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Tuesday, May 27, 2003
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 This bedraggled creature is Alf, Clem's favorite stuffed toy (Alf used to belong to Seth (Pooh) until Clem absconded with him). Alf has just emerged from the wash looking somewhat worse for wear. His stuffing has migrated - he has a poofy stomach and a concave back. He also has no eyes and only one ear. We all think that Alf looks like a little old person from Florida.
9:16:32 PM 
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During the past few years, I find William Safire, the former Nixon speechwriter and staunch conservative, and myself agreeing more and more. I don't think it's because I'm becoming more conservative. Instead, I that we meet on issues of privacy, personal freedom, and personal expression. Issues, that in the past, were clarion calls to conservative activism. But in this day and age, those principals seem to have fallen by the wayside in the interests of Total Information Awareness and Media Consolidation.
Safire has a marvelous commentary on the upcoming FCC vote on Media Ownership (BTW, the previous link is to very good Wired Magazine Q&A on the vote). Here are a few excerpts from Safire's column:
...The overwhelming amount of news and entertainment comes via broadcast and print. Putting those outlets in fewer and bigger hands profits the few at the cost of the many.
Does that sound unconservative? Not to me. The concentration of power -- political, corporate, media, cultural -- should be anathema to onservatives. The diffusion of power through local control, thereby encouraging individual participation, is the essence of federalism and
the greatest expression of democracy.
...That's why I march uncomfortably alongside CodePink Women for Peace and the National Rifle Association, between liberal Olympia Snowe and
conservative Ted Stevens under the banner of "localism, competition and diversity of views." That's why, too, we resent the conflicted refusal of most networks and stations and their putative purchasers to report fully and in prime time on their owners' power grab scheduled for June 2.
8:23:13 PM
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