REALITY CHECK: GET OUT THERE AND SAVE THE DAY, AMERICA. James Campion May 18, 2020 Columns, Reality Check It's time for Americans to risk their lives for the good ol' U.S.A. Hey, America! Here’s how it works now. You need to get back out there and save the economy. If you get sick and die, well… it happens....
LITTLE RICHARD WAS ROCK AND ROLL’S MISSING INGREDIENT James Campion May 17, 2020 Features, Goings-On, Interviews “I could do Little Richard’s voice, which is a wild, hoarse, screaming thing, it’s like an out-of-body experience. You have to leave your current sensibilities and go about a foot above your head to sing it.” ...
REALITY CHECK: STATES’ RIGHTS REVERSAL IN THE AGE OF MADNESS James Campion April 20, 2020 Features, Interviews A Dangerous National Leadership Vacuum Pushes Us Through the Political Looking Glass In the mid-eighties, during the last true wave of modern conservatism, it was difficult to imagine a time, some thirty-pl...
REALITY CHECK: TRUMP IS FAILING LATEST CRISIS TEST, JUST AS HE’S FAILED TIME & TIME AGAIN James Campion April 15, 2020 Columns, Reality Check 1 “I alone can fix it.” Donald J. Trump on the 2016 campaign trail The most pressing national crisis since the 2008 economic collapse and maybe even the 9/11 tragedy and we have a game show host in charge....
Reality Check—In Memoriam: Adam Schlesinger [1967-2020] James Campion April 4, 2020 Features, Interviews When you go out of the blackness Into the great big sky Supercollider Shooting inside your mind Adam Schlesinger/Chris Collingwood, “Supercollider Adam Schlesinger has died from complications st...
REALITY CHECK: ISOLATION & HOW MUCH LONGER? James Campion March 25, 2020 Columns, Reality Check We're afraid of everyone Afraid of the sun Isolation The sun will never disappear But the world may not have many years Isolation - John Lennon, “Isola...
Reality Check—Coronavirus: Donald Trump’s Katrina James Campion March 24, 2020 Columns, Reality Check Stop me if you heard this before: Unpopular Republican president that citizens generally view as incompetent is confronted with a crisis and bungles it… badly. Yeah, 2005, August, George W. Bush. Hurricane Kat...
Reality Check– THE LAZARUS WEEK: Joe Biden Rises from Political Oblivion to Become Democratic Front Runner in One Insane Week James Campion March 10, 2020 Reality Check What transpired on Super Tuesday 2020 is by far the most stunning political comeback I have ever witnessed. Former Vice President Joe Biden nearly swept through the fourteen states like a firestorm, many of...
Reality Check–Reader Responses James Campion March 3, 2020 Reality Check I wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you again to all the people who reached out to send condolences and kind words about my late father, James Vincent Campion, who died last October. When I began wr...
Reality Check–FASCISM 101: The Swift Erosion of Democracy in Living Color James Campion February 24, 2020 Reality Check “Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultra-nationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy.” —Wikipedia ...
