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Wesley Ellenwood, my video teacher at NYU, Summer '87 I believe, maybe '88, had a front page of The New York Times carefully framed and elegantly mounted in his office at 721 Broadway. It seemed like any other Times front page, with no BIG story immediately evident. If you looked close, you would see that the biggest story on the page had something to do with a Southern US Senator who was up on criminal charges and being kicked out of office, I believe. Damn me, but I can't remember who it was -- I keep wanting to say "Jesse Helms," but that doesn't make sense, historically. The Senator in question was from Wes's home state (a Carolina? seems right . . .). One day, I noticed this for the first time -- he may have just put it up that week -- and asked why he had had that page framed. Wes slowly regarded the page, looked me in the eye and quietly said,
"The passing of all bastards should be carefully noted and prominently recorded."
To be carefully noted
(premature, to be sure, as passing has not yet occurred and the bastards may yet avoid it),
here follows a link
(courtesy of talkingpointsmemo.com)
that I include here in the spirit of "prominent" recording
(at least adding to the sheer quantity of web pages noting the news)
and for, hopefully, your enjoyment . . .
Valerie Plame Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson IV file a civil suit against I. Lewis (a/k/a/ "Scooter") Libby Jr., Karl C. Rove, Richard B. Cheney, and unknown John Does 1-10 for violations of the First and Fifth Amendments, Civil Rights Conspiracy, Failure to Prevent Civil Rights Violations, Public Disclosure of Private Facts, and Civil Conspiracy
(. . . exhale . . . smile . . . cross fingers . . .)
In less important links, if your blog reader, like mine, for some reason completely skipped my entry from yesterday about Our Government's list of potential terrorist targets ("Protecting Our Nation's Valuable Heritage"), here it is.
"The passing of all bastards should be carefully noted and prominently recorded."
To be carefully noted
(premature, to be sure, as passing has not yet occurred and the bastards may yet avoid it),
here follows a link
(courtesy of talkingpointsmemo.com)
that I include here in the spirit of "prominent" recording
(at least adding to the sheer quantity of web pages noting the news)
and for, hopefully, your enjoyment . . .
Valerie Plame Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson IV file a civil suit against I. Lewis (a/k/a/ "Scooter") Libby Jr., Karl C. Rove, Richard B. Cheney, and unknown John Does 1-10 for violations of the First and Fifth Amendments, Civil Rights Conspiracy, Failure to Prevent Civil Rights Violations, Public Disclosure of Private Facts, and Civil Conspiracy
(. . . exhale . . . smile . . . cross fingers . . .)
In less important links, if your blog reader, like mine, for some reason completely skipped my entry from yesterday about Our Government's list of potential terrorist targets ("Protecting Our Nation's Valuable Heritage"), here it is.
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Date: 2006-07-14 10:01 pm (UTC)From:But, this will be an interesting watch, at least. I don't think the Wilsons plan on giving up easily.
I've read only some of Transmetropolitan, and would like to read more; I'm fairly sure I know people who could loan me some comps, so I'll check it out.