Bartcop Entertainment - Monday, 5 July, 2004
Monday
5 July, 2004
(Updated Daily)
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'Best of TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Baron Dave Romm
How To Write A Letter To The Editor
By Baron Dave Romm
How To Write A Letter To The
Editor
Arguing your position in the written form
Note: This is a repeat of a column from last year, the first
in a series originally written for the 2000 election. This
Independence Day more than ever, we need to have our voices
heard.
How to write a letter to the editor
- Be polite. The dittoheads are known for being mean,
hateful namecallers. Don't sink to their level. Respect the people
you're talking about, even if you disagree with their political
position. Comment on actions more than personalities.
- Bad Example: "Death merchant Bu$h puts people to death
who might be innocent, can we trust him to lead?"
- Good Example: "George Bush's position on the death
penalty lags behind the judgment of other Republican governors. He
is a follower, not a leader."
- Be specific. If you're commenting on an article in the
paper, mention the day and page number of the article. If you're
commenting on a specific political position or speech, restate it
briefly. Don't assume the reader knows what you're talking about:
Tell them.
Example: "I disagree with Senator Gram's position on
confirming judges, as reported in Sunday's Minnepolis Star Tribune
(pA12, 9/30/00)."
- Stick to one topic. Deal with one issue, article or
speech in one letter.
- Use facts and figures to back up your arguments. Quote
other experts who commented on the same subject, especially if the
news article did not mention them.
- State your qualifications, if useful to the letter.
- Example: "I've been a teacher for 15 years, and Betty
McCollum's plan to invest in childhood education excellence is good
because in my experience..."
- When possible, compare and contrast. State why your
candidate is better and why the other candidate is poor on an
issue.
- Be concise. Short letters are more likely to be printed
than lengthy screeds.
- Be original. Don't sound like everyone else. Use your
own voice.
- When appropriate, use humor.
Example: "George Bush says that the US shouldn't be the
world's policeman, yet Dick Cheney wants to increase military
spending. Why do they want to build an army we're not going to use?"
Aside: I sure called this one. Bush caught in another
lie.
- Be grammatically correct. The paper will correct any
minor spelling errors, but they won't edit letters where the
sentences make no sense.
- Be positive when appropriate. Don't hesitate to send a
complimentary letter to the newspaper for a good editorial or story.
Congratulate politicians you agree with.
- Read your letter out loud. Does it sound good? Does it
make sense?
- Send the letter to more than one newspaper, if
appropriate. Smaller papers print letters too.
- Save a copy. Just in case they edit it, you'll know
exactly how it was changed.
- Include all the necessary information about yourself that the
newspaper asks for. When sending e-mail, this means your city
and telephone number. When sending a letter by mail, make sure it's
typed (or legible) with your full return address as well as phone
number and signature. This is for your protection, so others can't
sign your name to their letter.
- Keep track of any response you get. If it's a caller who
agrees with you, great! You've made a friend. If someone calls you
and doesn't give you their name, hang up. If someone calls and
politely disagrees, that's fine: Talk to them, and agree to
disagree. If you get sent threatening letters (and you might), keep
them, at least for a while. Keep especial track of the nasty ones and
call the newspaper's editorial page to let them know. Lou Gelfan, at
the Star Tribune, is aware of who some of these people are, but can't
tell you and can't prosecute. At least let him know the jerks are
still out there. Again, a polite response, even in disagreement, is
a worthy communication. But too many Republicans just want to be
anonymously nasty. Don't let them get away with it.
- There are many places to express your opinion, not just
letters to the newspaper. There are weekly and monthly
magazines. There are internet web sites, blogs, Usenet newsgroups,
and chatrooms. Express yourself, in friendly terms, in conversations
with friends or in social situations. Aside: Partisan web sites
like Bartcop and Bartcop-E are all well and good, but they're
preaching to the choir. Letters to the editor are designed to be
pursuasive more than an affirmation. Make it so.
Say what you mean and mean what
you say. Make if from the heart and your passion will come
through.
Some resources (updated for 04):
How to
Communicate with Journalists: Letters, Op-Ed pieces, how to meet
with Management.
Rainforest
Action Network part of their Activist Toolbox.
How to Write Letters to the
Editor from the San Diego Libertarian Party.
Tips
on writing effective letters to the editor from the Tools for
Activists section of the environmental group.
All three parts
archived on my web site: What to say and how to say it.
Vocabulary from Newt and talking points from all over.
Baron Dave Romm is a conceptual
artist and a noble
of Ladonia with a radio
show, a very
weird CD collection and an ever growing list of political links. He reviews
things at random for obscure web sites. You can read all his music
recommendations from Bartcop-E here, you can
order Shockwave Radio
Theater CDs, and you can hear the last two Shockwave broadcasts
in Real Audio here (scroll down to
Shockwave). Thanks to everyone who has sent me music to play
on the air, and I'm collecting extra-weird stuff for a possible CD
compilation.
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"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand
by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the
degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to
support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is
unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by
inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the
country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth,
whether about the president or anyone else."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Thanks (again), Baron Dave!
And, buy Baron Dave's CDs!
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He's B-a-a-a-a-a-c-k!
The Worried Shrimp
Ideas, Critiques are welcomed
Toonreviews & Links
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Reader Comment
Independence Day, 2004
During which we celebrate our last remaining freedom: the freedom to complement the chickenhawk emperor on his wonderful new set of invisible clothes.
Defending the war in Iraq, George W. Bush said on Independence Day that America is safer because Saddam Hussein is in a prison cell. "Our immediate task in battle fronts like Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere is to capture or kill the terrorists ... so we do not have to face them here at home," the chickenhawk war-whore told a cheering crowd outside the West Virginia Capitol. An enthusiastic group of ditto-monkeys estimated by state capitol police at 6,500 people waving American flags chanted, "Four more years."
Two Bush opponents, taken out of the crowd in restraints by police, said they were told they couldn't be there because they were wearing shirts that said they opposed the president.
Independence Day, 2004
Thanks, Der!
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from Mark
Another Bumpersticker
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Reader Humor
The Flag
Resident George W. Bush today announced that he is changing the nation's emblem to a condom because it more clearly reflects his administration's official and political stance.
Here are a few reasons that have caused him to do this.
A condom stands up to inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense of security while you're actually being screwed.
Damn, it just doesn't get more accurate than that.
~ Bruce
Thanks, Bruce!
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Reader Comment
One Citizen Says...
Hoi!
Martin Luther would have known how to deal with the recent
church outreach program intiated by the Bush-Cheney campaign.
Check out the image here, and tack it on the doors of your local place of worship for the whole congregation to see.
-oc
Thanks, oc!
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Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
JD's on vacation.
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, breezy & mild.
Didn't do much for the 4th - and since we most certainly didn't have any fireworks, we had to be content with just waving a couple of Bics about.
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN 'Still Standing', followed by a RERUN 'Yes, Dear', then a RERUN
'Raymond', followed by a RERUN '2½ Men', then a RERUN 'CSI: Miami'.
On a RERUN Dave (from 5/21/04) are Ellen DeGeneres and the Strokes.
On a RERUN Craiggers (from 5/19/04) are Marg Helgenberger, Rocco DiSpirito, and Todd Glass.
NBC begins the night with a RERUN 'Fear Factor', followed by a FRESH 'For Lu$t Or $', then a FRESH
'Who Wants To Marry My Dad?'.
On a RERUN Leno are Laura 'Lump In The Bed' Bush, Daniel Tosh, and Everlast.
On a RERUN Conan is Cedric the Entertainer, Jason Bateman, and Yoshi Amao.
On a RERUN Carson Daly (from 6/21/04) are Lindsay Lohan, Claire Forlani, and Iron and Wine.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN 'My Wife & Kids', followed by a RERUN 'George Lopez', then a RERUN 'Jim', followed by a
RERUN 'Hope & Faith', then a FRESH 'Weddings'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 5/26/04) are Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Super Dave Osborne, and Steriogram.
The WB offers a RERUN '7th Heaven', followed by a RERUN 'Summerland'.
Faux has a FRESH 'North Shore', followed by a FRESH 'The Casino'.
UPN has a RERUN 'One On One', followed by a RERUN 'Half & Half', then a RERUN 'Girlfriends', followed by another RERUN 'Half & Half'.
A&E has 'Airline', another 'Airline', 'Cold Case Files', a FRESH 'Family Plots', followed by another 'Family Plots', then a FRESH
'Airline', followed by another FRESH 'Airline',
AMC offers the movie 'Tough Guys', followed by the movie 'Out To Sea', then the movie '9 To 5'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'The Vicar of Dibley' - Celebrity Vicar;
[2:40pm] 'Are You Being Served?' - The Old Order Changes;
[3:20pm] 'Keeping Up Appearances' - Episode 1;
[4pm] 'The Saint' - Interlude in Venice;
[5pm] 'The Weakest Link' - Episode 29;
[6pm] 'BBC World News';
[6:30pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - May;
[7pm] 'House Invaders' - Northwick;
[7:30pm] 'Changing Rooms' - Taunton;
[8pm] 'Randall and Hopkirk' - Drop Dead;
[9pm] 'The Vice' - Episode 1;
[10:30pm] 'Mapping Murder' - Black Holes and Spiders' Webs;
[11pm] 'Randall and Hopkirk' - Drop Dead;
[12am] 'The Vice' - Episode 1;
[1:30am] 'Mapping Murder' - Black Holes and Spiders' Webs;
[2am] 'House Invaders' - Northwick;
[2:30am] 'Changing Rooms' - Taunton;
[3am] 'Randall and Hopkirk' - Drop Dead;
[4am] 'The Vice' - Episode 1;
[5:30am] 'Mapping Murder' - Black Holes and Spiders' Webs;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Celebrity Poker Showdown', another 'Celebrity Poker Showdown', and 'West Wing'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back', 'South Park', 'Reno 911!', and another 'Reno 911!'.
Jon Stewart is pre-empted.
History has 'Modern Marvels', 'UFO Files', 'Deep Sea Detectives', and 'Investigating History'.
IFC -
[6AM] 'I Went Down' (1997);
[8AM] 'Cry, The Beloved Country' (1995);
[10AM] 'Deception' (1993);
[11:30AM] 'At The Angelika #86' (2004);
[12PM] 'The War Room' (1993);
[1:45PM] 'IFC In Theaters';
[2PM] 'Cry, The Beloved Country' (1995);
[4PM] 'Deception' (1993);
[5:30PM] 'At The Angelika #86(2004);
[6PM] 'Ghost World' (2001);
[8PM] 'Dinner For Five #35' (2004);
[8:30PM] 'Ultimate Film Fanatic Auditions';
[9PM] 'At The Angelika #85' (2004);
[9:30PM] 'Dogtown' (1997);
[11PM] 'Dinner For Five #35' (2004);
[11:30PM] 'Ultimate Film Fanatic Auditions';
[12AM] 'Curse Of The Starving Class' (1994);
[1:45AM] 'Dogtown' (1997);
[3:30AM] 'Curse Of The Starving Class' (1994);
[5:15AM] Short: 'Frank'S Book' (2001);
[5:30AM] 'At The Angelika #86' (2004). (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has all 'Stargate SG-1' all night.
Sundance -
[7:25AM] 'Breaking In' (Feature);
[9AM] 'Cry Funny Happy' (Feature);
[10:35AM] 'Resisting Paradise' (Documentary);
[12PM] 'Tranceformer' (Documentary);
[1PM] 'Yves St. Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris' (Feature);
[2:30PM] 'Herb Alpert: Music for your Eyes' (Short);
[3PM] 'Friends Forever' (Feature);
[4:30PM] 'Rising Low' (Documentary);
[6PM] 'Grass' (Documentary);
[7:30PM] 'Pedal' (Documentary);
[8:30PM] 'Anatomy of a Scene: Saved!' (Original Production);
[9PM] 'Fellini: I'm a Born Liar' (Feature);
[11PM] 'Last Dance (2002)' (Feature);
[12:30AM] 'His Secret Life' (Feature);
[2:20AM] 'About a Girl' (Feature);
[2:30AM] 'The Goddess of 1967' (World Cinema);
[4:30AM] 'Yves St. Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris' (Feature). (ALL TIMES EDT)
TCM:
[7am] 'War of the Planets' (1965);
[9am] 'Village Of The Damned' (1960);
[10:30am] 'From The Earth To The Moon' (1958);
[12:30pm] '20 Million Miles To Earth' (1957);
[2pm] 'The Thing From Another World' (1951);
[3:30pm] 'Forbidden Planet' (1956);
[5:30pm] 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind' (1977);
[8pm] 'Giant' (1956);
[11:30pm] 'My Man Godfrey' (1936);
[1:15am] 'Intermezzo: A Love Story' (1939);
[3am] 'To Hell And Back' (1955);
[5am 'Tribute to a Bad Man' (1956). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Tuesday - 07/06
TCM:
[6:45am] 'Strictly Dishonorable' (1951);
[8:30am] 'Angels In The Outfield' (1951);
[10:15am] 'Psycho' (1960);
[12:15pm] 'The Naked Spur' (1953);
[2pm] 'Scaramouche' (1952);
[4pm] 'The Prisoner Of Zenda' (1952);
[6:00 pm] 'Beau Brummell' (1954);
[8pm] 'The Misfits' (1961);
[10:1pm] 'All The Fine Young Cannibals' (1960);
[12:15 am] 'Saratoga' (1937);
[2am] 'Son of the Sheik' (1926) SILENT ;
[3:15am] 'Vengeance Valley' (1951);
[5am] 'Somebody Up There Likes Me' (1956). (ALL TIMES EDT)
Any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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German TV host Thomas Gottschalk (R) talks to British actor John Cleese during the popular German television show 'Bet It..?' (Wetten, Dass..?) in Berlin July 3, 2004. 'Wetten Dass..?' is one of Europe's most successful game shows. Cleese had each half of his face painted with the flag colors of Greece and Portugal, who will play each other in the Euro 2004 soccer final on Sunday.
Photo by Tobias Schwarz
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The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
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Back Anti-Bush Ads
Hollywood Stars
A clutch of Hollywood stars, writers and directors including Woody Harrelson, Scarlett Johansson and West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin have banded together for liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org, to campaign against resident George W. Bush, press reports said.
Actors including Danny Glover, Kevin Bacon and Alicia Silverstone are due to appear on the small screen in a series oscreen in a series of advertisements opposing Bush's residency, according to Time magazine and The Los Angeles Times.
Musician Moby has also reportedly been recruited to the effort to drive Bush from office.
One ad is directed by Rob Reiner, the producer of "When Harry met Sally" and "A Few Good Men", and written by Sorkin while a separate animated spot features the voices of Johansson, the recent star of "Lost In Translation", Bacon and Ed Asner.
Hollywood Stars
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Jacques Stroobants, 62, the personal dresser of Brussels' popular Manneken Pis (R), adjusts the costume of a student on the bronze statuette in central Brussels June 30, 2004. Stroobants, who has fitted Manneken Pis with hundreds of costumes for nearly 30 years, is retiring in September 2004. Picture taken June 30, 2004.
Photo by Yves Herman
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Faulty Gearbox Derails Run
Paul Newman
Paul Newman was knocked out of the American GT Challenge sports car race by a faulty gearbox.
Newman, driving a Chevrolet Corvette on Saturday, was running in the top three for about two-thirds of the race before mechanical troubles forced him out with approximately 15 minutes remaining.
The 79-year-old Oscar winner wound up finishing 15th in the 19-car field. The winner was Eric Curran of South Deerfield, Mass.
Paul Newman
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Added To EchoStar's DISH Network
EastEnders
Fans of Britain's favorite soap, EastEnders, are able to see recent episodes of their favorite show through a new pay-per-view service on EchoStar's DISH Network.
Starting Sunday, June 6, EchoStar's DISH Network will pick up where EastEnders left off last September with new episodes every week - four on Sundays and four on Mondays - with repeat airings on Thursdays and Fridays.
If you already have DISH Network, monthly subscriptions of EastEnders are available by calling 1-800-333-DISH (3474). Individual episodes can also be ordered by remote, by calling 1-877-DISH PPV (347-4778) or by visiting
www.dishnetwork.com/ppv.
EastEnders
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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
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Skynyrd Drummer Picks Up Brushes
Michael Cartellone
The long hours of downtime for touring artists have been well-documented in classic road songs like Bob Seger's "Turn the Page" and Jackson Browne's "The Load-Out," but one rocker has found a way to make that spare time productive.
Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Michael Cartellone uses his ample free time on the road to tap into his other creative discipline, painting. His Road Series of five paintings each capture a color-themed snapshot of touring life.
Cartellone, a former member of Damn Yankees who also has toured with artists ranging from John Fogerty to Cher, studied art before he began playing the drums. He dreamed of being a cartoonist until he picked up the sticks at age 9, and "that quickly became an obsession," he says.
Michael Cartellone
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Blooming water lotuses carpet Echo Park lake, creating one of the largest stands of water lotuses outside of Asia, as seen Sunday, July 4, 2004, in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles. The bed of water lotus plants suddenly blooms at regular annual intervals, attracting scores of photographers and visitors to the park.
Photo by Nick Ut
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New Orleans Fire
J&M Studio
A two-alarm fire heavily damaged a French Quarter building where Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis and other famous musicians made recordings.
The blaze on Friday caused heavy fire and water damage to the building that was once J&M Studio. The building, designated a historic landmark by the city, now houses apartments and a laundry business.
J&M Studio
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Formerly 'The Vidiot'
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Publishers Seek Scapegoats
Circulation Woes
Newspaper and magazine publishers facing lawsuits and probes for lying about their circulation numbers are getting circulation managers to take the blame -- either by firing or by getting them to resign.
It sounds straightforward enough -- after all these are mostly the executives who signed off on the figures in question. Yet, industry experts and some publishers ask whether they are becoming the scapegoats for a much bigger problem that goes further up the corporate ladder.
Just as pressure to deliver good numbers from CEOs led lower-level officials to commit accounting shenanigans in recent years, demands for increased circulation may have had a similar impact in the publishing industry.
Circulation Woes
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Protesters wave signs as they protest a visit by resident Bush on the grounds of West Virginia State Capitol, Saturday, July 4, 2004, in Charleston, W.Va.
Photo by Bob Bird
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Plow Fields to Appease Rain God
Naked Women
With drought crippling parts of western Nepal, women in the world's only Hindu kingdom are reverting to the ancient tradition of ploughing fields naked in a bid to appease the rain god.
Dozens of women in Baijapur village of Banke district in southwestern Nepal last week ploughed their fields by night stark naked to appease Lord Indra, the rain god, said village council member Shukiram Tharu.
Ambika Tharu, a 35-year-old married woman, said she had performed the ritual at the insistence of her father in-law who had claimed the rain god would respond to calls for rain if the fields were ploughed by nude women.
Naked Women
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Thirty-Something's Find Their 'Bridget Jones'
Japanese Women
Single thirty-something Japanese women, long dismissed as too old to be marriage material, are getting their revenge through the pen of Junko Sakai, whose book about "losers" has become Japan's answer to Britain's beloved Bridget Jones.
Since its debut in October, "Howl of the Loser Dogs," a non-fiction account of the plight of single career women aged 30 or older, has sold close to 220,000 copies.
"Until now, there had been nothing but caricatures and cliches about single women over thirty, generally considered to be old bags or outcasts," said senior editor Etsuko Moriyama of the book's publisher, Kodansha.
For the rest, Japanese Women
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Unearthed terracotta warriors from the Xian period are displayed at a museum in the ancient Chinese capital of Xian July 4, 2004. The terracotta statues are a legacy from the Emperor Qin and are part of his highly elaborate mausoleum complex which took over 35 years to complete (starting around 246 BC).
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Czechs Roll Out
Marijuana-Flavored Liquor
A large alcoholic drinks manufacturer has launched a marijuana flavored liquor, the company said Friday.
The drink does not contain any tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, which is the active substance in marijuana. But the beverage does have an alcohol level of 16 percent, said Jiri Janak, the head of liquor production at Drinks Union.
"We produce it from hemp, but there's no THC in it," Janak said, adding he has received no complaints from anti-drug activists.
Marijuana-Flavored Liquor
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Cygnets dry and groom themselves on the shore line of a lake in Copenhagen, Denmark, Sunday July 4, 2004. The sun has finally begun to shine in northern Europe after a month of heavy rains.
Photo by John McConnico
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