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Published Letters: 309 Editor's Choice: 13
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The media
[Read the article: Did humor save the left at its darkest hour?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Since we're talking about the media, a perspective from them older days might be in order.
You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.
There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.
Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be right back after a message
bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.
The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.
-Gil Scott-Heron 1971
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DZ
[Read the article: Barack Obama's epic win]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Red...
There hasn't been a 'radical left' in the U.S. in a very long time. The mainstream of the Democratic Party in the 1960s and 70s was considerably more liberal than today. Your statement is ludicrous on the face of it.
The most liberal candidate ever put up by the Dems was George McGovern and Obama is well to the right of him. What are you talking about?
BTW, maybe you didn't mean it, but your original comment did come across as quite racist.
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Didn't get a check
[Read the article: As promised, an economic stimulus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm not sure what the rules were, but I didn't get a check. Was there an income cap?
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@tigrr-lily
[Read the article: Where the 20-somethings are]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You said: "It's a shame that so many older people can be mistrustful and ignorant about the internet." Could you possibly be any more condescending? Where were you when I got my first internet account 14 years ago? Even my 85 year old mother makes extensive use of the internet. Where have you been living?
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@ AnaHadWolves
[Read the article: The motor home fades into the sunset]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Excuse me, but what pathetic drivel. The instrument of consumption is irrelevant, it is the amount of consumption that matters. I have an SUV - hybrid that gets 28 mpg, but still an SUV. Try transporting 4 Siberian huskies, a dog sled and related equipment in anything else. But, I only drive 4500 miles per year. That's 161 gallons per year. Can you match that?
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@ melthough
[Read the article: Pro-life pharmacies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oregon does have 'physician assisted suicide". What that means is that a physician may prescribe a lethal dose of drugs to anyone who asks AND has been certified by two physicians that they have less than 6 months to live AND when they have been certified by two mental health professionals as being of sound mind. Only the patient may take the drugs. No one may provide physical assistance of any kind. My wife had the pills, but she was physically unable to take them when she wanted to. She died two days later.
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@tigrr_lily
[Read the article: Where the 20-somethings are]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, a terrifying tale. Maybe I'm just completely out of touch with my own generation. I run GigE over fiber at home, I have FIOS for broadband, my recipe management program is more complicated than the stuff I deal with at work, I have 7 servers and 6 TB of storage at home - maybe I am fortunate. Never though of it that way, but...