Bartcop Entertainment - Sunday, 10 November, 2002
Sunday
10 November, 2002
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'Hope'
Fan Mail
Fan Mail
To: My Hero/Mr. Dare
Michael......first and foremost let me say without reservation I LOVE YOU. Your post election Helenahandbasket special kept me from drowning in despair.
Loucretia Taylor
Hey, Michael--
That's a really fine--and necessary--piece on hope. Thanks for articulating it.
All best,
Paul Krassner
Excellent article on Hope, Michael. There are despondent people out there who need to read that.
Regards,
John Martin.
Wonderful. Your whole issue. Wonderful.
Meria Heller
Thank you for this letter. I needed it so much. This morning all I did was cry. I felt like running to another country, any country, and then I thought no way in hell. I plan to stay and I plan to fight these bastards to the very end. This was balm to my burning soul.
Thank you.
Harriet
thanks man. great message. I know quite a few folks in our strange little human sphere who are pretty shattered today. as I related to one person over this, it is sometimes hard as hell to get up off the mat, but in the end, that's how most fights are won. gotta be willing.
peace,
s.a. griffin
i read your newsletter, and i feel my blood boil.
i think you are performing a valuable international service, and i am grateful. as soon as i manage to find a way to cease being poor, without becoming some repulsive, life-force sucking monster as most corporate
success stories are, i will send you money.
seriously, i do not know how you find the time or backbone to continue this endeavor, but we are reading and learning. my 13 yo admires you almost as much as he admires mike moore.
thank you,
elizabeth merrilees,
sydney
Thanks for such an eloquent statement that I agree with in most parts.....but that makes America.... I am a little bit older than you, didn't get out the votes against the war in Vietnam and regret it. I do appreciate your work
Thank you!
MarianTF
Wow, Michael. Great stuff. It's just a little too mature and responsible for this early in the morning.
Lynette
I'm with you, Michael. I'm with you. Keep the faith.
Bob Hunt
you do great work -- thanks!
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Contest - How Do I Respond to This One?
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Stop! We already have a winner!
Mr. Self-Undo, Dear:
Hell in my love academy, gonna spade you. Pleasure me with toast and Icarus flew best all and burned his phatphuk. Daedulus REALLY booked off sprang. Heigh ho the derryo, John-Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt. His name is my name too.
Starting up bleed? Onliest when month that time is and PMS is 2 legit 2 quit. Hammertime! My academy spade you again in the 3rd degree places when Momma stung herself.
Enjoy me,
Site Traffic, Esq.
Hi,
I've been frequently entertained, occasionally outraged, but more recently (past several months to a year) merely dismayed by your column. I have known for a while now liberals and conservatives don't speak the same language, but there are times when what I'll classify as "liberal writing" feels particularly histrionic, for reasons which might ultimately escape me, but by Occam's Razor I surmise is merely a difficulty dealing with frustration or disappointment.
Some thoughts, take them or leave them:
If you couldn't find a conservative who is both against abortion and pro-choice (that is, feels abortions are bad, but doesn't want to see them outlawed since coathangers and back-room abortion 'doctors' are worse), then you haven't spoken to that significant majority (not an overwhelming majority, but a significant majority) of conservatives whose feelings are 'mixed' on the subject. These people are the real reason why abortion is legal, not the extremist abortion-at-a-whim liberals. And that's also why the question is still present, since the extreme cases (late-term abortions with an otherwise viable fetus: someone we could call a 'baby' if they were wanted) are where the debate has (with flawless logic) moved to.
'Dick Cheney and Haliburton sold'...While someone within the corporate entity Haliburton may have (something that remains to be proven: an accusation does NOT a proof make) ended up selling to Hussein (or indirectly to...), unless you can provide credible eye-witnesses, there is NO evidence Cheney had anything to do with it, and by the rules of Logic, is an Ad Hominim. Anyone who has ever worked for a non-trivial sized company knows how easy such things are to have happen at a low-level. If it did happen, and it happened on his watch, yes, he holds some responsibility, but the IF still remains. If there was a low-level cover-up, there's less individual responsibility there. 'Size' matters: not everybody is involved with everything all the time. Note that it's a little discredible on the face of it: while selling dual-use components might be lucrative, selling end-product to a dictator probably isn't, in either the
short or long term. Most people looking for the worst here frequently forget to note the maxim 'circumstances alter cases'. Of course we assume Harrelson is wrong, partly 'innocent until...', but mostly Why the Hell should we Listen to Woody Harrelson? Get me someone credible to make an accusation against Cheney. An accountant. A Sales guy. A translator. Someone who isn't a dozen levels of hearsay removed from the facts.
"Democracy is dead in America" - histrionic and extreme. Because the majority sees things different from (you must somewhat to yourself admit you have) an extreme liberal perspective, means, in fact, that Democracy works just fine. Anyway, we don't live in a true Democracy, we live in a Representative Republic, where the Representatives are Democratically elected. We don't have time for a true Democracy. Yet. Maybe some day.
"Republicans own the media" - but Liberals control it (note the liberal bias in the predictions: they predicted a VERY different picture than we have today, because they wanted it to be so more than because of the data). "The Judges" - simply not true: there are merely a majority. "The Ballot Boxes" - palpably false. "The whole thing is fixed" - also, palpably false. Not every election in which democrats win is a Stunning Victory for Democracy (Remember Tammany Hall, or closer to your experience, Mayor Daley for egregious examples), not every election in which republicans win is "Fixed" or is a Travesty and Hails the end of Civilization.
Finally, if you believe you can find anything 'within yourself' that wasn't, at some deep place you probably don't look at, 'given to you', by your Genes or by Society, or by your Experience, or by your Learning (all of which a Religious person would attribute, indirectly, to "God's Plan", i.e. "From God"), then you are missing a big, fairly important chunk of the (conservative, and fairly common) world-picture.
- Jason Pascucci
Jason,
Good to hear from you.
I don't think Woody has any more or less credibility than Charlton just because they're both "actors." In many ways I agree with them both. I have no desire to take Heston's guns away from him, whether his hands are cold and dead or not. I was, of course, more making a comment on how each side dealt with the problem of actors making comments than whether their comments were true or not. (That's why I didn't mention Streisand, the only person on earth who doesn't know that Shakespeare is in iambic pentameter.)
Sorry, but there ain't no IFs about whether Haliburton sold to Hussein. Well documented all over the place. Please don't make me go back and look up the links. You're right that there's no proof Cheney was involved, or at least I haven't seen it. Personally, I don't believe Cheney when he says he didn't know what Haliburton was doing any more than I believe Lay when he says he didn't know what Enron was doing. But they're both experts at plausible deniability, so you're right, there will never be any "proof." It all depends on who you trust. In my case, no one.
Still, it's nice to hear a defense of Cheney. Too bad nobody bothered when Woody made his statement. The pundits were too busy calling him a pothead.
I wrote that piece for a very specific section of my readership who I knew were despondent. I wanted to give them hope, so I did my best by writing a piece called "hope."
Glad to hear you're outraged but saddened to hear you're dismayed. I'm out to outrage. I'm out to get you to question absolutely everything you believe. I don't put my name on most of what I do because I want to be able to say things that even I don't believe, just to get that little bit of outrage out of you. I want people to develop the ability to change their minds, and the only way to do it is to challenge their beliefs, whatever they may be. To get them to laugh at something that they didn't know was funny. I am always happy to hear people like you rise to the defense. If your beliefs are indefensible, get rid of them. If I get you to think about something, anything, I've done my job. The enemies aren't conservatives or liberals, Democrats or Republicans, the enemies are sheep.
Do the Republicans control the judges? Okay, obviously not all of them, but the Supreme Court to be sure, and a lot more soon, appointed for life.
I've never, ever, heard a Republican say anything like "as reprehensible as I consider abortions to be, I still think they should be legal." You say it's a significant majority? I wish that were true. I hope it's true. I WANT it to be true. I think anti-abortion but pro-choice is the only rational position. Please show me one single conservative editorial and/or Republican platform that takes that position. Come to think of it, show me one single liberal editorial and/or Democratic platform that takes that position. Rationality is missing from BOTH parties.
You can call me a liberal but I am equal parts anarchist and conservative. I'm just not this strange new definition of the word. To me, a conservative doesn't want to take chances. A conservative plays it safe. A conservative says "Hold your horses, let's check this out first." Liberals went out and bought Beta VCRs because they were the best. Conservatives waited to see which format would triumph before buying VHS. (And rich conservatives bought both just to be sure)
The definitions of liberal and conservative have flip-flopped so much I genuinely don't know what they mean. To my mind, when you're running out of something, anything, the "conservative" thing to do is to hold back and use less. So please explain why "conservatives" are the ones using the most oil instead of the least.
Let's say, for instance, that humans breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide, whereas trees breathe in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. Seems like a pretty good relationship to me. It would also follow logically that the less trees we have on earth, the less oxygen-rich our atmosphere would be. How can anyone possibly argue with that? Like the straw that breaks the camel's back, is there that one tree too many, the one we can't cut down without severely effecting mankind's ability to breathe? Could be. I don't know. You don't know. Since nobody knows for sure, wouldn't it be the "conservative" thing to do to curtail cutting down trees, just to be safe? Wouldn't conservatives rather be safe than sorry? So why is it the liberals who want to save the forests while the conservatives want to chop them down?
Same thing with the ozone layer. I'm not a scientist. I can't say anything for certain about global warming and its consequences except that most of the reliable scientific community seems to think it's real. Maybe they're wrong. Who knows? I don't. You don't. Since nobody knows for sure, wouldn't it be the "conservative" thing to do to sign the Kyoto Protocols, just to be safe? Wouldn't conservatives rather be safe than sorry? So why is it the liberals who want to save the atmosphere while the conservatives want to keep polluting?
Let's say we're running out of oil. When will it
be? 20 years? 50 years? Who knows? Since nobody knows for sure, wouldn't it be the "conservative" thing to do to cut back on using it and develop alternatives, just to be safe? Wouldn't conservatives rather be safe than sorry? So why is it the liberals fighting for alternative energy while the conservatives are fighting for more oil? Gee, could it be because the conservatives own the oil
companies and are more concerned with benefiting their own pocketbooks than benefiting mankind?
I'm messed up about this. I don't have many
answers, but you can be sure I'll keep asking hard questions.
For instance Where are the Republicans who voted for Bush but are still outraged at the way he stole the presidency?
MD
Many thanks to Michael Dare!
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'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
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Reader Answer
Re: SNL
Nia Vardalos hosts SNL tonight. She was in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
~~ Czar
Thanks, Czar. Gotta start keeping better notes. ; )
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Reader Comment & Answer
Re: 'Hope' & 'SNL'
Hey! That piece you ran about 3 days ago called "Hope" by Michael Dare is
the first thing that has helped my depression since the elections. It is
excellent, and I've shared it with several other depressed friends.
Saturday Night Live is being hosted by the woman from "My Big, Fat Greek
Wedding"--the woman who wrote it and was the bride in the movie.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for running Hope. I need to send Dare a
note and say how much it has helped in coping with this freaking disaster.
Linda >^..^<
Thanks, Linda
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another rainy day. The kittens are really intrigued with this water falling out of the sky stuff.
Good day for making soup - did some beef/vegetable. If it rains today, will probably make more - chicken this time. It freezes well, and keeps the house warm, too.
The kid has finally 'discovered' ''The Twilight Zone'' - the old Rod Serling edition, rerun on Sci-Fi. He was not pleased there were none on tonight.
Tonight, Sunday, CBS breaks a bit of tradition with a 90-minute '60 Minutes', followed by a fresh 'Becker', and then part 1 (of 2) of the tv-movie 'Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story'.
NBC starts the night with 'Dateline', then follows with a fresh 'American Dreams' (where Usher portrays Marvin Gaye), then a fresh 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', followed by a fresh 'Boomtown'.
ABC opens the night with the movie 'Beauty & The Beast', then a fresh 'Alias' and a fresh 'The Practice'.
The WB starts out an old 'Gilmore Girls', then a fresh 'Charmed' and a fresh 'Angel'.
Faux starts with a fresh 'Futurama' (where Al Gore's head is introduced as "the inventor of the environment and first emperor of the moon" - oh, and Al Gore provides the voice for Al Gore's disembodied head), then a RERUN 'Simpsons', followed by a fresh 'Simpsons' (Homer goes to rock camp, and features Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Setzer, Lenny Kravitz, Elvis Costello & Tom Petty), then a fresh 'King Of The Hill', followed by a
fresh 'Malcolm', and capping the night is a RERUN of 'Malcolm'.
UPN has 'Buffy', 'Enterprise', and 'Stargate SG-1'.
MTV has a 'special' at 10:30pm (est/pst) - 'Catching Up With The Osbournes'
TV Land has an hour-long special (9pm est/6pm pst), hosted by Harry Shearer, featuring a countdown of favorite TV theme songs, based on an internet poll.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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Italy
Florence
Demonstrators wear peace-sign shaped balloons on their heads as they march during a demonstration against war organized by the European Social Forum in Florence, Italy, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2002.
Tens of thousands of people from across Europe are marching through Florence to protest a possible war against Iraq and the negative impact of globalization amid stepped-up security in the Tuscan capital.
Photo by Alberto Pellaschiar
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Feuding Over Estate
Macbeth Descendants
The 7th Earl of Cawdor, who can trace his lineage back to Macbeth, is locked in a bitter feud with his stepmother, who wants him out of the family's 14th
century castle in the Scottish highlands.
This week, their long-running dispute over the medieval family seat ended up in the Scottish courts, where a judge ruled the earl and his family should not live in the fortress.
But the earl, who also holds the title 25th Thane of Cawdor, said he would mount his own legal challenge.
His stepmother, Czech-born Angelika Ilona, was left Castle Cawdor by her late husband, the 6th earl, in 1993.
The contentious will set the dowager countess at loggerheads with the children of the earl's first marriage. Her stepdaughter, Lady Liza Campbell, has
described the will as a "poisoned chalice," and has referred to her stepmother as "Diabolika" and "Lady Macbeth Mark II."
For more, Macbeth Descendants
Cawdor Castle
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To Chair Pulitzer Prize Board
'Oregonian' Editor
Sandra Mims Rowe, editor of The Oregonian in Portland and an eight-year member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, has been appointed the board's chair, Columbia University officials who oversee the annual prizes announced Thursday.
Rowe, who has served as The Oregonian's editor since 1993, succeeds John S. Carroll, the Los Angeles Times' executive vice president and editor, as chair. Carroll will continue to serve on the board.
Prior to her Portland post, Rowe, 54, spent 22 years at The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star in Norfolk. She served as vice president and executive editor of the combined papers from 1984
to 1993. During her time there, the papers won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting.
Under her leadership in Portland, The Oregonian has won three Pulitzer Prizes, taking the 1999 explanatory-reporting award and the 2001 feature-writing and public-service awards.
'Oregonian' Editor
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100th-Episode
'Will & Grace'
The cast of the NBC's television series 'Will & Grace,' from left, Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes, and Megan Mullally arrive for a 100th-episode
celebration Friday, Nov. 8, 2002, in Los Angeles.
Photo by Damian Dovarganes
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Voted All-Time Top Tune
'Bohemian Rhapsody'
Twenty-seven years after it was first released, Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" has once again topped a chart of all-time greatest hits.
The mini rock-opera saw off competition from fellow usual suspects The Beatles to claim the pop crown in a poll to mark the 50th anniversary of the UK charts.
John Lennon's "Imagine" came in second, followed by The Beatles' "Hey Jude." George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" was at number five.
The Beatles claimed 14 of the top 100 hits, way ahead of any other act.
Other top 10 entries included the Animals' "The House of the Rising Sun," Abba's "Dancing Queen" and the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations."
The most contemporary track in the first 25 was Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas" from 1984.
'Bohemian Rhapsody'
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In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
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Confidential File Reportedly Stolen
Winona Ryder
Police are investigating the apparent theft of a confidential court file on Winona Ryder containing information about her financial status, medical history and other personal
background, the TV program "Celebrity Justice" reported on Friday.
The 28-page report, prepared by Los Angeles County Probation Department at the request of the judge who presided over her shoplifting trial, was taken from a locked file cabinet
at the Santa Monica courthouse, the syndicated TV program said.
According to the show, the Santa Monica Police Department is investigating the incident as a burglary, and a law enforcement source told producers authorities believe the file
may have been stolen as "an inside job" to be sold to the tabloids.
The file, called a "pre-conviction report," contains detailed information about Ryder's background, including financial status, medical history and recommendations from the
Probation Department, according to the TV program.
Winona Ryder
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'Don't Drink Foolishly, Drink Engaged'
Mecca Cola
Bottles of a new soft drink named Mecca Cola, with labels in Arabic and English, are seen in Paris, November 8, 2002. Businessman Taoufik Mathlouthi, a director
of Radio Mediterranean, launched Mecca Cola which bears the slogan on the label, 'Don't Drink Foolishly, Drink Engaged' as Muslims observe the holy month of Ramadan.
Ten percent of the profits will go to Palestinian humanitarian causes in aid of children, education, and preserving the heritage.
Photo by John Schults
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Numbers Are Up
L.A. Production
In a sign that local feature production has emerged from its long slump, off-lot activity in Los Angeles hit the second-highest level of the year in October.
Permitted days for features totaled 835, second only to September's 930 and more than double the 399 days in October 2001. Features lensing locally include "Bruce Almighty," "The Cat in the Hat," "Daddy Day Care," "The
Fast and the Furious 2," "Freaky Friday," "Hidalgo," "The House of Sand and Fog," "The Italian Job" and "S.W.A.T."
Feature activity was the second highest since June 2001, according to numbers released Thursday by the Entertainment Industry Development Corp., which issues permits.
The EIDC has come under scrutiny since a Sept. 4 raid on its offices as part of a criminal investigation into alleged misuse of public funds. The EIDC contends it is not a public agency, instead serving
as a go-between entity to smooth out the permitting process and keep production from leaving the region for less-expensive sites.
L.A. Production
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Wildlife Waystation
Martine Colette
The owner of a wildlife sanctuary supported by Hollywood stars including Brad Pitt and Russell Crowe agreed to give up her license until the sanctuary meets safety and environmental standards.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture filed a complaint against Martine Colette's Wildlife Waystation, alleging 299 instances in which standards for keeping animals for exhibition were "willfully" violated.
Colette's attorney, Byron Countryman, said Friday that the Waystation is innocent of many of the allegations. Still, the nonprofit organization agreed to a settlement that prohibits Colette from accepting
new animals, exhibiting animals at fund-raisers and allowing visitors into the 160-acre sanctuary until it passes inspection.
A group of celebrities, including Pitt, Crowe and Bruce Willis, recorded a musical album last year to raise funds for the sanctuary, which relies entirely on donations.
Martine Colette
Wildlife Waystation
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Another 'Annus Horribilis'
Queen Elizabeth
The ghost of Princess Diana has come back to haunt the House of Windsor, stripping the gilt off Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee Celebrations.
Royalists and republicans both agreed on Saturday that the collapse of the trial of Diana's former butler has sent the regal rollercoaster off the rails.
In 1992, the British monarch suffered what she called an "annus horribilis" after scandals beset her children's rocky marriages and fire swept through Windsor Castle.
"Ten years ago was the annus horribilis. It is like a re-run of that," said Judy Wade, royal author and correspondent of the glossy celebrity magazine Hello!
"The glorious summer the Queen had has now turned into a horrendous winter," Wade told Reuters.
Queen Elizabeth
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Colombia
Coca Plants
A soldier inspects a coca plant at a 20 hectar plantation found by the army in Sardinata, near the northeastern border with Venezuela, Saturday, Nov 9, 2002.
Colombia is the largest producer of coca, the base for cocaine. The United States has contributed $1.7 billion to Colombia's program to eradicate drug crops.
The program, called Plan Colombia, centers on fumigations and programs to persuade coca growers to voluntarily pull up their crops.
Photo by Efrain Patino
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Laundry For Life
'The Magdalene Sisters'
The director of a hard-hitting film on the virtual enslavement of women in laundries run by Roman Catholic orders in Ireland said on Saturday the church owed the women an apology.
Some 30,000 Irish women worked in the Magdalene Laundries, established in Ireland in 1848 for the detention of prostitutes and wayward women undergoing reform. Some of the women
spent virtually their entire adult lives in the institutions, the last of which was closed in Dublin in 1996.
The low-budget film, denounced by the Vatican as "an angry and rancorous provocation," walked off with the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice film festival in September.
Framed as a pseudo-documentary, the film tells the stories of three young women sent to work at one of the laundries after they have fallen afoul of the strict social mores of Ireland in the 1960s.
Frances Finnegan, a lecturer in social history who has written a scholarly work on the laundries entitled, "Do Penance or Perish: A Study of Magdalene Asylums in Ireland," said the film did
not exaggerate the psychological brutality of the laundries.
She said the laundries eventually closed not because there was a general recognition that they were inhumane, but because they had outlived their usefulness to the church.
"They closed because of the automatic washing machine. Once the laundries were no longer profitable, sinners were no longer required."
'The Magdalene Sisters'
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Kuwait
Camel
A camel looks over grazing ground in the Kuwait desert near the town of Wafra November 8, 2002. The U.N. Security Council on Friday unanimously approved a tough U.S.-sponsored resolution giving
Iraq one last chance to disarm or face the consequences and ordering President Saddam Hussein to accept its terms within a week.
Photo by Chris Helgren
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'The Osbournes'
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