Hey, some folks have worked very hard diseducating this country.
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This is double-edged. On the one hand, publicity has probably increased
> their presence. On the other, those who think it's nuts have been far freer
> to say so than in past eruptions, and Chomsky is hardly alone. Read the
> editorial pages, or check out the Daly Show.
>
> I don't mean to make light of the present situation. Committed lunatic
> fringe types are a minority, but it's a minority that can swing elections
> (tho if I were the Democratic Party I'd be pouring money into supporting Tea
> Party affiliated candidates in primaries--in most places they'd be easier to
> take on than their more measured opponents, and their presence would
> probably get more moderates to the voting booths), and they have guns and
> can also blow up buildings.
>
> There's always a lunatic fringe everywhere, but this is a dangerously
> uneducated country.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
>
> At 11:44 AM 4/21/2010, you wrote:
>
>> Well, he isnt necessarily saying theyre new, but he is suggesting that
>> they are unprecedented, & there may be an argument there.
>>
>> On the other hand, I am beginning to wonder if our sense of the
>> growing crazines of USAmericans may not have to do with the
>> extraordinary media publicity theyre getting. There was a story on
>> CBC's SUnday Morning show coming out of the Vatican's 'forgiveness' of
>> he Beatles, in which they played some old interviews with the preacher
>> & some of his young flock min Tennessee (I think) who were burning
>> Beatles LPs because they were 'satanic' & 'unpatriotic' (having
>> apparently made some negative comments about the USA). They sounded
>> crazy too, but I had forgotten, partly because the story was a one day
>> wonder. Now...?
>>
>> Doug
>> On 20-Apr-10, at 7:35 PM, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
>>
>> Even staying with the quote you picked, I'd say the suggestion that
>>> such
>>> phenomena are new, or suddenly imbued with an unprecedented
>>> virulence is
>>> quite exaggerated.
>>>
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
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>>
>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>>
>> Latest books:
>> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>> Wednesdays'
>>
>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>>
>> The secret
>>
>> I was immediately set upon by two or three
>> critics, who hurled sophistries and
>> maledictions at me that were astonishing
>> in their dimness.
>>
>> Jorge Luis Borges
>>
>
> Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University of
> California Press).
> http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
>
> "Not since the 1982 publication of Paul Auster's Random House Book of
> Twentieth Century French Poetry has a bilingual anthology so effectively
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> created a superb collection of foreign poems in English. There is nothing
> else like it." John Palattella in The Nation
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