Archive for December, 2003
Mon 15 Dec 2003
For those who don’t remember Saturday Night Live of years ago, Al Franken was a writer on the show, and sometimes a performer. He had a quirky dead-pan, yet strutting, style. And this book follows in that tradition.
Using humor, Franken takes plenty of shots at the right-wing media; exposing the mistruths, half-truths, and outright lies […]
Mon 15 Dec 2003
“My work is purely autobiographical,…It is about myself and my surroundings. I work from people that interest me and that I care about, in rooms that I know… When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won’t. There is a […]
Sun 7 Dec 2003
Every great human being in history earned it. We can give it and we can receive it. Without it it’s hard to live. If you have enough of it you can change the world.
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Respect means:
1. A feeling of appreciative, often deferential regard; esteem. See Synonyms at regard.
2. The state of being regarded with honor or […]
Mon 1 Dec 2003
Dear Friends,
I’d like to tell you a little tale, a personal story of what it is like to fear losing your freedom of speech, how it feels to be drowned in a wave of patriotism which threatens with all its might to suffocate your ideas and stifle dissent.
For nearly four months, from September through December […]
Mon 15 Dec 2003
For those who don’t remember Saturday Night Live of years ago, Al Franken was a writer on the show, and sometimes a performer. He had a quirky dead-pan, yet strutting, style. And this book follows in that tradition.
Using humor, Franken takes plenty of shots at the right-wing media; exposing the mistruths, half-truths, and outright lies […]
Mon 15 Dec 2003
“My work is purely autobiographical,…It is about myself and my surroundings. I work from people that interest me and that I care about, in rooms that I know… When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won’t. There is a […]
Sun 7 Dec 2003
Every great human being in history earned it. We can give it and we can receive it. Without it it’s hard to live. If you have enough of it you can change the world.
_________________
Respect means:
1. A feeling of appreciative, often deferential regard; esteem. See Synonyms at regard.
2. The state of being regarded with honor or […]
Mon 1 Dec 2003
Dear Friends,
I’d like to tell you a little tale, a personal story of what it is like to fear losing your freedom of speech, how it feels to be drowned in a wave of patriotism which threatens with all its might to suffocate your ideas and stifle dissent.
For nearly four months, from September through December […]