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...
Refused—The Personal and the Political Rob Duguay February 18, 2020 Features, Interviews Swedish punks Refused came to be during an interesting time in punk rock during the early nineties. Seattle rock was king as Nirvana dominated the charts, then California had a comeback in the middle of the de...
Reality Check – Readers’ Responses James Campion January 23, 2019 Columns, Reality Check I am shocked this has not gotten more traction than it has. (ALT RIGHT UNDERGROUND – A PERSPECTIVE – Issue: 10/31/18) To think random lunatics -- even if it is one dumbass Trump guy in a propaganda van o...
Reality Check – The Delusion Factor: Or How to Get Out of a Political Impasse 101 James Campion January 16, 2019 Columns, Reality Check Not that he is inclined to take any advice, quite obviously, but I have some for the president of the United States to get him out of this political corner he has painted himself into. As discussed in this s...
Reality Check – The Wall: A Surrealist Perspective James Campion January 2, 2019 Columns, Reality Check “Existence is illusory and it is eternal.” - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays “Don't know what I want, But I know how to get it.” - Sex Pist...
Reality Check – GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH – [1924-2018] James Campion December 12, 2018 Columns, Reality Check “George Bush is guiltier than all of them.” Hunter S. Thompson, Portland, Oregon's First Congregational Church, 1988 A mostly ineffectual one-term president, whose political and persona...
Reality Check – THE RUSSIAN BANK PHASE – SUDDENLY WHITEWATER: Trump Scumbag Lawyer Spills Beans on Illegal Land Deals – Sound Familiar? James Campion December 5, 2018 Columns, Reality Check “It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.” &nb...
Reality Check – Mid-Term Roundup: Women, Repudiation, Entrenchment & Reckoning James Campion November 14, 2018 Columns, Reality Check Lots of stuff happened on Nov. 6, 2018. This was the second time the current administration -- its polices, its tone, its corruption and investigations have had to face the voters since 2016, and t...
Reality Check – Alt Right Underground – A Perspective: When Mailed Bombs Become Teachable Moments James Campion October 31, 2018 Columns, Reality Check I was reminded of a couple of things this week when word came that enemies of the Trump administration -- past political opponents, celebrities, old leftists and CNN -- received to what amounted to half-...
Reality Check – Thirty-Six Hours: The Nightmare of Legal Purgatory in the Island Tombs James Campion October 24, 2018 Columns, Reality Check Thirty-six hours. No water. None. No place to sleep. Well, steel benches. Fifty degrees with blowing ceiling fans in a 20-by-30-foot cinderblock room. Open, rusted, putr...
