tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-201091682024-03-07T21:56:36.600-05:00410E9th...Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*!410E9thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743368225581804194noreply@blogger.comBlogger288125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20109168.post-59386662839979144172017-07-04T01:35:00.001-04:002023-01-11T16:33:27.348-05:00The Rialto Report ( Happy 76th)<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.therialtoreport.com/2014/07/13/the-melody-burlesk-and-the-harmony-dominiques-story/">The Melody Burlesk and the Harmony: and you started work for men’s magazines at this time as well?</a></span>
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Dominique: I was also working as a photographer because I met Peter Wolff, who was the publisher of some of the big men’s magazines like Cheri. I used to <span style="font-size: x-large;">babysit</span> for him and his wife. He was my mentor. He would talk me into everything.</em>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://whatever%20happened%20to%20honeysuckle%20divine/?">Whatever Happened to Honeysuckle Divine? Stripping, God, and Ping Pong Balls, Honeysuckle Divine,</a></span> <br />
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<em>In late 1976, the editor of the newly created Cheri magazine, Peter Wolff (right), asked Betty to write for the magazine. Her contract with Screw magazine had ended, and Wolff wanted her to continue the diary in the pages of Cheri. Betty started her monthly column, ‘The Beehive’, which she wrote for the next few years.
Wolff gave her free rein to write about any aspect of her life, but wasn’t expecting the voluminous output he received. Each month she sent pages and pages of detail that had to be drastically cut back so it could be accommodated in the magazine. She wrote about touring as a stripper, her sexual escapades, and of course her ‘relationship’ with her ‘boyfriend’ Peter Jennings. (Wolff stipulated only that she refer to him with a fake name (‘Peter Lovejoy’) for legal reasons). Betty’s diary always opened with “Greetings Art Lovers”, and usually ended with her promise to reply to every letter she received. </em><br />
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<a href="http://www.therialtoreport.com/2015/02/01/lisa-cintrice-porn-the-army-and-the-scandal-in-times-square/"><span style="font-size: large;">Lisa Cintrice:</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.therialtoreport.com/2015/02/01/lisa-cintrice-porn-the-army-and-the-scandal-in-times-square/"><span style="font-size: large;">Porn, the Army, and the scandal in Times Square</span></a> <br />
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<em>What was Peter Wolff like?</em><br />
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<em>Oh my God, Peter was the best. Peter was … he was so cool, just laid back, and his wife was amazing. I stayed at his house a lot. He was an alcoholic, but he always looked out for me. He was brilliant and knew everything about the magazine business in New York. He was crazy, fun, and wild.</em></div>
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<em>So what did you do?</em><br />
<em>I went to see Peter Wolff and Richard Milner, who was another guy on the scene publishing adult magazines. I respected and trusted them both.
I told them about the problem and asked if they knew a lawyer.
The next day Peter called and said, “I have an idea. We’re going to get you out of the army.”
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<em>What was his idea?
Peter said that if the army was so concerned about me linking them to the porn film industry… then that was exactly what we should do. I didn’t fully understand what he meant, but he insisted I should leave it all up to him.
The next thing I knew, he wanted me to do a striptease in front of the Army recruitment office at Broadway and 42nd St!
He told me to wear my Army uniform and to strip out of that.
When the day came, I remember going into a Beefsteak Charlie’s restaurant with a big black body guard. I was wearing some sort of overcoat over my army uniform, and then I just threw it off and walked outside when I got the signal from Peter.
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<em>“They set up people with cameras in Times Square, and I waited across the street in my army uniform. I was wearing a helmet like in Private Benjamin. So I slowly walked up to the recruiting station and started unbuttoning my blouse. The recruiter was inside, and he didn’t know what the hell was happening. And there were all these people walking by and taking pictures. We were there ten minutes, and we had two photographers there taking pictures so that we could get done faster, and then we got out of there – no cops or anything. People were applauding and following us down the street yelling ‘More! More!”
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<em>It was great; I got a kick out of it.”
Peter and Richard had alerted the press that you’d be doing this?
Yes. They’d called up newspapers, magazines and TV stations and told everyone to be there for the big event. And the press turned out in force – there seemed to more photographers there than people that day! We were covered by The New York Post, The New York Daily News, ABC-TV, the nightly news programs… you name it.</em>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.therialtoreport.com/2014/03/16/who-was-jill-monro-the-story-of-new-yorks-first-transsexual-porn-star/">Who was Jill Monro? The Story of New York’s First Transsexual Porn Star </a></span><br />
Extract from “Jill Monro: 1977 – 1982”, Adult Cinema Review, December 1982, by Boz Crawford (Rialto Report: This is Peter Wolff) <br />
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<em>“I was probably the first person in the porn business to meet the extraordinary performer called Jill Monro, since it was to me she came for her first job, modeling for another men’s magazine. In her short, lamentably brief life, Jill was probably the most beautiful and adventurous woman ever created by the surgeon’s knife. Jill was possessed of an amazing sense of style. Unfortunately, the pressure of being a sexual pioneer eventually “got” to my friend. Last August, she was found dead in her apartment, the apparent victim of a heroin overdose. We will miss her. We hope that her untimely death will make yet another statement in the portfolio of pleas for sexual understanding and sexual tolerance. If people would just let each other be, perhaps we might eventually overcome the tremendous tendency for self-destruction among those whose gender-identity takes different forms than the norm”.</em><br />
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<a href="http://www.therialtoreport.com/2016/05/22/glitter/"><span style="font-size: large;">Glitter (1983): Scenes from an Adult Movie</span></a><br />
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<em>In 1983, the New York adult film magazine luminary Peter Wolff sent a note to photographer Bobby Hanson.<br /><br />Wolff had edited a number of men’s magazines since the early 1970s, most notably Cheri, and was now occupied with his publication Adult Cinema Review – using the pseudonym, Boz Crawford.<br /><br />Wolff had heard that Roberta Findlay and her partner Walter Sear had flown West Coast starlets Shauna Grant and Rhonda Jo Petty into New York for a short series of adult films.<br /><br />He’d agreed with Findlay that if he was given free access to the set to take pictures during rehearsals and between takes, he would run a pictorial in his magazine to publicize the films.<br /><br />But Wolff wanted more than just publicity photos: his instructions to Hanson were clear in a note to the photographer that stated: “I don’t just want a series of pictures that show sex on set. Go further. Get me stuff showing the performers off-guard, candid, rehearsing, or just posing for the camera. I want an impressionistic portrayal of life in adult films. Show me the boredom, exhibitionism, sexual tension! Give me the reality of this surreal world!”</em><br />
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<strong><em>Peter Wolff was a pioneering adult magazine publisher in New York who changed the face of the business in 1970s. He worked on many titles, including Ace in 1972, </em></strong><strong><em>High Society</em></strong><strong><em> in 1975, Cheri in 1976, Partner in 1978, Adult Cinema Review in 1980, and Oui in 1981. He was almost as well known for being a bon vivant – partying all night, gambling at the OTB, and having tabs at numerous bars that he seemed to live in</em></strong><div><strong><em><br /></em></strong></div><div><h1 style="background-color: #ffeacc; border: 0px; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.625em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 130px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When the NYPD made a Porn Film: Get your Popcorn for the Cop Porn</h1></div><div><b><i>https://www.therialtoreport.com/2019/02/03/nypd/</i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffeacc; color: #554e4c; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Against this backdrop however, I was always keen to write. That was my ambition, and somehow I came into contact with </span><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2018/09/30/cheri-1976/" style="background-color: #ffeacc; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Peter Wolff who was editing Cheri</a><span style="background-color: #ffeacc; color: #554e4c; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> and High Times magazines. We became friendly, and he took me out to lunch at a bar/restaurant in the East 40s near his office. He was gruff looking, with an unruly beard and mustache, but he was kind and very sweet to me. I told him about my desire to be a writer, and he gave me work writing articles for Cheri. I became a roving sex journalist for the magazine, writing pieces on my experiences in the adult film business, such as fluffing and dancing at the Melody, and I did a couple of photo shoots for him too.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffeacc; color: #554e4c; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffeacc; color: #554e4c; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I got a call from </span><a href="https://www.therialtoreport.com/2018/09/30/cheri-1976/" style="background-color: #ffeacc; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Peter Wolff at Cheri magazine</a><span style="background-color: #ffeacc; color: #554e4c; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">. He asked, “Have you seen the newspapers?” He told me there was a big story revealing that some loops I’d made at JFK had been filmed by the New York Police Department. What’s more, he said that the television networks had contacted him, and they wanted to interview me for the six o’clock news.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffeacc; color: #554e4c; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffeacc; color: #554e4c; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">After I appeared on the TV news, the scandal showed no signs of abating. Peter Wolff asked me to write an article for Cheri about the experience, and then I was invited to appear on one of the late night New York TV chat shows. To this day, I can’t remember which show it was. It was shot in Manhattan in the upper 50s, in a studio across the street from where soap operas like ‘Days of Our Lives’ and ‘As the World Turns’ were produced.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffeacc; color: #554e4c; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><h1 style="background-color: #ffeacc; border: 0px; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.625em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 130px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Carn(iv)al Love: Sex, Wrestling and the Story of Misty Blue Simmes – Podcast 101</h1></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffeacc; color: #554e4c; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffeacc; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #554e4c; font-family: Source Sans Pro, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">https://www.therialtoreport.com/2020/10/04/misty-blue-simmes/</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffeacc; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #554e4c; font-family: Source Sans Pro, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffeacc; color: #554e4c; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">When they weren’t on the road, Jon and Diane continued to post ads to swinging magazines. One day, they were contacted by Peter Wolff, a men’s magazine publisher in New York City. Peter wanted to profile swinging culture for his magazine, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #ffeacc; border: 0px; color: #ff6600; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Gallery</a><span style="background-color: #ffeacc; color: #554e4c; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> and had seen their ad. He asked if they’d come to the city to be interviewed and photographed, all expenses paid. Never ones to pass up a paid gig, Jon and Diane headed down to the big smoke.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffeacc; color: #554e4c; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="background-color: #ffeacc; border: 0px; color: #554e4c; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1970s New York was a far cry from Jon and Diane’s sleepy small town, and Peter Wolff was different from anyone they’d ever met. The first night, Peter took them to a fancy restaurant, where his secretary whipped out her breasts before the food arrived. Jon felt like a kid in a candy store. And his relationship with Peter was pure symbiosis: the publisher got a kick out of introducing the upstate hillbilly couple to the seamier side of life; Jon and Diane were happy to partake of all the forbidden fruits on offer.</p><p style="background-color: #ffeacc; border: 0px; color: #554e4c; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jon and Diane started coming down to visit Peter on a regular basis. He brought the couple to the city’s swinging parties, bathhouses, and sex clubs along with a photographer who took shots for the next issue of whatever magazine Peter was editing at the time.</p><p style="background-color: #ffeacc; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #554e4c; font-family: Source Sans Pro, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">https://www.therialtoreport.com/2013/04/28/jeanne-silver-3/</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #ffeacc; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #554e4c; font-family: Source Sans Pro, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">https://www.therialtoreport.com/2023/01/01/sue-nero-3/</span></span></p><p style="background-color: #ffeacc; border: 0px; color: #554e4c; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p></div>410E9thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743368225581804194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20109168.post-72458304458168523892017-06-19T11:50:00.002-04:002017-06-19T11:50:27.499-04:00Avenue C circa 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are no more words, no more programs, no more doctrines. The eloquence of this revolution was used up in the phrase "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." The great spokesmen of our movement have added poetry to truths and have decorated their syllables with hymns. But essentially there is no more to say - and no poetry left to express it.</div>
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The program began with the shot heard round the world, a solitary minute man and we had been living it out since. There are no more programs. There are the modern complexities - legal, sociological, political - but they are fragments - for the fact of democracy is the program of democracy. We know what we have to do. We know where and how the fight is to be thought. Essentially there can be no new plots and plans. There will be a history of deeds and schemes - but there has always been one.</div>
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The doctrine needs no renovation. The right is self-evident and critical. And it is right. In America we fight for it to be a vital right ; but, in one form or another it has always been with us. It is inalienable from our existence. To this doctrine one can only add pious reasons and spurious motivations. They will be tailored by friends as well as enemies; but they cannot obscure the indelible right.</div>
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An undeserved sobriety marks our actions today. We talk and we ponder. In some small way we commit ourselves. We think we have done something. We maintain one negro friend and wonder about the impression that the race issue makes on foreign diplomats.</div>
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This is something less than a major accomplishment. The commitment was made the day we first called ourselves Americans and the great words have become cliches. Something more is needed. Something more than polemics and musings. We must constantly ask ourselves whether what we are doing is effective. Do not expect to add to the music of the movement, it has been done already - and better.</div>
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There is a way that is as easy as it is symbolic. But it is effective. Donate to the support of SNCC. Add time. Add sweat. Add crusading. Then there is accomplishment</div>
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. Paw prints March 6th 1962<br />
Bob Gilbert, a junior at the College, accompany the 9 Ridgley Freedom Riders on their trip to Maryland last week. He brought with him a camera and an appreciation of the pathetic and the dramatic.<br />
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Looking over Bob's photographs last week, I was abruptly reminded of that tense and rapid-moving day when nine of us committed ourselves to an activist approach to the problem of civil rights.<br />
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One of the shortcomings of the trip was that we could rally only 9 people. We approached almost fifty leading campus "liberals" in an effort to stock a bus for the ride.<br />
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There was a full complement of pious excuses, which is to be expected when a perilous situation is posited - but there also was a surprising number of individuals who felt that it was "none of our business to go down there. They have problems of their own in Maryland."<br />
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The South has an ethical code and a folkways of its own. But it also shares our flag and our pride. The laws that bind us in New York, equally bind a Baltimore bigot . Cultural relativism may color our relations with Africa, but it cannot be used as a scapegoat for southern Injustice.<br />
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For the past 100 years we have tolerated Dixie home rule. We have said that southern ethos must be sophisticated by that region's own laws and own educational. We have, in effect, dichotomize the concept of freedom in America.<br />
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But autochthonous prejudice will never resolve itself naturally. We have granted the south of century to make its move, millions of negroes have grown up to a life of institutionalized subservience and ubiquitous extra-legal restraints. We cannot calcimine the North - and our own NAACP is presently planning a series of activists attacks on more subtle forms of bias here - but we must recognize that the position of the Negro in the South has institutionalized and hardened. Only some kind of active revolution, of which the freedom rides represent a sublimation, can destroy this creeping acculturation of the Negro.<br />
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One of the pictures portrays the unhappy plate of Bob Kaufman, a Trotsky ite socialist was taken off the freedom ride bus chartered by the Civic Interstate group in Baltimore. Kaufman, they said, represented an undesirable element, and the city cops were hailed to remove him.<br />
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To groups such as CORE, CIG, and the NAACP, constantly accused of subversion, the assistance of Socialist, Communist and other left-wing groups concerned with little concerned with civil liberties is consistently a sore spot. In removing Kaufman, they were doing exactly what they were fighting against; exclusion because of pre judgment.<br />
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Kaufman's crimes were rabble-rousing and handing out socialist pamphlets, a rather unfortunate and silly maneuver which most unthinking left-wing groups cling to. Someday they will realize that their nominal support is actually one of the greatest handicaps faced by civil liberties movements in the US. Still, there's nothing ethically wrong, despite a certain nonchalant about practicality.<br />
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Where to turn? There seems to be a great deal of sympathy for Kaufman, but no one appeared to take him seriously. Heis said to be immature and loud. They got him off the bus - but they have not yet erased the problem. Another picture shows a line of negroes waiting for riders in Denton, the county seat of Caroline county Maryland, where we also held demonstration.<br />
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The rides are a big thing in these communities, negro children raised alongside the bus yelling "we like Freedom riders" As one CIG leader put it. "It's a big event around here. These people never had anything else to do in these small towns. They go shopping for kicks". The white community, on the other hand, is temperamental and belligerent.It is difficult to believe that this is Maryland, north of the Mason-Dixon line and only a few hours from New York. One cannot accept the time-honored complaint against "Intruders from the north" here-- there are just too many racial insults in the air to make this legitimate.<br />
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. In Ridgely, on the other hand the little town where Queens College open to integration, the situation was somewhat different. Here we were accosted by an angry gang of hostile teenagers who used the racial slurs but we're mostly content with merely creating a row. At one store here a proprietor comma seeing us, said, "w<br />
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Denton MD, Feb 24th - the nearby town of Ridgely got its first, unexpected Taste of non-violence Civil Rights Movement when a band of approximately 20 Freedom Riders descended upon it earlier today.</div>
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The tiny town, (pop. 834) situated in southeast section of Maryland, was obviously surprised by the demonstrations and retaliated with a series of stonings and muggings here in Denton.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This turn of phrase is by far the most odious thing I have found written by my dad - including his later work -- but what a way to leave an impression!</span>410E9thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743368225581804194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20109168.post-17959574340539584902011-06-12T19:03:00.000-04:002011-06-12T19:03:13.635-04:00Howl Festival 2010<a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdufXKgrxJwyawhz-JNJL35VAGHvlZ_e3O20M76QJx4bcXWHf-4t2rl7XeBG394xfKIc1r-0plsQKRVUiGQW-9ty1uGrFdIRdrK170rxCAHDjsCOnR88fxHz0pTnpPtVKZMKV0g/s1600/photo.JPG'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdufXKgrxJwyawhz-JNJL35VAGHvlZ_e3O20M76QJx4bcXWHf-4t2rl7XeBG394xfKIc1r-0plsQKRVUiGQW-9ty1uGrFdIRdrK170rxCAHDjsCOnR88fxHz0pTnpPtVKZMKV0g/s320/photo.JPG' border='0' alt='' /></a> <div style='clear:both; text-align:NONE'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>410E9thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743368225581804194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20109168.post-34950721349637338642011-03-06T00:09:00.001-05:002011-03-09T17:37:04.359-05:00Phoenix stories.<a href="http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/misc/supreme-che.php">http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/misc/supreme-che.php</a><br /><blockquote>His thick lips red from the cold, Bowne would enter C Building, descend to the Phoenix office, and plump his meager ass into the imitation-leather chair in the corner. The chair, stolen from a fraternity, was the only comfortable seat in the room, but there was little competition for it. The editor, Peter Wolff, preferred to perch on a stool and lord it over his protégés. Other Phoenix people--there were always a few toward the end of the afternoon, and on Friday, deadline day, the few became a mob--would be busy at typewriters under the casements, or checking copy on the big table in the center of the room, or just studying. Bowne would sit apart, reading, meditating, talking to friends. He was literary editor, but except for the weekly subway excursions to the printer in Williamsburg (mostly to proofread his own copy) he did not indulge in journalistic routine. He was not even a student. Having completed his credits six months earlier, in June, 1961, he refused to take the concentration exam because he had spent his fresh-man year as a chemistry major and senior year immersed in electives, and didn't feel ready. So he spent two semesters reading English lit, tutoring, auditing a few courses, and working for Phoenix.<br /><br />Phoenix was not an ordinary college newspaper. Wolff gave space enough to sports and campus politics, which were lively that year, and made a good number of left-liberal forays into the great world outside, but his heart and considerable energies were elsewhere. He wanted the paper to be a forum for students the way scholarly journals were a forum for professors. He was arrogant and sometimes crude, impossible to like wholeheartedly, but he turned Phoenix into a precocious weekly event, marred by undergraduate pomposity but imaginative and remarkably ambitious.</blockquote>410E9thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743368225581804194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20109168.post-2164126650096941872011-03-02T17:56:00.001-05:002011-03-02T18:06:54.970-05:00Hearts and MindsKABUL, Afghanistan — Nine boys collecting firewood to heat their homes in the eastern Afghanistan mountains were killed by NATO helicopter gunners who mistook them for insurgents, according to a statement on Wednesday by NATO, which apologized for the mistake. <br /><br />The boys, who were 9 to 15 years old, were attacked on Tuesday in what amounted to one of the war’s worst cases of mistaken killings by foreign-led forces. The victims included two sets of brothers. A 10th boy survived. <br /><br />The NATO statement, which included an unusual personal apology by the commander of the NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. David H. Petraeus, said the boys had been misidentified as the attackers of a NATO base earlier in the day. News of the attack enraged Afghans and led to an anti-American demonstration on Wednesday in the village of Nanglam, where the boys were from. The only survivor, Hemad, 11, said his mother had told him to go out with other boys to collect firewood because “the weather is very cold now.” <br /><br />“We were almost done collecting the wood when suddenly we saw the helicopters come,” said Hemad, who, like many Afghans, has only one name. “There were two of them. The helicopters hovered over us, scanned us and we saw a green flash from the helicopters. Then they flew back high up, and in a second round they hovered over us and started shooting. They fired a rocket which landed on a tree. The tree branches fell over me and shrapnel hit my right hand and my side.” <br /><br />The tree, Hemad said, saved his life by covering him so that he could not be seen by the helicopters, which, he said, “shot the boys one after another.” <br /><br />General Petraeus pledged to investigate the attack and to take disciplinary action if appropriate. <br /><br />“We are deeply sorry for this tragedy and apologize to the members of the Afghan government, the people of Afghanistan and, most importantly, the surviving family members of those killed by our actions,” he said. “These deaths should have never happened.” <br /><br />It was the third instance in two weeks in which the Afghan government has accused NATO of killing civilians. NATO strongly disputes one of those reports, but another — the killing of an Afghan Army soldier and his family in Nangarhar Province on Feb. 20 — was also described as an accident. <br /><br />The attack on the boys occurred high in the mountains outside Nanglam in the Pech Valley of Kunar Province. American troops are preparing to close their bases in the valley in the next several weeks, in part because their presence has vexed the villagers, who would prefer to be left alone. The area is poor, and the only major road was built to service Forward Operating Base Blessing, according to local residents. <br /><br />A rocket attack on the base on Tuesday led to a helicopter search for the insurgents responsible, the NATO statement said. The base is surrounded by mountains and is the frequent target of Taliban fighters, who shoot down on it from the rocky heights. <br /><br />The helicopters “returned fire at the assessed point of origin with indirect and aerial fire,” the NATO statement said. “Regrettably there appears to have been an error in the handoff between identifying the location of the insurgents and the attack helicopters that carried out subsequent operations.” <br /><br />Villagers — who heard the gunfire in the mountains and worried when the children did not return home — went to look for them. The boys had been out since the morning, local people said. <br /><br />“As soon as we heard about the attack on the village’s children, all the village men rushed to the mountains to find out what really happened,” said Ashabuddin, a shopkeeper from Manogai, a nearby village, whose nephew Khalid was among those killed. <br /><br />“Finally we found the dead bodies. Some of the dead bodies were really badly chopped up by the rockets,” he said. “The head of a child was missing. Others were missing limbs.” <br /><br />“We tried to find the body pieces and put them together. As it was getting late, we brought down the bodies in a rope bed. We buried them in the village’s cemetery,” Ashabuddin added. “The children were all from poor families; otherwise no one would send their sons up to the mountains despite the known threats from both insurgents and Americans.” <br /><br />Khalid, 14, was the only male in the family, Ashabuddin said. “He was studying in sixth grade of the orphanage school and working because his father died four years ago due to a long-term sickness. His father was a day laborer. He has 13 sisters and two mothers. He was the sole breadwinner of the family. I don’t know what would happen to his family to his sisters and mothers. They are all female and poor.” <br /><br />President Hamid Karzai, who was in London for an official visit, condemned the attack “in the strongest terms possible.” <br /><br />Calling it “ruthless,” he questioned whether the Western goals of combating terrorism and securing Afghanistan could be achieved if civilians continued to die. <br /><br />More than 200 people gathered in Nanglam on Wednesday to protest the boys’ deaths, witnesses said. Waving white flags, they shouted “Death, death to America!” and “Death to Obama and his colleagues and associates!”410E9thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743368225581804194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20109168.post-75247768435749905142011-02-23T21:03:00.000-05:002011-02-23T21:04:43.937-05:00Koch-suckersWalker: Hi; this is Scott Walker.<br /><br />Koch: Scott! David Koch. How are you?<br /><br />Walker: Hey, David! I’m good. And yourself?<br /><br />Koch: I’m very well. I’m a little disheartened by the situation there, but, uh, what’s the latest?<br /><br />Walker: Well, we’re actually hanging pretty tough. I mean—you know, amazingly there’s a much smaller group of protesters—almost all of whom are in from other states today. The State Assembly is taking the bill up—getting it all the way to the last point it can be at where it’s unamendable. But they’re waiting to pass it until the Senate’s—the Senate Democrats, excuse me, the assembly Democrats have about a hundred amendments they’re going through. The state Senate still has the 14 members missing but what they’re doing today is bringing up all sorts of other non-fiscal items, many of which are things members in the Democratic side care about. And each day we’re going to ratchet it up a little bit…. The Senate majority leader had a great plan he told about this morning—he told the Senate Democrats about and he’s going to announce it later today, and that is: The Senate organization committee is going to meet and pass a rule that says if you don’t show up for two consecutive days on a session day—in the state Senate, the Senate chief clerk—it’s a little procedural thing here, but—can actually have your payroll stopped from being automatically deducted—<br /><br />Koch: Beautiful.<br /><br />Walker: —into your checking account and instead—you still get a check, but the check has to be personally picked up and he’s instructing them—which we just loved—to lock them in their desk on the floor of the state Senate.<br /><br />Koch: Now you’re not talking to any of these Democrat bastards, are you?<br /><br />Walker: Ah, I—there’s one guy that’s actually voted with me on a bunch of things I called on Saturday for about 45 minutes, mainly to tell him that while I appreciate his friendship and he’s worked with us on other things, to tell him I wasn’t going to budge.<br /><br />Koch: Goddamn right!<br /><br />Walker: …his name is Tim Cullen—<br /><br />Koch: All right, I’ll have to give that man a call.<br /><br />Walker: Well, actually, in his case I wouldn’t call him and I’ll tell you why: he’s pretty reasonable but he’s not one of us…<br /><br />Koch: Now who can we get to budge on this collective bargaining?<br /><br />Walker: …I think the paycheck will have an impact…secondly, one of the things we’re looking at next…we’re still waiting on an opinion to see if the unions have been paying to put these guys up out of state. We think there’s at minimum an ethics violation if not an outright felony.<br /><br />Koch: Well, they’re probably putting hobos in suits.<br /><br />Walker: Yeah.<br /><br />Koch: That’s what we do. Sometimes.<br /><br />Walker: I mean paying for the senators to be put up. I know they’re paying for these guy—I mean, people can pay for protesters to come in and that’s not an ethics code, but, I mean, literally if the unions are paying the 14 senators—their food, their lodging, anything like that…[*** Important regarding his later acceptance of a Koch offer to “show him a good time.” ***]<br /><br />[I was stunned. I am stunned. In the interest of expediting the release of this story, here are the juiciest bits:]<br /><br />Walker: …I’ve got layoff notices ready…<br /><br />Koch: Beautiful; beautiful. Gotta crush that union.<br /><br />Walker: [bragging about how he doesn't budge]…I would be willing to sit down and talk to him, the assembly Democrat leader, plus the other two Republican leaders—talk, not negotiate and listen to what they have to say if they will in turn—but I’ll only do it if all 14 of them will come back and sit down in the state assembly…legally, we believe, once they’ve gone into session, they don’t physically have to be there. If they’re actually in session for that day, and they take a recess, the 19 Senate Republicans could then go into action and they’d have quorum…so we’re double checking that. If you heard I was going to talk to them that’s the only reason why. We’d only do it if they came back to the capital with all 14 of them…<br /><br />Koch: Bring a baseball bat. That’s what I’d do.<br /><br />Walker: I have one in my office; you’d be happy with that. I have a slugger with my name on it.<br /><br />Koch: Beautiful.<br /><br />Walker: [union-bashing...]<br /><br />Koch: Beautiful.<br /><br />Walker: So this is ground zero, there’s no doubt about it. [Talks about a "great" NYT piece of "objective journalism." Talks about how most private blue-collar workers have turned against public, unionized workers.]…So I went through and called a handful, a dozen or so lawmakers I worry about each day and said, “Everyone, we should get that story printed out and send it to anyone giving you grief.”<br /><br />Koch: Goddamn right! We, uh, we sent, uh, Andrew Breitbart down there.<br /><br />Walker:Yeah.<br /><br />Koch: Yeah.<br /><br />Walker: Good stuff.<br /><br />Koch: He’s our man, you know.<br /><br />Walker: [blah about his press conferences, attacking Obama, and all the great press he's getting.] Brian [Sadoval], the new Governor of Nevada, called me the last night he said—he was out in the Lincoln Day Circuit in the last two weekends and he was kidding me, he said, “Scott, don’t come to Nevada because I’d be afraid you beat me running for governor.” That’s all they want to talk about is what are you doing to help the governor of Wisconsin. I talk to Kasich every day—John’s gotta stand firm in Ohio. I think we could do the same thing with Vic Scott in Florida. I think, uh, Snyder—if he got a little more support—probably could do that in Michigan. You start going down the list there’s a lot of us new governors that got elected to do something big.<br /><br />Koch: You’re the first domino.<br /><br />Walker: Yep. This is our moment.<br /><br />Koch: Now what else could we do for you down there?<br /><br />Walker: Well the biggest thing would be—and your guy on the ground [Americans For Prosperity president Tim Phillips] is probably seeing this [stuff about all the people protesting, and some of them flip him off].<br /><br />[Abrupt end of first recording, and start of second.]<br /><br />Walker: [Bullshit about doing the right thing and getting flipped off by “union bulls,” and the decreasing number of protesters. Or some such.]<br /><br />Koch: We’ll back you any way we can. What we were thinking about the crowd was, uh, was planting some troublemakers.<br /><br />Walker: You know, well, the only problem with that —because we thought about that. The problem—the, my only gut reaction to that is right now the lawmakers I’ve talked to have just completely had it with them, the public is not really fond of this…[explains that planting troublemakers may not work.] My only fear would be if there’s a ruckus caused is that maybe the governor has to settle to solve all these problems…[something about '60s liberals.]…Let ‘em protest all they want…Sooner or later the media stops finding it interesting.<br /><br />Koch: Well, not the liberal bastards on MSNBC.<br /><br />Walker: Oh yeah, but who watches that? I went on “Morning Joe” this morning. I like it because I just like being combative with those guys, but, uh. You know they’re off the deep end.<br /><br />Koch: Joe—Joe’s a good guy. He’s one of us.<br /><br />Walker: Yeah, he’s all right. He was fair to me…[bashes NY Senator Chuck Schumer, who was also on the program.]<br /><br />Koch: Beautiful; beautiful. You gotta love that Mika Brzezinski; she’s a real piece of ass.<br /><br />Walker: Oh yeah. [story about when he hung out with human pig Jim Sensenbrenner at some D.C. function and he was sitting next to Brzezinski and her father, and their guest was David Axelrod. He introduced himself.]<br /><br />Koch: That son of a bitch!<br /><br />Walker: Yeah no kidding huh?…<br /><br />Koch: Well, good; good. Good catching up with ya’.<br /><br />Walker: This is an exciting time [blah, blah, blah, Super Bowl reference followed by an odd story of pulling out a picture of Ronald Reagan and explaining to his staff the plan to crush the union the same way Reagan fired the air traffic controllers]…that was the first crack in the Berlin Wall because the Communists then knew Reagan wasn’t a pushover. [Blah, blah, blah. He's exactly like Reagan. Won't shut up about how awesome he is.]<br /><br />Koch: [Laughs] Well, I tell you what, Scott: once you crush these bastards I’ll fly you out to Cali and really show you a good time.<br /><br />Walker: All right, that would be outstanding. Thanks for all the support…it’s all about getting our freedoms back…<br /><br />Koch: Absolutely. And, you know, we have a little bit of a vested interest as well. [Laughs]<br /><br />Walker: [Blah] Thanks a million!<br /><br />Koch: Bye-bye!<br /><br />Walker: Bye.410E9thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743368225581804194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20109168.post-52232871735672218732011-01-09T17:13:00.003-05:002011-01-10T11:07:50.519-05:00Palin Apologists.Watching people defend this image is going to be fun.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbfr0-dycOEm-UNEhv0Db7U3CmHlNayuP8tAdLrUtryYRb9sK8jxLS3LBbojjblTldfWtmyiDFGkn8Niq2ug3jGUb5k8BZox_M-zTvfWa_f_6v7fFqTh2GSi10_9UtmFz_2snVhg/s1600/Palinmap.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbfr0-dycOEm-UNEhv0Db7U3CmHlNayuP8tAdLrUtryYRb9sK8jxLS3LBbojjblTldfWtmyiDFGkn8Niq2ug3jGUb5k8BZox_M-zTvfWa_f_6v7fFqTh2GSi10_9UtmFz_2snVhg/s320/Palinmap.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560316393786504578" /></a><br /><br />This video is devastating. I am with Giffords on this one.<br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/R7046bo92a4?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/R7046bo92a4?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>410E9thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743368225581804194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20109168.post-90997425618847209662010-12-18T21:39:00.001-05:002010-12-18T21:41:52.655-05:00Today we join the following countries that allow gay and lesbian individuals to serve openly in the military:Albania<br />Argentina<br />Australia<br />Austria<br />Belgium<br />Canada<br />Colombia<br />Czech Republic<br />Denmark<br />Estonia<br />Finland<br />France<br />Germany<br />Greece<br />Ireland<br />Israel<br />Italy<br />Japan<br />Lithuania<br />Luxembourg<br />Malta<br />The Netherlands<br />New Zealand<br />Norway<br />Peru<br />Philippines<br />Poland<br />Romania<br />Russia<br />Serbia<br />Slovenia<br />South Africa<br />Spain<br />Sweden<br />Switzerland<br />Taiwan<br />United Kingdom<br />Bermuda<br />Uruguay<span style="font-weight:bold;"><br /><br />Yesterday, we belonged with the following:</span><br /><br />Antigua and Barbuda<br />Bangladesh<br />Barbados<br />Belarus<br />Belize<br />Botswana<br />Brunei<br />Cameroon<br />Cuba<br />Cyprus<br />Dominica<br />Egypt<br />Fiji<br />Ghana<br />Grenada<br />Guyana<br />Iran<br />Kenya<br />Kiribati<br />Jamaica<br />Lesotho<br />Malawi<br />Malaysia<br />Maldives<br />Mozambique<br />Namibia<br />Nauru<br />Nigeria<br />North Korea<br />Pakistan<br />Papua New Guinea<br />Saudi Arabia<br />Seychelles<br />Sierra Leone<br />Singapore<br />Solomon Islands<br />South Korea<br />Sri Lanka<br />St. Kitts and Nevis<br />St. Lucia<br />St. Vincent and the Grenadines<br />Swaziland<br />Syria<br />Tanzania<br />Tonga[49]<br />Trinidad and Tobago<br />Turkey<br />Tuvalu<br />Uganda<br />Vanuatu<br />Venezuela<br />Yemen<br />Zambia<br />Zimbabwe410E9thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743368225581804194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20109168.post-53278867225696027292010-12-10T18:40:00.001-05:002010-12-10T18:47:00.200-05:00Seriously, Digby is the bomb..<a href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/liberal-dilemma-they-wont-kill-hostages.html">The Liberal Dilemma</a><br />by digby<br /><br /><a href="http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/12/yet-more-tax-deal-blogging">Kevin Drum</a> wrote an interesting post yesterday about the Democrats' dilemma in dealing with a hardcore opposition that literally doesn't care if their policies cause human suffering. (Indeed, they actually promote it, only they call it "tough love".)Democrats are always in the position of having to choose between some specific thing that will alleviate some suffering (however temporarily) in exchange for some heinous Galtian thievery and they end up taking the short term relief because they believe they have the responsibility to help people in the best way they can. Unfortunately, when dealing with nihilists, you end up creating more and more circumstances where such deals with the devil are necessary.<br /><br /><br /><blockquote>Thought #2 comes from Andrew Sabl, who takes on the question of what liberal opponents of the tax deal propose to do next if it's voted down. Andy says he doesn't really have a great answer here, but that his focus is largely on the long term, not the immediate future: "how can we change baseline expectations so as to achieve progressive outcomes in future negotiations?" Dave Dayen makes a similar point here.<br /><br />I haven't thought this through carefully, but I think there's a big problem with this framing. It assumes that our weakness is mostly with negotiating tactics: Democrats need to demonstrate that they're willing to accept a whole lot of wreckage if they don't get their way, and once they've done that Republicans will realize that they have to start compromising.<br /><br />But there are two problems with this. First, there's a real asymmetry between liberal and conservative goals. Liberals want active change. This means they can't just obstruct. They have to figure out a way to build a supermajority coalition for complicated legislation, and that means compromise. And everyone knows this. So compromise is baked into the cake. But conservatives, to a much larger extent, are often OK with simply preventing things from changing, either as their first best or second best position. For that, all you have to do is maintain a very simple position among a minority caucus. No real coalition building or compromise is necessary.<br /><br />Second, political coalitions are simply too public to sustain an artificial bargaining posture. The problem with the Democratic caucus isn't that they negotiate badly, it's that the Democratic caucus is genuinely fractured. And again, everyone knows it. You can't pretend you're willing to go to the mat against high-end tax cuts when there are half a dozen Democratic senators who support high-end tax cuts and Republicans know there are half a dozen Democratic senators who support high-end tax cuts. To fix this, you need more liberal Democrats, not tougher leadership.<br /><br />In any case, Andy's whole post is worth a read, especially his second point, which I think is a genuine and growing fracture point within the liberal coalition:<br /><br /><br /><blockquote>Civic republicans vs. non-republican liberals. Civic republicanism (small “r,” of course) is an awkward label for a common position: that the fundamental issue of our time is the ability of the rich, and corporations, to game the political system and prevent the rest of us from exerting true self-governance....In contrast, a non-republican liberal position is that giving material sustenance to the poor is more important than whether the rich get paid off, however regrettable and undeserved that is.</blockquote><br />Andy describes himself as "mostly a liberal but with growing sympathies for republicanism," and I'm pretty much in the same place. Maybe a little further along, in fact, though I still find myself nearly always supporting compromise positions that genuinely help people in the here and now. The last couple of years have certainly put a dent in that attitude, though. The rich have rubbed our faces a little too hard in the fact that they simply have no interest in what's good for the country, only what's good for their own bank accounts.</blockquote><br />I think that's happening to a lot of people and it's a true moral and ethical dilemma. The result of this constant capitulation though is that liberals are participating in their own defeat and weakening themselves for future battles every time it happens --- and ending up causing more human suffering in the process.<br /><br /><a href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/parliamentary-mismatch-why-everythings.html">Jack Balkin</a> makes the argument that the "parliamentarization" of our politics, with the Republicans establishing ideological cohesion, makes it inevitable that Democrats will also coalesce into a parliamentary-style party and do the same things when they get in the minority. If that's true then I suppose one could anticipate that it would mean most liberal policy would advance from a minority position as they "hold hostage" the Republicans in the same way the Republicans are holding Democrats hostage today. But even assuming you could get ideological cohesion among the Dems (which I doubt) I'm afraid this moral dilemma would preclude them from being successful. You have to be willing to kill some hostages to be successful at this game.<br /><br />The question is then, what to do? <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-k-black/what-aspect-of-dealing-wi_b_793707.html">Bill Black</a> and <a href="http://www.tax.com/taxcom/taxblog.nsf/Permalink/UBEN-8BFDMX?OpenDocument">David Cay Johnson have some ideas</a>. They say you have to deal with the Republicans like you deal with bullies -- confront or outsmart. Of course, I think we all know situation where you find out that the people you think are your friends really side with the bullies (or in girl world --- the popular girls) instead of you.<br /><br />Anyway, this is a central problem for liberals and progressives as we try to go forward dealing with the Republican wrecking crew and their allies in the Democratic Party. I don't know what the answer is.410E9thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743368225581804194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20109168.post-8402345189850253132010-12-02T11:50:00.003-05:002010-12-02T12:23:03.999-05:00It is obvious to me that the Irish-British model is the way of the futureNever, ever, bring up Friedman to me in a conversation. <br /><br /><blockquote>Germany and France are trying to protect their welfare capitalism with defense. Ireland is generating its own sustainable model of social capitalism by playing offense. I'll bet on the offense. </blockquote> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/opinion/01friedman.html">T.Friedman July 1st, 2005</a><br /><br /><blockquote>I think it [the invasion of Iraq] was unquestionably worth doing, Charlie.<br /><br />...<br /><br />We needed to go over there, basically, um, and um, uh, take out a very big state right in the heart of that world and burst that bubble, and there was only one way to do it.<br /><br />...<br /><br /><br />What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, um and basically saying, "Which part of this sentence don't you understand?"<br /><br />You don't think, you know, we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy, we're just gonna to let it grow?<br /><br />Well, Suck. On. This.<br /><br />Okay.<br /><br />That Charlie was what this war was about. We could've hit Saudi Arabia, it was part of that bubble. We coulda hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could.</blockquote>410E9thhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743368225581804194noreply@blogger.com0