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The Invisible World of Rural Black America: Part 2

February 25, 2013 By Lola Rainey 3 Comments

Pops and Uncle Bennie

Join Lola Rainey on a guided tour through American history with her father and uncle, sons of a Texas sharecropper.

Filed Under: Featured Content, On Race, Rural Black America, The Good Life, Travel Tagged With: 1956, 1964, African American service men, American culture, American interstate system, American society, anti-discrimination, arizona, Black America, black families, black men in military, brothers, Central Texas, Civil Rights Act, convenience stores, corruption, country life, discrimination, Driving While Black, East Texas, family history, family trip, fathers, Federal Aid Highway Act, highway robbery, institutional racism, interstate highways, mom and pop stores, New Mexico, nieces, poverty, President Eisenhower, public accommodation, racial integration, Racism, Ralph Ellison, road diners, road trips, segregation, sharecroppers, shotgun shacks, small town life, social justice, Southern America, Texas, The Great Depression, the invisible man, the South, traveling during segregation, uncles, US Air Force, USAF

Sergeants’ Initiation

February 4, 2013 By Tony Peluso 1 Comment

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Newly minted sergeants under surprise attack in Vietnam must act on their own authority for survival.

Filed Under: The Good Life, War Tagged With: Army stories, authority, corruption, Gun Violence, guns, initiation, justice, manhood, Responsibility, rites of passage, self-reliance, US Army, Vietnam War, Vietnam War Memorial, War, war stories, war veterans

The Boiling Point of Aaron Swartz’s Suicide

January 17, 2013 By Brandon Ferdig 3 Comments

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Has Aaron Swartz’s death exposed state corruption?

Filed Under: Suicide, The Good Life Tagged With: aaron swartz, bullying, corruption, criminal justice system, ethics, government corruption, Infogami, injustice, invention of RSS, JSTOR, justice, Massachusetts, mens news, MIT, Mohamed Bouazizi, protest, suicide, Tunisia, United States government

House Republicans Backpedal on Copyright Reform

November 18, 2012 By Noah Brand 2 Comments

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The GOP made an encouraging move toward moderate reform, and was slapped down by big money.

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: Congress, copyright, copyright law, copyright reform, corruption, intellectual property, MPAA, oligopoly, Republican party, riaa

Trust Me, I’m Lying: Interview With Ryan Holiday

August 5, 2012 By Chuck Ross 6 Comments

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Media guru Ryan Holiday exploits the chinks inherent in the armor of the news-gathering process, and the fourth estate fights back. Chuck Ross interviews a self-admitted media manipulator.

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“Comedy is a tool we use to talk about uncomfortable subjects.”

July 11, 2012 By the Editors 5 Comments

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This is a comment by Nick, mostly on the post “Daniel Tosh Apologizes for Rape Jokes”.

Filed Under: Comment of the Day Tagged With: Comedy, corruption, court jesters, Daniel Tosh, edgy, Greek, Greek plays, hecklers, Jokes, Laughter, Louis CK, material, murder, Racism, rape, rude, Sarah Silverman, sexism, social commentary, YouTube

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