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 G21 INSIDERStop the Madness!Publisher's Note
New York - 6 May, 1999 - What ever happened to, "Meet me alone on the field of honor, or send in your champion, and we will settle this once and for all?"
Comforting little myth, that one, isn't it? About as close to real war as a pillow fight. The wealthy and powerful never suffer, they send the rest of us to do that for them...
In his fourth satirical "phone call" this week, RASTISLAV DURMAN slyly suggests that Bill and Slobo should just settle this mess, mano-a-mano, in a back alley somewhere.... A back alley seems more and more like the appropriate place for this tawdry mess.
I need to offer special thanks to all of those you (Carma, Julia, Barbara, Jen...) who offered me comfort and support during the last two weeks as I fretted over DRAGANA VICANOVIC. You support, your prayers and kind words helped me to maintain hope.
Thus I was overjoyed this week when Rastislav e-mailed that he had received a phone call (a real one this time) from Dragana's husband and that they were still safe, if frazzled.
Meanwhile, President Clinton is in Germany exhorting our troops that they must fight this war now in order to spare future generations another war in Europe.
In this week's photo-essay, Dragana sends a view of the future generations in Belgrade: babies stacked like orange crates in a darkened bomb shelter because the hospitals had to be evacuated due to our humanitarian bombings...
I try to imagine that two of my lodestars of the last century, Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce, would have a field day with this situation. But, as with last week when a grad student wrote me requesting information about the state of satire today, I am at a loss to respond. I referred the young lady on to someone else. Satire becomes more difficult in a world comprised of gross absurdities.
ABOUT THIS EDITION: You will note from the dateline above that we are launching on Thursday this week. Yes, that it behind our normal schedule. I apologize, but Dragana and I only made contact late last evening. I pushed to complete the conclusion of this issue, but little things like deciding to eat and sleep precluded our normal Wednesday launch. I trust you'll find the contents of this issue worth the wait.....
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ROD AMIS has published this magazine since 1990. It first appeared as a hardcopy 'Zine. In March, 1996, he launched it here on the Internet. Rod was a Contributing Editor at Suite101.com, where he wrote the " 'Net Publishing" feature. His work has been featured in the San Francisco Bay Guardian Online, NRV8, and at WebLab's Reality Check site. Rod was also a contributing writer on technology for Faulkner Information Services.
When not busy with his publishing chores at this site, and answering sixty -to- one hundred e-mails a day, he likes to throw darts; seek female companionship; and listen to Tupac, Beethoven, Philip Glass, Joni Mitchell, James Carter, Eric Clapton, Snoop Dogg, Etta James, Miles Davis, Handel, Portishead, Toots & the Maytals, Bob Marley, Sinead O'Connor, techno, house, jazz.... CREDITS || AWARDS
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When those great moralists of the Lewinsky affair, our Republican majority in Congress, can wash their hands --- Pontius Pilate fashion --- of this nation's latest war with the bullshit votes they cast last week, while at the same time appropriating more money for bombs than even Mr. Clinton requested of them... When so-called liberal Democrats are openly advocating sending in ground forces to ramp up the ante on this devastation of a country smaller than the state of California as a "moral cause," killing people every day while smarmily assuring the press that this is not a war against the people of Yugoslavia... When every kid in black clothing is now a target for psychoanalysis and eight year olds are turning in other eight year olds for saying something stupid like "I'm gonnah get the teachers..." When Chuck Heston can go to Denver and preach the gospel of sacred Second Amendment within earshot of the Columbine tragedy, while insisting that he is standing for the best instincts of a moral society... Well, I think even Mark and Ambrose would find it easier to be bitterly rather than humorously satirical about these things.
