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May 6, 2008
Editors' Essays and blogs
To Our Northern California Readers
Bernard Weiner's new play, "Good Eye," will be given a staged reading at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 8, at the Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton St., Mill Valley.
The play is about a photographer who, without realizing it, captured something in his camera he shouldn't have and then becomes the object of a deadly hunt either by terrorists or governmental agents.
If you drop by, make sure to introduce yourself to the author as a Crisis Papers reader.
Ernest Partridge will be interviewed on Mary Lyon's "Election Special," KPFK (Los Angeles), on Wednesday, May 14 at 2 PM.
Updated every Tuesday and additionally as warranted. New Blogs may appear at any time.
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“Through 17 debates this year, roughly 1,500 questions have been asked of the two parties’ presidential candidates. But only a small handful of questions have touched on the candidates’ views on executive power, the Constitution, torture, wiretapping, or other civil liberties concerns…. Only one question about wiretapping. Not a single question about FISA…. Not one question about renditions. The words ‘habeas corpus’ have not once been spoken by a debate moderator. Candidates have not been asked about telecom liability…. No moderator has asked a single question of a single candidate about whether the president should be able to order the indefinite detention of an American citizen, without charging the prisoner with any crime.”
Jamison Foser
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Ernest Partridge:
NEW: Pity the Poor Mainstream Media! It is very difficult for an old liberal like me to be sympathetic about the plight of the corporate media, given the way they have behaved of late. But the simple fact of the matter is that the commercial news media have fallen into a deep financial pit, and that is both good news and bad news for the political health of our republic. Here's a plan whereby an independent, internet-based, mass media might be financed, and eventually supplant the (so-called) "mainstream media."
REPRISE: All The News that Fits the Bush Agenda. It is difficult to understand how anyone with even a modicum of critical intelligence, can still believe the right-wing complaint that the mainstream media "has a liberal bias." Evidence to the contrary is overwhelming, and new evidence appears almost daily. With a rebuttal by Don van Natta of The New York Times, and a reply by Ernest Partridge. (From August 29, 2006). See also: The Wayward Media.
Bernard Weiner:
"What's With Your 'Crazy' U.S. Politics?" -- A Letter to European Friends. Making sense of the wild dance that is presidential politics isn't easy. There's so much ambition, mendacity, hypocrisy, moral corruption, sucking-up, saber-rattling, etc. on exhibit every day. So let's look at McCain, Clinton and Obama and see where we are six months from Election Day 2008.
REPRISE: Probing for Answers to What Ails Us: The Incident. Aliens want to know why our country, our planet, is behaving in such a self-destructive manner. Is there a reason for the Aliens to hang around, trying to exchange knowledge, or are Earthlings not socially-evolved enough to figure out ways of intelligently dealing with their problems? (Fantasia first published March 8, 2005).
April 29, 2008
NEW: Ernest Partridge's Blog: On Libertarianism: Two Objections with Rebuttals. Two anonymous critics complain that (a) I employ the fallacy of "appeal to authority," and (b) that that I condone the illegitimate imposition of force by governments. I reply that (a) appeals to authority are inescapable, and (b) imposition of constraint upon individuals to the benefit of the general public is legitimate, if consented to by the public.Bernard Weiner's Blog: The Holding-One's-Nose-While-Voting Dilemma. In November, should progressives who aren't enamored of the Dem nominee swallow hard and vote for that candidate -- because s/he isn't McCain -- or should progressives vote for Nader or McKinney or Gravel? In a heated exchange of letters, here is an updated version of the every-four-year dilemma. Hold your nose or go for more political purity? (April 15, 2008)
