RANDOM JACK

A CALL TO ACTION By Jack Random The election is over. The ballots have been cast and the people have rendered a decision. Coming on the he...

By Jack Random If the Christian version of the word is truth, then Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and George W. Bush will have some explaining...

AN ELECTION EVE REVISION By Jack Random It is the season when all promises and all actions must be taken with a great deal of cynicism. Hav...

ALIVE & WELL By Jack Random The October surprise has finally arrived and the real surprise is that it was delivered by Al Jazeera. Four...

THE REMARKABLE CONSISTENCY OF MR. BUSH By Jack Random “A president has to wait for all the facts before jumping to a conclusion.” -- GW Bus...

A DAY WITHOUT POLITICS For one glorious day, there is no politics. The Boston Red Sox have lifted the curse of the great Bambino. For the ...

DISENFRANCHISEMENT, FRAUD & THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE By Jack Random Ann Coulter, the blonde bombshell of rightwing ideologues, famously acc...

JAZZMAN CHRONICLES: DISSEMINATE FREELY. A RESPONSE TO A LETTER FROM MINNESOTA By Jack Random As a voice for independence from political pa...

THE OCTOBER SURPISE? By Jack Random We have heard the name Abu Musab Zarqawi all too often in recent weeks. We have heard it in connection...

By Jack Random On October 21, 1969, the summer of love was over. Woodstock was history. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were dead. W...

THE MENDACITY OF KARL ROVE By Jack Random As the president decries the politics of fear and Orwell turns over in his grave once more, the vi...

REFLECTIONS ON BABLYON By Jack Random When a platoon of soldiers out of Jackson, Mississippi, the 343rd Quartermaster Company, refused to ca...

NASHVILLE LOSES A LEGACY By Jack Random It is often said but rarely taken to heart: Everything is politics. Buying groceries at the neighb...

PART ONE: MEDIA REFORM By Jack Random Even as the White House still claims to be the world’s champion for democracy, as rumors turn to accus...

KERRY SWEEPS BUSH By Jack Random Like a gunslinger with a pistol full of blanks, the president took the stage for the last debate with all o...

KERRY OUTPOINTS BUSH By Jack Random The peevish monarch, hunched over the podium, mugs and grimaces through a 90-minute debate, his mind as ...

FROM THE JAZZMAN CHRONICLES: DISSEMINATE FREELY. AN ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARE DEFERED By Jack Random Our president’s task was simple: Slogans a...

.... this one teaches that one lives with his mother and cat another pencraft master takes drugs, non prescription and cleans house as his w...

By Mike Caine “Faced with the absence of WMDs in Iraq [President Bush] once said, ‘We have found the weapons of mass destruction.’ Faced ...

FROM THE JAZZMAN CHRONICLES: DISSEMINATE FREELY. SIX WEEKS TO ELECTION DAY By Jack Random “Every American needs to believe this: that if w...