By Sako Chapman Front page of the Counter Point Journal volume 1 Issue 2, May 2009. The story “Evergreen Under Military Occupation? Or… Criminal Charges and lawsuit threatened against street theater performance” reports on a Mock Israeli Defense Force (IDF) checkpoint set up by students in front of the clocktower […]
“Quest for the Grail” and Other Bullshit I Bought for $2
A bargain bin cassette review by Hero Winsor Instead of bringing you my usual fare of science articles and well-labeled fake news, I’m breaking from the form and giving a review of tapes I found for 25 cents each at Half Price Books. Most of these I selected solely based […]
Christianized Traditions: Halloween
by Adam Nichols The night between Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 was the Celtic New Year. Samhain (pronounced sah-win), meaning “summer’s end,” was a festival held to commemorate the coming of winter. Since the colder seasons were commonly associated with human death, it was believed that on this night, the […]
George Washington Bush: an Abridged Biography
By Patrick Hamilton In 1844 the first Americans to settle on the Puget Sound in what is now Washington State were led through the frontier by George Washington Bush, a man of African and Irish descent. Bush, along with his wife (b.)Isabella James, established a farm named Bush Prairie in […]