens, daniel okrent, david goldfield, Graham Greene, Howard Zinn, James Gillray, ken burns prohibition, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, michael sheldon, Prohibition period, rory gallagher, Thomas Nast, Voltaire
Leave a comment
getting your irish up: the bog trotters
In the last few hundred years, dark-skinned peoples have been likened to apes in an effort to dehumanize them and give some form of reasoning behind their oppression and general use . This is not unfamiliar to most Americans as … Continue reading