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Get used to this joke, it'll serve you well the
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next few weeks or more.
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Instead of "Thank you, have a nice day," try
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ending each transaction with, "Bye now, maybe next
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time I see you we'll have a new president."
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HOOCH! COUGAR YONDER... It's
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( _ ) (2)_ _ _ (9)_
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(_) (_)`\____)`\__)(_)`\___/'(_)(____/`\__)
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ATI, issue 249. November 10, 2000.
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"You don't need a weather man
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To know which way the wind blows."
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"you can call me timmy, or you can
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Call me zimmy."
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[part of rant?] {what's not???}
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I'm so glad MTV, GE, NBC et al spent so many hundreds
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of millions putting on their "snooze or blues" campaign
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this year, or we all wouldn't have seen that 1.7 percent
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increase in voter turnout.
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I've got it. Let's skip the electoral process
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altogether, and anyone who thinks they're worthy
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can put an attorney on rider and sue for the
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position.
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Joan Kennedy pleads guilty to DUI??? It's about time.
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Take a note: no longer need to drive Route 1 instead
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of I-95.
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Oh, hi. I'm prime anarchist, editor and publisher of
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this strange little ranticle we call a 'zine. How're
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YOU doin? That's mighty imporant right now, isn't?
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For after all, if you've got your health you've got
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everything. And if you're an american and your last
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name isn't a four-letter word, chances are good that's
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about all you've got.
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Anarchy, Music and Poetry is what we're about mostly.
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But as you already know, I'm sure, we're completely
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reader driven so submissions come first, eh?
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s/
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prime
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-23-
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#'s
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http://www.lodz.pdi.net/~eristic/erisware.html
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http://www.geocities.com/comprhension
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http://www.vote-nobody.com
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http://adbusters.tao.ca
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http://www.gungho2000.com
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http://www.pacificsites.com/~mce/Gdocument.html
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http://geocities.com/countercoup
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http://www.earthisland.org
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http://www.cgocable.net/~jzawisza/bushcoke.jpg
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http://www.theonion.com/onion3640/bush_or_gore.html
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http://www.infoshop.org
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http://www.angelfire.com/mt/earthdream2000
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http://www.ippn.org
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http://www.indymedia.org
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http://www.popandpolitics.com/articles/nader.html
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http://www.ezined.com
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http://www.thirdrailmag.com
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http://www.debatethis.org/gore/gorebushgame.jpg
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http://hometown.aol.com/tonytweb/coffeepoem.html
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http://www.r2kphilly.org
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http://www.powellsunion.com
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http://come.to/thesoaprotest
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http://devrandom.net/~dilinger
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http://hometown.aol.com/tnharter
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http://www.holyfamily-gj.org/pjo2.htm
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http://www.accessatlanta.com/global/local/yall/people/johnt/willc
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LETTUCE YOU CAN GNAW ON
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to marco:
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THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE IS NEITHER
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--daver
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to ati:
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Great election guys.
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You play for five days and it ends up a draw.
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We have something like that in England.
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It's called cricket. (You didn't really think
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I could let this one go by, now did you?)
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--Patrick W
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to marco:
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I'd love to start a national movement that EVERYONE,
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EVERYONE not vote until 6:30 at night in their prospective
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time zones. It would be called the ADV, or After Dinner
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Vote, and would become the new voter bloc of the public.
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Pretty funny huh??
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--Don
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Hi,
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A. EARN SUBSTANTIAL CASH VIA YOUR WEBSITE OR EZINE
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Our website, www.far2far.com, IS DIFFERENT : it pays
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you substantial cash when you refer users who buy from
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our site -
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and this could become one of the biggest money spinners
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for your site or ezine.
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--denese
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[ed note: no offense, but what part of "not interested"
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didn't you understand?]
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Hi Marc.
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Maybe an adition to 249
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http://freespace.virgin.net/nick.sandberg/chips.htm
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read and judge yourself.
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If you allready saw it before.. then just forget this.
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--Greetings Hit1 *grin
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[ed note: Some of the phollowin LETTUCE is late for the
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election, because of our weekly deadline, or is it?]
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> What kind of hairbrained, head-up-his-ass, moron came up with
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>this one...
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I missed that one. Sounds like a barn burner.
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And is this issue [ati248.txt] weird or what.
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Lets see:
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A screaming lactator (whom I don't disagree with),
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a visit from some dead guy in a three cornered hat
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that probably had just killed his fair share of
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those red savages to expand his land, and is
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still daring someone, anyone, to pry that gun
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out of his cold stiff fingers plus,
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a suckup report on Elvis Costello doing "Rock girls
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in Space" for the awesome???? WB?
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Whoof! Double Whoof!!!
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Prediction for tommorrow:
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George Bush will win and win big.
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...other predictions:
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The titanic will rise and be renamed Challenger before it
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heads off on its maiden voyage to the Gulf of Yemen.
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The Hindenberg 2 will float again, only to be destroyed by
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those right wing Nazi bastards over NYC this time as they
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try to take out Clinton's final meeting with any and all
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black leaders at the UN.
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And Vietnam will actually declare that we won the war and
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communism is a failure in exchange for 3 cartons of Marlboro's
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and a years supply of Spagettio's
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Hey - I could be wrong.
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--Don
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Hey,
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What's up w/this? Are you really interested in my writing
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a piece for you? If you are, just send me a list of a few
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possible topics & I may or my not write something on or
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off topic for you.
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I realize that there's most likely not any money in this,
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but that doesn't matter that much to me; I'm just a bored
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kid w/a few minutes to kill, and that's never paid well.
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I'm sorry that I took so long to respond; I was not and
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am not sure whether you were serious in the message to
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which I am responding, but I've decided to find out.
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With bated breath,
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--Patrick
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Dear Friends,
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Take a minutes to signup this program.
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1 Click = $0.03
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check out my site:
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I found an amazing new tool for exploring the Internet,
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a FREE customizable desktop portal called ePilot. It
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works through your existing Internet service provider
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and gives you one-click access to...
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[ed note: what????]
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Let me know how you like it.
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*******
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SORRY if you received this email
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--soccerx2
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*******
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POST ELECTION CANDIDATE'S STATEMENT
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I am reflecting upon last Tuesday's election results,
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and upon the previous two years of the Hippie for Congress
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Campaign. I am honored and proud to have been a write-in
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candidate for election to the 16th U.S. Congressional District.
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I respectfully concede the election to my opponent, Donald
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Manzullo. May he govern with wisdom, compassion, and justice.
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My heart and mind are spinning with an intense storm of hopeful,
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discouraging, and often confusing and conflicting thoughts and
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feelings.
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Surrounded by this emotional tempest, I find myself drawn again
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and again back to one particular thought: It was worth it.
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The official totals of write-in votes for Martin Hippie are so
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low as to be profound. Twenty one votes in Jo Daviess county,
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fourteen in Stephenson, thirty three in the City of Rockford,
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six in Winnebago, four in Ogle, zero in Boone, and an unknown
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amount (they're still counting?) in McHenry.
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Somehow these election results just don't match up with the
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people I met and the reality I encountered as I walked the 16th
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District. I'm not claiming ballot fraud, I'm filing a mass
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missing persons report. Where are those thousands of people
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honking horns and waving as I walked down the road? Where are
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the hundreds of indignant, concerned citizens who told me they
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want to take back their government? Where are the disenfranchised,
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the disgruntled, the seriously pissed-off? They weren't at the polls.
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http://www.hippie4congress.org
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PAGE 3 CORRECTION (buried deep like the other papes:)
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The parody in ATI 248 was not written by the whole
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group which was implied when the byline was left
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out of the final broadcast copy of the zine.
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Merritt Bussiere wrote it.
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If you keep this issue anywhere, please consider pasting
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the correct copy onto the oversight, ok?
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Thank you,
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marc frucht
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editor, publisher and prime anarchist.
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Activist Times.
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THEY'RE REPUBLICRATS
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to the tune of the Beatles' "You Can't Do That"
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words by Merritt Bussiere
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YAKMYTH: A Watcher's Guide To C-Span's
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Homer-Odyssey Booktalk Session Oct 2000
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by Pomerika
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Odyseuss,The king of Ithaka.
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Kris Hitchens on hubris and nemesis.
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Insists that Homer was a real man
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who stood on some of the same rocks
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that he did at times.
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jeez, CSpan. Asking Hitchens if he thinks
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the book is relevant to today, is like
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asking him if his car will die in the
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next 300,000 miles without an oil-change.
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Yes, there are two other people yakking,
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but I mostly focus today on Homer, the
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C-Span interviewer and Mr. Hitchens.
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Why? Because I think K(c)ris is more
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(while at the same time less) profound
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than he always sees himself.
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Dead At Sea. C'mon people. Let's discuss
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this year's 23 russian sailors buried alive
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in the submersible coffin, ok?
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Across the Aegean sea, around the cape.
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Real geography as opposed to parageography.
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Don't go there please!
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"Unacknowleged Legislation," is going to be
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Hitchens' newest this January on the VERSO
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label.
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Stanley Lombardo and his drum. Turn your eye
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away. Focus not on him or his drum, just on
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the greek.
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J. Bottum slams Lombardo's translation a second
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time. Does he dis the book or Lombardo himself?
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Oh, telephone questions soon. Thank you, Athena!
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booktv@c-span.org
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There goes Lombardo again.
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English this time, neat. I really wish he'd
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use a kickdrum or a foot on a hardwood floor
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instead of using his "post modern shamanic"
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drum. The guy truly lacks rhythm.
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Bottum with another dis. "It's great stuff,
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but..."
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ventriloquizing. catharsis. pity. terror.
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Christopher Hitchens with a bottle of springwater
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between his legs, a parallel translation
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on his lap, and 4-inch moptop hair just over
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his left eyebrow.
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Did you ever wonder why AOL picks the A and the
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eye on the pyramid for their mythos? Lombardo,
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why did you pick the "world flag" earth.gif for
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your coverpic?
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Agamemnon praises Penelope. Men will make songs
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about her. Alludes to Feminist interpretations
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of Odyssey.
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/odysseus - dr suess/
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(hmm...)
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"Fear, dread, humiliation - a very religious text."
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- Hitchens
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How does one live their life when the war is over?
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Your father was of great reknown.
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Not in combat, but in warzones. [Hitchens] Remember
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thinking, well this is what it's like then.
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"No one left to lie to: the values of the worst family"
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Hitchen's most recent year, I mean book.
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http://www.versobooks.com
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"this long hexameter line" Bottum's biggest problem
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is he's trying so hard to have Hitchens' hair.
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Yeah, Debra Dickerson. Put him back in his place.
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Monkeying around. Don't touch Dickens. This new
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book helps me want to go back to the original.
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So this whole discussion is not to grasp Homer
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and whether the Toyota Odyssey has Firestone
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tires at all. It's about telling us to buy this
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new book! Tele-spam!!! A C-SpanoMercial.
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On the way back to Ithaca, why are they fighting?
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Just because there's people there. They're "drunk."
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Civilians are in as much danger as soldiers as shown
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in this book.
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Athena and Poseidon. Feminine : Masculine.
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Or at times M:F.
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Athena tells Telemakkus don't make your mother
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remarry, dowries suck.
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Is cunning a virtue? Odysseus is an inveterate lier.
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Does he have to tell these lies? Talking to dad in
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the pasture. Should I tell him straight out? Or lie?
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He seems to be enjoying giving the old man a big
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long "line."
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Telling a good lie, that's just great. All Cretins are
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liars, so saith the people in Crete. Does he have to
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kill all 108 of the suitors?
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Ruthlessness, cruelty, what about all of that? Does a hero
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have to be an entirely virtuous character or can he be
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a "real people."
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Patience, endurance, intelligence, commitment, you need
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all of these to be called virtuous. Always willing to
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expose himself courageously. OK, I'll challenge you to
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some games. Pushing the envelope.
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Nikos Kazantzakos. Finally you mention him. It took
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one of Lombardo's living heros to call on the phone
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[didn't hear the name - he published another recent
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"Iliad and Odyssey."] before he'd whip out Nikos.
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I watched his adams apple go up and down when the
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caller complained about his rhetoric, and which
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version of greek he picked.
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Q: What part of the odyssey turns your students on?
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Cyclops, The Sirens, the domestic side of the story.
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The suitors, the wife, will she recognize him?
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Q: You picked D-Day for your Iliad. Why?
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Editor and myself both wanted to stay away from
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anything "too classical."
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"Normandy launched a thousand ships," said hitchens
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Hitchens discussed being a tourist in Athens in 1974:
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This crowd was chanting something and I tried to
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join in, I didn't know what it was til after.
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Catharsis, cathar-sis cathar sis.
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12 ships each with a crew of 20 or 30 men during
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the trojan war. Tried to bring them all back home
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safely. Unable to.
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They were destroyed by their own recklessness.
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\So many US Marines raping/
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\japanese teens lately? /
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\ my thought again /
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[a tongue speaking episcopalian
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phone call attacking hitchens
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AND the classics ignored here.]
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Debra Dickerson: I went to Greece on my honeymoon.
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Like it or not it's part of us. Delphi, dead white
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men, who needs it, but you cannot look at the
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Parthenon and not be moved. There's no reason you
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can't know this and not know other things too.
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The best poet who ever lived, bottums quoting
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lombardo about homer.
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If you have to ask, poetry won't mean anything to
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you. As soon as you've asked the question, you've
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already lost.
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\U shoulda mentioned Clinton/
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\not bringing back his poet/
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\for the second inaug... /
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Is Odysseus just to kill all 108? Yes the
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suitors were wrong, but was Odysseus right?
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the real reason to read a poem is Homer's mind.
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Quotes Arnold, "he saw life steadily and he
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saw it (hold? whole?)"
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the human condition.
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the very deep, wide, the clear.
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Luck and Virtue - Bottums says they're unrelated
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\define hubris\
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\then, d00d. \
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Odysseus doesn't have free will, I (hitchens)
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wish you would've touched on this.
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Scapegoating, I'm glad Hitchens brings this up.
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Funny it would be in defense of Bottums saying
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if you aren't Christian, you wouldn't understand
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the Prodigal son.
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:Try living in Chiapas, Colombia, Australia or :
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:the Hopi reservation, Bottums. There are people:
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:behaving 10 times more X-Tian there than you'll:
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:ever behave, sorry to say...
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homeric - heroic
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mysterious woman, mysterious woman.
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nostos - home.
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winedark sea
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rosey fingers
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Chapman's Homer as celebrated by Keats
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And Pope's.
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==============
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I thoroughly enjoyed this. I only regret
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they never had an exhausting discussion
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of Elpinore.
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You could view any of the current presidential
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candidates in light of Elpinore, couldn't you?
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Or any past ones, for that one. Dan Quayle, for
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sure.
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For more about myth and metaphor, you can check
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out the James Merrill school of metaforics, or
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read Carl Franklin's treatise on Joseph Campbell.
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What you do after that is anyone's guess...
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http://www.angelfire.com/wi/kokopeli/merrill.html
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and
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http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/ATI/ati183.txt
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respectively
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"THERE ARE MANY PROBLEMS WITH OUR CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM"
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The President's veto of legislation to criminalize
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unauthorized disclosures of classified information could
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become the most momentous development in government secrecy
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policy since the 1995 executive order on classified information.
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It is already prompting renewed questions about the workings
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of the secrecy system.
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This afternoon, Pentagon spokesman Kenneth H. Bacon bluntly
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acknowledged that the classification system does not function
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satisfactorily.
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"[The President] alluded to the fact that there can be
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over-classification or mis-classification," Mr. Bacon noted.
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"I don't think anybody disagrees with that. There are many
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problems with our classification system. And it was that
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realization, in part, that led to his decision to ... veto
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the bill."
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See excerpts from today's Pentagon press briefing here:
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http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2000/11/dod110700.html
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HOW'S IT FEEL TO BE COPYRIGHTED?
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(PAWN) - Northfield, IL -
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Reprinted from Onion News Briefs
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In the company's latest acquisition, Kraft Foods announced
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Monday that it has gained controlling interest in you for
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an estimated $11,000, nearly 20% less than the amount
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forecast by Forbes Magazine market analysts earlier this
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year.
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"We are pleased to bring you under the umbrella of fine
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Kraft products and individuals," Kraft CEO Bob Eckert said.
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"After some retooling and repackaging, expect to be on
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storeshelves sometime in early spring.
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