Years ago an Israeli scholar did the first-ever Hebrew translation of MEIN KAMPF...and couldn't find a publisher. I don't know what the eventual outcome was.
I can't help but think of my ailing 98-year-old grandmother, born in Galicia in Eastern Europe--a citizen of the Austrian empire. She actually remembers the advent of World War I, when--scared of imminent Russian solders--she took refuge under her mother's dress.
He also gets an acknowledgment in MEDIUM COOL, one of my favorite, favorite films.
#17 A minor point--Lindsay was actually elected in 1965 as a Republican, with the added Liberal endorsement. I think when he ran for reelection he lost the GOP primary and wandered into third-partydom...then became a Democrat.
It's true; looking at old election results (and even not so old) is akin to bizarro world. I remember during the election results of 1980, Tom Brokaw--noting that Massachusetts and Mississippi were both in the Reagan column--intoned that those two states hadn't been in the same column in a long, long time. But both had gone for Carter in 1976.
One odd little factoid that I've never been able to figure out is that Herbert Hoover carried Pennsylvania in 1932.
I have this feeling--a feeling, based on no empirical evidence--that the same dark forces that subverted the elections of 2000 and 2004 don't want to do it this time. I don't think they like McCain and are probably very happy to exit the stage (for now), dump their mess on Obama, and move to the shadows. For now.
Back to the Supreme Court: didn't the Democrats--by and large--vote to confirm most Republican nominees? Wasn't the vote to confirm Scalia unanimous?
Actually, I don't think Bush and the administration are--in general--liars. They've been totally overt: they assumed office through outright fraud; they're explicitly serving the interests of big business, they want Iraqi oil, and they're in favor of mass incarceration of poor people and minorities. Hypocrites they're not.
#83--it's funny; Bruce is by and large what makes me NOT like some
of Cream. I think one reason I liked Blind Faith so much was Steve
Winwood in Bruce's place. "We're Going Wrong" is, though, pretty
amazing. But there was something about that high-pitched yowl.... No
offense to you and any other Jack Bruce partisans out there.
I remember reading about Clapton's outburst at the time; since then
I've had a deep distaste for him. It hasn't stopped me, though, from
thinking Blind Faith and some of Cream was sheer brilliance. The dirty
little secret is that there always has been a fascist and racist
zeitgeist--artists are not immune. In fact, quite the contrary.
Tonight, forty years
ago, I was watching BEWITCHED when an announcement came over the air
that a man named Martin Luther King had been shot. I was too young to
have heard of him, but I remember how jolting it felt.
Today's deracinated image of King--safe enough for McDonald's to honor him--is a real distortion. As usual.
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned THE BEANS OF EGYPT, MAINE or GRUB(B?) STREET.
"War and Peas"?
The Democratic vitriol against Nader grows in direct proportion to their cooperation with Republicans. The Democrats voted en masse for the war. They voted en masse for the USA Patriot Act. They continue to approve war funding. They've rubber-stamped almost every Bush nominee. (Which goes back a long way; the vote to confirm Scalia was unanimous.)
I think there's this self-image of the Democrats fighting the good fight against the Bush junta. It's not true.
Robert made the single greatest proofreading correction of all time: A character in a novel was stirring his McDonald's cup of coffee with the WRONG COLORED SWIZZLE STICK. And Robert caught the error.
To say I'm shocked by this news is an understatement. He'll be very missed.
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