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The vacationing Eric Alterman, author of MSNBC's weblog Altercation and Nation columnist, writes in from Paris today about Bruce Springsteen's concert in Paris last night.
"The highlight for me, however, was the searing “Born in the USA,” restored to its rock ‘n roll roots and placed — as far as one could tell — as a warning against war in Iraq. But it also seemed to be a cry of patriotic solidarity with the men and women about to have their lives ended — or at least badly messed up there. Perhaps this is conjecture on my part.
"Springsteen’s comments have been limited to decrying the loss of civil liberties attendant with Attorney General John Ashcroft’s exploitation of the war on terrorism. But nobody in Paris seems to support going to war, and America is not terribly popular here now for a whole set of reasonable and a few unreasonable reasons."
"Yet, I dunno, 18,000 or so French people were thrusting their fists in the air singing “Born in the USA” and appearing — in some inexplicable fashion — to mean it with all their hearts."
Altercation will have a guest host every day until Eric's return on October 28. We will be doing Fridays, including his famous "slacker friday" where selected responses from readers to his columns are posted. Your mail should go to alterlinks@aol.com.
If you disagree with Bush's war policy or his and Ashcroft's erosion of our civil liberties, or if you care about who sits on the Supreme Court and determines the law that will apply to your children as they grow into adulthood, the best way to show it is by voting for democratic candidates for the House and Senate. And by financially supporting the candidates in the closest races, like Tom Strickland of Colorado, so they can afford to run a final tv media blitz.
We're taking advantage of the three day holiday weekend and will be lightly and only sporadically posting. You can read some of our earlier posts by clicking on the subject archives or searching for a particular topic. We also recommend you visit the blogs we've mentioned on the right. If we've missed some good ones you think should be listed, let us know.
Many thanks to South Knox Bubba for its praise of TalkLeft's "updates on the latest assaults against our constitution and civil rights" and our Sunday CNN discussion of the Buffalo Six, enemy combatants and military tribunals.
Brian Linse of the Lefty Directory conducts an interview with Jeanne D'Arc of the blog Body and Soul--it'a great read, we highly recommend it.
Jim Capozzola over at Rittenhouse is in top form today.
It's Slacker Friday on Altercation, Eric posts his top mail of the week, and check out some of his new links. We're proud to have had a hand in their selection.
Skippy has a bunch of opposing comments going on to one of his posts about the "Buffalo Six" and a very funny piece on a recent Ashleigh Banfield MSNBC interview.
Lisa English of Ruminate This has been writing great stuff all week about Bush and the probable war with Iraq.
A special thanks to Cursor for making our Buffalo Eight post its lead story today--we've had over 1,400 hits since this morning.
For those of you who got here some other way, check Cursor out--it is a topical, relevant and essential read every day.
We've been blogging all through the weekend. So much so that we just went in and edited the posts from the past few days to divide the really long ones into two sections so you don't have so much to scroll through. The second half of these posts now begin when you click on "more."
We're taking a break, probably until Monday night. We invite you to hang out as long as you want, click around the site, read, post comments, and check out the other blogs and sites we link to on the right side of the page.
Great profile of Univ of Tennessee Law Professor Glenn Reynolds, known to us in the blogistan as Instapundit in today's American Lawyer.
One law professor opined that while the law school is glad for the attention he brings, his views are a little too "anti-p.c." and libertarian for their comfort.
Gee, we wonder what they'd make of us!
What a day to have a birthday. Not fun, we bet. Both DailyKos and MadKane begin another year of life today, we hope you'll go over and extend good wishes. Here are the places to do it: DailyKos birthday post and MadKane birthday post.
As for us, we're heading over to the law school to teach criminal defense like we do every Wednesday night....last Sept. 12 we tossed the syllabus and talked about the events of the day before. It was a great class. I suspect we will do the same tonight--"Motions to Suppress" will have to wait until next week--Civil Liberties, Right to Counsel and the Patriot Act will take center stage tonight.
Tomorrow the Hamster returns from vacation, we've missed him, not to mention the great articles he finds and his comments.
We don't know where we'll be by the time you read this, but right now on Saturday, 9/7/02, for the first time we are aware of, TalkLeft has made the list of the Top-100 Links from Weblogs.
Instapundit is No. 55, we are 57, Media Whores Online is 62 and Altercation is 76.
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