4 April 08 (Issue #14)
Contributor: John Taraborelli
by Saruman the White, Chief Scientific Policy Advisor to President Bush
[This article first appeared in The Agenda #14, January 2006]
Honestly, you people with your ridiculous “science.” Bah! When I bring agony and ruin upon your villages with the power of the One Ring, will the pathetic explanations of those blasphemous…
17 September 07 (Issue #14)
Contributor: Matt Obert
A Shepard Fairey Interview From The Archives of Matt Obert
[This article appeared in The Agenda #14, January 2006]
This interview was originally intended for publication in the NicePaper in August 1995. Unfortunately, there were no issues in August: the last issue of that publication came out in July of that…
16 September 07 (Issue #14)
Contributor: Molly Booker
by Molly Booker
[This interview appeared in The Agenda #14, January 2006, and previously in longer form in the glorious-but-now-defunct Providence Music Paper.]
This interview was conducted on a chilly October morning in 2004. Alec K. Redfearn invited me into his home and allowed me to ask him questions about…
5 September 07 (Issue #14)
Contributor: Jeremy Lansing
by Jeremy Lansing
[This article first appeared in The Agenda #14, January 2006]
Thirteen-year-old Jeremy Lansing was asked to resign from the staff of his middle school newspaper after attempting to print the following controversial interview. In the interest of defending the first amendment and promoting diversity, we here at The Agenda…
2 September 07 (Issue #14)
Contributor: John Taraborelli
Three Ways To Lose An Argument
by John Taraborelli
[This article appeared in The Agenda #14, January 2006]
There are three all-purpose arguments in American public discourse that are so insipid, so hackneyed, so insulting to our intelligence, that anyone who invokes them cannot help but forsake their credibility. They are: the Nazi…
1 September 07 (Issue #14)
Contributor: John Taraborelli
Contributor: Eric Smith
[This article first appeared in The Agenda #14, January 2006]
Point: Bruce Springsteen: The Emo Meatloaf
by Eric Smith
With the recent release of a Bruce Springsteen concert DVD shedding new light on his dim early ‘70s output and allowing hordes of rock scribes to wax ad infinitum on the staggering Boss-ness of…
1 September 07 (Issue #14)
Contributor: James O'Connor
by James O'Connor
[This article first appeared in The Agenda #14, January 2006]
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I'm guessing it was sometime after eleven-hundred hours that I received a call about a lunch mission; I was forced to decline. I refuse to skip a meal, especially one of the three most…
