RELIGIOUS PARODY, ART AND SCIENCE: DarkMatter2525 / “The Lambaste Supper (and Sagan)”
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THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN AMERIKA: James Baldwin / “Baldwin’s Nigger” / 1968
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CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY: The Amazing Atheist / “Chick Fil America”
IN MEMORIAM: Mr Fish / “Rest in Peace, Dear Gore”
Cartoon credit: Mr Fish
CHRISTIAN SATIRE: The Atheist Pig / “Jebus Died for Your Sins”
Comic credit: The Atheist Pig
REASON: philhellenes / “Science Saved My Soul”
AMURICAN ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM: The Amazing Atheist / “An Olympic Feat of Ignorance”
ACERBIC WIT: Gore Vidal vs. William Buckley / “Go Back To Your Pornography And Stop Calling Me A Crypto-Nazi” / Democratic National Convention 1968
This is the well-known incident between William Buckley and Gore Vidal that occurred during ABC’s coverage of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago.
IN MEMORIAM: Gore Vidal / “Gore Vidal, American Writer And Cultural Critic, Dies” / (AUDIO)
Gore Vidal came from a generation of novelists whose fiction gave them a political platform. Norman Mailer ran for mayor of New York City; Kurt Vonnegut became an anti-war spokesman. And Vidal was an all-around critic. His novels sometimes infuriated readers with unflattering portraits of American history.
He also wrote essays and screenplays, and his play The Best Man currently has a revival on Broadway.
Vidal died Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills, from complications of pneumonia. He was 86 years old.
Related articles
- US author Gore Vidal dies aged 86 (bbc.co.uk)
- Gore Vidal: a life in pictures (guardian.co.uk)
- Gore Vidal quotes: 26 of the best (guardian.co.uk)
- Hail and Farewell, Gore Vidal (truthdig.com)
- Gore Vidal: Born-again atheist (examiner.com)
- Gore Vidal Remembered: 2003 Interview With Late Iconoclastic Writer & Longtime Critic of U.S. Empire (democracynow.org)
- Democracy Now! Shows Featuring Gore Vidal (democracynow.org)
- Gore Vidal and His Reading List for America (billmoyers.com)
- Gore Vidal in ‘The Nation’ (thenation.com)
POETRY: “From Sage to Philistine”
By Madison S. Hughes (04.11.2009)
Chomsky, Vidal, Vonnegut and Zinn
Sages of generations past.
How will their prodigious wits last?With Philistines of today
As far as the eye can see.
Oh sad, how sad, can this truly be?
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