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Politics 2013

• EGYPT: DEMOCRACY, RELIGION & THE NEW DIVIDE 7/24/2013
• GRAPEFRUIT CIRCUS BLOWS THROUGH TOWN 7/17/2013
• Down Goes DOMA – 7/3/2013
• EVERYTHING IS DISEASE – 6/28/2013
• EDWARD J. SNOWDEN & GLENN GREENWALD: HACKING INTO HYPOCRISY – 6/19/13
• The Self-Perpetuating Gorge Of Power or How The IRS Becomes Hal 9000 – 6/3/13
• How I Learned To Stop Worrying & The Love The Shield Law – 5/29/13
• Second Term Jinx – Obama Style – 5/22/13
• Be Careful – 5/1/13
• The Lessons of Boston – 4/24/13
• Springtime For North Korea– 4/17/13
• Supreme Decision – 4/3/13
• N.C. State & The Birth of March Madness – 3/27/13
• Holy Land Obama – 3/20/13
• Sequester Diary – 3/2/13
• Joe Cool Budget/Guns/Immigration/Education Tour – 2/27/13
• Life (And Death) During Perpetual Wartime – 2/13/13
• Southern Comfort Interrupted – 2/6/13
• Tobacco, Booze & Firearms – An American Love Story – 1/23/13
• Guns & The American Experiment – 1/16/13
• Tax Hikes, No Deal & The GOP War – 1/9/13

Politics 2012

• Thanks For Next To Nothing – 11/21/12
• Joe Cool Stomp II– 11/14/12
• Countdown Election – 11/8/12
• Women, Women, Women – 10/31/12
• New Ball Game – 10/17/12
• Obama Slumber Party– 10/10/12
• Train Wreck Romney – 9/26/12
• The Show Part II – 9/12/12
• The Show Part I – 9/5/12
• A-Riteway Construction Must Be Stopped – 8/29/12
• The Paul Ryan Factor – 8/22/12
• Convenient “Free Speech” – 8/15/12
• In Praise of Vegan is Love – 8/1/12
• What Is Mitt Romney Afraid Of? – 7/25/12
• Last Word On The Independent Vote – 7/18/12
• Supreme Cop-Out – 7/4/12
• What’s The Deal With Attonreys General? – 6/27/12
• The Summer Of Obama – 6/20/12
• Recall Bust – 6/13/12
• The Defiant Capitlaist Returns – 5/23/12
• Welcome To The Funhouse – 5/18/12
• Make Way, Mick Jagger– 5/9/12
• GOP Lockdown – 5/2/12
• The Buffett Rule? – 4/25/12
• Revenge Of The Nerds – 4/11/12
• Health Care On Trial – 4/4/12
• Look Away Dixie Land – 3/28/12
• Super Dud – 3/14/12
• Dear Mista Christie – 3/7/12
• The Frontrunner Shuffle – 2/29/12
• The Israel Threat – 2/22/12
• A Question of Secular Faith – 2/15/12
• Joe Cool Carries The Two – 2/1/12
• South Carolina Mudsling – 1/25/12
• Citizen Romney – 1/18/12
• Hawkeye Hoodwink – 1/11/12

Politics 2011

• Congress Circa 112 – 1/12/11
• The Echoes Of Tucson In The United States Of FantasyLand – 1/19/11
• The Joe Cool Comeback Rally – 2/2/11
• Cairo: Egyptian Experiment In Anarchy – 2/9/11
• The Tea Party Man – 2/16/11
• While You’re Away – 2/23/11
• Jobs, Jobs, Jobs – 3/9/11
• The Cake Has Been Taken – 3/16/11
• The Ides Of Libya – 3/30/11
• Countdown To Compromise – 4/6/11
• Opening Act – 4/13/11
• Osama & Out – 5/11/11
• Vox Schizophrenia – 6/1/11
• Weinergate – 6/15/11
• The Courtship of Chris Christie – 6/22/11
• One Vote – 6/29/11
• Debt Ceiling Showdown – 7/13/11
• Bring It On – 7/20/11
• Averting The Crisis That Wasn’t – 8/3/11
• S & P vs. U.S.A. – 8/17/11
• The Joe Cool Double-Reverse Hail Mary– 9/14/11
• Class Warfare, Job Creators & Other Myths – 9/28/11
• GOP Vacuum – 10/5/11
• All Hail The Super Committee! – 11/23/11
• The Ron Paul Factor – 12/21/11

Politics 2010

• 2010: Year of the Faux Revolution – 1/13/10
• Barack Obama’s America: Year One – 1/20/10
• Mr. Brown Goes To Washington – 1/27/10
• We The People – 2/10/10
• The Independents Sweepstakes – 2/24/10
• Health Care Summit? – 3/3/10
• The Curious Case of “The Al Qaada 7” – 3/17/10
• Health Care U.S.A. – 3/24/10
• Ten Lies About Health Care Reform – 3/31/10
• With Friends Like These… – 4/14/10
• Tax Day Speech 2010 – 4/21/10
• G-R-E-E-D – 5/5/10
• Arizona Calling – 5/12/10
• N.J. Faux Revolution 2010 – 5/26/10
• Exit Stage Left – 6/23/10
• G.I. JOKE – 6/30/10
• Victory For Liberty & Justice For All – 8/11/10
• Grand Old Party – How Big Is Thy Hammer? – 9/8/10
• The Money Season – 9/22/10
• Democrats Circle The Wagons – 10/13/10
• March of the Crazies – 10/27/10
• Elephant Avalanche – 11/10/10
• Politics Of The Tax Cut – 12/8/10
• Citizen Health Care – 12/29/10

Politics 2009

• Mr. Burris Goes To Washington – 1/14/09
• So Long Captain Shoo-In – 1/21/09
• The Change Express – 1/28/09
• Vox Stimuli – 2/11/09
• The Great Leap Of Faith – 3/4/09
• Outrage Squared – 4/1/09
• Anarchy In The U.K. – 4/8/09
• Dawn Of The Ace Age – 4/15/09
• Last Words On The United States Of Torture – 4/29/09
• The Century Mark – 5/6/09
• The Sins Of Pakistan – 5/27/09
• Dinasaurs On Sixth Avenue – 6/3/09
• The Allah Stomp – 6/24/09
• The Healthcare Shuffle – 7/29/09
• Stupidly, Stupidly, Stupidly… – 8/5/09
• “Un-American Is Un-American – 8/19/09
• Last Temptation Of Obama – 8/26/09
• Edward Moore Kennedy – 9/2/09
• Hopeville In Autumn – 9/16/09
• The Race Illusion – 9/23/09
• Afghanistan: The Original Quagmire – 10/7/09
• Solutions (Sort of) For National Health Care – 10/14/09
• Rob Astorino: Friend & Colleague in the Land of Scum – 10/29/09
• Foul Nectar of the Beatdown – 11/11/09
• Fort Hood’s Sociological Backlash – 11/18/09
• Collectivism on Parade – 11/25/09
• Health Care Finale – 12/16/09

Politics 2008

• Iowa: What Happened? – 1/9/08
• New Hampshire: Same Old Song & Dance – 1/16/08
• The Heart & Soul Of Party Politics Part I – 1/23/08
• The Heart & Soul Of Party Politics Part II – 1/30/08
• And Then There Were Three – 2/6/08
• Goodbye Super Tuesday – 2/13/08
• Independence Rules – 2/20/08
• Cheesehead Victory Lap – 2/27/08
• The Emperor’s New Factory Girl – 3/12/08
• The Democrats Are Burning – 3/19/08
• The Speech – 3/26/08
• The Party vs. The Machine – 4/9/08
• Iraq – The New Iran – 4/16/08
• Confession Of An Elitist – 4/23/08
• Keystone Kop-Out – 4/30/08
• Let’s Make A Deal – 5/14/08
• The Great Divide – 5/21/08
• Will The Real John McCain Please Stand Up – 5/28/08
• Fuck Scott McClellen – 6/4/08
• Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie – 6/11/08
• 18 In ’08: Part I – 6/25/08
• 18 In ’08: Part II – 7/2/08
• Obama In The Uphill Part I – 8/6/08
• Obama In The Uphill Part II – 8/13/08
• Open Letter To Barack Obama – 8/27/08
• The Rocky Mountain Shill – 9/3/08
• Hurricane Palin Steals Thunder From RNC – 9/10/08
• The Total Eclipse Of McCain – 9/17/08
• Welcome To The People’s Republic Of America – 10/1/08
• Power To The People – 10/8/08
• Joe Cool Down The Stretch – 10/22/08
• GOP R.I.P. -10/29/08
• What’s Worth Voting For -11/5/08
• An Open Apology To America – 11/12/08
• Beggars & Choosers – 12/3/08
• Oh Nine: Year Of The Guilty – 12/31/08

Politics Archive

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• On The Trail Of A Kidnapped Journalist – 6/96
• Bill Bradley Letter – 8/10/99
• RAGING AGAINST THE MACHINE: Political Pit Bull, Pat Buchanan Takes Off The Kid Gloves in His Grass Roots Run for President – 1/26/00
• Cheap Garments And Lesser Words On Super Tuesday – 3/22/00
• Castro, Baseball And The Great Divide – 4/26/00
• The Giuliani Dilemma – 5/31/00
• The Ballad Of Rick Lazio – 6/7/00
• The Great Debate On Debates – 7/19/00
• The VP Factor & Other Boring Political Summer Tales – 8/9/00
• Georgetown On The Floor – 8/16/00
• Joseph Lieberman & The Great Leap Of Faith – 8/23/00
• Tinsletown Looney Tunes – 8/30/00
• The New Gore Rules – 9/20/00
• Taking The Pulse Of America – 10/11/00
• Notes From The Campaign Fringe – 10/18/00
• Deconstructing Hillary – 10/25/00
• Last Tango In Ghostland – 11/1/00
• Surviving The Great “System” Anal Probe – 11/29/00
• Ten Lies About The 2000 Presidential Dispute – 12/13/00
• Requiem For A Lightweight – 12/20/00
• Spoils From The Victor – 1/3/01
• Exile On Ecology Street – 1/24/01
• So Long To Bill Clinton – Minister Of Fun -1/31/01
• Help Wipe Out Federal Clemency In Our Time – 3/7/01
• Anatomy of a Tax Cut – 3/21/01
• Campaign Finance For An Elightened Age – 4/11/01
• The China Syndrome – 4/18/01
• War is Hell & Other Exclusives – 5/9/01
• The FBI & Timothy McVeigh – 5/23/01
• Oilmen To The Rescue – 5/30/01
• Broken Heroes On Highway 9 – 7/4/01
• Song of the Bloated Hyena – 7/11/01
• Desperately Leaking Condit – 7/18/01
• Stem-Cell Redux – 8/22/01
• Last Word On Lying Sacks of Shit – 9/5/01
• Casualties Of War – 11/6/01
• How The Bruised Apple Was Won – 11/14/01
• Israel Under Siege – 12/12/01
• A Georgetown Christmas – 12/26/01
• Remembering Uncle Rudy, King Of New Gotham – 1/2/02
• What Now? – 1/23/02
• Inside Enron – 2/20/02
• Battle Line America – 3/6/02
• The Dick Cheney World Tour – 3/20/02
• Curbing The Insane & Other Sober Judgments – 4/24/02
• Introduction To Parenting In A Predatory Environment – 5/8/02
• A Conversation With Ani DiFranco Part I– 5/15/02
• A Conversation With Ani DiFranco Part II – 5/22/02
• The Blame Game – 6/5/02
• Courts A-Go-Go – 7/3/02
• A Mid-Summer’s Night Standoff – 7/17/02
• Bare Knuckle Jungle – 7/24/02
• All Together Now…Recession!! – 8/7/02
• NYC – One Year Later – 9/11/02
• Mid-Term Madness – 10/2/02
• Senator Quitter Or The Ballad Of A Gutless Swine – 10/9/02
• The Big Olympic Lie – 11/13/02
• A Georgetown Christmas – 12/25/02
• Selective Heroism – 1/29/03
• The Price of Safety – 2/5/03
• Propaganda 101 – 2/19/03
• The Bill For Rebuilding Iraq – 2/26/03
• The Blessed Right of Dissent – 3/5/03
• Abandoning Reason at the Fort – 3/12/03
• Ten Lies About The US Invasion Of Iraq – 3/26/03
• Post Mortem For War Coverage – 4/9/03
• Victory Mandate & Other Silly Claims – 5/14/03
• Bear Hunt Madness – 5/21/03
• The Homeland Security Shuffle – 5/28/03
• Final Answers From The Roadmap to Peace – 6/18/03
• A Sober View From The Trenches – 7/23/03
• California Schemin’ – 8/6/03
• Georgetown In Cali Part II -9/17/03
• Georgetown In Cali -9/10/03
• Schwarzenegger & The Left Wing GOP
• Anarchy In Bushland – 10/29/03
• Harbinger of the Flower People – 12/3/03
• Why Howard Dean Cannot Win A General Election – 12/17/03
• The Chunk Of Puke Principle – 12/24/03
• Primary Palaestra – 1/21/04
• DogFight Revisited – 1/28/04
• New Hampshire Fallout – 2/4/03
• The “Real” Super Tuesday Hammerlock – 2/11/04
• Last Word On WMD’S – 2/18/04
• Bigotry & Gay Marriage – 3/17/04
• The Denizens of Politics – 4/14/04
• High Stakes – Bad Breaks – 4/21/04
• Man Overboard – 5/19/04
• The Georgetown Factor – 5/26/04
• The Georgetown Factor Part II – 6/2/04
• D-Day – 60 Years Hence – 6/9/04
• You Say You Want A Saudi Revolution? – 6/30/04
• The Edwards Factor – 7/14/04
• The Mediocre Elite Arise – 7/28/04
• G.I. John Digs In – 8/4/04
• Running Scared – 8/11/04
• Cornered GOP Beasts Throws Ugly – 8/18/04
• Ralph Nader’s Last Stand?– 8/25/04
• Notes From The Cesspool Part I – 9/1/04
• Elephants On Eighth Avenue – 9/8/04
• Notes From The Cesspool Part II – 9/15/04
• Kerry In Neutral – 9/29/04
• Half-Truths & Sound Bites – 10/6/04
• No Rest For The Desperate – 10/20/04
• Why George Bush Must Go – 10/27/04
• Second Term Madness – 11/10/04
• Exit Stage Arafat – 11/17/04
• The Iron Fist Principle Part I – 12/8/04
• The Iron Fist Principle Part II – 12/15/04
• Manifest Destiny Made Easier – 12/29/04
• Malpractice Lunacy or Medical Tyranny – 1/19/05
• In Bush We Trust – 1/2/05
• Torch Song of the Money Wise – 1/9/05
• Liberal Bias In The Media – 3/16/05
• Condee Spins Eternal – 3/23/05
• Deconstructing The Constitution – 3/30/05
• We Want Bolton – 5/4/05
• GOP Gridlock Part 1 – 5/11/05
• GOP Gridlock Part 2 – 5/18/05
• Deep Throat – A Tribute – 6/8/05
• Caveat Emptor – 7/6/05
• The “Karl Rove Is Innocent” Favor Rendered – 7/20/05
• Open Letter To Fidel Castro – 7/27/05
• Senator Rodham Meets The Bride Of Uncle Rudy – 8/17/05
• Journalism In A Vacuum – 8/31/05
• The Big Desperate – 9/14/05
• Solutions For OPEC Price Gouging – 9/21/05
• Tom Delay – Road Kill – 10/12/05
• A View From The Barricades Part I – 10/26/05
• A View From The Barricades Part II – 11/2/05
• The Chief Executive’s New Clothes – 11/30/05
• When Good Ideas Are Executed By Dumb Asses – 12/7/05
• The Song & Dance Man Revisited – 12/14/05
• Surrealism Safety Brigade – 12/21/05
• Invisible & Paralyzed – 12/28/05
• Judging Alito – 1/25/06
• Hooray For Hamas! – 2/8/06
• Dick Cheney – King of All Media – 2/22/06
• President On Trial At Local High School – 3/22/06
• Mr. Mojo Sinking – 4/5/06
• Viva Le Cheap Labor – 4/12/06
• Scooter’s Song – 4/19/06
• Iran Crisis Is A Fraud – 4/26/06
• Praise Be To Oil Barons – 5/10/06
• The NSA Tapes – 5/24/06
• The Democrats Are Finished – 6/21/06
• Al Qaeda Shell Game – 6/28/06
• Unreliable Sources – 7/19/06
• The Israeli Defense Force Summer Tour – 7/26/06
• Dogpile On The Loons – 8/2/06
• The Lieberman Experiment – 8/16/06
• Middle East Solutions – 8/23/06
• Ching-Ching, Cash In On Tragedy! Part 1 – 9/20/06
• Ching-Ching, Cash In On Tragedy! Part 2 – 9/27/06
• Midterm Elections Dilemma – 10/11/06
• Senatorial See Saw – 10/18/06
• A House Divided – 10/25/06
• Conservatism Vs. Fundamentalism – 11/8/06
• Dems Sweep, GOP Weeps – 11/15/06
• Punchline Iraq – 12/13/06
• Gerald Ford? – 1/10/07
• Challenge To The 110th Congress – 1/17/07
• Dead Man Talking – 1/31/07
• War vs. Occupation – 2/14/07
• Bush -1 Democrats – 0 – 3/7/07
• A Reluctant Guide To Campaign 2008 Part I -3/14/07
• A Reluctant Guide To Campaign 2008 Part II -3/21/07
• Frat House Fracas – 5/16/07
• Independence ’08 – 6/13/07
• The Nifong Chronicles – 6/27/07
• Song Of The Dying Whale – 7/11/07
• The Blame Game – 7/25/07
• Pot & Kettle Revelations – 9/12/07
• Four Corner Petraeus – 9/19/07
• The Hillary Machine – 10/31/07
• Expatriate Windfall – 11/7/07
• 30 Days To Pay Dirt – 12/5/07
• Mitt Romney: Don’t Ask – Don’t Tell – 12/12/07

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Pop Culture

• Elvis Presley: The Bad, The Sweet, And The Boogie – 8/96
• 20th Century Classics – 9/98 – 8/99
• Past Is Present (The Future Of Comedy By The Numbers) -1/98
• Guns In America: Pop Goes History – 4/5/00
• How The Gravy Train Skids – 4/19/00
• Freedom Of Speech Case 1,653: Dr. Laura Vs. GLAAD – 6/14/00
• Pigeonholing God & Other Ego-Mad Pursuits – 7/5/00
• Friend Of The Different – The Horrible Truth About BLAZO!! – 7/26/00
• The “Never” Solution & Other Bizarre Revelations About BLAZO!! – 8/2/00
• Compassionate Censorship – 10/4/00
• Last Night They Shot John Lennon – 12/6/00
• Trimming The Fat From The Fire – 1/10/01
• The Great MTV Hoax – 1/17/01
• The Truth About Willie & The Underground Sharks – 2/14/01
• Who Killed Napster? – 2/21/01
• 100 Favorite Films – 2/28/01
• Challenging the Verizon Gestapo: A Study in Technological Fascism – 4/4/01
• Explaining Robert Downey Jr. & Other Related Mishaps – 5/16/01
• Dismantle The FCC – 6/13/01
• What Is Belief? – 8/8/01
• Ken Kesey: 1935 -2001 – 11/28/01
• Swansong For The Deputy – 12/5/01
• The Raping Of ABC News -3/13/02
• Holy Hell For Holy Week – 3/27/02
• In Defense Of The American Bully – 6/26/02
• The Bonzi Conspiracy – 8/21/02
• Four Decades – One Hundred Lives – 9/4/02
• “Your children are not safe anytime, anywhere…” – 10/30/02
• Resurrecting Dirty Lenny Part I – 12/4/02
• Echoes of a Precarious Freedom (Lenny Part II) – 12/11/02
• The Birthing of History – 1/7/03
• All Hail Ann Coulter – Champion Of The Dumb – 7/2/03
• Gay Bishops & Other Modern Illusions – 8/13/03
• Rush Limbaugh, ESPN & The Craven Con – 10/9/03
• The Sky Is Falling, By The Way – 11/5/03
• Birth of the Cynical Age – 11/26/03
• A Debate Of Passion Part I – 2/25/04
• A Debate Of Passion Part II – 3/3/04
• Gonzo Goes To The Movies – 4/7/04
• The Big, Bad Voices of Sarah Jones – 6/23/04
• Dangerous Art Networked Daily – 12/22/04
• Michael Jackson Is In Deep Shit – 2/16/05
• Hunter Stockton Thompson 1937-2005 – 3/2/05
• Parker Posey Stole My Car – 4/13/05
• Lay Off The Catholics – 4/20/05
• Peddling Morality In The Den Of Iniquity – 5/25/05
• Legalize Marijuana Already – 6/15/05
• Eminent Domain & The Saga Of Zander The Bat – 7/13/05
• In Praise of Intelligent Design Verus Evolution – 8/10/05
• BallBusting 101 – 10/5/05
• Rosa Louise Parks – 1913-2005 – 11/9/05
• I Have A Dream – 1/18/06
• Loony Toons – 2/15/06
• Propaganda For Sale – Cheap! – 3/8/06
• Speed Generation – 5/17/06
• The Gueem – 1997 – 2006 – 5/31/06
• Warren Buffet For Sainthood – 7/5/06
• CBGB – RIP – 11/1/06
• The O.J. Simpson Cultural Mirror Strikes Again – 11/29/06
• “Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride” – 12/6/06
• Wishes For 2007 – 1/3/07
• Hot House Rising – 2/7/07
• Snow Day – 2/21/07
• Free-Trade Propaganda – 3/28/07
• Why I Should Be A Juror – 4/4/07
• Of Villains, Victims & Vengence – 4/18/07
• NBC & The Network Rubber Neck – 4/25/07
• Kurt Vonnegut – 1922-2007 – 5/2/07
• An Open Letter From God On Smiting Jerry Falwell – 5/30/07
• Free Paris Hilton – 6/20/07
• Michael Moore & His “SiCKO” Utopia – 7/4/07
• A Very Filthy Christmas – John Waters Interview – 12/12/07
• Decayed At The Desk – 8/8/07
• While We Were Away… – 9/5/07
• Mass Media Democracy – 9/26/07
• On The Road At 50 Part I – 10/3/07
• On The Road At 50 Part II – 10/10/07
• London Recalling – 11/21/07
• Queen Of Vernon 1993 – 2007 – 1/2/08
• George Carlin 1937 – 2008 – 7/9/08
• The Summer Of Survival – 7/23/08
• We’re All Fine – 12/10/08
• The Bogus Battle For Christmas – 12/24/08
• Send In The Clowns – 3/18/09
• What Is News? – 4/22/09
• Open Letter To My Wife PART II – 6/17/09
• Michael Jackson – 1958 – 2009 – 7/8/09
• Woody Being Woody – 7/15/09
• Ghost of Free Market Past – 12/23/09
• Jerome David Salinger – 1919-2010 – 2/3/10
• An Open Letter To British Petroleum – 6/9/10
• Happy Birthday Doctor Thompson – 7/28/10
• Mosques, Slevin, Newt & The Nazi Pope – 8/18/10
• Free Speech Redux – 9/1/10
• Consumer vs. Cablevision vs. News Corp.– 11/3/10
• “Wizard Of Oz” Remake (No Shit) – 11/24/10
• Anglo-America On Parade– 3/2/11
• Okay…Donald Trump – 4/27/11
• Art of the Giddy Hangover – 5/4/11
• How I’ll Spend Judgment Day – 5/25/11
• Rubert Murdoch – A Tribute – 7/27/11
• We Suck (Apparently) – 8/24/11
• Titans Out – 8/31/11
• No, Thanks – 9/2/11
• #OWS – 10/12/11
• American Youth – Movement, Fad Or Voice? – 10/26/11
• Chasing The Center While Kickin’ ‘Round The Fringe – 11/2/11
• South West Black Friday Revelations – 12/7/11
• 12 – 12/28/11

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Sports

James Campion Sports Bio

• Inmates In Charge – 8/17/93
• Remembering Jimmy V – 5/5/93
• Clubhouse Etiquette – 4/14/93
• The 1993 Phillies: As Animated As They Come – 4/14/93
• In Search Of Reggie – 8/5/93
• The New Jordan Rules – 10/13/93
• Four Quarters To Four Downs – 11/10/93
• Super Bowl III: Setting The Stage For All The Rest – 1/26/94
• Before The Kings: Ali in America 1964– 2/23/94
• Scooter Arrives:Better Late Than Never – 3/2/94
• The Mick’s Last Victory – 3/23/94
• Diary Of A Sports Madman – 5/4/94
• Violence In Sports -5/25/94
• Zen Of The Puck – Rangers On The Brink Of Lost Glory – 6/8/94
• Tyson Sits While Boxing Waits – 6/15/94
• O.J. Simpson: Superstar Images Die Hard – 6/22/94
• A Major League Mess Is Brewing – 7/20/94
• Donnie Baseball’s Last Stand – 7/27/94
• A View Of the Strike From The Front Lines – 8/24/94
• The Face Of Yorktown Football Is Smiling – 11/23/94
• Yorktown Still Unconquered And Unbeaten – 11/30/94
• The Legend And Legacy of Howard Cosell – 4/26/95
• The Top 25 Sports Personalities of the 20th Century – 7/3/96
• Phil Simms Interview – A Man For One Season – 9/00
• Bobby Knight: Macho Thug Or Stupid Brute? – 9/27/00
• Gridlock NY – 11/15/00
• Last Exit To Queens – 11/22/00
• Juggling The Facts About Violence At Peekskill High School – 1/18/01
• Gremlins In The Toy Department – 1/30/02
• When Good Things Happen To Good People – 2/13/02
• The Science Of Greed – 4/10/02
• The Toys of Summer – 8/14/02
• Title Town USA – 6/4/03
• Two-Dimensional Kobe – 7/30/03
• Bucky Dent & The High White Note – 10/2/03
• 50 Greatest Sports Moments of All Time – 10/31/03
• By Any Other Name – 1/14/04
• The NFL Stinks – 1/12/05
• Everything We Wanted To Know About Steroids… – 2/23/05
• Asterisk Nation – 3/15/06
• Hooligans In The Press Room – 9/6/06
• End Of An Era – 10/24/07
• Baseball Through The Looking Glass – 12/19/07
• Beijing Olympics: Let Pestilence Ring!– 8/20/08
• Addio Stadia – 9/24/08
• Where Have You Gone Muhammad Ali? – 2/18/09
• Why We Care About Tiger Woods – 12/9/09
• Lebron James Play Basketball – 7/14/10
• George Steinbrenner III – 1930 – 2010– 7/21/10
• Penn State – Institution Defeats Humanity Again – 11/16/11
• The Life, Myths & Influence Of An American Original – 12/14/11

Reality Check | Pop Culture | Politics | Sports | Music

Music

• 100 Favorite Albums
• Quadrophenia/Madison Square Garden 7/16/96
• The Artist/Roseland Ballroom 1/11/97
• Counting Crows/The Wallflowers/PNC Arts Center 7/14/97
• Ani DiFranco/Capitol Theater 3/21/97
• Sinead O’Connor/Beacon Theater 8/26/97
• Ani DiFranco/Carnegie Hall 4/6/01
• Counting Crows/William Paterson University 10/19/01
• Ani DiFranco Interview – 4/21/02
• A Conversation With Ani DiFranco Part I– 5/15/02
• A Conversation With Ani DiFranco Part II – 5/22/02
• Angry Ode To The Captain – 11/6/02
• Ode To The Undying Spirit – 12/18/02
• Dan Bern and the IJB/Bowery Ballroom – 3/30/03
• Dan Bern Interview -3/26/03
• Talkin’ Dan Bern Muse Part I – 4/16/03
• Talkin’ Dan Bern Muse Part II – 4/30/03
• Dan Bern/Bottom Line – 10/29/03
• Ani DiFranco/Beacon Theater – 12/10/03
• Peter Blasevick Calls It Quits – 3/28/04
• Dan Bern Interview -10/17/03
• Patty Griffin Interview– 4/7/04
• Patty Griffin Digs Deep – 4/28/04
• Patty Griffin/TownHall 5/8/04– 5/19/04
• Springtime For Bernstein – 5/5/04
• Ani DiFranco In Bloom – 5/12/04
• Jane Siberry/Zankel Hall 3/11/06 – 3/22/06
• Tending Oxygen Bar With Dan Bern – 9/13/06
• Paul Stanley Interview – 10/18/06
• Randy Newman/Carnegie Hall 10/11/06 – 11/8/06
• Eric Hutchinson/Cutting Room 10/17/06 – 11/22/06
• James Brown -1933-2006 – 1/3/07
• Adam Schlesinger Interview – 4/6/07
• Fountains Of Wayne/Yuppie Blues – 4/18/07
• The Nasty, Junky, Funky, Lowdown Country Blues – 5/9/07
• Melissa Ferrick Interview – 6/19/07
• Melissa Ferrick/Union Hall 6/22/07 – 7/18/07
• Eric Hutchinson Sounds Like This – 9/19/07
• Bruce Springsteen/Meadowlands 10/9/07– 11/7/07
• Adam Duritz Out Of The Abyss– 3/26/08
• Lucinda Williams Interview -2/22/09
• Tori Amos Interview – 7/28/09
• The Sins Of Tori Amos -8/12/09
• Alice Cooper Interview – 9/17/09
• Alice Cooper: Cabaret Villain – 9/23/09
• Dan Bern/City Winery – 6/19/10
• Deep Tank to Weird Blood – 9/15/10
• Why The Fuck Isn’t Kiss in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? – 10/6/10
• The Uncommon Bonds of Common Rotation – 11/28/11
• The Invisible Virtuoso – 5/9/12
• The Thin White Jukebox – 6/20/12
• Alice Cooper: American Treasure – 6/20/12
• Dan Bern – Drifter – 6/20/12
• Volume Lens – The Iconic Art of Bob Gruen– 6/20/12
• John Densmore Interview – 4/9/13
• The Doors: Identiy Crisis In The Land of $$$ – 4/24/13

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• Readers Responses – 4/10/13
• Readers Responses – 9/26/12
• Readers Responses -1/30/13
• Readers Responses -1/2/13
• 12/14/12 -12/26/12

THE CLASSICS

The top ten all-time Reality Check columns as determined by volume of mail or immediate feedback by the hearty members of the indomitable Check Group.

• Bill Clinton: An Appreciation – 9/1/98
• R.I.P. Woodstock – 8/11/99
• NY Toll Madness 11/18/97

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)

• 9/11/01 – 9/19/01
• Enemies Of Reason – 9/26/01
• The Folly Of Negotiating With Maniacs – 10/2/01
• Kasbah Rocking – 10/10/01
• Humanity Lost – 10/31/01

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