Stephen,
ALL of your points well presented and well taken!
Re NYTSelect: YARGH!!! Could we BE more crass?! I've already writ to the
head of op-ed, as well as to my favorite op-ed writer Bob Herbert, my strong
objection to their dropping him into the commercial "ghet'mo."
And more heartache, for which you give further evidence, regarding our
ironically named political parties: Angry as it makes me to think about,
years ago I decided that the DEMO-REPUB party is, in deed and fact, one
party. You know the reasons I say this.
With all our knowings---and with all our sensitivities for "reading" a
reader, an audience, an interested few: Why don't we take direct
brainstorming steps to ACTIONS TOWARD SOLUTIONS?
I propose one: Give voice to the dispossessed---to them with their own
writers, editors, advisors. To them with their scared and scaring reactions
and ideas, with their level and logical force, with their choking stories
and their objectionable rants. To them.
I'm feeling pretty damned dispossessed, aren't you? Difference between me
and the more dispossessed is that I have lotsa venues to vent in. But I'll
never claim the Grand Guilt of the fortunate few. It only stuffs anger in,
precluding meaningful plans and actions.
Thanks again,
Judy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: "New Orleans"
> Frank Rich in today's Sunday Times circles the larger web of
> gangster/pols -
> Delay et al - who have been selling the USA Federal Gov off to the K
> Street
> lobbyists representing the highest corporate bidders. This foiled against
> a
> Democratic party without either anthem or song (i.e., that 'vision
> thing'!)
>
> Unfortunately unlike former direct web access, you have to pay to get to
> Frank these days. Up in the morning and off to pay $5 at the corner NY
> Times
> vendor or a subscription gets you Online access to the Blue Chips.
>
> Stephen V
> Blog: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> New blog site / same archives!
>
>
>
>> Not to mention what has happened to Hitchens -- just by taking the OAth
>> of Citizenship or whatever it is?
>>
>> A once rather admirable mind gone where?
>>
>> Wolfowitz is just a slightly more articulate member of a crowd, all
>> gone bad... (& we need to hope all will someday be convicted, but I'm
>> not holding my breath...)
>>
>> Doug
>> On 2-Oct-05, at 1:36 AM, Dominic Fox wrote:
>>
>>> I blame Plato - he *started* it...
>>>
>>> Wolfie's "passion for spreading democracy in the Middle East" - not in
>>> itself an unappealing trait - would have been perfectly harmless if
>>> he'd channelled it into playing Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. He
>>> seems to have been one of those peripheral intellectuals, bit wacko,
>>> vulnerable to flattery, who get picked up when powerful interest
>>> groups decide they need someone to put a civilized veneer on whatever
>>> dastardliness they happen to be about. Why someone like Hitchens
>>> abominates Kissinger and champions Wolfowitz is a bit beyond me; the
>>> difference I suppose is an opposing stance vis-a-vis "tyranny", but in
>>> many respects they seem cut from the same cloth.
>>>
>>> Dominic
>>>
>>>
>> Douglas Barbour
>> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
>> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
>> (780) 436 3320
>>
>> There was the usual amount of corruption,
>> intimidation, and rioting.
>> Sir Charles Petrie
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