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"Journalism is a despicable trade. I know this because I practice it—but only part-time—because there is no earthy reason to allow one’s self to have to live on such painfully wretched means. I have known this as fact for over 20 years now. I knew it when I wrote for my high school newspaper, college newspaper, and every publication since. It’s not so much the reporting or writing, or even the act of putting those two talents together to disseminate reasonable information, but the inevitable sycophantic regurgitation of all that is crude and inane."
- jc from Fear No Art

 

Reality Check

"It is customary for this space to espouse the ever popular theory that everything is fucked. Has been, always will be. Don’t let anyone tell you how great the 1950s’ were without hearing from African Americans, women, artists, and the remainder of those who might have had a friend or two of Eastern European persuasion. And don’t listen to those boring Baby Boomers drone on about the love and peace revolution of the 60s’ unless you contact those mired in drug clinics, veterans of cop beatings, and the poor suckers who worked on Robert Kennedy’s campaign."
- jc from In Defense Of Larry Flynt & Other Scumbags Like Him 2/12/99

THE 9/11 SERIES
This five-part commentary is now lauded among readers as some of jc's finest columns in the wake of the events of 9/11. Two of these brutally honest pieces were included in the charity compendeum, "Glory: A Nation's Spirit Defeats the Attack on America." (2001)

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Pop Culture

"Appealing to the lowest common denominator is the golden rule of flash entertainment. The Romans knew a good Christian lion feeding meant big numbers, but the advent of television put to shame anything those monsters could've ever dreamed up."
-jc from Fear No Art

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Politics

"We the people, enduring this imperfect union, do here by fully admit to being its author. Yet, long before we were handed the torch, the original bearers suspended reality and stuck us with a fixed game. This republic, bound by these purple mountains and fruited plains, must finally conclude, in the waning moments of its self-proclaimed century, that although it is in God that we trust, what supreme being would bless this fucking mess?"
-jc from The Last Train From Little Rock 2/29/99

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Sports
James Campion Sports Bio

"The American star athlete lives in his own high and mighty society. It is a landscape of excuses and leniency, where young boys who are able to throw a baseball 98 miles and hour, score a touchdown or dunk a basketball, can run wild through infinite puberty."
-jc from Above The Rim - Beyond The Law 12/30/97

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Music

"Most of all it's the music that never leaves you, a blessing and a curse you're straddled with from birth. In a perfect world you could cultivate its voice and conquer its terrible noise; but it's not a perfect world, and sometimes you must muffle it with the quandary of everyday life. However, you eventually learn that's just a human mechanism built in to ignore the obvious; that music is the sanctuary, the crib, the womb that some of us cannot do without."
-jc from Deep Tank Jersey

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