Bad News -- Joe Bageant Has Cancer


This is sad news for all of us who have been enriched by his wisdom and humor:

As you may or may not know, I have been struck down by an extremely serious form of cancer. Presently I am back in the United States receiving treatment through the U.S. Veterans Administration hospital system. Due to the nature of the massive internal tumor, I am currently unable to even carry on email correspondence or Skype conversations.

Right now I am at a hospital in Morgantown, West Virginia. Once a treatment program has been designed and set in motion, I will probably be transferred back to the Veterans Administration facility near my home in Winchester, Virginia. The condition is inoperable, but it is hoped that with chemotherapy plus the use of a pain killer such as OxyContin, I will be able to resume my online work.


Nat Wilson Turner January 5, 2011 - 12:00am
( categories: Miscellany )

Bageant is an irrepressible and insightful commentator on our current troubles. I don't like thinking of a world (or Virginia) without him. I hope they do everything possible for him to come around and stick around.

Michael Collins January 5, 2011 - 12:15am


Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them,and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows,or with both~FDouglas

Celsius 233 January 5, 2011 - 2:33am

Aside from being perceptive and funny, he's a damn nice guy, who keeps us honest and helps penetrate the fog of bullshit the Establishment spreads.


Retired Mainframe maven, active curmudgeon, poet, writer.

steeleweed January 5, 2011 - 11:27am

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