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Sunday, April 02, 2006
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Nice piece in this morning's San Francisco Chronicles about Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Teen Council and the one-act play's they're producing this and next weekend. The online version suffers because it omits the print version's very fetching picture including my daughter Genevieve, who is quoted in both pieces.
4:23:18 PM 
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Etext of Nabokov's under-praised "Transparent Things" (170k)
(Via robot wisdom weblog.)
Very welcome! One of my favorite Nabokovs, a minor masterpiece, I haven't read it in over 25 years.
Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and
individually, as something that could be discerned by a better
brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be
balanced by those of the future. Persons might then straddle
the middle stretch of the seesaw when considering this or that
object. It might be fun.
Makes for a nice contrast with the "cradles rocks above an abyss" opener to Speak, Memory, which I quoted a couple weeks ago.
4:19:12 PM
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The Ethical Atheist has a few questions.
Next to each question below, you will find a link to the answer(s) we've received for that question. We've grown tired of refuting answers, so we present the answers from the religious without rebuttal. In our opinion, the questions still stand because the answers are unsatisfactory.
(Via Cynical-C Blog.)
1:54:59 PM
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A member of the American Nazi Party has filed for the state legislature in Butte running as a Republican. We found this out due to the hard work of the Montana Human Rights Network (MHRN). As the MHRN’s research makes clear, this man may be the clearest fringe element in Montana’s Republican Party, but he’s hardly the only one.
Roger Koopman’s Vote Smart profile says that he was State Chair of “Youth Americans for Freedom.” I’m going to base this next piece on speculation and a google search, but I think it is far more likely that Koopman was Chair of “Young Americans for Freedom,” the youth wing of the John Birch Society. Many other GOP candidates and officeholders have connections to far-right militia and related movements. More details on that here.
(Via leftinthewest.com.)
1:14:59 PM
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