[PN] Values (29 July 2004)

[waoe at mail.goo.ne.jp]

****************************************************************
This message was distributed by Papyrus News. Feel free to forward
this message to others, preferably with this introduction. For info 
on Papyrus News, including how to (un)subscribe or access archives, 
see: <https://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/papyrus-news>.
****************************************************************

* Periodical articles

Spinning Our Safety
By MAUREEN DOWD
New York Times, 25 July 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/opinion/25dowd.html

Honorable Commission, Toothless Report
By RICHARD A. CLARKE
New York Times, 25 July 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/opinion/25clar.html

Something Against Girls?
"First, President Bush's team derogatorily refers to Senator John 
Edwards as the 'Breck Girl,' and now Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger 
derides the Democratic opponents to his budget plan as 'girlie men.'"
[Their vaunted 'values' are inadvertently showing, and some
women may notice who the doormat is. In fairness, the Democrats
also blew the chance to show themselves as the party for women
and other oppressed groups at their Convention. Men who are
secure in their own masculinity don't have to keep proving it by
keeping women down, violence or other forms of domination - Ed.]
New York Times, Letters, 26 July 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/26/opinion/l26arnold.html

3 Hours Over 4 Nights With 1 Fear
"Fear of terrorism is George W. Bush's only second-term platform 
to date (unless you count fear of same-sex marriage). Let John F. 
Kerry roll out John Edwards as his running mate, and Tom Ridge 
rushes to grab back the TV spotlight by predicting that Al Qaeda 
will "disrupt our democratic process." Never mind that he had no 
"precise knowledge" of such an attack or any plans to raise his 
color-coded threat level; his real mission, to wield fear as a weapon 
of mass distraction, had been accomplished."
Frank Rich, New York Times, 25 July 2004
[One of the top NYT editors, while criticizing the left objectively,
makes a similar point as in my recent letter to the editor - Ed.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/arts/25RICH.html

Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior
By TERESA HAMPTON, Editor, Capitol Hill Blue, 28 July 2004
[Again, Bush's expletives are not deleted. Scary if at all true - Ed.]
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.shtml

Uninvited Guest: Michael Moore Takes Boston By Storm
Democracy Now! 28 July 2004 [whole speech on video - Ed.]
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1335239

Collegially, Steve McCarty
Professor, Osaka Jogakuin College, Japan
Online library: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html
E-mail (including items for Papyrus News) just by 
replying to this message or to: waoe at mail.goo.ne.jp