©Copyright 2004 Lewis Downey 
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Thursday, August 5, 2004 |
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4:32:23 PM 
Boing Boing
Mailer and Mailer. New York Metro posted a long conversation
between Norman Mailer and his activist son John Buffalo Mailer about anti-Bush
protesting at the Republican National Convention and "the uses and
abuses of Bush hatred."
JBM I don't know that we can make it
through another four years of Bush.
NM Oh, we'll make it through, although I'm
not saying what we'll be like at the end. By then, Karl Rove may
have his twenty years. Just think of the kind of brainwashing
we've had for the last four. On TV, Bush rinses hundreds of
thousands of American brains with every sentence. He speaks only in
clichés. You know, I happened to run into Ralph Nader recently in
Chicago, and I, like a great many others, was looking to dissuade him
from his present course. He's a very nice man, maybe the nicest man
I've met in politics---there's something very decent about Nader,
truly convincing in terms of his own probity. So I didn't feel, "Oh,
he's doing it for ugly motives." Didn't have that feeling at all
in the course of our conversation. Still, I was trying, as I say, to
dissuade him, while recognizing that the odds were poor that I'd
be successful. At one point, he said, "You know, they're both for
the corporation, Kerry and Bush." And it's true; both candidates
are for the corporation, and I do agree with Nader that ultimately the
corporation is the major evil. But in my mind, Bush is the immediate
obstacle. He is a collection of disasters for America. What he does to
the English language is a species of catastrophe all by itself. Bush
learned a long time ago that certain key words, "evil, patriotism,
stand-firm, flag, our-fight-against-terrorism," will get half the people
in America stirred up. That's all he works with. Kerry will be
better in many ways, no question. All the same, he will go along too
much with the corporations who, in my not always modest opinion, are
running America. At present, I don't see how any mainstream
politician can do otherwise. Finally, they're working against
forces greater than themselves. Link
(via A
Great Notion) [Boing
Boing]
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8:45:19 AM
Yahoo! Tributes pour in for Cartier-Bresson (AFP). AFP - Lavish tributes were paid to Henri Cartier-Bresson, the pioneering French photographer and co-founder of the Magnum picture agency who died earlier this week at the age of 95. [Yahoo! News - Reader Ratings]
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5:47:13 AM
Astronomers Observe New Type of Cosmic Explosion LONDON (Reuters) - A new type of cosmic explosion that occurred late last year could shed light on the death of massive stars, astronomers said on Wednesday.
It was more powerful than supernovae, explosions marking the death of a huge star, but weaker than gamma-ray bursts (GRB), the mysterious and most brilliant blasts in the universe...
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