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  1. The Activist Cookbook
    A Hands-on Manual for Organizers, Artists and Educators who want to get their message across in powerful, creative ways

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Spicy recipes for fighting economic injustice.
  2. Artybollocks Generator
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2010
    Do you hate having to write your own artist statement? Generate your own artist statement for free, and if you don't like it, generate another one. Feel free to use the statements with funding applications, exhibitions, curriculum vitae, websites, ...
  3. Beyond the Far Side
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  4. The Bread Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Health, social problems linked to bread.
  5. The Brick Testament
    Resource Type: Website
    The Brick Testament is the largest, most comprehensive illustrated Bible in the world with over 3,600 illustrations, made entirely out of Lego bricks, that retell more than 300 stories from The Bible.
    Launched first as a website in 2001, then as a published book series in 2003, The Brick Testament project is an ongoing one-man labour of love, constructed and photographed entirely by The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith.
  6. Brock University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  7. Capitalism is Icky!
    Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
    Published: 1977
  8. Catch-22
    Resource Type: Book
  9. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  10. Cynicism From Above: Cynicism From Below
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1980
    The state bureaucracies of Eastern Europe are unable to accept any challenge to their right to decide and control.
  11. The Encyclopedia of American Comics
    From 1897 to the Present

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    A reference work of over a 1000 entries devoted to the phenomenon of the American comic, covering almost a century of comic production from the introduction of the genre in 1897 to the latest (1990) strips and books.
  12. Expand your knowledge by getting advice from the experts!
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    Public opinion plays a key role in government spending decisions, and one of the most effective ways to influence public opinion is through the media. A single appearance on television, for example, gets your message across to tens of thousand of people.
  13. Fire Ants Are Being Laced with Homosexual Chemtrails to Bite Christians And Convert Them To Homosexuality
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The homosexual chemtrail concoction contains a high concentration of gay endorphins. Sources confirm that several exclusive gay clubs collected the spent sweats of late-night homosexuality, then sent them to a laboratory where in-vitro techniques were used to create this potent new form of biological homosexual chemtrail. Various Christian neighborhoods in Texas have been reporting a sharp increase in these chemtrail laced fire ants and the CDC is reporting a higher incidence of homosexuality in Texas. This is all likely part of Obama’s Jade Helm invasion, but the Texas Chaper of the Christian Defense League suggests homeowners spray all of their doorways with bug guard and be vigilant in not becoming victimized by one of these ants.
  14. 500 Letters
    Resource Type: Website
    A form which automatically generates artist's statements.
  15. The Gashlycrumb Tinies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
  16. Hundreds of Proofs of God's Existence
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    From the Atheists of Silicon Valley Humor Page.
  17. I Feel Much Better, Now That I've Lost Hope and Still More Brilliant Thoughts
    Resource Type: Book
  18. International Book of Comics
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 1984
    First appearing in 1984, the book takes a nostalgic look at comics from the early and latter day British strips and comic books, right through to Continental European publications, and North American issues, including those in circulation at the time of publication.
  19. Joke
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
  20. Susan McCord, "Beavertalk.COM" Internet Talk Show Host, Producer, Writer
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  21. Microsoft vs. General Motors
    Resource Type: Article
    If Microsoft made cars.
  22. 19 Cats Who Need To Check Their Privilege
    Social justice isn’t just for humans.

    Resource Type: Article
    Social justice isn’t just for humans.
  23. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017
    April 1 issue

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critically - and enjoy.
  24. Oxford Dictionary of Humourous Quotations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
  25. The Penguin Book of Jokes from Cyberspace
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
  26. The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  27. Postmodernism Generator
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2000
    A computer program written by Andrew. C. Bulhak using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text. Each time you click on the page, it generates a brand-new postmodernist essay, completely meaningless, but superficially plausible, just like 'real' postmodernist essays.
  28. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2008
  29. Random Shots: Balkan Wars, Now and Then
    Against The Current vol. 81

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    At the NATO summit, it was decided that the organization would not tolerate genocide if practiced by non-members who did not possess nuclear weapons and were within artillery range of Europe.
  30. Random Shots: Daimler and Dubya Chronicles
    Against The Current vol. 91

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    Daimler-Chrysler CEO Juergen Schrempp has pledged not to sell off the Chrysler division. Not that anyone was lining up to buy it. All the same to us on the line: If you're not the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
  31. Random Shots: Dubya's Many Axes of Evil
    Against The Current vol. 97

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    The concept of an Axis of Evil seems to derive from a 1942 Captain Marvel comic-book series about the Monster Society of Evil. Of course, that's a little before Dubya's time.
  32. Random Shots: Go And Do Likewise
    Against The Current vol. 83

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    Most of us are glad to see a spouse commit a misdemeanor, e.g. violating a diet or a budget. It gives us license to go and do likewise.
  33. Random Shots: Life Imitates Art
    Against The Current vol. 100

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    In the movie version of “The Sum of all Fears,” the terrorist nuke is hidden in a cigarette vending machine. In real life, if placed in an underground parking garage, it would have been ripped off in about twenty minutes.
  34. Random Shots: New and Old Millenia
    Against The Current vol. 85

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2000
    Kampfer prepared for Y2K by stockpiling ammunition. He figured that would get him anything else he needed.
  35. Random Shots: Notes for Life Under Siege
    Against The Current vol. 95

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    When one thinks of of communities around the world that have been under siege for decades, one wonders how the U.S. will cope in the absence of a quick fix. Return to normal? This is normal for a lot of people. It's safety that is an aberration and an illusion.
  36. Random Shots: Of Drugs and Diamonds
    Against The Current vol. 99

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    Marx characterized religion as the opium of the people. For some cults, it seems to act more like viagra.
  37. Random Shots: People and Other Animals
    Against The Current vol. 88

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2000
    People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has taken out an ad urging college students to drink beer instead of milk, to avoid exploiting cows. Sounds like a good excuse to me.
  38. Random Shots: Pirates, Gladiators and Assassins
    Against The Current vol. 96

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    Dubya may come to regret his efforts to classify his crusade against terrorism as a war. The legal ramifications of waging war against a non-governmental organization may keep the lawyers busy for generations. One would think that the 18th Century international convention on piracy, which declared pirates to be the general enemies of all mankind rather than any particular state, might be conveniently applied here.
  39. Random Shots: Stranger Than Cinema
    Against The Current vol. 87

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2000
    Looking at the Elión Gonzalez case, how many people remember “Popi,” a 1969 movie starring Alan Arkin as a poor Puerto Rican janitor who tries to put his kids on Easy Street by passing them off as Cuban flotsam?
  40. Random Shots: Teens and Other Freaks
    Against The Current vol. 94

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    Many parents are annoyed by the popularity of “freak-dancing” among today's teenagers. Of course, annoying parents is the teenagers' main purpose in life.
  41. Random Shots: Tender Loving Care
    Against The Current vol. 92

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    A kinky personal ad?
  42. Random Shots: That Was the War That Was
    Against The Current vol. 82

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    Notice how quickly the Chinese government reined in those public demonstrations at the U.S. embassy in Beijing. Perhaps they remembered Wellington's attitude towards expressions of opinions by the troops: “If you allow them to cheer, another time they will feel entitled to hiss.”
  43. Random Shots: The Kings of the World
    Against The Current vol. 98

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    Carrying on a tradition dating back to the Crimean war, they've come out with a set of trading cards for the Dubya Crusade. The cards used to come with cigarettes, then bubble gum. Now all you get is paper.
  44. Random Shots: The Prices of Progress
    Against The Current vol. 93

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    Back in 1965 you could fill your gas tank for $3. Of course, that was two hours pay back then.
  45. Random Shots: In Praise of Viagra Mania
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    Comments on random current news topics
  46. Random Shots: Red Flags Over Motor City
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    THE GOOD NEWS is that there were about a million people waving red flags in the streets of Detroit. The bad news is that it was on account of some hockey game.
    Comments on random current news topics.
  47. The Retarded Giant
    Resource Type: Book
  48. Sources welcomes Susan McCord
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Sources welcomes a new member, Susan McCord, "Beavertalk.COM" Internet Talk Show Host, Producer, Writer.
  49. Bird and Fortune - Subprime Crisis
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2008
    The Subprime mortgage crisis explained. John Bird and John Fortune (the Long Johns) brilliantly, and accurately, describing the mindset of the investment banking community in this satirical interview.
  50. Teaching Johnny To Walk
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1969
    The description of a pilot study on infant ambulation drawing from two techniques: Richardson's and Chambers' "life milieu deprivation" and Kalstadt's "rehearsal prolongation".
  51. These Weapons of Mass Destruction Cannot be Displayed
    Resource Type: Article
    Finally, the evidence!
  52. Tombstone Humor
    Resource Type: Book
  53. Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1996
    Alan Sokal submitted this parody of postmodernism, poststructuralist theory, deconstruction, and political moralism to the journal Social Text. The editors failed to spot the hoax and published it as a serious article. The hoax caused a fierce debate between the postmodernists and those who consider postmodernism reactionary nonsense.
  54. Underhanded History of the USA
    Radical America - Volumer 7 No.3

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  55. Werewolf Cultural Sensitivity - Working With Employees Of Lupine Descent
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    The term "werewolf" has been reclaimed with pride by our brethren of Lupine descent. This does not mean that it is an acceptable term for general use. Unless you are on butt-sniffing terms with your colleague, please confine yourself to the correct forms of address, which are "Lupine-descended person", "person of Lupine ethnicity", or "Lupinian."
  56. Whoops Apocalypse
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    Whoops Apocalypse sets the scene for The Last Story Ever Told.
  57. Working for Peace
    A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    A survey of the attitudes and tools that can be used in working for peace.

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