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| Saturday, May 3, 2003 |
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Just like in the old country 
| | One grace of California living (which, as a kid from Jersey, I've never been able to completely get my head around) is that you can plan an outdoor event weeks in advance and know it won't rain. Even in winter the odds are good. (Guess how many times the Rose Parade has been rained out?) |
| | It's still raining. T-ball has been cancelled because the fields are muck. Several other festivals are going on, and I don't know what will happen, except that it won't involve blogging. |
Over Left Questions
| | Dave Pentecost was at Katz's on Thursday too (there he is in the hat). Like Steve Lewis, who was also there, Dave is a Doer of Good whose credence derives from having been there and done that — where there is an else where about which most of us know little and that is what most of us would rather not do, even though we think it's a Good Thing somebody does it. |
| | In Real and Virtual Chiapas Dave wrestles with a few of the Big Questions those of us on the Left have always found troubling. It helps that he clearly knows a great deal, first hand, on the subjects about which he blogs. He begins: |
| | I have tried to stay out of this debate. But I post Chiapas news on the web. I traveled on the Zapatista caravan from La Realidad to Mexico City in 2001, and produced one of the few television reports that actually made it to American viewers at the time. And I was appalled this spring at the invasion of Rancho Esmeralda by neighboring Zapatistas, and the justifications put forward for it. |
| | Polemics among leftists are an old, old story. I call it the do-gooders versus the do-betters. And this particular academic debate is 3 years old. |
| | But the debate surrounding online activism and real versus virtual social change is even more compelling today. |
| | As I was writing this, my 6-year old boy, who's waiting for me to play with him, broke out into a rendition of "Green, Green," which played a key role in the Great Folk Music Scare of the Sixties. So, in the very original spirit of Bill Seitz, who was also at Katz's and chronicles his listening and reading, I'll let the kid choose our Tunes For the Day. Hold on a minute. |
| | Okay, they're all Green... |
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