Why You Should Care About The Writer's Strike
Caroline Edmunds
11/13/2007
Opinion
"Whatever side you're on, that fact that the strike is not going away cannot be ignored. Ever since the talks broke down two weeks ago, neither side has made the move to return to the bargaining table and both sides are indicating that they are in it for the long-haul."
Flak Radio 50: The Anniversary
Flak Staff 11/09/2007 Audio "It’s a very interesting workplace. They go in and start the day out with a prayer and move on to watching Fox News to find out what’s going on in the world that day. And also – interesting fact: nobody calls James Dobson 'Mr. Dobson' or 'Jim' or anything like that. They call him 'Doctor'. Not 'Doctor Dobson' or 'Doctor James'. Just 'Doctor'. |
Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer
Matt Hanson 11/08/2007 Books "My hometown burned with boredom, then and now. I remember sitting and sweating and ca-chunging soberly through the little boxes of kept grass in my innocuous, prosperous suburb with Combat Rock getting warm in the disc changer. It stammered and raged through the rattling speakers of the immortal heirloom van driven by a spastic comrade. Strummer was our guy." |
Pheasants Forever: A Practical Proposal
James Norton 11/07/2007 Rejected! "We already have a team of scientists, funded by donors who wish to remain anonymous, working on the problem of how best to terraform extrasolar planets in order to ensure other, non-Earth habitats for pheasants. Naturally, we are also exploring faster-than-light means of travel in order to facilitate the transportation of pheasants not just to neighboring star systems, but also to neighboring galaxies." |
Bohnanza
Yongming Han 11/06/2007 Games "There we were, brash, young and confident: Economists all (or at least economist-wannabes), we quickly saw that the game would severely test that most basic of human skills, trading. We primed our game theory appendices; each of us ready to outwit, outplay and outlast everyone else, with a Nash equilibrium if possible. Too bad. Economists do not good bean counters make." |
Taylor Carik and James Norton on Minneapolis radio
Flak Radio co-hosts James Norton and Taylor Carik make their first radio appearance KFAI's "Art Matters," hosted by Marya Morstad.
Glen & Gary & Glen & Ross
Four men struggling with Tourette's meet a man who might just be able to teach them how to transform their lives.
Aemilia Scott on "Freedom" and freedom
As Flak contributor Aemilia Scott writes on the Huffington Post, Ahmadinejad's visit to Columbia University — and the right-wing reaction to it — illustrates the challenge of holding on to the true meaning of "freedom."
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