Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Bill Resnick hosts this episode of The Mole, featuring a discussion of desertification and music about water from Satori Men's Chorus, as well as an interview with the author of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, an... Read more

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore talks with the Old Mole's Denise Morris about her book Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Must gay, lesbian, and transgendered people give up their distinctive cultures and be regimented into mainstream American life in order to be accepted... Read more

Bill Resnick talks with Burkhard Bilger about his New Yorker article "The Great Oasis": What can be done to halt the encroachment of deserts on land where people live and food is grown? They emphasize the effective grassroots movements that are most successful. Read more

 Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Frann Michel criticize some critics of Albert Nobbs, a film about gender-switching to get ahead in 19th Century Dublin. Read more

Tom Becker will host this episode featuring The demonization of Iran: Anthropologist and author William Beeman talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick. Beeman is the author of The “Great Satan” vs. the “Mad Mullahs”: How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Othe... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews William Beeman, author of "The Great Satan and the Mad Mullahs: how the US and Iran demonize each another". They talk about the history and patterns of this demonization, and why & how the same people who argued for war in Iraq over weapons of mas... Read more

Well-read Red, Clayton Morgareidge, comments on the spectacle of electoral politics, the presidency itself, and how voting is over-rated as a form of social action when so much that matters is decided, when addressed at all, by other means and to other ends. The presiden... Read more

Tom Becker reads "War By Drones and Special Forces: inviting the big pay-back", by Dave Lindorff. In it Dave argues that drone technology has made it easier to swallow the prospect for war, while unwittingly giving other countries not only the incentive, but a renewed ta... Read more

Jan Haaken talks with PC Peri about the history of the 22nd Annual Cascade Festival of African Films, how the films are selected, the importance of the (neither cynical nor romantic) view of African life they bring to audiences and what's left in the last two weeks of it... Read more

 Tom Becker hosts today Old Mole and we hear about the war drums being beat over Iran, the kabuki theatrics of electoral politics, a cold war waged with drones, and about the African Film Festival.  Thanks to all you folks who called in to support KBOO and the Old Mole! ... Read more