Writings by Glenn Weiser for Metroland, Albany, NY

Glenn Weiser listening to a performance at the Gottagetgone Folk Festival, 2005.

Check out my writings for Metroland, an alternative newsweekly in Albany, NY where I've been a contributing writer since 1994. Here are reviews of concerts, CDs and books, feature articles, news stories, opinion pieces, historical perspectives, and technology columns. I'll update this list as new pieces run. -G.W. See also:

The Metroland Web site-index page
The Metroland masthead
Glenn's writing for Metroland quoted in the Village Voice 8/29/07
Glenn Weiser's Homepage

News and Politics-
May 20, 2010-Gov's History Lesson:Patterson vs. State Workers
April 28, 2005-We Don't Need No Stinkin' Scientists-Stem Cell bills in New York
April 13. 2005 -Say What? Outrageous Ideas Issue
October 24, 2004 -What Does Bush Believe-The President and Apocalyptic Christianity
Online historical sidebar to What Does Bush Believe?--Revelation, Futurism, and Dispensationalism
September 2, 2004 - Talk to the Feds: The FBI questions anti-Bush protesters
June 24, 2004 - Line? What Line? Separation of church and state issues flare up
April 8, 2004 - Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Be: Gay federal workers told they could be fired
March 18, 2004 - Doing Right for Unclear Reasons: New York pulls out of MATRIX
February 12, 2004 -Spy, Sy, Again: the MATRIX Database
January 15, 2004 - Lies-and the Lying Hypocrites Who Leave Them on Their Web Sites
December 18, 2003 - With Us, or Watched By Us: The FBI Spies on Protest Groups
September 7, 2003 - A Bigger Lie: Bush and Blair at Camp David 9-7-02
July 3, 2003 - Only God Can Give You a Head Start: Faith Based Discrimination
June 5, 2003 - Total PR Awareness: TIA Comes Back
March 6, 2003 - Patriot Games: The Sequel -The Patriot Act II
February 20, 2003 - Letter Imperfect: Mass GOP Form Letters to Newspaper Editors Exposed
January 3, 2003 - Eyes on the Prize: Blood for Oil In Iraq
December 19 - Comin' Back at Ya: John Poindexter Gets Hacked by TIA Foes
December 5, 2002 - Somebody's Watching You: Total Information Awareness
November 14, 2002 - Lie, Inveigle, Obfuscate: the 2002 GOP Midterm Takeover
October 3, 2002 - Mr. Quandt Goes to Baghdad: an antiwar protester takes a stand
August 22, 2002 - John Ashcroft Makes Justice Dept Lawyers Sing Along
August 2002 -Operation TIPS
July 11, 2002 - Someone to Watch Over What You Read: FBI Library Searches
Dec 27, 2001 - The Gray Scare: Sen. Lieberman Criticized for Involvement in Lynne Cheney's Group
December 13, 2001 - Antiterrorist Threat: The Defending Civilization List
June 28, 2001 - Opinion - Good News, Bad News: After-school religious programs
February 12, 2001 -A Piece of the Piety: Cults and The Faith Based Charity Plan
July 6, 2000 - Pakistan and Radiation Bombs: A New Threat?

Features and Historical Perspectives-
February 14, 2008 - The Spoils of War - The Yellow Rose and the General
June 29, 2006- Let God Sort 'Em Out-The Left Behind Video Game Bruhaha
February 9, 2006- These Swingers Don't Need Vines: How Primates Mirror Our Lusts
October 27, 2005 -Halloween Issue: My Own Ghost Story
February 10, 2005 -Toys Are Us: The History of Sex Toys
February 14, 2003 - The Imperial Itch
October 25, 2002 - Trial by Ignorance: A History of the European Witch hunts
July 11, 2002 - A Brief History of Celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church

Book Review-
December 26, 2002 - Book Review: Blues With A Feeling - The Little Walter Story,
by Tony Glover, Scott Dirks, and Ward Gaines

Technology-
February 7, 2002 - Adware
August 8, 2001 -Windows XP
April 28, 2001 The Napster Pig Latin Revolt
August 3, 2000 - Internet Cookies
Online Invasion (date uncertain)

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