Gardening, cooking, muckraking, corporate butt-kicking, general agitating.
Movies
Anything by John Sayles.
Television
Not so much (except for baseball).
Books
Yes, beaucoup books. I love libraries.
Heroes
The Thoms (Jefferson and Paine), Frederick Douglass, the “Kansas Pythoness” (Mary Helen Lease), Mark Twain, Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie, Diego Rivera, Thurgood Marshall.
Jim Hightower's Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Hometown:
Austin, Texas
Zodiac Sign:
Capricorn
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National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of Thieves In High Places: They've Stolen Our Country And It's Time to Take It Back, Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks.
Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower believes that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom, and he has become a leading national voice for the 80 percent of the public who no longer find themselves within shouting distance of the Washington and Wall Street powers at the top.
He broadcasts daily radio commentaries that are carried in more than 150 commercial and public stations, on the web at www.jimhightower.com, on Armed Forces Radio, and Sirius Satellite Radio.
Each month, he publishes a populist political newsletter, "The Hightower Lowdown," which now has more than 140,000 subscribers and is the fastest growing political publication in America. The hard-hitting Lowdown has received both the Alternative Press Award and the Independent Press Association Award for best national newsletter.
As political columnist Molly Ivins says, "If Will Rogers and Mother Jones had a baby, Jim Hightower would be that rambunctious child -- mad as hell, with a sense of humor."
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Who I'd like to meet: Ordinary grassroots people who do the extraordinary things in our country – especially the mavericks who dare to defy conventional wisdom, challenge the status quo, and confront authority.
Don't miss Rev.Bookburn's radio show today 3-1-09. It's a special 2 hour broadcast entitled, "The Trial of Geore W. Bush", from 9 pm to 11 pm (Eastern).The opening song will be "The G.O.P." (Greedy Old Peckerwoods) by yours truly.
Check THIS out! FL lawmakers are so ignorant, arrogant, and money-grubbing, they won't acknowledge global warming until a polar bear wanders into the Capitol Bldg. or Governor's mansion & hops in bed with "Uncle Charlie" & his new bride.
