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March 24, 2008
In this issue:
Note from the Editors: While the Democratic contenders battle their way
toward Guam and Puerto Rico, the 2008 presidential spectator sport to the
presumed right is becoming entertaining, with the pro-war, bush-hugging, stay-
the-course, white male geezers traveling the world hand-in-hand to spread the
good word. Will we finally, once and for all, see Joseph Lieberman go from
reformed Democrat to former Democrat and join the McCain ticket? Let's try it
on for size: Vice President Lieberman? Or perhaps he'll prefer to be a sheep
in wolf's clothing and barter for the all-powerful position of Defense
Secretary. We're becoming giddy with anticipation... or perhaps just
delirious from fatigue. In either case, Gilles d'Aymery offers an excellent
summary of the entertaining hullabaloo over the last fortnight of political
antics and economic woes. The ship of state, he contends, is taking water on
both port and starboard sides.
Meantime, the destruction of Iraq (under the current administration, not
counting Clinton and Bush I) has entered its sixth year, and we're still
drinking the Kool-Aid, as Jan Baughman puts it. We the People have become We
the Pawns, and who better to elaborate than the fierce defender of the
Constitution, Carol Warner Christen? To take control of the chess game will
require a massive grass-roots effort. Resident activist Martin Murie warns
that we can continue to say nothing in order to keep our jobs -- and quickly
find ourselves in another McCarthy era, in which we lose our jobs because of
what we say...
One job not likely to be exported any time soon is prostitution. Charles
Marowitz considers Rabbi Michael Lerner and Bill Van Auken's takes on the
oldest profession and the Eliot Spitzer affair; while Peter Byrne jumps at
the opportunity to review Kate Holden's autobiography of her life of
prostitution and addiction. Byrne also reviews To The Brink, The State Of
Democracy In South Africa, and Marowitz returns with a review of equal-
opportunity muckraking comedian Jackie Mason's farewell tour. In poetry,
Marie Rennard shares her thoughts on the fragile scents in the last breaths
of life; and Guido Monte's poetic blending captures les nouveaux temps of the
world's insane political course. Finally, your letters on the bipartisan
credit crisis, the end of a rEVOLution, Vive le Québec Libre!, and more.
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http://www.swans.com/library/art14/jeb189.html
Five Years And Still Drinking The Kool-Aid - Jan Baughman
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/carenc32.html
Is Our Planet Earth A Chessboard? - Carol Warner Christen
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/murie47.html
Streets, Doors, Offices - Martin Murie
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/ga249.html
Entertaining Hullabaloo - Gilles d'Aymery
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/cmarow102.html
Low Crimes & Misdemeanors - Charles Marowitz
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/pbyrne66.html
Kate Holden's "In My Skin" - Book Review by Peter Byrne
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/cmarow101.html
Jackie Mason: Return Of The Superjew - Charles Marowitz
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/pbyrne65.html
I Write What I Like - Book Review by Peter Byrne
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/marier16.html
Smelly Step To The Last Door - Poem by Marie Rennard
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/gmonte40.html
...Temps Nouveaux - Poem by Guido Monte
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/letter136.html
Letters to the Editor
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