From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V1 #106 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Wednesday, January 1 2003 Volume 01 : Number 106 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:53:31 -0500 From: "tony schinella" Subject: seven-seas New political/music site! Hey all, Quick email to let you know that I have finally created my political and music site Politizine, although it won't be at its original site. Thanks to Blogger, I now have a Web log or "blog" site for Politizine - at http://politizine.blogspot.com/. On a random basis, I will be posting articles and news at the site. This site will have to do until I figure out how to get a real interactive new site up and running. Special thanks to Dan Kennedy for pointing this free site out to me when he announced on his Boston Phoenix Media Log column http://www.bostonphoenix.com/medialog/index.asp that Boston Herald business columnist Cosmo Macero set up his own "blog" http://cosmomacero.blogspot.com/. This is all way cool! Best, Tony Schinella radiotony@attbi.com http://home.attbi.com/~radiotony/wsb/index.html Jack of all trades - Master of none ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:13:21 -0600 From: "Martha Smith" Subject: Re: seven-seas OT New political/music site! > Quick email to let you know that I have finally created my political and music > site Politizine I enjoyed the Hightower piece....He is one of my favorite fellow Texans....always interesting...always worthwhile....Great sense of humor, too. - -Kristin :) "When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism." -- Jim Hightower, former Texas Agriculture Commissioner ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 14:24:40 -0500 From: "tony schinella" Subject: Re: seven-seas OT New political/music site! Great quote. Although, I took the opposite turn - from politics into the Fourth Estate. Let me tell you, it is a lot more fun here. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martha Smith" To: Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 2:13 PM Subject: Re: seven-seas OT New political/music site! > > "When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take > from journalism." > -- Jim Hightower, former > Texas Agriculture Commissioner > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:46:35 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas OT New political/music site! > I enjoyed the Hightower piece....He is one of my favorite fellow > Texans....always interesting...always worthwhile....Great sense of humor, > too. Molly Evins is good too. Any good British humour/satire political writers y'all can recommend? I watched the film Billy Elliot last night -- Austin is so cool that our local homeowned video store put up a list with all Joe Strummer- related videos (roles, cameos, soundtrack) and they are half-priced to rent. "London Calling" is in BE. At any rate it was grimly enlightening to see the living conditions of the striking colliers and the whole bleak hopelessness of the times. It's not that bad here, but I'm trying to get a job and the average wait for a tech worker is *eighteen months*. And I've an engineering degree and partial graduate school work! There is no dole, and everyone has run out of unemployment insurance money (it's six months, only I don't qualify because I was a stay-at-home mom and my work experience ended three years ago, and no, there's no money for SAH moms whose employed husbands dump them). Lack of recent experience hurts too. The same restaurant that Jim Hightower broadcasts his radio program from hosts the Low Tech Happy Hour, for unemployed tech workers to network and just have folks to talk to. Our federal conservative (and state conservative) government has refused to extend unemployment payments, so beginning January 1 a whole lot of people will have nothing coming in. All welfare was pretty well ended during the boom years of the late 90s, so there's no safety net. People can try to dig into retirement savings but companies largely invested that in the stock market so it's devalued AND there's a huge penalty for withdrawing it even in time of need, over and beyond taxes. Now is when we could definitely use some musical voices to inspire and guide us. "Where have you gone/Joe Strummer?/A nation turns its lonely eyes to you" to paraphrase Mrs Robinson. - --Amy ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V1 #106 ********************************