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| Compiled By Jack Nichols
Michael Moore is Baaaack!
5 Factors Standing in the Way The hoopla about 'Earth Day', like the pious rhetoric of fast-talking solar contractors and patent-hungry 'ecological' inventors, conceal the all-important fact that solar energy, wind power, organic agriculture, holistic health, and 'voluntary simplicity' will alter very little in our grotesque imbalance with nature if they leave the patriarchal family, the multinational corporation, the bureaucratic and centralized political structure, and the property system untouched. Murray Bookchin--whose recent commentaries in a forthcoming paperback, "Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left: Essays and Interviews 1993-1998" will be published in 1999 We Have Nothing to Fear But…
We're afraid of intimacy, of wildness, of love; afraid
of the very things we desire, because if we acknowledged
them we would have to acknowledge the possibility of
losing them. If we fail in this century, it won't be
because of arrogance, it'll be because of fear.
Terry Tempest Williams, author-- "Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place," Vintage Books Are We All from the Balkans? "Man, that 'fickle, erratic, dangerous creature' whose 'restless mind would try all paths, all horrors, all betrayals... believe all things and believe nothing... kill for shadowy ideas more ferociously than other creatures kill for food, then, in a generation or less, forget what bloody dream had so obsessed him.'" Loren Eiseley, co-author of the forthcoming "It's not the end of the Earth, but you can see it from here," University of Nebraska Press, May 1999 Question for Camille Paglia in Mid-Decade:
What hides behind Camille's writing mask? What can you (Camille) say to convince me that you're not just another talking head, perhaps a guilty Roman Catholic girl--brainwashed by those nuns?
Jack Nichols-- "Camille Paglia: Building a Wall Between Art and Her Life" Interview, GayToday March 31, 1997 Little Miss Paglia's Church-Bound Soul, 1999 But current gay life is culturally so shallow that old-style Catholicism looks better and better every year. Camille Paglia—"Nothing Personal" Salon, April 14, 1999 On Purpose to Get the Sinners
Bob Kunst—President of the Oral Majority—to GayToday, April 19 'Setting Sites'-on-Potential-Lovers Films-- Popular
Greg Kilday—"Always the box-office bridesmade"—The Advocate, April 13 The Guilty One Ms. McDougal won her case by putting the tactics of Mr. Starr and his deputies on trial…The verdict should send a message to Mr. Starr that it is time to bring his inquiries to a close…His investigation has reached a point of diminishing returns. The New York Times, "Editorial"—April 13 Culture-Clod Camille Paglia is Right (for Once) At this point, most Americans would probably prefer being governed by a charming, oafish philanderer (President Clinton) than by a simpering, shilly-shallying, fascist milquetoast like Special Prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr, who has a face like creamed-corn and the brains to go with it. Camille Paglia—Salon, July 7, 1998 |
Bob Kunst 
The Opposite of Sex stars Johnny Galecki (left) and Ivan Sergei 
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