The Perpetual Three-Dot Column
The Perpetual Three-Dot Column
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by Jesse Walker

Thursday, October 21, 2004
SELF-PROMOTION: My Reason Online
column today is about the Democrats' effort to suppress a Kerry-bashing TV show. The piece is a little roughly written, but I think it gets the point across.

I'll be talking about the Sinclair case tonight on the NPR show On Point, which originates at WBUR in Boston and is syndicated to other stations as well. In the Boston market -- I don't know about the others -- the show will start at 7:00 and I'll be coming on around 7:40.


posted by Jesse 6:15 PM
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VOTESCAN: Reason's presidential survey is now
online. If you'd like to skip directly to my answers, read on:
2004 vote: I'm not sure yet, but I'm increasingly inclined to write in Elmer Fudd.

2000 vote: Harry Browne.

Most embarrassing vote: Dukakis. Bush Sr.'s ACLU-baiting campaign was appalling, and I wasn't yet ready to start throwing my vote away on third-party candidates and frivolous write-ins. So I threw it away on a Democrat instead.

Favorite president: It would have to be one of those practically powerless presidents who served under the Articles of Confederation -- maybe the anti-federalist Richard Henry Lee, chief of the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1785, who helped launch the American Revolution, tried to ban the importation of slaves, fought to include a Bill of Rights in the Constitution, and sang the goofiest song in 1776.
I originally was going to pick William Henry Harrison as my favorite president, on the grounds that his sole act in office was to die, but Glenn Garvin up and used that answer himself.

I probably should have added that while I really am "not sure yet" how I'm voting, the choice that bedevils me is not whether to opt for Bush or Kerry. It's whether to write in something disrespectful (Mr. Fudd), vote for a third-party candidate, or just stay home.


posted by Jesse 5:45 PM
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Thursday, October 14, 2004
SELF-PROMOTION: Two articles of mine that have been in print for a while have now been published online as well.

One is Terry Colon's cartoon adaptation of my "Ten Reasons to Fire George W. Bush"
column. It appeared in the October Reason, and you can download a pdf of it here.

The other piece is "Independent Media Tribes," which appeared in the June Chronicles. It's about Indymedia, blogs, and peer-to-peer journalism -- hot topics all of a sudden, so I'm glad it's finally available on the Internet.


posted by Jesse 5:09 PM
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OSCAR WILDE ON REALITY TV: "What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art."


posted by Jesse 12:11 PM
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Monday, October 11, 2004
BUSH'S BACK:
Wire, shmire. The man obviously has an alien parasite attached to his spine.


posted by Jesse 10:18 AM
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Tuesday, October 05, 2004
SELF-PROMOTION: My new
column for Reason Online reviews an exhibition at the American Visionary Art Museum.

In other Reason news, the November issue -- en route to subscribers now -- surveys various figures about who they're voting for this year, who they voted for in 2000, what their most embarrassing votes are, and who their favorite presidents are. I'm among the pollees.

Also, BenBella Books has just published Choice: The Best of Reason. It includes one contribution from yrs. truly, the March 2000 article "Copy Catfight." (The book says it came out in March 2002, but that's a typo.)


posted by Jesse 5:49 PM
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CONFESSION: In 1992, I predicted that
Admiral Stockdale would win the vice-presidential debate.

I will not be issuing any predictions about tonight.


posted by Jesse 4:18 PM
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