what a great favor his writers have done us….

The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Chronicle Review
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i08/08a03501.htm
From the issue dated October 17, 2008

Is Campus Activism Dead — or Just Misguided?
A President Wonders Where the Campus Radicals Are Now

By GRAHAM SPANIER

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Today’s New York Times features a story and photos about vets and their “battle buddies.”

well, anyway, a great critic. and community organizer.

rest in words, john. good words. and peace.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Obit-Leonard.html

you are the country … you are the nation .. you will survive

http://youtube.com/?v=ti_JALcmMaw

virginia was just called….

the local corporate rag reports on tonight’s visit by gov palin and tomorrow’s — i mean today’s — visit by president clinton:

http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/story/929401.html
http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/story/929425.html

is it me, or does gov palin seem to be soaked in astroglide?
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The Statement, sent this morning to national media, is attached. Ed Schiappa ads, “Feel free to encourage research faculty to contact me if they want to be added to the list [of signatories]. No grad students–nothing personal, it is partly for their own protection.”

ah, another paper that used to be. i grew up reading at least three newspapers each day. the philadelphia inquirer was one of them. but all that was a long time ago.

The Caucus | A New York Times Blog
October 21, 2008, 4:03 pm
Endorsement Dissent at The Inquirer
By Mitchell L. Blumenthal

Solomonic or schizophrenic?

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It was a lot of fun to try to explain this, too, in Europe. All the “pro-life” people. Where do they all come from?….

the moderator — and the process, and the “format” — failed … failed us all.

“We should write as we dream; we should even try and write, we should all do it for ourselves, it’s very healthy, because it’s the only place where we never lie. At night we don’t lie. Now if we think that our whole lives are built on lying — they are strange buildings — we should try and write as our dreams teach us; shamelessly, fearlessly, and by facing what is inside every human being — sheer violence, disgust, terror, shit, invention, poetry. In our dreams we are criminals; we kill, and we kill with a lot of enjoyment.

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what are we fighting for?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/24/naomi_klein_now_is_the_time

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95007340

give a listen. maybe npr news is “fluff” after all.

btw hope someone blogs/liveblogs the public address conference. i have to be out of the u.s. early in october — and want to be — so i couldn’t be in madlysung this week. luff to the assembled. gunns to josh. a fine psu undergrad, kelly, will be in madison, thanks to the glorious and multitalented jessica sheffield.

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Van Morrison’s most recent CD is so worth your time.
Here’s a tasty taste.

“No wavelength
no mileage
no current currency….”

Hard to decide which track to share….

fed hugs aig. 85 bil of ourbucks. film at eleven. over and over. jason compson where are you now? listening to the radio??

phobos was a god.

maybe “the investing public” isn’t an oxymoron after all.

sleep tight.

neither sen clinton nor former president clinton ended their speeches with “God Bless America”. i’m just sayin.

have your constitution handy?

i’m sure you all know that yesterday was the 88th anniversary of WHICH amendment?

“This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia where
Russia can threaten a neighbor, occupy a capital, overthrow a
government and get away with it,” Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice said. “Things have changed.”

Well. No velvet, I guess.

Is there anything our dear Kendall cannot do? He can be heard giggling, thoughtfully, on NPR’s All Things Considered, aired yesterday.

Anyone have anything to say about rhetoric, hockey, what can happen on skates? This is my first Blackberry blogpost, so forgive any infelicities. But watching the Pens v. Redwings reminds me of rhetoricians from Hariman to Keith. GOAL!

Anyone have anything to say about rhetoric, hockey, what can happen on skates? This is my first Blackberry blogpost, so forgive any infelicities. But watching the Pens v. Redwings reminds me of rhetoricians from Hariman to Keith. GOAL!

Already Twenty Years Gone: Our 1850 Farmhouse

Reagan was alive and president, already officially forgetting,
the spring you found us the farmhouse. A rental. Forty acres.
Prelapsarian. A hundred and a quarter a month.
I landed there — Chicago-sotted, puzzled –
needing, apparently, to be a wife.
You dug an ambitious garden but did not amend the soil.
You fenced it, but the groundhogs still got in.

Bush the First ascended a mere six seasons later.
Already you were asking why I kept to the edge of the bed.
Now a wall of stones marks where the barn was.

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So: who is livebloggin RSA in Seattle?

(G) Memories of East Texas and those
(C) piney green rolling (D) hills
Covered in the (G) springtime
With (C) golden (D) daffodils
(C) Rowing on Sandy (D) Lake come April
(G) Harvesting hay in (Em) June
(C) Sitting by the road watching well fires burn
By an old October (D) moon

(C)I learned to drive on those
(D)East Texas red clay (G)backroads
And I mean to tell you my friends
They weren’t no easy roads
You had to watch out for all the curves
(G) Down by Kelsey (Em) creek
And (C) detour through the Lindsay’s pasture
When the water ran (D) too deep

Memories of East Texas
And Gilmer, county seat of Upshur
Looking back and asking myself
What the hell’d you let them break your spirit for?

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too bad that the commonwealth of pa has no consistent coverage of its own dingpolitik: stuff, topoi. it’s “fascinating” to see how scaifemedia and others not only “speak for” those who might vote tomorrow; i’m sure this has happened with other states/commonwealths during this long primary season, but the lack of robust (don’t like that word: healthy? helpful? good?) local media only compounds the structural flaws of our “democractic system”. pfffffffffffffffffffffffft. i’m pretty sure i’m voting for hillary tomorrow. may job strike me dog.

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Skunk Hour

by Robert Lowell

listen: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15279

For Elizabeth Bishop

Nautilus Island’s hermit
heiress still lives through winter in her Spartan cottage;
her sheep still graze above the sea.
Her son’s a bishop. Her farmer
is first selectman in our village,
she’s in her dotage.

Thirsting for
the hierarchic privacy
of Queen Victoria’s century,
she buys up all
the eyesores facing her shore,
and lets them fall.

The season’s ill–
we’ve lost our summer millionaire,
who seemed to leap from an L. L. Bean

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… that Penn State is working for the public good … funded by the CIA:

http://live.psu.edu/story/30312?rss=49

” The visits are part of Penn State’s effort to expose students to the 2008 presidential campaign, part of the University’s open-door policy to host campaign stops during this primary season. “

(with a musical attachment, if you care to listen….)