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Die Demokraten haben in ihrer Vorwahl klar für den linken Kandidaten Bill de Blasio gestimmt, er dürfte der nächste Bürgermeister werden. Und unser US-Amerikakorrespondent Thomas Adcock freut sich: Der amerikanische Liberalismus ist zurück in “Big Apple”. Left Turn in the Big Apple ‘Start Spreading the news…’ By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2013 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America A working-class Italian-American guy from Brooklyn—married for twenty years to an African American social activist, poet, former lesbian, and mother of the couple’s two teenagers—put his faith in the better angelsRead More
The Lone Ranger Rides Again ‘Heigh-ho the derry-o, the Cheese Stands Alone’ By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2013 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America As a young boy in Detroit, once a grand city and a programming pioneer at the dawn of television, I was enthralled by broadcasts via station WXYZ of a weekly show called “The Lone Ranger,” which is not to be confused with this summer’s Hollywood flop movie of the same title. In the TV version of my early youth—the series ran from 1949 to 1957—anRead More
Send in the Clowns Republican Genius on Parade By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2013 Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America Two decades ago, I worked for a mordantly wise and very wealthy man named Jasper R. That which he taught me I hereby pass along to you, dear Reader: lessons to help us grasp meaning from a fresh cycle of political flapdoodle now commenced—namely, a new cotillion of Republican Party clowns campaigning for presidency of the United States, never mind that the election is three years from happening. While stillRead More
‘MOTOWN’ THEN and NOW, clockwise from top left: John F. Kennedy, Democratic Party candidate for president, campaigns in Detroit on Labor Day 1960; Diana Ross (center) and The Supremes—Detroit girls who sang “Motown” to the world; Martin Luther King, Jr. (left) and labor leader Walter Reuther; a burned out house on Detroit’s west side; a neighborhood ablaze during the “race riot” of July 1967; Governor Rick Snyder, the venture capitalist who abolished democracy in all five of Michigan’s majority African American cities; an abandoned factory, somewhere in a thrown-away quarterRead More
NATIONAL SHAME (clockwise, from top left): Kimberly McCarthy, homicidal nurse sent “home to Jesus” on June 26 by the homicidal state of Texas; Rick Perry, the “Christian” governor of Texas, heir to a hunting club called “Niggerhead”; a lynched corpse in Alabama, circa 1930—a a frequent public display advising southern blacks to forget about voting; John Roberts, chief “justice” of the U.S. Supreme Court, ringleader of a judicial wrecking crew that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965—meant to guarantee voting rights for African Americans. ‘The Law is a Ass—aRead More
AMERICAN IDIOTS (clockwise, from top left): Louie Gohmert, hands-down dumbest member of Congress; Texas physician and Congressman Michael Burgess says male fetuses can masturbate; Michele Bachmann, contender for the presidency in 2012 is next-dumbest member of Congress; wigged & winded Donald Trump, fake billionaire and would-be hangman; pasty-faced Illinois Republican honcho Jim Allen says brown-skinned Miss America of 2003 is a “street walker”; Texas legislator Jodie Laubenberg says rape kits “clean out” zygotes. This Week’s Crazy Talk in the “Hew-Hess-Hay” By Thomas Adcock opyright © 2013 – Thomas Adcock NEWRead More
LEAKERS & PROFITEERS (clockwise, from top left): Daniel Ellsberg, former military analyst, gave classified “Pentagon Papers” to the New York Times in 1971; Bradley Manning, imprisoned U.S. Army private, provided secret Iraq War documents to WikiLeaks in 2010; Edward J. Snowden, computer geek hiding in Hong Kong, provided National Security Agency documents for newspaper exposés this June; “Bumblehive,” code name for the N.S.A.’s gigantic “Utah Data Center,” opening in September; Keith Alexander, U.S. Army general and director of the N.S.A., aka “Dr. Strangelove.” Annals of American Panic, Paranoia & ProfiteeringRead More
The F-Words „F**r“of F***ism by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2013 – Thomas Adcock HUDSON, New York Back in the day, ordinary Americans feared less and questioned more. In that time, an unknown graffitist of Jeffersonian sensibility etched a wise epigram into the chunky wooden leg of a picnic table in People’s Park, the legendary free-speech venue adjacent to the Berkeley campus of the University of California. The year was 1969. When last I visited Berkeley, in 1997, the epigram was still there. Although faded, the lettering remained clear: “Open yourRead More
Thomas Adcock untersucht in seinem Essay den Unterschied zwischen „Evildoers“ und „Evildoers“, also zwischen Übeltätern und Übeltätern. Da gibt es schon welche … EVILDOERS & EVILDOERS. Clockwise, from top left: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, mastermind of the Boston Marathon bombings; gun monger Wayne LaPierre; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, confessed terrorist; George W. Bush, public face of the Cheney administration; former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza “Mushroom Cloud” Rice; Halliburton honcho & former Vice President Dick Cheney. Two Shades of Evil in the U.S.A. Respectable & Repugnant by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2013 Thomas AdcockRead More
Unser USA-Korrespondent Thomas Adcock fährt mit seiner Analyse der amerikanischen Gesellschaft fort und kümmert sich um die Realien, die für die Kriminalliteratur grundlegend sind: Gewalt & Tod The next president of the United States: Wayne LaPierre? The Party of Mass Murder G.O.P. = Guns Over People by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2013 Thomas Adcock NORTH CHATHAM, N.Y. Regarding the Republican Party and the support of its leadership for perpetual gun carnage in the United States, permit me to be as blunt as bullets: the once admirable Grand Old Party,Read More
Citizen-Stranger in a Strange Land: On Being a Foreign Correspondent at Home By Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America In days of yore, when people used stamps and stationery and fountain pens to communicate via public post, my dear friend Gisbert Haefs addressed letters to me in care of a place he christened “New York, near America.” He was confident that mail from Bonn would accordingly reach me, here in my ugly-beautiful city along the eastern coast of the United States. It always did. Thus did Herr Haefs, my comradeRead More
Lesen Sie heute den zweiten Teil (zu Teil 1) von Thomas Adcocks Reflexionen über die Hinrichtungspraxis in den USA – und dazu ein kleines, korrektes Narrativ: Der Fall von Joseph Amrine! Execution, American-Style ‘Tectonic Shift’ in Execution Policy By Thomas Adcock By October 2009, the frequency of death sentences began a clear plunging trend, even in the execution-friendly South. That month as well, the American Law Institute disavowed its fifty-year-old policy framework addressing executions—the Model Penal Code of 1962. The policy was deemed a failure “in light of the currentRead More
Einer der eher unangenehmen Aspekte der USA ist die Neigung, Leute hinzurichten. Unser USA-Korrespondent Thomas Adcock beschäftigt sich im Zuge seiner präzisen USA-Analysen heute und in der nächsten CrimeMag-Ausgabe mit dieser Art staatlicher Gewalt – historisch, aktuell und im internationalen Kontext. Execution, American-Style How the Government Commits Pre-Meditated Homicide By Thomas Adcock THACA, N.Y. The American experience in capital punishment is a kaleidoscope of legislative vogue, adaptive judicial wisdom, religion (stern and merciful), political passion and race—played out against the backdrop of “evolving standards of decency,” a debatable progressive impulseRead More
Am Mittwoch hatte sich unser USA-Korrespondent Thomas Adcock mit den selbstmörderischen Aspekten von Dummheit unter den Republikanern beschäftigt. Heute liefert er ein paar Beispiele – wanted! – die dümmsten Kongressabgeordneten: The 10 Dumbest Members of the U.S. Congress … and a (very) few of the hundreds of stupid things they’ve said by Thomas Adcock VIRGINIA FOXX — North Carolina Rep. Foxx was unmoved by the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, who was tortured, pistol-whipped, and nailed to a fence post to die—because he was gay,Read More
ELEPHANT GRAVEYARDS: The Caucus Room restaurant in Washington [photo at left, from fall 2012] was once popular with leaders of the Republican Party, affectionately symbolized by the elephant in nineteenth-century newspaper illustrations drawn by German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast. Not far from the restaurant—in the rotunda of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History—is a work of taxidermy popular with Republican tourists: a huge armature of wood and metal lathe, stuffed with clay and girdled in the two-ton hide of a dead male African rogue elephant. Suicide by Stupidity: HowRead More
CORPORATE PIMPS and/or AMERICAN PSYCHOS. Top row, from left: mass murderer Jared Loughner; gun fetishists Gayle Trotter and Wayne LaPierre; kindergarten killer Adam Lanza, who shot his mother in the face. Middle row: Dick Cheney, who shot his hunting companion in the face; war jingoist Donald Rumsfeld; Senator Lindsey Graham, companion to an AR-15 semi-automatic assault carbine. Bottom row: John Yoo, law professor and torture advocate; General Philip H. Sheridan, genocide advocate; George W. Bush, war criminal. American Blood Money, Inc. By Thomas Adcock (Copyright © 2013) Lesen Sie hierRead More
CORPORATE PIMPS and/or AMERICAN PSYCHOS. Top row, from left: mass murderer Jared Loughner; gun fetishists Gayle Trotter and Wayne LaPierre; kindergarten killer Adam Lanza, who shot his mother in the face. Middle row: Dick Cheney, who shot his hunting companion in the face; war jingoist Donald Rumsfeld; Senator Lindsey Graham, companion to an AR-15 semi-automatic assault carbine. Bottom row: John Yoo, law professor and torture advocate; General Philip H. Sheridan, genocide advocate; George W. Bush, war criminal. American Blood Money, Inc. By Thomas Adcock (Copyright © 2013) Den ersten TeilRead More
CORPORATE PIMPS and/or AMERICAN PSYCHOS. Top row, from left: mass murderer Jared Loughner; gun fetishists Gayle Trotter and Wayne LaPierre; kindergarten killer Adam Lanza, who shot his mother in the face. Middle row: Dick Cheney, who shot his hunting companion in the face; war jingoist Donald Rumsfeld; Senator Lindsey Graham, companion to an AR-15 semi-automatic assault carbine. Bottom row: John Yoo, law professor and torture advocate; General Philip H. Sheridan, genocide advocate; George W. Bush, war criminal. American Blood Money, Inc. By Thomas Adcock (Copyright © 2013) NEW YORK —Read More
Der Blick in die Kristallkugel geht weiter: Unser „USA-Korrespondent“, der Autor und „Edgar”-Preisträger Thomas Adcock schaut auf die Entwicklung zentraler Aspekte und Themen der amerikanischen Politik und Gesellschaft im Jahr 2013. Setzt sich die Spaltung des Landes weiter fort? Wie entwickelt sich der Finanzsektor? Kommt es tatsächlich zu einer wirkungsvollen Reform der Waffengesetze und der Immigrationspolitik? Lesen Sie Teil 2 der Prognosen und Hintergründe zu aktuellen Themen der amerikanischen Gegenwart (zu Teil 1). IMAGES in the American New Year. Top row, from top left: lunatic Republican Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, obeseRead More
Ein Blick in die Kristallkugel: Unser „USA-Korrespondent“, der Autor und „Edgar“-Preisträger Thomas Adcock, wagt einen Blick auf die Entwicklung zentraler Aspekte und Themen der amerikanischen Politik und Gesellschaft im Jahr 2013. Setzt sich die Spaltung des Landes weiter fort? Wie sieht die Zukunft der Tea-Party aus und ihrer teilweise absurd argumentierenden Vertreter aus? Wie entwickelt sich der Finanzsektor? Kommt es tatsächlich zu einer wirkungsvollen Reform der Waffengesetze? Und: Wir geht’s weiter mit dem „War on Terror“? Lesen Sie Prognosen und Hintergründe zu aktuellen Themen der amerikanischen Gegenwart (Teil 1). IMAGESRead More
Death Row ADAM LANZA (top row, left) is America’s newest notable mass murderer. Adjacent is Nancy Lanza, first rampage victim and the killer’s own mother. Middle row: legally purchased semi-automatic weapons. Bottom row (from left): Mike Huckabee, former Republican governor of Arkansas, who said Mr. Lanza’s schoolhouse killing spree occurred because “we have systematically removed God from our schools”; Congressman Louie Gohmert, Texas Republican, who wants more guns available to more Americans; William Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Education, who says schools should now have armed personnel. Merry Murderous Christmas!Read More
Thomas Adcock is a novelist and journalist based in New York City. Winner of the prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award, given by Mystery Writers of America, his books and articles have been published worldwide. Writing as Tom Dey, he is currently completing a new novel titled “Lovers & Corpses.” Mehr zu Thomas Adcock hier und hier. Zu den CULTurMAG-Beiträgen von Thomas Adcock.Read More
Der amerikanische Autor und Edgar-Gewinner Thomas Adcock hat in den vergangenen Wochen exklusiv für CULTurMAG in einer wöchentlichen Kolumne den US-Wahlkampf begleitet. Nun ist die Entscheidung gefallen, Präsident Obama wird eine zweite Amtszeit das Land regieren. Zum Abschluss seines “Campaign Diarys” wirft Thomas Adcock noch einmal einen Blick auf die Verlierer des Wahlkampfes: Mitt Romney und seine Unterstützer. The South Shall Rise Again Destiny, as often portrayed, requires a man and a moment. These dramatic elements were in coalescence last week in the United States, thusly: • Willard Mitt Romney,Read More
Der amerikanische Autor und Edgar-Gewinner Thomas Adcock hat in den vergangenen Wochen exklusiv für CULTurMAG in einer wöchentlichen Kolumne den US-Wahlkampf begleitet. Nun ist die Entscheidung gefallen, Präsident Obama wird eine zweite Amtszeit das Land regieren. In der letzten Folge seines “Campaign Diarys” zieht Thomas Adcock eine erste Billanz des Wahlkampfs und des Ausgangs der Wahl. REJECTED by American voters last week (from left to right): the disastrous presidency of George W. Bush; homophobia; the stupidity of Sarah Palin; anti-science boobs; the proto-fascistRead More
Der amerikanische Autor und Edgar-Gewinner Thomas Adcock hat in den vergangenen Wochen exklusiv für CULTurMAG in einer wöchentlichen Kolumne den US-Wahlkampf begleitet. Nun steht die Entscheidung an, in den kommenden Stunden wird der nächste Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten gewählt. Warum sich Thomas Adcock wünscht, dass Barack Obama der Franklin Delano Roosevelt des 21.Jahrhunderts wird, lesen Sie hier. Unifinished Business If all goes well in today’s federal elections—I predict it shall—the rëelection of President Barack Obama and a thumping defeat for proto-fascist Tea Party commandants of the formerly respectable Republican PartyRead More
Leading voices of the Republican Tea Party cult — clockwise from top: Sarah Palin, 2008 Republican nominee for vice-president, half-term governor of Alaska; Congressman Allen West, Florida; Congressman Michael Coffman, Congressman Todd Akin, U.S. Senate candidate, Missouri; Colorado; Congressman Chip Cravaack, Minnesota; Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Minnesota; Tea Party polemicist Ann Coulter; Congressman Joe Walsh, Illinois; Congressman Steve King, Iowa; Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, candidate for the U.S. Senate. Der amerikanische Autor und Edgar-Gewinner Thomas Adcock berichtet exklusiv für CULTurMAG in seiner wöchentlichen KolumneRead More
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She knows how to hang puppies, Santa Stella!, murmelt der irre Wissenschaftler und zieht stante pede von dannen, „stante pede“ ein Ausdruck, den schon sein Vater gerne benutzte. Auch Wissenschaftler haben Väter, oder hatten sie irgendwann. Während also alle Welt zuhause bleibt, ist der irre Wissenschaftler seit Monaten unterwegs. Mars – Alpha Centauri – und ganz zuletzt der Nordpol. Perché il Polo Nord? – Auf einmal redet alle Welt Italienisch! Muss an der Liebe liegen, oder an der Sehnsucht unseres Helden nach seinem Vater, der fortging, lang, lang ist’s her... Besuch beim Weihnachtsmann. AIUTO, das Herz blutet! Merry Christmas, tröstet der Santo Santa.
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