Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Happy birthday, you genuine artist , poet and musician, you . . .

You, you, you . . .

and there are more selves in there-- I know it.

--Z

Dear ST and all: I admit to being guilty of nostalgia. You call yourself an old man routinely, ST, but I am old also. I have a savor in me, which hasn't vanished, of my adventures in the stacks of the old Chico State College library in 1964 ( when I was 19). I was in love. With books, and even more,...

You're not off topic, ST. The Panglossian logic of e-dog is, however. Oregon has had trouble with funding public institutions and programs since I was born and grew up there in the forties and fifties. It has also resisted a sales tax and registered vehicles for very low rates ( compare California, ...

Call me a utopian leftist, and dismiss me as such if you please, but as ST affirms, the homeless know what libraries are for-- the full range of their possibilites. It's hard to conceive of being in a condition where what is free is essential. I am relatively safe financially now, but I have been ( ...

Postal workers are better armed than librarians, I suppose. But not as well armed as Blackwater. Two things: One, the USPS has gotten more expensive and shabbier with semi-privatization. The mail carriers rip and tear my mail every day, and deliver pieces of mail ( like magazines I subscribe to) rip...

Dear Doreen: I've bookmarked and linked the breakdown in funds supplied by Federal agencies and state agencies for the state of Virginia ( which I think is your state?) (here) http://www.ala.org/template.cfm?section=libraryfunding&template=/cfapps/pio/state.cfm&state=va But please try to investigate...

My wife is a librarian and keeps me well-informed on ALA issues.

Along with the disappearance of some libraries, the neglect of others, this article describes another trend. What do you think?


( article here):


http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112907P.shtml



--Z

My favorite government name along these lines, e-dog was: TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS which was piloted by John ( "Mistakes were made") Poindexter until DARPA ( another fine coinage-- sounds like a boy-loving Allen Ginz organization . . . or at least a Buddhist metaphysical descriptor . . .) purport...

bonhonato and Hester: Thanks for reading this rather frightening article. Yes, it's HUAC all over again, but only in a finally visible form. The snooping, wire-tapping and other horrors-- all in the digital realm, will simply become blood-sport on tv eventually, if that. I'm reading Arthur Schlesing...

Certainly you and I should apply for seats on the "Center of Excellence" . . .

Why, I can smell a subversive thought a mile off . . .


--NCM

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" ( Monty Python)

Read Below:

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/19/5320/

I don't do it either, ST.

Chris Hedges is a daring and highly intelligent writer, but I want the last few years I have on this planet to myself.

--Z

Chris Hedges, a reporter with thirty years' experience in the hot war zones of the Middle East and elsewhere, and the author of books on the human ( and personal) lust for war in the recent past, writes of the consequences of a U.S. attack on Iran-- cogently and expertly: First, here is his brief su...

Ladies and gentlemen-- good digital friends: I'm reading Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s JOURNAL 1952-2000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_M._Schlesinger,_Jr. Schlesinger, in his long, liberal life, saw a good deal of the 20th century. His well-composed and thoughtful journals show his fears about th...

The opinion of a guy who was there and was in charge:



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 636S01.DTL



--Z