Chuck Armsbury replied:

Lots of people watch The Simpsons in their Colville trailer homes cuz
there's no decent work thanks to decades of overcutting and corporate
robbery. Watching the Simpsons means nothing but time on the couch, not
cuz the Simpsons are funny. Sharon is Bush' thug, puhleeze. E-list
activism doesn't mean that much as it is, and so I recommend to Mr.
Pugliese and other cy-activists that 2 milliion prisoners need a little
more than smug self-righteousness and endless criticism of the sad ol
left. "The left ain't shit" should make everyone a little more somber
cuz the Bushmobile is on a roll. I do agree we all need to get lively.
No one working in grassroots' circles can tell you how much everyone
doing organizing in the Hew Hess Hay Hinterlands needs to be having fun
while we're at re-constructing this falling, imperial giant. Power to
the children!
another Chomskyite in a logging town,
Chuck Armsbury, Sr. Editor
The Razor Wire newspaper

http://www.november.org

michael pugliese wrote:

>    Serious points first. Eric Margolis, as some googling will
> show, was a supporter of the CIA backed anti-Soviet mujahadeen
> in Afghanistan in the 80's. Some exemplar of political judgement,
> eh? That piece was a perfect example of what the tiresome neo-cons
> call moral equivalence. Bush is a thug. Sharon and Saddaam too.
> In the psywar for public opinion, unless one is satisfied reaching
> those already convinced of the evils of the Us Empire, pieces
> like the glib Margolis will convince no one.
>    From Dobkin's p.s. I gather he thinks there was a virus in
> the URL in the, "Chomsky Sucks, " piece? Nope. Don't believe
> me, run your virus check.
>    And, that piece, meant in humour, did reveal exactly what
> it's punk rocker author intended. Y'all Chomskyites need to exercise
> some of that funny bone and laugh a bit at your earnestness and
> over serious mien. Do you even watch The Simpsons?
> Michael Pugliese