I have been blogging online since before there were blogs. I began on a listserve at Marist University called QC-L back in the late 1990s. That evolved into a Blogger account I had at RadicalRuss.net during the George W. Bush Administration. From there, I joined the acclaimed LGBT blog Pam's House Blend as a guest blogger, leading to my accreditation to cover the 2008 Democratic National Convention nominating Barack Obama in Denver. During my career in marijuana legalization, I wrote numerous articles online and in print on the subject. I continue blogging from time to time on various subjects here and as much of my past blogging as I've been able to recover is found here as well.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“You didn’t used to see them out in public like five years ago,” he told me. “But last time I’m out at a Trader’s Joe” (that’s how he said it) “and you see these women dressed up in beekeeper suits,” he said referring to the traditional Muslim garb known as the niqab.
Everything I wrote between 2003 and 2007 will be imported into my new site. You can enjoy twenty years of my ranting on George W. Bush, the Iraq War, the proliferation of anti-gay marriage initiatives and the lead up to my winning The Search For The Next Great Progressive Talk Radio Star.
This week the Grim Reaper took a liking to opera, taking three singers from America, Germany, and the Czech Republic. Our Main Stage this week is an all-British lineup, while our Festival Stage focuses on Brazil. You’ll also hear from our headliner, Chieftain’s fiddler Sean Keane.
Cops ought to cherish their authority and position so much that any other cops who goes bad like this ought to be treated worse by the cops that bust them, just for tarnishing the badge. It ought to be next to impossible for there to be bad cops, because the good ones would never stand for malfeasance in their ranks.