THE DAILY TRAVESTY for February 22,
2000
Volume 1, Issue 35
we are born innocent
believe me, Adia--
we are still innocent
it's easy-- we all
falter
it doesn't matter
sarah mclaughlin, "adia"
If you think your vote has no
purpose except to get the candidate elected, and is worthless if it fails to do
so, think again...
Excerpted from the February
2000 edition of Hightower's Lowdown newsletter:
Refusing to vote doesn't count at all, but
using the ballot creatively does get counted and not only registers a protest,
but in some well-organized third party races (New Party, Greens, Libertarians,
Reform Party) people are already getting elected.
Election 2000 is also going to offer a watershed
opportunity for developing a genuine populist politics. ... In addition to
raising the kitchen-table issues that the two-party duopoly avoids, a Nader
campaign can broaden the message, public image, and base of the Green Party,
qualify it for ballot status in almost every state, and reach the 5% threshold
of votes next November that will qualify it for millions of dollars in federal
party-building funds.
VOTE IN NOVEMBER. 5%
ROCKS THE VOTE.
contributed by Tucker.
The
Always Insightful Erin W.: Poor BC, you're getting so frustrated with
the people who want YOU to do all the work on this publication. Why
should they send in funny stuff, think-y stuff, art stuff, controversial
stuff (perhaps one and the same), and bawdy rhyme-y stuff? Though they likely
have things of interest hidden away, perhaps of their own creation, they won't
send it to you. Will you take their rights to it away? I know you, BC, of course
you won't.
Editor: You're right in the sense that I
am getting frustrated. But listen-- that's not just because I want people
to do work for me! My honest vision of this publication, from the
beginning, was that people could and would eventually come to use it for their
own selfish reasons-- as a forum for their own expression-- not for me or
because I asked them too, but because it satisfied a part of them to do
so. The only thing I can do is be patient though, if this is to happen,
and subtly coax my readers into letting go of their fear, if that's what's
holding them back. It might not be-- but from my point of view, if I was
getting a publication like this and really understood what it was about, I would
love to respond to things and send in my own blatherings, I would love to
contribute to a lively, intelligent and free-form discussion-- but only after
I was fully reassured that it was a safe space to do so.
"Time is
an illusion
perpetrated by the
manufacturers
of
space."
time is the illusion of space perpetuated by
manufacturers. the manufacturers of illusion are perpetuated by time
and space. space and time is perpetuated by the illusions of the
manufacturers. perpetuated space and time is manufactured by
illusion. perpetuated manufacturers, is time an illusion of space?
manufacturers perpetuated by space and time is an illusion. space and time
is an illusion. space and time is an illusion. space and time is an
illusion. illusion. illusion.
If you've got any local announcements or news you would
like to call attention to, please send it my
way.