Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don’t want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. — Hermann Goering
Found here.
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OK, a Goering quote too
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Eugene Debs on War
Today’s quote is courtesy of James Ridgeway.
They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.” —Eugene Debs, Socialist candidate for president, June 16, 1918.
The speech led to Debs’s being stripped of his citizenship and sent to jail for 10 years.
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dont bom irak
Get Fuzzy rocks.
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Tattoos for diabetics
This is very cool, and came out of my alma mater!
In honor of all of the people at Sunday’s gathering who were discussing their current and future tattoos, I present this article.
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Dull, dull, dull
As the date approaches for my 3 weeks in Europe (leaving Sept. 9), I’m getting dull here on the blog because I’m rushing to finish stuff for my clients before I go. I realize I am all the way over at the blog end of the blog/journal continuum at the moment.
I will have a computer with me in Germany/Austria/etc., but I don’t intend to spend much time online while I’m there. I will probably keep notes on the trip, but whether I will actually post them during that time is, as yet, undecided. Andy was sweet to suggest that I should post regularly while I’m there, and that he would like to read my “on the road” entries. I almost always take notes on trips, so we’ll see.
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My son, the 11-year-old drag queen
I just love this story. His drag name is “Alexis Love”.
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Get your OS X on
Ken Bereskin, Apple’s Product Manager for OS X, now has a weblog.
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More reasons to go “Down Under”
The Australian National Library is adding internet porn to its collection.
The project is aimed at providing material for future social historians, not patrons with bad Google skills.
“The examination of society and culture of a period by necessity involves the study of its sexual life,” he wrote in the library’s newsletter.
“With this in mind, it is clear that there is no merit in being coy today and therefore delivering an incomplete picture to future researchers.”
He cited the usefulness to historians of Victorian pornographic diaries and novels as proof of the importance of collecting contemporary erotica.
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Krazy for Keithers
Andy organized a get-together last night in honor of Keith visit from L.A. Also representing the left coast was the adorable Jessie. There were lots of attractive and smart boys there — no girls at all even though some were invited.
I finally got a chance to talk with Dan. He’s a charming and smart guy — we talked about everything from ex-pat job opportunities in Europe to Benjamin Britten. Note to Dan: we should get together and listen to some CDs. I also listened to a discussion of font-geekitude between him and Chad.
The always squeezable Dan’l introduced me to a cool guy named John who runs the Streetwork project of Safe Horizon. The group was the beneficiary of Dan’l’s recent blogathon. John just happened to be there to meet a friend, and isn’t one of the blog-children, at least not yet. We talked for quite a while. He’s sexy and reminds me of a classical musician I once met in South Beach at Warsaw. Top that boys! No circuit queens for me.
I also ran into Trick/Patrick of Morplay. I met him once before through Joe Ovelman, so we talked about Joe’s art for a while. I’m a huge fan, and I think James and I are among Joe’s most enthusiastic collectors. There is a Nerve gallery of Joe’s work that’s worth the hassle of registering.
Who else was there? I said hello to Sam and Scott, but we didn’t really talk. I met Brian, who was wearing a t-shirt reminiscent of the playing-with-logo works of Daniel Pflumm.
James has a few photos on his site of the evening.
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gaytheatre mailing list
For those that are interested, someone just told me about the gaytheatre mailing list. There seem to be a number of NYers on the list.