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WHY MORMON MEN CAN’T BE TRUSTED — A ex-Mormon woman looks back at the Church. PLUS It’s fifty years since the Port Huron statement. Alexander Cockburn on the origins of SDS and one of the crucial documents of the 1960s. PLUS Two ounces of oil + a fishing boat + Homeland Security Incident #995038 = the onward march of totalitarianism in America. Read Captain Knutson’s story.
Call Him Al
Gore no bore
declares that Bush
has brought us
to the doors
of 1984.
and failed to make us any safer
in our beds.
Clearly seeking to distinguish
Dems from Republicans
Al would make his gang
the Party of 1983
always on the brink of disaster
heroically walking the tightrope
over Neo-Con abysmal
he forgets
he fell off.
STEW ALBERT runs the Yippie Reading Room. His memoir, Who the Hell is STEW ALBERT?, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press. He can be reached at: stewa@aol.com