Martin Kimel

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="02c285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <B>Martin Kimel</B></div> <div>  "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money."  Dr. Johnson </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="02ad2c00dkelyh.png"> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About this site"><U><B>ABOUT THIS SITE</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>ARTICLES</B><B> <A NAME="articles"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>(</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Eras Light ITC" ><B>lighter</B></FONT><B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Eras Light ITC" ><B>pieces </B><A HREF="#lighter_pieces" TITLE="Martin Kimel"><U><B>below</B></U></A></FONT><B>)</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B> New! '</B></I><A HREF="id96.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Stand Up to Cancer Responds to Governmen"><U><I>Stand Up to Cancer' Responds to Government's Failure</I></U></A><I>, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer </I>(Sept. 5, 2008)</div> <div> <I><B> </B></I><I>"</I><A HREF="id95.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Stand Up to Cancer? Stand Up to Congres"><U><I>Stand Up to Cancer?" Stand Up to Congress and the White House</I></U></A><I> </I>(Aug. 2008) (the "author's cut")</div> <bR> <div> <I><B> </B></I><A HREF="id94.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pancreatic Cancer: My Mothers Death"><U>Pancreatic Cancer: My Mother's Death</U></A> Research Funding Urgently Needed (Aug. 2008).  Read the piece a Washington Post editor called "smart and moving."</div> <div> <A HREF="id91.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Of Missionaries, Zionists, And Barbary P"><U>Of Missionaries, Zionists and Barbary Pirates</U></A> -- I review Michael Oren's history of America's involvement in the Mideast, <I>Legal Times</I> (Feb. 26, 2007) </div> <div> <I><B> </B></I><A HREF="id90.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dont Waste Your Money on Rich Colleges"><U>Don't waste your charity on rich colleges</U></A>, <I>Los Angeles Times</I> (Nov. 25, 2006)</div> <div> <A HREF="id89.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Teaching of Holocaust must focus on ugly"><U>Oprah and Auschwitz</U></A>, <I>Baltimore Sun</I> (Feb. 26, 2006)</div> <div> Anti-Semitism on Display: <A HREF="id82.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="AntiSemitism on Display: Ugly Postings "><U>Ugly Postings on Duke U.'s website</U></A>.</div> <div> <A HREF="id74.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Assessing AntiSemitism"><U>Assessing Anti-Semitism</U></A> -- I review books by the ADL's Abraham Foxman and <I>Commentary</I>'s Gabriel Schoenfeld.  <I>Legal Times </I>(June 7, 2004) </div> <div> <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sex, Drugs Murder Inside a D.C. Homici"><U>Sex,</U></A><A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sex, Drugs Murder Inside a D.C. Homici"><U> Drugs and Murder</U></A> -- Inside a D.C. Homicide Trial</div> <div> A Tale of Two Cities:  NYC's Operation Atlas and DC's <A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Tale of Two Cities: NYCs Operation At"><U>Operation Atlas Shrugged</U></A> (March 29, 2003). (The "author's cut")  You also can see the <I>Washington Post</I>'s  "editor's cut" <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Operation Atlas Shrugged "><U>here</U></A> </div> <div> Why cameras don't belong in the <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Justice Filmed Is Justice Distorted"><U>jury room</U></A>.  <I>Washington Post </I>(Dec. 22, 2002)</div> <div> <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Regulating the Ferrari Set on a Ford Sa"><U>Regulating the Ferrari Set - on a Ford Salary</U></A>, <I>Washington Post </I>(Jan. 4, 2000)</div> <div> Read the article on pro-Palestinian media bias that <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ProPalestinian Media Bias: An Examinati"><U>infuriated a Washington Post editor</U></A> (2002) (note: it's long)</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&&id=325&&cn=0&&clnt=clnt00001&&" target=_blank" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.p"><U>Slackers, Stigma and Depression</U></A>, Mental Health Net (1997)</div> <div> Boyz 'N the Neck -about the <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Boyz N the Hood"><U>racial crisis</U></A> in my home town, <I>American Lawyer </I>(March 1996)</div> <div> I review <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rebutting the MacDworkinites"><U><I>Defending Pornography</I></U></A><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rebutting the MacDworkinites"><U> </U></A>by the ACLU's Nadine Strossen, <I>Legal Times </I>(Aug. 1995)</div> <div> <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PC or Not PC, That is the Question"><U>Does Free Speech Exist?</U></A> - I review Stanley Fish, <I>Legal Times </I>(Apr. 1994)</div> <div> <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Does the Jury System Need Repair?"><U>Does the Jury System Need Repair?</U></A> <I>Legal Times </I>(Jan. 1995)</div> <div> <A HREF="id97.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" PolishJewish Reconciliation: A Long Way"><U>Polish-Jewish Reconciliation:  A Long Way to Go</U></A>, <I>The Forward </I>(Dec. 1996) </div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="lighter_pieces"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Eras Light ITC" ><B>LIGHTER PIECES</B></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>New!  </B></I>Harry Potter and the Foreign Knockoffs -- My satirical piece in the <A HREF="id93.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Harry Potter and the Foreign Knockoffs"><U><I>Philadelphia Inquirer</I></U></A>, Aug. 16, 2007 (writer's cut).</div> <div> <I><B> </B></I><A HREF="id88.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Miers: Shes Got Game"><U><I>Miers:  She's Got Game </I></U></A>(Oct. 28,2005) </div> <div> <A HREF="id87.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" Sixth Graders, Approach the Bench"><U>Sixth Graders, Approach the Bench</U></A>, Washington Post (Sunday, July 17, 2005)</div> <div> <I><B> </B></I><A HREF="id85.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Arnold and the Professor"><U>Arnold and the Professor </U></A> (Dec. 2004)</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Eras Light ITC" ><I><B> </B></I></FONT><A HREF="id84.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Kerry Retracts Election Concession, Dema"><U>Kerry Retracts Concession, Demands Recount </U></A>(Nov. 2004)</div> <div> <A HREF="id59.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Flack in the Hat"><U>The Flack in the Hat</U></A>, <I>Chicago Tribune </I>(Sunday, Dec. 21, 2003). </div> <div> <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Well Blow Them Out of the Water!"><U>We'll Blow Them Out of the Water! The 2012 Olympics</U></A>, <I>Washington Post</I>, (Jan. 2002)</div> <div> <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Being Dave Eggers"><U>Being Dave Eggers</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tanless"><U>Tanless </U></A>(Fall 2002)</div> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HouseHunting Hell"><U>House-hunting Hell</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="TV Hits Youll Soon Be Talking About"><U>TV hits you'll soon be talking about</U></A> (with Gregory Baruch, 2002) </div> <div> <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" Look Good in Tux, Ready to Run the NEA"><U>Look Good in Tux, Ready to Run the NEA</U></A>, <I>Wall Street Journal </I>(April 1989)</div> <div> <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Europe Beware! The Yanks Are Coming"><U>Superlawyers storm the Continent!</U></A> <I>Baltimore Sun </I>(Apr. 1992)</div> <div> Regulating Wall Street Billionaires - Hear me on Public Radio's <A HREF="http://marketplace.org/shows/2000/02/07_mpp.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://marketplace.org/shows/2000/02/07_"><U>"Marketplace"</U></A> (subscription required)</div> <div> <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Lullaby of Washington"><U>The Lullaby of Washington - Hail to the Redskins? </U></A><I>Washington Post</I> (Jan. 1991<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >)</FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Disclaimer"><U><B>Disclaimer</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Israel and Other Jewish Topics:</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.jta.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jta.org"><U><B>JTA.org</B></U></A><B> - Global Jewish news and features</B></div> <div> <B>Alexander Kimel's </B><A HREF="http://www.kimel.net/main.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.kimel.net/main.html"><U><B>Holocaust Understanding and Prevention </B></U></A><B>(the award-winning, much translated site by one of the original "bloggers" -- my dad!)</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://alisainwonderland.silentrunning.tv. " TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://alisainwonderland.silentrunning.t"><U><B>Alisa In Wonderland</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=HomePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=Zone&" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://web.israelinsider.com/bin/en.jsp?"><U><B>Israel Insider</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://israellycool.blogspot.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://israellycool.blogspot.com/"><U><B>Israellycool</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.israelpundit.blogspot.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.israelpundit.blogspot.com/"><U><B>Israelpundit</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.israpundit.blogspot.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.israpundit.blogspot.com/"><U><B>Israpundit</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.hfienberg.com/kesher/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hfienberg.com/kesher/"><U><B>Kesher Talk</B></U></A><B> -- an excellent blog on Judaism, Jewish culture and politics, Middle East affairs, etc.</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com"><U><B>Little Green Footballs</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#articles" TITLE="Martin Kimel"><U><B>BACK TO TOP</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>The website of a published part-time journalist and full-time lawyer</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B> containing articles I've written, both humorous and serious, and occasional commentary on news events, the media, international affairs, pop culture and other topics.</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>______________________________________________________________</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Sun., Sept. 7, 2008</U></B></div> <bR> <div> I thought the <A HREF="http://su2c.standup2cancer.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://su2c.standup2cancer.org/"><U>SU2C show</U></A> was quite good, but maybe it could have been longer than an hour.  It was slickly made, but not in a bad way.  The call on the government at the end to boost cancer research funding was good and necessary.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Note:  Stay tuned for my "</B><A HREF="id96.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Stand Up to Cancer Responds to Governmen"><U><B>Stand Up to Cancer</B></U></A><B>" piece in the </B><I><B>Seattle Post-Intelligencer </B></I><B>on Fri., Sept. 5.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Sat., Aug. 16, 2008</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>AIDS Research vs. Cancer Research.</B></I><B>  </B>I have nothing against AIDS research, but why does the U.S. government spend more than <I><B><U>20 times</U></B></I><I><B> </B></I>as much money per death for AIDS research as it does for cancer research?  And when it comes to pancreatic cancer, AIDS research receives about <B><U>100 times </U></B>as much funding.   Read why the three major networks' "Stand Up to Cancer" TV Special in early September is a sad recognition of <A HREF="id95.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Stand Up to Cancer? Stand Up to Congres"><U>our government's abject failure to fund cancer research adequately. </U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B> </B></I><A HREF="id94.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pancreatic Cancer: My Mothers Death"><U><I><B>Pancreatic Cancer:  My Mother's Hopeless Battle</B></I></U></A><I><B>:  Research Funding Urgently Needed</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Sun., March 30, 2008</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Support Pancreatic Cancer Research.  </B>Please consider taking a few minutes to e-mail your representatives in Congress in favor of funding pancreatic-cancer research. Per deaths, this devastating disease -- which can strike anyone without warning and is usually fatal within a year -- is one of the least funded cancers. The webpage is <A HREF="http://www.pancan.org/Public/take.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.pancan.org/Public/take.html"><U>here</U></A>: </div> <bR> <div> I also recommend checking out the short video excerpt of<A HREF="http://www.pancan.org/Public/take.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.pancan.org/Public/take.html"><U> Randy Pausch’s Congressional testimony:</U></A> Pausch’s inspirational “last lecture” at Carnegie Mellon has gotten a lot of press attention and can be found on Youtube.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Sat., Aug., 25, 2007</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Harry Potter and the Foreign Knockoffs -- </B>My satirical piece in the <A HREF="id93.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Harry Potter and the Foreign Knockoffs"><U>Philadelphia Inquirer</U></A> (writer's cut) of Aug. 16, 2007.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Sun., June 10, 2007</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id92.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Sopranos and Battlestar Galactica"><U><B>"The Sopranos" and "Battlestar Galactica"</B></U></A><B> -- More in common than you'd think (except BSG is better!)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Wed., Feb. 28, 2007</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id91.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Of Missionaries, Zionists, And Barbary P"><U><B>Of Missionaries, Zionists and Barbary Pirates</B></U></A><B>.  I review Michael B. Oren's history of America's involvement in the Middle East</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Tues., Nov. 28, 2006</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Donate to rich universities?  Better ways to spend your charitable bucks.  </B>My op-ed in the <A HREF="id90.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dont Waste Your Money on Rich Colleges"><U><I>L.A. Times</I></U></A>.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Sun. Feb. 26, 2006</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Oprah and Auschwitz.   </B><A HREF="id89.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Teaching of Holocaust must focus on ugly"><U>My op-ed</U></A> in today's <I>Baltimore Sun</I>.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Sun., Jan. 15, 2006</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/15/iran.holocaust/index.html" target= "" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/1"><U><B>The Iranian Holocaust-Denial Conference</B></U></A><B>.  </B>Officially, it's a "Holocaust conference," but if It's not Holocaust-denial, it'll be Holocaust-praise.</div> <div> It's hard to see why Iran would do this.  To continue thumbing its nose at Israel and Jews worldwide?  To gain influence over anti-Semitic Iraqis and others in the region?  Whatever the reason, it's further evidence of the bizarre nature of the Iranian regime.  The world should quake at the prospect of these hateful lunatics gaining nukes.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Fri., Oct. 28, 2005</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Miers article the </B><A HREF="id88.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Miers: Shes Got Game"><U><I><B>Washington Post</B></I></U></A><A HREF="id88.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Miers: Shes Got Game"><U><B> was going to run on Sunday</B></U></A><B> had the nominee not withdrawn.  If </B><I><B>Slate </B></I><A HREF="http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/miers.html" target="_ " " TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/miers.ht"><U><B>can do it</B></U></A><A HREF="http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/miers.html" target="_ " " TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/miers.ht"><U><B>,</B></U></A><B> so can this website.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Mon., Sept. 5, 2005</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Katrina and New Orleans.  </B>The tragic loss of life, of property, the descent into barbarity by so many, it's all almost too terrible to contemplate.  And what it portends for future disasters in this country -- natural or man-made -- in larger cities is most disheartening.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Bush and Katrina:  A Suggestion. </B> It would send a very positive message of solidarity with the hurricane victims if Bush were to shelter refugees on his spacious ranch.  It's not being used now and it's relatively close to the disaster zone.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Sun., July 17, 2005</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"</B><A HREF="id87.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" Sixth Graders, Approach the Bench"><U><B>Sixth Graders, Approach the Bench</B></U></A><B>."  </B>My humorous take on the Supreme Court nominations, in today's <I>Washington Post</I>.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Sun., May 8, 2005</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/international/europe/08boycott.html?" target="_blank" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/intern"><U><B>Outrageous anti-Semitic behavior by British Academics</B></U></A><B>.  </B>Jewish</div> <div> academics worldwide should counter-boycott anyone who supports this stupid act.  </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>  </B></div> <div> <B><U>Fri., Feb. 25, 2005</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"</B><A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51779-2005Feb24.html" trarget="_blank" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/art"><U><B>Rage in Riyadh</B></U></A><B>"-- Can someone tell me why some Saudis believe they're entitled to flout laws in the U.S. and then get a visa to come here?</B></div> <bR> <div> Some of the grievances sound petty, but they wound. It seems every businessman here has a story about some abuse by a customs or immigration official or even a traffic cop. One told of a young man who was denied a visa because on a previous trip to the United States he had blown off a traffic ticket.</div> <bR> <div> More generally, Cohen seems to contradict himself:  He notes that Saudis (and other Arabs) hate the U.S.'s pro-Israel policies, but then he argues that the U.S. should engage in a "charm offensive."</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><U>Fri., Feb. 4, 2005</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?strwebhead=At+Auschwitz%2C+fragments+of+perception&intcategoryid=5&SearchOptimize=Jewish+News" target="_blank" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?s"><U><B>Snatches of conversations from the commemoration at Auschwitz-Birkenau</B></U></A><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Sun. Jan. 30, 2005</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>European animus towards Israel.  </B><A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46382-2005Jan29.html" target="_blank" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/art"><U>Robin Shepherd</U></A> makes a point I've longed argued:  that it is Europe, not America, that needs to "clean up its act"  when it comes to Israel.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Sun., Jan. 23, 2005</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Here's a new one, </B><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/international/middleeast/23voices.html?hp&ex=1106542800&en=7419799af193bc43&ei=5094&partner=homepage" target-"_blank" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/23/intern"><U><B>let's blame the Jews!</B></U></A><B> -- another example of Arab pathology at work:</B></div> <bR> <div> When asked for his thoughts on the election process, Jabbar Saeed, a businessman in the Sunni-dominated city of Falluja, which has been reduced to rubble not once but twice, said Zionists were behind the election and added, "This election is not free or honest."</div> <bR> <div> No doubt, the "Zionists" want a Shiite landslide, so that Iraq will be more likely to be influenced by Shiite Iran, Israel's great friend.</div> <bR> <div> Examples like this, which show how distorted much of the thinking in the Arab world is, should give policy makers pause when they hear the old refrain that political and economic progress in Arab countries depends on resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Mon., Jan. 17, 2005</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>WaPo </B></I><B>Bias Watch (ctd.)  </B>Note the <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14268-2005Jan16.html" target=_blank" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/art"><U>gratuitous reference in the third paragraph to segregation in the U.S.</U></A>, which the <I>Post</I>'s reporter inserts in connection with Israel's security barrier.  The insertion is completely the <I>Post</I>'s doing because there is no quote or paraphrase of the point attributed to Rice herself.</div> <bR> <div> The comparison is both gratuitous <I>and </I>misleading -- How does one compare Israel's desire to protect its citizens from hostile Palestinians who launched a war of terrorism against Israel with America's sad history of forced segregation? </div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Thurs., Dec. 23, 2004</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"Arnold and the Professor."  </B>My take on <A HREF="id85.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Arnold and the Professor"><U>the new odd couple of California politics</U></A>, a story that may have national implications.</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Fri., Dec. 10, 2004</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"Hairy-backed swamp developers?" </B> Read this<B> </B>quote from Garrison Keillor:</div> <bR> <div> "The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of <A HREF="http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/979/" target="_blank" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/ar"><U>hairy-backed swamp developers </U></A>and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong's moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk." </div> <bR> <div> What's with the bizarre slur against “hairy-backed” people?  Keillor seems to equate those of us who happen to have hair grow on our backs with racists, tax cheats and brown shirts.  Is this some sort of WASP racist put-down of ethnic types who are more likely to have hairy backs?  </div> <bR> <bR> <div>   <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">var site="sm4sitemeter";var g_frames=true; </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2" src="http://sm4.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=sm4sitemeter"> </script> <noscript> <a href="http://sm4.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=sm4sitemeter" target="_top"> <img src="http://sm4.sitemeter.com/meter.asp?site=sm4sitemeter" alt="Site Meter" border=0></a> </noscript>    </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>