AltWeeklies Wire
The messengers have been killednew

The country could use more reporters like Gary Webb and Kathy Scruggs.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John F. Sugg |
06-13-2013 |
Media
Tags: Glenn Greenwald, Gary Webb
Democrats' Disappearing Actnew

The only hope for the almost-vaporized Democratic Party is that the GOP is so God-awful incompetent.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John F. Sugg |
06-14-2012 |
Politics
Justice Neal Boortz?new

Just what the Georgia Supreme Court needs: A draft-dodging, race-baiting dissembler who wants to do away with trials and have summary executions on Atlanta streets
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John F. Sugg |
05-30-2012 |
Politics
Newt Gingrich as Political Chameleonnew

To get elected, Newt is transforming into his new BFF, Bill Clinton. And that's OK.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John F. Sugg |
12-12-2011 |
Elections
The 'Atlanta Way' Failed a Generation of Childrennew

The city's business elite were complicit in Beverly Hall's con.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John F. Sugg |
07-20-2011 |
Policy Issues
Would Jesus Demand 'Show Me Your Papers?'new

There's no doubt that our nation must find a solution to immigration issues. What we don't need are police-state laws that criminalize efforts to help our fellow men and women, acts commanded of us by our religious beliefs.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John F. Sugg |
04-06-2011 |
Commentary
There Are No Commies at KSU -- Only Witch huntersnew

Studying Karl Marx, as the university's new provost did, is needed to understand modern world history.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John F. Sugg |
03-16-2011 |
Education
Metropolis: Bob Barr Channels Sinclair Lewisnew
It would be nice if Obama and McCain paid heed to the libertarian credo.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John F. Sugg |
09-10-2008 |
Commentary
Scary Books for Summertime Readingnew
Curl up with a few blood-curdling accounts of what is happening to America: Scott McClellan's What Happened, Vincent Bugliosi's The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Sheldon Wolin's Democracy, Inc.: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism, and Elliot D. Cohen's The Last Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-Hungry Government Are Turning America into a Dictatorship.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John F. Sugg |
06-25-2008 |
Books
Tags: Vincent Bugliosi, Scott McClellan, democracy, political books, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, What Happened, Elliot D. Cohen, Inc.: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism, Sheldon Wolin, The Last Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-Hungry Government Are Turning America into a Dictatorship
'The Great Speckled Bird' Flew High (And So Did its Readers)new
The storied Atlanta "underground" newspaper celebrates its 40th birthday with a gathering of the counterculture.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John F. Sugg |
05-16-2008 |
Media
Hey, Hillary, John and Barack, Listen to the Citiesnew
The problems of urban areas are missing from the presidential races, and that's shameful.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John F. Sugg |
05-01-2008 |
Commentary
Judge Arrington's Truth vs. the Media's Spinnew
The judge had a difficult message for black men; too bad the press missed the point.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John F. Sugg |
04-16-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Vernon Goes to Churchnew
DeKalb CEO buys a cathedral from Earl Paulk -- and refuses to answer questions about sex with one of the bishop's flock.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John F. Sugg |
04-03-2008 |
Commentary
Fear and (Creative) Loafing on the Way to Moguldomnew
We're not a media giant, but among the midgets, we are gargantuan.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John F. Sugg |
08-01-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
The Secret World of White Supremacynew
Join us on a malevolent misanthropy tour into the dim world of racism at the Aryan Nations' 25th World Congress.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John F. Sugg |
11-02-2006 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations