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Updated: Friday, 20 April, 2001 (GMT)*

EVENT # 262: UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM

Mid-April News Feed.
TODAY'S RDR: KEVIN CAREY says US Attorney General Ashcroft is setting a bad precedent. "Death TV" -- PLUS our Web Site Pick of the Day. Don't forget the Readership Poll ("The US non-apology apology to China ...?")
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A push button link.TABLOID HART:

WL Crazed

THOMAS HART

The set of 'The Weakest Link.' AUSTIN, TEXAS - Our publisher here at G21 will prob'bly wannah excommunicate me for this, ya'll, but I have to admit it: My heart starts to pound, my palms get all sweaty, and I am among the Weakest Link-crazed! You can keep your Regis and the slowpokey, dumbed-down questions and the mewling phonecalls to a friend for help, Grandpa! I tried watching "Millionaire" once and danged-near fell asleep. Anne Robinson has the eyes of the Medusa, what can turn any full-grown cowboy to stone, and I cain't get enough of her snide put-downs, rapid-fire questions and curt "Goo'bye!".. More




A push button link.AMERICAN DREAMS:

Dogs Across America - Part 2 of 3

An American Odyssey of Tales and Tail

RON DIENER

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A waving American Flag."Next stop, Cheyenne," the driver said as he herded his flock to the side of the bus. The drivers had changed here and our new steward was decidedly grouchy. Either he was having a bad day or he was a chronic grouch. Either way, he was to be no fun.

Well, not exactly.

"Next stop," because between Omaha and Cheyenne, through the night, there were at least eight stops in four street towns with two street lights and no traffic signals. At the midnight stop - another truck stop - two fellows from Denver in their hunting clothes were seated at a table.

"We have to come out here to hunt birds this time of year," one of them said, "because the poor things almost die of loneliness if we don't.".. More



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A push button link.DAY ONE:

Gulliver

KEVIN CAREY

Our 'Corporate Nation' logo. A summary of my Log for the last days of March 2001 simply provides an exemplar for the acts of the US Administration:

  • Unilateral withdrawal from Kyoto Climate Change Protocol
  • Unilateral withdrawal from Internet privacy treaty with European Union
  • Israel and the PLO condemned for failure to observe international agreements
  • Yugoslavia threatened with aid cut-off if Milosevic not arrested and sent to International War Crimes Tribunal.
The agreements were torn up because of the costs incurred by US business in observing them as if US business were an end in itself. We, looking desperately across the Atlantic, might just be able to swallow these acts of puerile vandalism if they were not matched with proposals for the most egregiously partisan tax cutting programme ever contemplated by any country, ever. With such tax cuts in the offing why can't business afford Kyoto and the minor costs imposed by European Union data protection legislation? So much for the pious prattling about the need for Mr. Bush to head a consensus executive in the wake of a near-tied election for the Presidency and the legislature. It isn't a case of Bush's ability to withstand the plutocratic phalanx, he is part of it.... More

COMING MONDAY

Part 3 of "Dogs Across America" in AMERICAN DREAMS; BOB POWERS spins more music in POWERSSOUND; KEVIN CAREY on plane-rage in DAY ONE.. PLUS more surprises!

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 VOX POPULI: From Irwin D., (No City Provided,) USA:

SUBJECT: Robert Philip Hanson

What did Robert Hanson do before he became an FBI agent? Did he ever teach school? If so, Where?

Thank you.
Irwin D


ROD RESPONDS: Irwin,

Thanks for visiting G21 and for writing. Before Mr. Hanssen joined the FBI, he worked for the police department. No, to my knowledge, he was never a school teacher.

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Rod...More


MY GLASS HOUSE: : I have this one pal, Mike, who keeps going out of his way to exhort me about all the golden opportunities that lie ahead for me just around the corner. Some days it gets old very quickly. After all, it's very easy from a distance to decide that someone you know is "just in a funk" and failing to see The Big Picture. But the Hard Facts are not easy to see from a distance. Nobody, not even Bill Clinton, can really feel your pain the way you do. Nobody..."Putting It in the Wind" ROD AMISMore


RECOMMENDED DAILY REQUIREMENT: : Here is the tale of two Timothies. The first, McVeigh, murdered 168 people and is about to be judicially murdered. He wishes this to be a major public event to celebrate his lack of contrition but Attorney-General Ashcroft has limited the witnessing of the broadcast of the execution to some 200 relatives of victims or, curiously, those who might have been victims. These people clearly feel that they have a role in the proceeding, that it is not enough for the state to take up their grievance and deal with it.

What sort of distance is it, morally, psychologically, pragmatically, from that claimed right to participation in the McVeigh case to the rioting in Cincinnatti following the death of Timothy Thomas, shot dead though unarmed during an attempted arrest? Again, people have claimed public - but in this case violent - participation in the process..."Death TV" KEVIN CAREY More

Our sprite image.RDR 04.14.01: RAHEEM waxes philosophical about the use of language. "Dialectics"

RDR 04.10.01:The Man is back from vacation. New insights that normally would have been in GLASS HOUSE. "The Verdict"


G21 AFRICA: I had always thought of myself as a "writah" as opposed to a journalist. Not for me the sordid, news-grabbing, fresh-scandal-sniffing lifestyle.

Oh, how we lie to ourselves. Somewhere between the abattoir and the smelly tripe butchery, it hit me that I am a journalist, but with a different beat. My job is to investigate why Nigerians refuse to have garlic in their ogbono stew. Or whether one can dry shrimp for shittor relish in an oven or grill. One can't, and the process leaves one's kitchen smelling like a burnt fish market for days. I know

These were the thoughts that passed through my mind as I watched the butcher wrap my smelly story - perforated sheep's stomach - under an editorial on Cape Crime Gangs and I rushed home to cook it before the fat seeped through the borrowed car's seats... "Mutura" BINYAVANGA WAINAINA More

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