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"Journalism
is a despicable trade. I know this because I practice
it—but only part-time—because there is no earthy reason
to allow one’s self to have to live on such painfully
wretched means. I have known this as fact for over 20
years now. I knew it when I wrote for my high school newspaper,
college newspaper, and every publication since. It’s not
so much the reporting or writing, or even the act of putting
those two talents together to disseminate reasonable information,
but the inevitable sycophantic regurgitation of all that
is crude and inane."
- jc from Fear No Art
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"It
is customary for this space to espouse the ever popular theory
that everything is fucked. Has been, always will be. Don’t let
anyone tell you how great the 1950s’ were without hearing from
African Americans, women, artists, and the remainder of those
who might have had a friend or two of Eastern European persuasion.
And don’t listen to those boring Baby Boomers drone on about the
love and peace revolution of the 60s’ unless you contact those
mired in drug clinics, veterans of cop beatings, and the poor
suckers who worked on Robert Kennedy’s campaign."
- jc from In Defense Of Larry Flynt & Other Scumbags Like
Him 2/12/99
THE
9/11 SERIES
This five-part commentary is now lauded among readers as some
of jc's finest columns in the wake of the events of 9/11. Two
of these brutally honest pieces were included in the charity compendeum,
"Glory: A Nation's Spirit Defeats the Attack on America."
(2001)
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Pop
Culture
"Appealing
to the lowest common denominator is the golden rule of flash
entertainment. The Romans knew a good Christian lion feeding
meant big numbers, but the advent of television put to shame
anything those monsters could've ever dreamed up."
-jc from Fear No Art
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Politics
"We
the people, enduring this imperfect union,
do here by fully admit to being its author. Yet, long before we
were handed the torch, the original bearers suspended reality
and stuck us with a fixed game. This republic, bound by these
purple mountains and fruited plains, must finally conclude, in
the waning moments of its self-proclaimed century,
that although it is in God
that we trust, what supreme being would bless
this fucking mess?"
-jc
from The Last Train From Little Rock 2/29/99
- On
The Trail Of A Kidnapped Journalist -
6/96
- Bill
Bradley Letter - 8/10/99
- RAGING
AGAINST THE MACHINE: Political Pit Bull, Pat Buchanan Takes
Off The Kid Gloves in His Grass Roots Run for President
-
1/26/00
- Cheap
Garments And Lesser Words On Super Tuesday - 3/22/00
- Castro,
Baseball And The Great Divide - 4/26/00
- The
Giuliani Dilemma - 5/31/00
- The
Ballad Of Rick Lazio - 6/7/00
- The
Great Debate On Debates - 7/19/00
- The
VP Factor & Other Boring Political Summer Tales
- 8/9/00
- Georgetown
On The Floor - 8/16/00
- Joseph
Lieberman & The Great Leap Of Faith - 8/23/00
- Tinsletown
Looney Tunes - 8/30/00
- The
New Gore Rules - 9/20/00
- Taking
The Pulse Of America - 10/11/00
- Notes
From The Campaign Fringe - 10/18/00
- Deconstructing
Hillary - 10/25/00
- Last
Tango In Ghostland - 11/1/00
- Surviving
The Great "System" Anal Probe - 11/29/00
- Ten
Lies About The 2000 Presidential Dispute - 12/13/00
- Requiem
For A Lightweight - 12/20/00
- Spoils
From The Victor - 1/3/01
- Exile
On Ecology Street - 1/24/01
- So
Long To Bill Clinton - Minister Of Fun -1/31/01
- Help
Wipe Out Federal Clemency In Our Time - 3/7/01
- Anatomy
of a Tax Cut - 3/21/01
- Campaign
Finance For An Elightened Age - 4/11/01
- The
China Syndrome - 4/18/01
- War
is Hell & Other Exclusives - 5/9/01
- The
FBI & Timothy McVeigh - 5/23/01
- Oilmen
To The Rescue - 5/30/01
- Broken
Heroes On Highway 9 - 7/4/01
- Song
of the Bloated Hyena - 7/11/01
- Desperately
Leaking Condit - 7/18/01
- Stem-Cell
Redux -
8/22/01
- Last
Word On Lying Sacks of Shit - 9/5/01
- Casualties
Of War
- 11/6/01
- How
The Bruised Apple Was Won - 11/14/01
- Israel
Under Siege - 12/12/01
- A
Georgetown Christmas - 12/26/01
- Remembering
Uncle Rudy, King Of New Gotham - 1/2/02
- What
Now? - 1/23/02
- Inside
Enron - 2/20/02
- Battle
Line America - 3/6/02
- The
Dick Cheney World Tour - 3/20/02
- Curbing
The Insane & Other Sober Judgments -
4/24/02
- Introduction
To Parenting In A Predatory Environment - 5/8/02
- A
Conversation With Ani DiFranco Part I- 5/15/02
- A
Conversation With Ani DiFranco Part II - 5/22/02
- The
Blame Game - 6/5/02
- Courts
A-Go-Go - 7/3/02
- A
Mid-Summer's Night Standoff - 7/17/02
- Bare
Knuckle Jungle - 7/24/02
- All
Together Now...Recession!!
- 8/7/02
- NYC
- One Year Later - 9/11/02
- Mid-Term
Madness - 10/2/02
- Senator
Quitter Or The Ballad Of A Gutless Swine - 10/9/02
- The
Big Olympic Lie - 11/13/02
- A
Georgetown Christmas - 12/25/02
- Selective
Heroism - 1/29/03
- The
Price of Safety - 2/5/03
- Propaganda
101 - 2/19/03
- The
Bill For Rebuilding Iraq
- 2/26/03
- The
Blessed Right of Dissent - 3/5/03
- Abandoning
Reason at the Fort - 3/12/03
- Ten
Lies About The US Invasion Of Iraq - 3/26/03
- Post
Mortem For War Coverage - 4/9/03
- Victory
Mandate & Other Silly Claims - 5/14/03
- Bear
Hunt Madness -
5/21/03
- The
Homeland Security Shuffle - 5/28/03
- Final
Answers From The Roadmap to Peace - 6/18/03
- A
Sober View From The Trenches - 7/23/03
- California
Schemin' - 8/6/03
- Georgetown
In Cali Part II -9/17/03
- Georgetown
In Cali -9/10/03
- Schwarzenegger
& The Left Wing GOP
- Anarchy
In Bushland - 10/29/03
- Harbinger
of the Flower People - 12/3/03
- Why
Howard Dean Cannot Win A General Election - 12/17/03
- The
Chunk Of Puke Principle - 12/24/03
- Primary
Palaestra - 1/21/04
- DogFight
Revisited - 1/28/04
- New
Hampshire Fallout - 2/4/03
- The
"Real" Super Tuesday Hammerlock -
2/11/04
- Last
Word On WMD'S - 2/18/04
- Bigotry
& Gay Marriage - 3/17/04
- The
Denizens of Politics - 4/14/04
- High
Stakes - Bad Breaks - 4/21/04
- Man
Overboard - 5/19/04
- The
Georgetown Factor - 5/26/04
- The
Georgetown Factor Part II - 6/2/04
- D-Day
- 60 Years Hence - 6/9/04
- You
Say You Want A Saudi Revolution? - 6/30/04
- The
Edwards Factor - 7/14/04
- The
Mediocre Elite Arise - 7/28/04
- G.I.
John Digs In - 8/4/04
- Running
Scared - 8/11/04
- Cornered
GOP Beasts Throws Ugly - 8/18/04
- Ralph
Nader's Last Stand?- 8/25/04
- Notes
From The Cesspool Part I - 9/1/04
- Elephants
On Eighth Avenue -
9/8/04
- Notes
From The Cesspool Part II - 9/15/04
- Kerry
In Neutral -
9/29/04
- Half-Truths
& Sound Bites -
10/6/04
- No
Rest For The Desperate - 10/20/04
- Why
George Bush Must Go - 10/27/04
- Second
Term Madness - 11/10/04
- Exit
Stage Arafat -
11/17/04
- The
Iron Fist Principle Part I - 12/8/04
- The
Iron Fist Principle Part II - 12/15/04
- Manifest
Destiny Made Easier - 12/29/04
- Malpractice
Lunacy or Medical Tyranny - 1/19/05
- In
Bush We Trust - 1/2/05
- Torch
Song of the Money Wise - 1/9/05
- Liberal
Bias In The Media -
3/16/05
- Condee
Spins Eternal - 3/23/05
- Deconstructing
The Constitution - 3/30/05
- We Want Bolton
- 5/4/05
- GOP
Gridlock Part 1 - 5/11/05
- GOP
Gridlock Part 2 - 5/18/05
- Deep
Throat - A Tribute - 6/8/05
- Caveat
Emptor - 7/6/05
- The
"Karl Rove Is Innocent" Favor Rendered
- 7/20/05
- Open
Letter To Fidel Castro - 7/27/05
- Senator
Rodham Meets The Bride Of Uncle Rudy - 8/17/05
- Journalism
In A Vacuum - 8/31/05
- The
Big Desperate - 9/14/05
- Solutions
For OPEC Price Gouging - 9/21/05
- Tom
Delay - Road Kill
- 10/12/05
- A
View From The Barricades Part I - 10/26/05
- A
View From The Barricades Part II - 11/2/05
- The
Chief Executive's New Clothes - 11/30/05
- When
Good Ideas Are Executed By Dumb Asses - 12/7/05
- The
Song & Dance Man Revisited - 12/14/05
- Surrealism
Safety Brigade -
12/21/05
- Invisible
& Paralyzed - 12/28/05
- Judging
Alito - 1/25/06
- Hooray
For Hamas! - 2/8/06
- Dick
Cheney - King of All Media - 2/22/06
- President
On Trial At Local High School - 3/22/06
- Mr.
Mojo Sinking
- 4/5/06
- Viva
Le Cheap Labor - 4/12/06
- Scooter's
Song - 4/19/06
- Iran
Crisis Is A Fraud - 4/26/06
- Praise
Be To Oil Barons - 5/10/06
- The
NSA Tapes - 5/24/06
- The
Democrats Are Finished - 6/21/06
- Al
Qaeda Shell Game - 6/28/06
- Unreliable
Sources - 7/19/06
- The
Israeli Defense Force Summer Tour - 7/26/06
- Dogpile
On The Loons - 8/2/06
- The
Lieberman Experiment - 8/16/06
- Middle
East Solutions - 8/23/06
- Ching-Ching,
Cash In On Tragedy! Part 1 -
9/20/06
- Ching-Ching,
Cash In On Tragedy! Part 2 -
9/27/06
- Midterm
Elections Dilemma -
10/11/06
- Senatorial
See Saw - 10/18/06
- A
House Divided - 10/25/06
- Conservatism
Vs. Fundamentalism - 11/8/06
- Dems
Sweep, GOP Weeps -
11/15/06
- Punchline
Iraq - 12/13/06
- Gerald
Ford? - 1/10/07
- Challenge
To The 110th Congress
- 1/17/07
- Dead
Man Talking - 1/31/07
- War
vs. Occupation - 2/14/07
- Bush
-1 Democrats - 0 -
3/7/07
- A
Reluctant Guide To Campaign 2008 Part I -3/14/07
- A
Reluctant Guide To Campaign 2008 Part II -3/21/07
- Frat
House Fracas - 5/16/07
- Independence
'08
- 6/13/07
- The
Nifong Chronicles - 6/27/07
- Song
Of The Dying Whale - 7/11/07
- The
Blame Game - 7/25/07
- Pot
& Kettle Revelations -
9/12/07
- Four
Corner Petraeus - 9/19/07
- The
Hillary Machine - 10/31/07
- Expatriate
Windfall - 11/7/07
- 30
Days To Pay Dirt - 12/5/07
- Mitt
Romney: Don't Ask - Don't Tell -
12/12/07
- Iowa:
What Happened?
- 1/9/08
- New
Hampshire: Same Old Song & Dance - 1/16/08
- The
Heart & Soul Of Party Politics Part I
- 1/23/08
- The
Heart & Soul Of Party Politics Part II - 1/30/08
- And
Then There Were Three - 2/6/08
- Goodbye
Super Tuesday - 2/13/08
- Independence
Rules -
2/20/08
- Cheesehead
Victory Lap - 2/27/08
- The
Emperor's New Factory Girl - 3/12/08
- The
Democrats Are Burning - 3/19/08
- The
Speech - 3/26/08
- The
Party vs. The Machine - 4/9/08
- Iraq
- The New Iran -
4/16/08
- Confession
Of An Elitist - 4/23/08
- Keystone
Kop-Out - 4/30/08
- Let's
Make A Deal - 5/14/08
- The
Great Divide - 5/21/08
- Will
The Real John McCain Please Stand Up -
5/28/08
- Fuck
Scott McClellen - 6/4/08
- Bye,
Bye, Miss American Pie - 6/11/08
- 18
In '08: Part I - 6/25/08
- 18
In '08: Part II - 7/2/08
- Obama
In The Uphill Part I - 8/6/08
- Obama
In The Uphill Part II - 8/13/08
- Open
Letter To Barack Obama -
8/27/08
- The
Rocky Mountain Shill - 9/3/08
- Hurricane
Palin Steals Thunder From RNC
- 9/10/08
- The
Total Eclipse Of McCain - 9/17/08
- Welcome
To The People's Republic Of America - 10/1/08
- Power
To The People
- 10/8/08
- Joe
Cool Down The Stretch - 10/22/08
- GOP
R.I.P. -10/29/08
- What's
Worth Voting For -11/5/08
- An
Open Apology To American - 11/12/08
- Beggars
& Choosers - 12/3/08
- Oh
Nine: Year Of The Guilty - 12/31/08
- Mr.
Burris Goes To Washington - 1/14/09
- So
Long Captain Shoo-In -
1/21/09
- The
Change Express - 1/28/09
- Vox
Stimuli - 2/11/09
- The
Great Leap Of Faith - 3/4/09
- Outrage
Squared - 4/1/09
- Anarchy
In The U.K. - 4/8/09
- Dawn
Of The Ace Age -
4/15/09
- Last
Words On The United States Of Torture - 4/29/09
- The
Century Mark - 5/6/09
- The
Sins Of Pakistan - 5/27/09
- Dinasaurs
On Sixth Avenue - 6/3/09
- The
Allah Stomp - 6/24/09
- The
Healthcare Shuffle -
7/29/09
- Stupidly,
Stupidly, Stupidly... - 8/5/09
- "Un-American
Is Un-American
- 8/19/09
- Last
Temptation Of Obama - 8/26/09
- Edward
Moore Kennedy - 9/2/09
- Hopeville
In Autumn
- 9/16/09
- The
Race Illusion - 9/23/09
- Afghanistan:
The Original Quagmire - 10/7/09
- Solutions
(Sort of) For National Health Care - 10/14/09
- Rob
Astorino: Friend & Colleague in the Land of Scum
- 10/29/09
- Foul
Nectar of the Beatdown - 11/11/09
- Fort
Hood's Sociological Backlash - 11/18/09
- Collectivism
on Parade - 11/25/09
- Health
Care Finale - 12/16/09
- 2010:
Year of the Faux Revolution - 1/13/10
- Barack
Obama's America: Year One -
1/20/10
- Mr.
Brown Goes To Washington - 1/27/10
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Sports
James
Campion Sports Bio
"The
American star athlete lives in his own high and mighty society.
It is a landscape of excuses and leniency, where young boys
who are able to throw a baseball 98 miles and hour, score a
touchdown or dunk a basketball, can run wild through infinite
puberty."
-jc from Above The Rim - Beyond The Law 12/30/97
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"Most
of all it's the music that never leaves you, a blessing and
a curse you're straddled with from birth. In a perfect world
you could cultivate its voice and conquer its terrible noise;
but it's not a perfect world, and sometimes you must muffle
it with the quandary of everyday life. However, you eventually
learn that's just a human mechanism built in to ignore the obvious;
that music is the sanctuary, the crib, the womb that some of
us cannot do without."
-jc from Deep Tank Jersey
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