Low Toxicity Food Additives?
I have been doing Toxic Trespass radio for many years, focused on how toxins become cancer and other maladies. Cancer has just gotten too prevalent in our relatively pristine rural environment. In fact...
View ArticleThe Military-Football Complex
The Military-Football Complex becomes more sinister every year. One should never be fooled into thinking the apogee of cynicism has been reached when the first Sunday in February rolls around and the...
View ArticleThe Pioneering Black Porters
It’s Black History Month, a good time to honor the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, one of the most important yet too often overlooked leaders in the long struggle for racial equality and union...
View ArticleThe Wonderful World Of Online ‘Debate’
“You idiotic leftist, liberal, commie, right-wing fascist nanny moron etc etc etc…..” Are printed newspapers dying? Even the AVA? Let us hope not, and if so inclined even pray not — for many reasons,...
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Legalize Industrial Hemp
Industrial Hemp! It’s long past time to end the insanity of making industrial hemp cultivation illegal in the US. It’s hurting our already faltering economy. Making industrial hemp a legal crop could...
View ArticleSpring Training
With fifteen major league baseball teams training in the Phoenix area, you would think that a baseball fan would be in heaven, racing from ballfield to ballfield collecting autographs and taking in the...
View ArticleThe Gas Gougers
Here we go again. A sudden surge in the price of gasoline and heating oil is followed by reported expressions of frustrated despair by hard-pressed consumers in the midst of silence from the oil...
View ArticleTwo Sides Of Gun Propaganda
Two emails came in this morning, forwarded material from people trying to “spread the word.” The topic of both was guns, one rabidly pro andone timidly con. This is perfectly predictable and typical....
View ArticlePropaganda & Poison At The Oscars
Seth MacFarlane claimed in his opening monologue that this year’s Oscars adopted for the first time ever a theme — “the wedding of film and music” as he put it. The spectacle that followed the Oscars...
View ArticleSports Talk
The Summer Olympics of 2012 in London were not nearly as good or as exciting as the Beijing Olympics in China in 2008. But the single most thrilling moment in either Olympics was in the closing...
View ArticleYear Of The Concentrate
The Winter/Spring 2013 issue of O’Shaughnessy’s came out with a page-one article by Jeffrey Hergenrather, MD, under the headline “Use of ‘Dabs’ Gaining Popularity.” It explained: “The popularity of...
View ArticleA Little Dab’ll Do Ya
When Pebbles Trippet showed me her letter to the AVA (March 27, 2013), I mentioned that Lester Grinspoon, the PC (Pro-Cannabis) Harvard Medical School Professor emeritus of Psychiatry, abjured the use...
View ArticleThe Soundtrack Of Imperial Revisionism
Now that the salt has finally settled to the bottom of the 2012 movie season popcorn tub, it’s time to pick through the recalcitrant kernels and send them back to the molars for last rites. Today I’m...
View ArticleMoney Worries
Of course, everybody should have been worried a lot sooner than last week because the basic operating system of global banking is accounting fraud, and has become that stealthily, insidiously, for...
View ArticleStarving The Postal Service
On March 18, U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe spoke at a National Postal Forum in San Francisco, prompting picketing by rank and file postal employees and their supporters. Protestors opposed...
View ArticleHello Baseball, Goodbye Brain
The opening day of the major league baseball season is when I start to live again until October when pro basketball and NFL football take over and the fan in me goes into a long winter sleep. I’m not a...
View ArticleProhibition ’37
Act one, scene one of a three-act tragicomedy featuring the Treasury Department, US industries reliant on hemp, and the American Medical Association. A radio is playing “Nice work if you can get it” as...
View ArticleProhibition ’37, Part 2
A tragicomedy featuring the US Treasury Department, industries reliant on hemp, and the American Medical Association. Continued from last week’s AVA. JENKINS: It seems to me your only burden is to...
View ArticleSongs Of Tax Resistance
A handful of tax resisters lingered outside of the post office in downtown Ithaca on Monday into the early evening when I walked by, my return already filed electronically earlier that day. The...
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Prohibition ’37: Anslinger’s Testimony
Harry Anslinger Continued from last week’s AVA —the House Ways and Means Committee Hearing at which the prohibition of marijuana was considered by Congress. Narration by Fred Gardner. * * * DOUGHTON:...
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