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Stephen Vincent wrote: >>I haven't understood a word of this. >> >>I just thought you meant panic attacks. >> >>Big deal? >> >>Ken >> >> > >Ken, Mr. Citizen, you haven't turned on the t.v.? Cheney-Bush-Rumsfeld, etc. >- not noticed how they - indeed in 'panic attack mode' - be babbling for >'legal' cover. > >It's bad poetry, to say the least. > >Stephen V > > You will probably not believe this but we use the TV mostly as a monitor for videos and DVDs. The news comes to me via the car radio and/or newspapers. I got out of the habit of watching the tube beginning in April 1997 when I got separated. I wonder how I knew about some major subjects FOR poetry...I'm thinking of the Columbine HS shootings in 1999. I must've had the radio on. I gathered from this morning's news that the Bush poll numbers are still in the tank regardless of his last week's superb imitation of a rabid pit bull. Beware of the dog, Vicious When Drunk. The (I fear temporary) setback to the Patriot Act nevertheless must also be an irritant. I have a very odd relationship with radio news. Sometimes I will say to hell with it and put a music CD in the player. But more often than not I listen to talk shows, features, or straight news. I am not kidding about talk shows: I drive 43 miles each way to and from work, and Sean Hannity at least keeps me awake and aware of what the other pit bulls are doing. His sincerity reminds me of Hitler's. Unfair, isn't it? It always amazes me that leftists refuse to listen to right-wing commentators or read their writings: if you don't know the thoughts of the people who are really in charge, you will wind up being ground up. Or I'll put on Randi Rhodes on AirAmerica--the most well-informed and savage left wing commentator I have ever heard. And there is always NPR to listen to people not screaming. Terri Gross is my secret girlfriend. I wish. I DO wonder how long GW, DR, and DC can maintain the strong and tough front in the midst of emerging chaos. What's scary to contemplate is how long it will take for the truncheons to come out. Ken -- Kenneth Wolman Proposal Development Department Room SW334 Sarnoff Corporation 609-734-2538 I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -Douglas Adams