Too Much and Never Enough
One family’s indifference and abandonment gave America its greatest failure. James Mann reviews Mary Trump’s book, which explains how.
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Keith Morris
Ink 19 slings a few questions to the punk rock pioneer Keith Morris on Trump, Calexit and looking back.
The Cursed Year In Review
Be gone 2016, be gone.
Andre Williams
I Wanna Go Back To Detroit City ( Bloodshot Records). Review by James Mann.
Bernie
Ted Rall’s Bernie is a look at the unlikely candidacy of the Vermont democratic socialist Bernie Sanders. James Mann feels the bern!
Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority
It’s all demographics. White America is becoming a minority population, and they’re not happy about it. James Mann examines the way out contained in Tim Wise’s Dear White America.
Human League
Credo (Wall of Sound). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
Ever wonder why this country seems to have gone to hell? Watch Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story and wonder no more.
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America
A pseudo pseudo-documentary about aliens living in the hollow earth and their ties to the CIA and Fidel Castro. Carl F Gauze knows for a fact that tinfoil makes the most comfy of hats.
Michael Ray Bower
James Greene, Jr. interviews actor Michael Ray Bower – better known as Salute Your Shorts’ Donkey Lips – about hobnobbing with President Reagan, Steven Spielberg, and that topless woman in the Nickelodeon show.
19 Dead Cool Celebrities of 2004
Millions of people died in 2004. Carl F Gauze picks his 19 favorites.
Things They Didn’t Tell You on I Love the ’80s
VH-1 thinks they have the ’80s wrapped up with their ten-part miniseries. Ben Varkentine begs to differ, and offers proof.
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