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I'm not dead....
Jul. 20th, 2004 12:25 am...as Granny Weatherwax would say. I am, however, moved, slowly unpacking, and have survived Water Daemons, late contractors, and my LBb treatment turning viciously on me. There will be more on that, as I wander backward through the last month. In the meantime, before vanishing on vacation...
Articles of interest, or, Were You Planning On Flying This Summer?
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"I write badly, therefore I am a would-be terrorist"
By CHARLES C. GREEN
http://www.HoustonChronicle.com
July 2, 2004
I don't think of myself as a dangerous character. Neither, I think, do the lively old ladies who routinely trample me on the escalators at Neiman Marcus. Nor the other software salesmen who race past me into early retirement. Nor, above all, the publishers and agents who seem to take unabashed pleasure in routinely shredding my dream of hanging up my salesman's shoes and becoming an author.
But it turns out we're all wrong about me. Just ask John Ashcroft.
( Read more... )
If I could give myself practical advice and take it, this is what I'd say: Forget the things you read in history class about America, Charlie. Forget all the stuff about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Just keep your head down and your eyes peeled for that "line." The coach of my old-man baseball team, for which I occasionally hit a bomb — though now I would never describe it that way in public — thinks I should start taking Greyhound. I should listen to him; he's a Vietnam vet.
But I have a feeling that I'll keep flying. It's scarier down here than it is up there.
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I personally find this chilling. I used to discuss plots for new books while in line at the grocery. I see this behavior vanishing like the dinosaurs....
Writing to your representative to vote against Patriot II and to vote against the extension of Patriot I would be a good idea.
I never guessed that I was such a patriot, or a federalist (as in forget the FMA, let the states decide at their own pace).... In an odd way, it may be a good thing to have an idiot administration threaten your civil rights. It reminds you that they are rare and precious.
And NO, I don't want to postpone the election this fall!!!
Articles of interest, or, Were You Planning On Flying This Summer?
***
"I write badly, therefore I am a would-be terrorist"
By CHARLES C. GREEN
http://www.HoustonChronicle.com
July 2, 2004
I don't think of myself as a dangerous character. Neither, I think, do the lively old ladies who routinely trample me on the escalators at Neiman Marcus. Nor the other software salesmen who race past me into early retirement. Nor, above all, the publishers and agents who seem to take unabashed pleasure in routinely shredding my dream of hanging up my salesman's shoes and becoming an author.
But it turns out we're all wrong about me. Just ask John Ashcroft.
( Read more... )
If I could give myself practical advice and take it, this is what I'd say: Forget the things you read in history class about America, Charlie. Forget all the stuff about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Just keep your head down and your eyes peeled for that "line." The coach of my old-man baseball team, for which I occasionally hit a bomb — though now I would never describe it that way in public — thinks I should start taking Greyhound. I should listen to him; he's a Vietnam vet.
But I have a feeling that I'll keep flying. It's scarier down here than it is up there.
***
I personally find this chilling. I used to discuss plots for new books while in line at the grocery. I see this behavior vanishing like the dinosaurs....
Writing to your representative to vote against Patriot II and to vote against the extension of Patriot I would be a good idea.
I never guessed that I was such a patriot, or a federalist (as in forget the FMA, let the states decide at their own pace).... In an odd way, it may be a good thing to have an idiot administration threaten your civil rights. It reminds you that they are rare and precious.
And NO, I don't want to postpone the election this fall!!!
