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Homeless Jack’s Lexicon
By H. Millard on June 5, 2011
by H. Millard “I KNOW YOU’RE trying to figure out more about this religion of mine, man,” said Homeless Jack, “so here’s a basic lexicon that may help you get it. I got this from Arman. “And, you probably want to know how many believers there are in addition to Arman. Well, all I know [...]
Homeless Jack Talks About the Righteous Path
By Editor on February 6, 2011
by H. Millard “YOU WANT TO walk my path, man?” asked Homeless Jack. “Well, if so, then you have to understand that my path is narrow and it’s going to the stars. It may take many generations, but my DNA code is on the way through my children and my children’s children into the far [...]
Homeless Jack: “Expand Our Code”
By H. Millard on November 3, 2010
by H. Millard “LOOK, MAN,” said Homeless Jack, “we gotta expand our code. That’s why we’re alive. That is the meaning of our lives. That is our purpose. “If we don’t expand our code, we might as well not have lived at all. We are born to breed. We are born to expand. “And this [...]
Remembering American Mercury Writer James M. Cain
By Editor on October 27, 2010
JAMES MALLAHAN CAIN died 33 years ago today. Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was a celebrated American author and journalist. Although Cain himself vehemently opposed labeling, he is usually associated with the hardboiled school of American crime fiction and seen as one of the creators of the roman noir. Several of his [...]
Homeless Jack: Breed and Eat Your Way Across the Universe
By Editor on August 30, 2010
by H. Millard “HEY MAN,” said Homeless Jack, ” let me tell you a little more about Arman’s teachings. “Arman says that we have to think in terms of ‘our people’ and ‘not our people,’ if we are to head off our extinction, expand our kind and prosper. “But, you won’t understand what he really [...]
US News »
America: Economic Disaster Looms
May 8, 2011
by Bob Chapman Publisher of The International Forecaster. AS THE ECONOMY STUMBLES the American standard of living recedes. Forty-four million people are using food stamps and in one year that figure will be 60 million. Washington and Wall Street say “what, me worry?” Of course not; they are the “masters of the universe.” We are [...]
Europe »
Italian Court Increases Sentences for 23 CIA Agents
January 4, 2011
AN ITALIAN COURT UPPED the sentences for 23 CIA agents convicted in absentia of abducting an Egyptian imam in one of the biggest cases against the US “extraordinary rendition” programme. The 23 CIA agents, originally sentenced in November 2009 to five to eight years in prison, had their sentences increased to seven to nine years [...]
Social Sciences »
The Happiness Hypothesis
May 8, 2011
Of Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis, and Historical Narratives by A. Helian JONATHAN HAIDT IS ONE OF THE MOST coherent thinkers in the social sciences today. A Professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, he specializes in the study of morality and emotion, and how they vary across cultures. He describes himself as an [...]
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Opinion, Vintage Mercury »
Genesis of the Southern Cracker
May 7, 2012
by W.J. Cash (pictured) FOR years it has been the fashion with historians to explain the white cracker of the South as simply the product of degenerate blood-strains from Europe — the progeny of the convict-servants and redemptioners of Old Virginia. But the theory defies logic and the known facts. Actually, the source of the [...]
Opinion, Vintage Mercury »
Genesis of the Southern Cracker
May 7, 2012
by W.J. Cash (pictured) FOR years it has been the fashion with historians to explain the white cracker of the South as simply the product of degenerate blood-strains from Europe — the progeny of the convict-servants and redemptioners of Old Virginia. But the theory defies logic and the known facts. Actually, the source of the [...]
Arts, Film, Literature »
Pauline Kael: One Against the Herd
May 6, 2012
Selected Writings of Pauline Kael; Library of America, 2011 Pauline Kael: Alone in the Dark; Brian Kellow, Viking Adult, 2011 by Ron Capshaw FOR CONSERVATIVES, PAULINE KAEL IS notorious for her much-quoted comment about her astonishment that Nixon won the 1972 election since “everyone I know voted for McGovern.” Despite this prime example of the liberal [...]
