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...Tuesday afternoon, except for six plain-clothes police officers and a podium, the protest pit was empty. One speaker, Cole H. Kleitsch of the Walking Civics group, knelt off to one side and gathered his belongings after he had finished his time at the podium. He warned the audience of six police about the evils of political parties taking quotes from George Washington's 1796 farewell address, in which Washington spoke of the same theme...
...message of Pinochet and Suharto's plight is plain to see for all who rule by force: As long as you're holding the guns, people will cut you a deal, but if you've committed crimes against humanity, don't expect them to keep their end of the bargain once you've lost your power. In other words, tyrants planning on retirement are well advised to take some acting classes and work on doing a believable senile dementia...
...that means that the hosts' personalities were critical. Regis, of course, inspires his own breed of adoration or animosity, but those reactions are based more on his hyper-critical (and sometimes just plain hyper) personality, or perhaps a strain of "Millionaire"-inspired Regis overload. With Kathie Lee, it's different: When you get right down to it, there is something disconcerting about her. No, actually, that's not true at all. There are many, many disconcerting things about her - not the least of which is her single-minded conviction that the American people deserve to experience her presence as often...
Comedy, like drawing with cheese or playing the zither, is essentially an outsider art. It is best practiced by those who feel undernourished by human regard. This would include such admiration-impoverished individuals as a skinny, neurotic young Woody Allen; a homely, heavy Roseanne; a plain-weird Andy Kaufman and a vast number of Canadians. Nothing kills comedy quicker than acceptance...
Which brings me to the "New Democrat" side of things. You may have heard that I've abandoned the "New Labour" brand for the traditional idealism of plain-old Labour. I'm hoping to capture the sense of integrity that Bradley and Nader get from identifying with old-fashioned liberalism. And if there's anything you and I could do with a healthy dose of in the public eye, it's integrity. You have your shady fundraising, I have my spin-doctors on the public payroll. What we both need is an aura of idealism that a return to traditional...