Like other political/cultural analysts--eg, Orwell, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, and Michael Parenti--Jello Biafra shows how corrupt language facilitates our rulers' crimes. His shrewd and funny observations are excerpted from a long monologue he delivered this summer. Jello discusses Bush, Jello's former geometry teacher--both masters at destroying the English language--the Rapture, corporations, creative sabotage, and other ways of fighting the power.
Produced for WWUH-FM, "Public Alternative Radio" at the University of Hartford. Thanks to Hunchentoot for making available the monologue from which these excerpts are taken. Feedback to kdowst at hotmail period calm.
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Song played--Eliza Gilkyson, 'Man of God'
Other excerpts from the same talk by Jello are on NWN #35 (October 21, 2008), available in this archive
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