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RIP 2023-06-30 Cynthia Weil; Blackie Onassis; Astrud Gilberto

I’ve been on vacation for a few weeks, but the Reaper never takes a holiday, so tonight we’ll catch up on many of the musical artists who passed away this month. We’ve got the original Girl from Ipanema joining us tonight, two American bluegrass legends, rock guitarists and drummers from England, Australia, and America, and our headliner, Songwriting Hall-of-Famer Cynthia Weil.

2023-06-30 22:00 No Comments

Wisconsin Supreme Court Decides Skunky Smell is a Probable Cause for Search

Today we have a partisan, flawed decision from the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The four conservatives overruled the three liberals in deciding that anything that smells like marijuana justifies breaching a stopped driver’s 5th Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure.

2023-06-21 13:55 No Comments

Time-lapse photo of traffic in a city at night.

Shortlink Integration Added

Well, I’m on a programming frenzy, ain’t I? I’ve finally gotten my shortlink domain, rad-r.us, reactivated on this blog! That

2023-06-03 22:36 No Comments

“Radical” Russ’s Rants Now on the Fediverse

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2023-06-03 22:13 No Comments

Black and white photo of 1950's white man and woman carrying pigs in a field.

Mediocre Straight White Men Have Everything to Fear from DEI

My contemporaries were terrified (correctly) that eventually bars would replace live musicians with live drunks singing poorly to karaoke. “Yeah,” I agreed, “the shitty ones. The best musicians, though, will always have gigs.” Turns out, I was right.

2023-06-03 09:57 No Comments

RIP 2023-06-02 Bill Lee; Ed Ames; Redd Holt

It’s the afterlife’s greatest jam session, this week featuring musicians from America, Turkey, Israel, Slovakia, and Mexico; as well as singers from America, Australia, France, Algeria, Lebanon, and Ghana. Our headliner this week is jazz bassist and film composer Bill Lee.

2023-06-02 22:00 No Comments

A child in India works at a sewing machine.

Employers Just Can’t Find Enough Cheap Labor to Exploit

Make the poors work for food, shelter, clothing, and healthcare assistance! Brilliant! It makes perfect sense, because they’re too poor to afford food, shelter, clothing, and healthcare, so they’ll be desperate to do whatever job we force them to.

2023-05-27 11:17 No Comments

RIP 2023-05-26 Tina Turner; Sheldon Reynolds; Pete Brown

This week the Reaper and I have decided to change up the format. Rather than play the artists who passed the week prior, we’re going to keep the Rest in Playlist as fresh as possible by playing artists who the Reaper recruited for the afterlife’s greatest jam session as recently as yesterday. That means our Headliner this week is the incomparable Queen of Rock & Roll, Tina Turner, and we have almost two weeks’ worth of artists to get to.

2023-05-26 22:00 No Comments

Minnesota Will Be The 23rd Legal Marijuana State—Get Your Updated Marijuana Map Now

The “Radical” Russ Marijuana States of America Map is available as a poster in sizes from 10″x10″ to 18″x18″. You can get it from my shop website at RadRuss.com.

2023-05-26 09:27 No Comments

If Tribal Regalia for Native Kids is OK for Graduation, Why Not Dresses for Trans Kids?

Let kids express themselves on the day they finally escape the 12-year inculcation to the meaningless busy work and scheduled emotional regulation necessary to become just smart enough to be efficient cogs in the capitalist machine and just dumb enough to accept it.

2023-05-26 08:37 No Comments

Lori Duckworth being interviewed by The Russ Belville Show at a 2013 fundraiser for her post-dispensary-raid legal fees.

Pot Shop = 29 Charges & $550,000 bail. Chop Shop = 51 Charges & $20,000 bail.

Lori’s SONORML establishment was next door to the federal building in Medford, Oregon. The operational models she and other activists across the state created became the blueprint for the bill to create Oregon’s first medical marijuana dispensaries in the pre-legalization era.

2023-05-24 19:44 No Comments

Official Portrait of President Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter is Going to Heaven

Carter’s flaw was being a good man in an evil system. He absolutely would have had the hostages freed if the Reagan campaign didn’t ratfuck his administration by treasonously negotiating with the Ayatollah to hold the hostages until Reagan’s election, with the promise of clandestine arms deals in the future.

2023-05-23 22:29 No Comments

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