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Up here in the Rockies, we have our own perspective on the budget debate in Washington. It’s shaped by our keen awareness of the beauties and dangers of nature; our relationship with a federal government that owns much of the land around us; and our straightforward, Western approach to shared responsibilities and fair dealing.

For example, the so-called “sequester”—the across-the-board cut to federal spending that can seem so abstract in the nation’s capital—raises a very real threat here in rural Colorado: forest fires. Our mountain counties are covered in trees, unfortunately including many of the 3.4 million acres of dead trees statewide killed off by beetle infestations and therefore prime fuel for forest infernos. The sequester reduces funding for clearing deadwood (as well as for forest fire preparedness, prevention, and training), putting us at greater risk of more destructive blazes like last year’s deadly Waldo Canyon and Lower North Fork fires.

The national government is our constant neighbor: huge chunks of each of our counties is federal land. We can’t tax that land, so the federal government compensates us with what’s known as PILT (payments in lieu of taxes). The sequester has cut PILT funding, too, squeezing local spending on everything from roads to schools.

The sequester is bad policy because it’s a product of a bad process: a crazy plan to scare both sides in the budget debate back to the bargaining table that only succeeded in damaging important public investments (along with whatever’s left of Congress’s reputation). That’s not the kind of deal a Westerner would sign onto.

Instead, we try to take a reasoned, balanced approach to problem solving. If the goal is deficit reduction, the sensible plan would be to reduce spending we don’t need while increasing tax revenue, without in either case putting undue burdens on those least able to bear them. The sequester is only the latest in a series of big budget cuts Congress and the President have agreed to over the past two years. Meanwhile, there’s been relatively little attention given to the other side of the equation: tax revenue.

We need revenue not only to pay down public debt, but to maintain important public services. Dan is a certified wildland firefighter on call to fight forest fires anywhere around the country, serving up to two weeks on the line once activated. Such nationwide coordination of firefighting efforts takes nationwide resources.

We also need government to act in strategic partnership with private industry to foster economic growth. Tim is co-director of the Bull Moose Sportsmen’s Alliance, which (along with supporting the 2nd Amendment rights of sportsmen) promotes wildlife conservation. Such conservation efforts, undertaken in large part by the federal government, not only ensure recreational opportunities for hunters and anglers, but are crucial to a wildlife recreation economy worth $3 billion a year to Colorado—$145 billion to the nation as a whole.

The fair and efficient way of raising the taxes we need to reduce debt and pay for these public investments is to end special tax breaks enjoyed only by very wealthy households and multinational corporations.

For example, right now the higher your income, the more valuable your deductions. If you’re a millionaire Hollywood producer with a ski lodge in Aspen, you can write off nearly 40 cents for every dollar of mortgage interest you pay. But if you’re a middle-class homeowner in Breckenridge or Idaho Springs, you can only deduct 28 cents. If we limit deductions to 28 percent for everyone, we can bring in $500 billion over the next decade, according to the joint tax committee of Congress.

We can raise even more money by making sure giant corporations pay their fair share. Government reports reveal that the portion of federal revenue coming from corporate taxes has fallen by three-quarters over the past 60 years, and that in recent years corporations have paid taxes at only about two-thirds of the statutory rate. (In 2011, it was only one-third the stated rate.) Studies co-authored by the respected U.S. Public Interest Research Group consistently find household names like General Electric and Wells Fargo frequently get away with paying no federal taxes at all.

Close the principal loophole that makes offshore corporate tax dodging possible, and the joint tax committee of Congress estimates we’d raise nearly $600 billion over 10 years.

Mountain air is clearer than the swampy environment of Washington. Maybe that’s why the solution to our budget woes is clearer, too: reverse mindless cuts like the sequester that endanger middle-class communities, then bring down the deficit and protect important public investments with thoughtful spending reforms and increased revenue from those who can best provide it. We can only hope that Washington comes to its senses before wildfire season roars to life again here in the West.

Dan Gibbs is a Summit County commissioner and Tim Mauck is a Clear Creek County commissioner.

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christian bale the flowers of warStar of The Dark Knight Rises, Christian Bale, has another movie coming out soon, The Flowers Of War.

The Flowers Of War has a limited initial release, December 21 in New York and December 23 in Los Angeles and San Francisco, with a wider 2012 release to be announced.  Check out the trailer below.
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In 1937, Nanking stands at the forefront of a war between China and Japan. As the invading Japanese Imperial Army overruns China’s capital city, desperate civilians seek refuge behind the nominally protective walls of a western cathedral. Here, John Miller (Bale), an American trapped amidst the chaos of battle and the ensuing occupation takes shelter, joined by a group of innocent schoolgirls and thirteen courtesans, equally determined to escape the horrors taking place outside the church walls.  Struggling to survive the violence and persecution wrought by the Japanese army, it is an act of heroism which eventually leads the seemingly disparate group to fight back, risking their lives for the sake of everyone.

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Don't know if it's already been mentioned, but the "Dressmaker's Bible" is my guidebook for now. It really helped me when I needed to figure out how to hem a dress with a train without bunching up the fabric (the Hong Kong finish is awesome). Everything is pretty basic, and most all the instructions only have three or four steps along with pictures, which simplifies things a whole lot.
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Nanoha Wig Help?

I have decided that if I end up having enough time I will try to make a Nanoha cosplay this summer, so I am planning a bit already so I don't need to start from scratch if I end up doing it.

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What I was wondering is if anyone have any suggestions for a wig for this costume. I have thought about the Chibi style from Arda-Wigs in Sandy Brown, but I am not quite sure if the style is necessary or if the color is accurate enough.

I would prefer Arda-Wigs since my head is on the bigger side and I have had lots of problems regarding this from other places I have bought, but I am open for suggestions! Thank you!
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The sewing parts werent hard at all, and as many of you already know it's the damn props and niggly little bits that kill you!. The wings took forever to finish, they werent too hard to make though, it's just glueing each darn feather on >_<

But it was worth it.

I am going to do this costume again, but this time I'm making a pair of chibi wings for it ^_^. I'll keep the big ones of course.

This costume was stressfull and if it wasn't for my friends who helped me with the shaping of the pipe for the wings and was just so supportive, I think I may have tried to murder my dress making dummy...

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Definately worth all the stress, you make such an awesome Dizzy. I especially loved your wings and the fact that you actually put green feathers in there! I love the official photos of you, they came out really well and show the costume off perfectly.

by Delusional on Saturday, 22 September, 2007 - 13:11
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Wow~~ this looks awesome!! The whole costume looks great, but the wings are spectacular *_* Nice work!!

by Yuka on Tuesday, 19 February, 2008 - 13:38
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This costume is simply amazing! I saw you in it at amecon 07 and was like :O although you looked like you were having a bit of trouble going down the stairs at the time! must've been fun to wear!

by Holbert on Wednesday, 9 April, 2008 - 20:48
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wow that looks incredible i love the wings :) the blue hair looks fab too :)

by Ikkaku-kun on Sunday, 13 April, 2008 - 19:38
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i love the costume in general this is amazing hun

by ryaoki on Sunday, 13 April, 2008 - 19:40
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This one is really neat hun. ^_^ Must've taken forevvar.

by ChibiVampireM on Tuesday, 10 June, 2008 - 16:57
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Wowww, that's pretty awesome

by Zehphir on Wednesday, 20 August, 2008 - 19:59
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Ahh! I remember seeing you and I'm pretty sure I chatted to you while waiting for the competition! I had no idea it was you hun XD fail

You looked awesome ^^

by Chibi on Monday, 27 April, 2009 - 23:28
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You look amazing in this huni!!

I love it!

by Bambi. on Sunday, 2 May, 2010 - 14:38
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Love it!
The wings are really realistic =D

by isamiaella on Tuesday, 27 July, 2010 - 13:33
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My god! amazing work! Those wings are to die for ^^ <3

by Zelda on Tuesday, 27 July, 2010 - 14:48
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This is incredible =D well done x.

by FusionRose on Tuesday, 27 July, 2010 - 15:07
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This is absolutely fantastic, you have sooo much talent =D

by amberlovers on Tuesday, 27 July, 2010 - 15:59
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Oh wow! I remember this! You look fabulous, it's such an amazing cosplay~ <3

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I remember this, but I had no idea it was you (I'm so bad at recognising people in cosplay). The wings are beautiful, time well spent. I like the idea of chibi wings for a re-wear, it'll be very cute.

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'think this is the first costume I remember of yours -- do you have any idea how terrified I was to take pictures? XD

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woah, diddn't expect a surge in comments. See this is the doing of Nerts most amazing photography! mwahahahaha. Thank you all I'd love to re wear her sometime. I need to get the costume from south wales, re do the boots and stockings and do another wig for her because I was so annoyed with the wig I literally thrw it away when I took it off!

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Wow! Incredible costume. Love the wings. I can't wait to see it if you do wear it again.

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Lulu@ You're going rewear Dizzy in Wales? Coolness. O.O

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Just lovely :D

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This looks great :D

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If you can make Kitacon, theres a lil Guilty Gear group on the go! hehe =) You still look fab!! <3 I have commented 3 times now but I love it so :D

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oh my god ;_; you look so gorgeous,beautiful,sexy and pretty !!! and I love your body q//q

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Even David Letterman found room to mock it, but Toyota’s recent acceleration debacle is an episode the company would rather forget.  The Japanese giant is mired in a controversial recall of vehicles for sudden acceleration defects, numbering 8.5 million in the United States alone.  There is a growing clamour for the head of Toyota Motor Corporation’s CEO Akio Toyoda.  Old cases of vehicular homicide, such as that Koua Fong Lee, whose 1996 Camry killed three people after it shot up an exit ramp in 2006, may be reappraised.

In this sense, Toyoda and his maligned corporation join the pantheon of auto companies who have erred on the side of lethal danger.  Ford has no reason to gloat in Toyota’s misfortunate, itself having recalled 14.9 million vehicles (a number that continues to rise) for a dubious cruise control switch prone to causing spontaneous engine fires (Forbes.com, Feb 24).

The life of the modern consumer can be a dangerous one, and caveat emptor has never quite disappeared as a vital maxim for every day purchases.  Automobile deaths have a grizzly, spectacular element to them, exciting much public comment and calls for vengeance.  But this obscures the fact that other, equally deadly events have taken place, often under the radar of popular anger.  In the U.S. alone, consumer goods have proven fatal on more occasions than people might care to remember.  Think of the rather innocuous and ubiquitous peanut butter, source of a scandal last year that led straight to a Georgia processing plant, responsible for shipping over 30 million pounds of peanut butter with salmonella trimmings.  The casualties were high: 8 deaths and 500 illnesses.

Last December, 50 million Roman-style window blinds and roller shades were recalled after it was revealed that five small children had perished to them.  Sixteen others were almost strangled to death.  And these are just a few samples that should be making purchasers flee the market.

When such instances take place, the suspicious eye will roam.  The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee is wondering whether the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had gotten too close to the auto industry, letting standards slip.  It has been a known fact for sometime now that Toyota has picked former NHTSA employees to fill its ranks.

The Senate Committee has sent a letter to the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation requesting a more expansive audit of NHTSA.  The purpose – to investigate ‘industry-wide complaints or reports collected by NHTSA regarding sudden unintended acceleration and brake failure in automobiles with electronic throttle and braking control systems.’  The audit, so claims the letter, will examine officials of the NHTSA excluded vital data from investigations.

Toyota has not covered itself in glory.  An internal memorandum that was leaked to the press this week boasts of a ‘win’ for the company in 2007 when it recalled a modest number of floor mats (only 55,000) over the issue of sudden acceleration.  The enterprise saved the company $100 million.  Speed is the essence in such recalls, and the company has proven tardy in that regard.  It took the fatalities of four Californians in late 2009 to change Toyota’s unenthusiastic tone.  But in so behaving, it is in rather good, if dire, company.

BINOY KAMPMARK was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge.  He currently lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne.  Email: bkampmark@gmail.com


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Friends And Foes: Mark Twain And The Newspaper

In October 1868, the 32-year-old newspaper writer Samuel L. Clemens traveled to Hartford, where a firm was publishing his first full-length book, "The Innocents Abroad: The New Pilgrim's Progress," a fat, hilarious, lyrical travel narrative.

Clemens, already known to most readers as Mark Twain, liked the place. He wrote to his San Francisco paper: "Of all the beautiful towns it has been my fortune to see this is the chief." At the same time he was falling in love with Hartford, he was falling in love with Olivia Langdon of Elmira, N.Y., a woman with many Hartford connections. By early 1869 they were engaged.

Anticipating financial help from his wealthy future father-in-law, and gambling that "The Innocents Abroad" would be a blockbuster, he proposed to The Hartford Daily Courant that the paper take him on as a shareholder.

It was the beginning of a relationship between Clemens and The Courant that Joseph Nunes of West Hartford, who is writing a history of the newspaper, calls "complicated." Clemens' relationship with the paper ran hot and cold — and one run-in between the newspaper and the world-famous author had reverberations that lasted well beyond his death.

The Courant was an increasingly powerful force in post-Civil War New England. Its vast, 30- by 46-inch pages (when opened fully) were scanned by the elite. Its owner and editor-in-chief, Gen. Joseph R. Hawley, had been a Civil War leader and Republican governor. With his college classmate Charles Dudley Warner, a failed lawyer who had literary ambitions, Hawley recently had bought the paper and merged it with the Hartford Evening Press.

The Courant hewed firmly to the Republican Party line. The party represented progress and radicalism, with a strong tradition of anti-slavery agitation — the party of Lincoln. But it was also quickly becoming the party of the rich and powerful in Hartford.

Investing in this paper in February 1869 would provide a superb pulpit for Clemens' talents, a brilliant move for "The Wild Humorist of the Pacific Coast," as he was then known. But sudden accommodation to outsiders was not habitual in the Land of Steady Habits, and certainly not at The Courant.

"I think the General would rather employ me than sell me an interest," Clemens wrote to a friend — "but that won't begin to answer, you know."

Hawley had to check with Warner — and Warner was on an extended tour of Europe. Three months later, Clemens wrote grumpily to his fiancee, "You see, I can't talk business to the Courant, for Warner is not home yet." He still hoped that "the book will possibly make me better known in New England & consequently more valuable to a newspaper."

Finally, in June, Warner returned and gave Clemens a lukewarm put-off: "Warner says he wishes he could effect a copartnership with me, but he doubts the possibility of doing it — will write me if anything turns up."

Clemens suspected, and Courant historian Nunes confirms, that Hawley and Warner had consulted with an editor who had known Clemens out West and didn't trust him, Samuel Bowles of the Springfield Republican. Clemens called Bowles "a cur."

Meanwhile, "The Innocents Abroad" appeared in July and was the blockbuster Clemens had hoped. "Very few will be able to read it without laughing at least half the time," Warner opined in the Courant, and in the next year and a half more than 82,000 readers bought the book and laughed. Clemens' royalties equaled more than $200,000 in today's money.

He was now a national figure, and The Courant took notice. Warner "forgot we had not yet come to any terms, & fell to appointing the work I should do on the paper," Clemens wrote his fiancee. Warner was too late. Clemens' future father-in-law had already loaned him money to buy a share in the Buffalo, N.Y., Evening Express.

The local elite expressed shock. "It afforded me a malicious satisfaction to hear all this & contrast it with the insultingly contemptuous indifference with which the very same matter was treated last June, (by every one of them)," Clemens wrote to Langdon. "Revenge is wicked, & unchristian & in every way unbecoming, & I am not the man to countenance it or show it any favor. (But it is powerful sweet, anyway.)"

Spelling Bees And A Swiped Umbrella

Clemens and his new wife ultimately came to Hartford in 1871. They rented a house on Forest Street, and set to work building the 29-room, High Gothic mansion that still flaunts its cornices, balconies and crazy-brick patterns over Farmington Avenue. In 1874 they moved in.

Warner, a neighbor and by now a good friend, sat by the Clemens fireside, and on one such occasion Susan Warner and Olivia Clemens challenged their literary husbands to write a novel together. So author and newspaper editor collaborated on "The Gilded Age," a sprawling tale of Washington corruption and crooked Western land deals. Hawley also became a friend, and a member with Clemens of the Monday Evening Club, which met in members' homes to hear literary and political talk.

"Journalism was important as a foundation for their friendship," says Nunes. "The first thing that struck [Clemens] about Hartford was the kind of erudition and gentlemanliness that The Courant fostered at a time when sensationalistic 'keyhole' journalism was just getting under way."

Clemens became The Courant's darling. Throughout the 1870s the newspaper reported the Clemenses' attendance at social events and fundraisers, such as a spelling bee at Asylum Hill Congregational Church in 1875.

"I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words," he was reported saying from the podium. "We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing. I have a correspondent whose letters are always a refreshment to me, there is such a breezy unfettered originality about his orthography. He always spells Kow with a large K."

The paper also provided a home for Clemens' always enjoyable letters to the editor. In one, he decried the constant tearing-up of Forest Street to work on water and gas lines, describing a group of pleasure-seekers attempting to travel the street by carriage: "In a little while they found themselves hopelessly entangled among the grading & gas-laying improvements, which have been going on in that street since the inauguration of the Christian Era. They shouted for help … The awful moment came at last; a great sea of sable mush swept the wagon from stem to stern, then the vehicle plunged once, twice, three times, & disappeared beneath the state with all its precious freight on board."

And in May 1875 he bought a famed classified ad after his umbrella was stolen at a baseball game on the South Meadows:

TWO HUNDRED & FIVE DOLLARS REWARD — At the great baseball match on Tuesday, while I was engaged in hurrahing, a small boy walked off with an English-made brown silk UMBRELLA belonging to me, & forgot to bring it back. I will pay $5 for the return of that umbrella in good condition to my house on Farmington avenue . I do not want the boy (in an active state) but will pay two hundred dollars for his remains. SAMUEL L. CLEMENS.

A Rupture Over Politics

Clemens' role as Courant court jester came to an end suddenly on June 6, 1884. He and friends were playing billiards on the third floor of his home while a butler relayed news of the Republican National Convention in Chicago through a speaking tube from the kitchen two floors down. (The butler was getting this news via telephone from Hartford Republican headquarters, which was getting it by telegraph, providing a kind of pre-electronic news feed.)

When the news came of the nomination of James G. Blaine for president, Clemens reported, "the butts of the billiard cues came down on the floor with a bump."

Hartford Republicans, with The Courant in the fore, had been excoriating the corrupt Blaine for two years. The men around the billiard table had to decide what to do. The guests decided they had to go with their party. No, said Clemens: "I said that no party had the privilege of dictating to me how I should vote."

The Courant turned 180 degrees to support Blaine and relegated Clemens to outer darkness.

Two weeks before the election a mass meeting of the "Independent Republicans" featured Clemens on the platform, excoriating Hawley for his hypocrisy. The Democratic Hartford Times reported the meeting at length and in detail on the front page; the Courant did not mention it. Warner — who "found himself unable to turn his pen in the other direction and proceed backwards," as Clemens later wrote — quietly started to sever his involvement with The Courant.

Clemens left Hartford in 1891, and in 1906 wrote that the newspaper "has never recovered its virtue entirely, though under Charles Hopkins Clark's editorship it has gotten back 90 per cent of it, by my estimate." Clark, who had once co-edited an anthology of American humor with Clemens, had succeeded Hawley and Warner.

Clemens died in 1910, and it became clear in the early 1920s that his opinion of Clark had been generous. A young Courant editor, Emile Gauvreau, heard that the Clemens house on Farmington Avenue was in danger of being demolished, and joined the campaign to save it.

The aged Clark, by now the publisher, was furious. The 1884 election was still fresh, in his eyes. "I think he must have been a Democrat all the time," Clark said, as reported by Gauvreau. "…What in the world possessed you to stir up all this mess about his house?" But the house was saved, a visible affirmation of Clemens' complicated relationship to the city's leading paper.

Steve Courtney is the author of "Joseph Hopkins Twichell: The Life and Times of Mark Twain's Closest Friend" (University of Georgia Press) and books on the Mark Twain House.

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BOYETT: City's first try to tax autos fell flat in 1913

The city of Henderson's first equivalent of a wheel tax quickly got crossways with the law back in 1913.

Most of you probably remember the wheel tax and the periodic checkpoints by the Henderson Police Department that enforced it. It took effect May 1, 1964, as a temporary 10-year measure, but was given new life in 1973 and stuck with us until it was phased out in 2000.

It generated lots of dissatisfaction, particularly from those who lived outside the city but had to pay it because they worked here. Salting the wound was the fact it started out at $10 a year in 1964 and gradually grew to $25.

The city's first attempt to levy a tax on automobiles was graduated: It cost $5 a year if your car had 20 horsepower or less, and was $10 if it did not exceed 30 horsepower, but was $15 for everything more powerful than that.

The Henderson City Council passed first reading of the new ordinance Feb. 4, 1913, and final reading Feb. 18; it was signed by the mayor and became effective the day after that.

It's kind of too bad the ordinance was thrown out by the courts, because it would have archived some great information about early car owners, which at this late date has been hard to come by. They had to list their name and address, provide a brief description of the vehicle, specify the manufacturer and style, as well as the horsepower.

And they also had to say whether the car was powered by electricity, steam or gasoline. The supremacy of the internal combustion engine had not been quite established by that point, although it was on the cusp.

It's not clear how many automobiles Henderson County had at that time. An April 17, 1910, article in The Gleaner said: "There are over 100 machines in the county, while five years ago there were only two."

I'm sure that number had increased considerably by 1913. That's probably one reason the city council decided to start taxing them.

One of the main reasons I'm writing about this controversy is that the ordinance was challenged by 36 automobile owners, all of whom were named. (I'll list them at the end of this piece so you don't have to wade through them unless you want to.)

The suit was filed by F.J. Pentecost, and supposedly he charged his clients $1.50 each to take on the case. He alleged that the city's ordinance was unconstitutional because of "the fact that the plaintiffs pay a state license, and to be compelled to pay a special license city tax would be double taxation," according to the Gleaner article of Feb. 27, 1913.

Mayor W.I. Thompson was a bit dismissive when he learned of the lawsuit. "I understand there are several names to the petition who have never listed their machines at all for city taxes (as personal property), and with them it is not a question of double taxation, but an effort to escape all taxation.

"If the gentlemen who filed the suit had been honest enough in the oath they made (in) their tax assessment to list their machines in anything like a fair cash valuation, the special license tax would never have been necessary."

The next day The Gleaner carried a story that noted 23 of the 36 plaintiffs in the case had "never listed their machines as ad valorum property for city taxes," the mayor pointed out. Furthermore, he said, "several names on the petition did not own cars" and that one of them owned a car but lived outside the city limits.

The Gleaner also said on Feb. 28 that there was little likelihood of the case being decided in that term of court, since it was ending, but Circuit Judge J.W. Henson surprised everyone and rushed it through in a expedited hearing.

The city's defeat was outlined in a front-page story published March 1. Pentecost argued that third-class cities were authorized to levy an occupational tax but that they did not have the power "to place a special license tax on vehicles that are used for private purposes."

The city's attorney, John C. Worsham, argued at length on the city's "general police powers" and cited several legal cases to back up his argument. When the judge ruled against him, he asked for permission to appeal, which was granted, but apparently no appeal was actually filed.

While striking down the tax, the judge made it clear that other portions of the ordinance remained in effect, such as requiring drivers to be at least 16 years old, setting a speed limit of 10 mph and allowing the city to levy a small fee to register vehicles.

Plaintiffs in the case included K.G. Lockett, J.M. Johnson, C.R. Sandefur, S.W. Norris, William Elliott, Von P. Pritchett, M.L. Katterjohn, J.L. Lambert, Ben O. Rash, John H. Hodge, J.H. Baskett, Clarence W. Mann, Ben T. White, Dr. M.C. Dunn, Thomas H. Fisher, Edward A. Wilson, James E. Rankin Jr., Charles Kramer, H.E. Henry, A.T. Kockritz, M.V. Denton, W.R. Conover, Charles Argue, Harbert L. King, Edwin Hodge Jr., E.W. Winstead, William H. Stites, E.R. Conway, Hugh H. Helm, Dr. W.V. Neel, Charles B. Williams, P.M. Schlamp, Mrs. W.H. Fitzhugh, Walter Quinn, Dr. William Floyd and W.T. Redman.

75 years ago

Capt. H.B. Carrico of Owensboro opened a post of the Salvation Army on the upper floor of 105 Second St., although it would not be ready to house transients until March 1, The Gleaner reported Feb. 3, 1938. Other objectives of the post were to provide religious activities and character building for young people.

The Salvation Army had first set up a post here in late 1906, but the current Center of Hope is a direct descendant of the 1938 post, which was also manned by Lt. O.J. Spence, H.S. Dahlman and James Mills, according to a Feb. 6 story.

50 years ago

Reports that some of the community's 25 establishments with pinball machines were paying off winners sparked concerns of a comeback of open gambling, The Gleaner reported in letters and stories published in early February of 1963.

The Feb. 8 edition carried a photo of two pinball machines at the Atkinson Park Pavilion that were being removed because of the concerns.

25 years ago

U.S. Rep. Carroll Hubbard said during a press conference here that his life had been threatened after he had testified before a grand jury in Bowling Green in late 1987 about drug trafficking in western Kentucky, The Gleaner reported Feb. 7, 1988. He said he had been notified of the threat on New Year's Day.

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Wild — A seed from plants that have not been domesticated; that is, not selectively bred by humans into a cultivar, although they may be raised in a garden environment for seed collecting. There are a few wild vegetable seeds available — wild arugula from France, wild strawberries, wild sunflowers, wild cardoon.

Heirloom — A plant that has been selectively bred into a cultivar through long years of small-scale farming in a restricted locale, often traceable to one farm or one family. An heirloom cultivar pollinated by another member of the same cultivar will produce offspring with the same characteristics. There are thousands upon thousands of unique heirloom vegetables found in small locals around the world.

Hybrid — A cultivar created through modern crossbreeding on a large scale, to enhance certain qualities such as size and appearance of fruit, tougher skins, certain flavor characteristics, higher yield and drought, insect and disease resistance. Hybrid plants usually produce seeds that either will not sprout or result in offspring that show random or none of the characteristics bred into the parent plant.

Organic — Seeds whose parent plants were grown and processed for seed collection organically. Organic seeds usually are more expensive, as are most organic products. There is an argument that organically grown seeds are better because of the "survival of the fittest" rule: The plants that grew with no chemical fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides to bear healthy seed pass their strong genes along to the offspring plants. To be certified organic, seeds may not be GMO and must be untreated.

Conventional — Not certified organic and may have been grown using conventional chemical pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers. Not being certified organic, however, does not mean that organic or natural processes weren't followed. Many smaller farms and seed producers simply can't afford the cost associated with certification or use chemicals only in extreme circumstances to save an endangered crop.

GMO and Non-GMO — GMO means "genetically modified organism." It is possible to scientifically insert genes that give a plant certain characteristics without going through the process of pollination and seed production. For example, one tomato was given resistance to freezing by inserting into its DNA a gene isolated from a cold-water fish. GMOs have proponents and opponents. One argument for a GMO such as drought-resistant, Roundup-ready corn is that less groundwater needs to be used for irrigation and fewer chemicals need be applied (Roundup disintegrates at the molecular level on contact with the soil and leaves no pollutants). One argument against GMOs is that, through random pollination by bugs and wind, the strange genes could enter the general food supply and wreak havoc among native plants. Others say GMOs have not been extensively tested for long enough to determine if they pose any long-term health risks to the consumer.

Open-pollinated — Pollinated naturally by bees, bugs, wind and so on. Most garden-grown plants have always been open-pollinated. Closed-pollination ensures that there will be no undesirable genetic crossing between cultivars, but the growing conditions that must be maintained are considered less "natural."

Non-Treated — Seeds are in their natural, cleaned state and have not been hot-water-sanitized, coated with bacteria or any chemical to kill pests, inhibit fungus during storage, foster easier sprouting or ensure higher germination.


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Jerry Taylor echos my point I made last week that supposedly conservative supporters of nuclear power are ignoring the problem of huge government subsidies.

There is an interesting phenomenon in public discourse that I don't have a name for.  Take nuclear power.  Many of the people who oppose nuclear power do so for some pretty flawed reasons.   I think there is a natural tendency to take the other side of the argument when one sees this happening, even if by first principles one should joining the opposition to nukes but for different reasons.

I know I was pulled into having some initial sympathy for the Iraq war for just this reason, because the war-opposition arguments seemed so stupid (e.g. France won't like us as much!)  The correct argument on Iraq was not that Iraq didn't suck (it did) but that so many countries suck just as bad it was an impossible task to start knocking them off using large portions of the US Military, thousands of lives, and trillions of dollars each time out  (I call it the "cleaning the Augean Stables argument).

  • NJConservative

    How much of the huge total cost is as a result of the hysteria that was created in this country by the anti-nuclear lunatics? Building a series of standardized reactors would obviously drive the cost per unit down significantly. The problem is that the regulatory, PR, and other costs are borne in full by each project. Fix that, and the cost of nuclear power will drop.

  • John Moore

    The strongest argument for the Iraq war was that Iraq posed a significant danger to us and our interests. Had we not gone into Iraq, it is very likely that by now Iraq would have had nuclear weapons (from the program in Libya that Qhadaffi gave up the day after he saw that Saddam had been captured). A. Q. Khan would also have still been operating his international trade in nukes. Saddam's out-of-control scientists might have sold bio or chem weapons to terrorists.

    David Kay (NBC interview):

    I think Baghdad was actually becoming more dangerous in the last two years than even we realized. Saddam was not controlling the society any longer. In the marketplace of terrorism and of WMD, Iraq well could have been that supplier if the war had not intervened.

    Look, I found no real connection between WMD and terrorists. What we did find, and as others are investigating it, we found a lot of terrorist groups and individuals that passed through Iraq.

    The danger that has been clearly visible since at least the early 90's, is that of Jihadis acquiring WMD's - chemical (kill a few thousand), nuclear( scare millions and ruin real estate through 'dirty bomb'), and biological (kill millions). In other words, WMD technology, like much other technology, has become more accessible and less expensive due to technological progress. That combined with the increase in Jihadism, a lethal ideology which justifies the killing of millions of innocents, represented a very real threat in 2003, and still does.

    The whole "WMD stockpiles" argument was a straw-man. Terrorists are unlikely to use hundreds of tons of nerve agent, but they can quite dangerously use a few liters (put in bug sprayer or better aerosolizer, spray into air intake of large building).

    Whether all of this is enough to justify our involvement is an open question, but to ignore these issues is to mis-characterize the situation.

    The same argument applied then, and more-so now, to Iran, although Iran's government might be more rational. Iraq, however, was a far easier target, having a significantly smaller population.

  • Methinks

    The correct argument on Iraq was not that Iraq didnâ€™t suck (it did) but that so many countries suck just as bad it was an impossible task to start knocking them off using large portions of the US Military...

    That argument is not correct. It's as bad as the France won't like us anymore argument.

    There are lots of countries that suck just as bad as Iraq, but they aren't all sitting atop a critical commodity, lead by a someone who openly declares that when he gets the chance he will acquire nuclear warheads so that he can take over his oil producing neighbours and was actively working to pursue that end. The rest of the world (including the occupied countries) would have been at his mercy if he were successful. Thus, it is easier to fight him now than it will be in the future (and a fight we were getting). That is the "correct" argument for the war and the only reason I supported it. Mugabe sucks, but he simply lacks the ambition and ability to wreak such havoc on the whole planet and that's why your argument falls flat.

    Basically, I'm saying that war sucks. However, if war is unavoidable (and it looked like Saddam was going to have one sooner or later), it's cheaper to fight it while the enemy is relatively weak. Is it actually cheaper to do what we did instead of another alternative (mostly attempts at containment)? We will never know for sure. But, that is the nature of decision making - you only know the path you took.

  • Evil Red Scandi

    I've heard it alleged that a significant factor in the cost is the regulatory aspect and legal wrangling / red tape - that this actually exceeds the cost of the actual construction. Does anybody know anything about this?

  • Quint X

    The United States essentially put Saddam Hussein in power to be a foil for Iran. He was serving this function quite well. Now that he is gone, Iran has surged forward to occupy the power vacuum his toppling created. Iran is far more dangerous than Iraq ever thought about being. This is the primary reason why, IMO, attacking Iraq was a bad idea.

  • http://http// John Moore

    The United States essentially put Saddam Hussein in power to be a foil for Iran.

    Does ignorance have upper bounds? The idea QX just stated is absurd. It is not true, not even close to true. The only faint tie to reality it has is that, when Iran became a threat to us, we gave the already-in-power Saddam intelligence aid which he used against the Iranians. We also sold the Iranians anti-tank missiles which they used against Saddam (the TOW missiles of Iran Contra fame).

    But, arguendo, let's assume that the absurd assertion is true. Would it make any difference to the rightness of the policy of getting rid of him?

  • Pat Moffitt

    Someone should really come up for a name for this phenomena perhaps the latrans syndrome. The public seems to be offered but two choices distilled down to a fallacy "If he's wrong I have to be right"
    It fits with the benefits afforded by group cover--and many of the abuses endemic to the right and left.

    The water issue in California is an example. The right spins it as the lunatics left concern over a small fish depriving farmers the water they need to survive. The left defends their position by citing the importance of each and everyone of life's species. Both sides are rent seekers. The public pays the bill no matter who wins or loses.

    Subsidized water is used callously to grow rice in a desert. The rice has no real market value. The rice would not nor could not be grown without rice subsidies. The water subsidies perversely justify the rice subsidies and vice versa.

    The control of water is also at the heart of this problem (the movie China Town gives a good flavor) and the fact that if any user stops wasting water it is punished by losing its rights to future water. So the public is asked to pay for subsidies for the water, pay for the rice, pay for the law suits over the lack of water and the studies to save the fish. The only loser in this system is the taxpayer.

    Were even the slightest market costs applied to water we would go a long way to providing sufficient water for the high value crops, development and for the fish.

    Perhaps we should stop seeing each issue as them against us and look closer at the issues to see if in reality it is in reality -Them and Them Against Us.

  • epobirs

    What George Friedman of STRATFOR argues in his book on the events leading up to the war, is that Iraq was chosen as a place to set about changing the Islamic world and creating an opposition to Bin Laden and his ilk. Perhaps ill conceived, and definitely ill executed, the conflict was about the larger problem of Islam vs. Everybody Else rather than any specific offense Saddam might commit.

  • IgotBupkis

    > Does ignorance have upper bounds? The idea QX just stated is absurd.

    Indeed. QX is a blatant moron. Hans Blix (hardly a Bush shill) himself openly stated that, at the start of the war, that Saddam had the capacity to be producing both Botulism and Anthrax within 180 days of the lifting of sanctions. Those sanctions were being rapidly eroded by the billions and billions in bribes that Saddam was stealing from Oil-for-Food moneys. The sanctions would not possibly have lasted another two years, and likely not another single year. So that means that, as of early 2006, had Saddam not been removed, he would have profligate quantities of both BT and Anthrax to provide to terrorists, while retaining plausible deniability. "What? No, we didn't give anyone any of that! How do you know it was from our supplies? What? Clearly derived from our strains? Oh, well, then, they must have stolen it!" And so we would have had a major WMD attack in the USA within another year or two, so 2006, 2007, or 2008 -- if not sooner than that, since I've been using the "best case" numbers to get to this point.

    Let us also not forget that, of the six known terrorist training camps in the world, three of them -- 50% -- operated out of Iraq.

    In the meantime, it's 2010, and Iran is STILL not yet a direct threat. Ergo. Iraq *was* the correct target of the two.

    Further, if Obama was doing as he should be doing, and providing as much support as possible for "regime change" in Iran via the protests, then Iran might not even be a threat at all at this point. That's an "if", granted, but it's not an unreasonable assertion, and there IS, in fact, still time for that to take place and for the Iranian people to step back from the nuclear brink.

    Because the real fact of the matter is that Muslims fail to grasp that we are, indeed, rich and indolent and lazy, but that's a veneer, not a deep rot. If they attempt to go toe to toe with the West, they will lose, lose badly, and the results will be most unpretty. And The West will feel Real Bad About That after we go all medieval on their asses. But Go Medieval we will.

  • John Cheek

    I would propose "Maudlin Govt Meddling",but I worry about an underlying agenda.What better way for enviros to control the nuclear industry that they hate.How about"Back Door Fascism"?

  • rxc

    @evil red scandi: You should read my comments in the earlier post about these subsidies. There were increases in costs due to "regulatory issues" during the first round of building, but that was not the only reason. Anti-nukes were responsible for a LOT of the cost overruns, as they drove the builders to install additional equipment that they (the anti-nukes) thought was important, and because of the litigation that this involved. A lot of the extra costs came from the fact that the plants were not completely designed when construction started, were not standardized designs (there are essentially 103 different nuclear power plants operating in the US, compared to a handful of different designs in France), and interest rates in the late 70s/early 80s were outrageously high.

    The anti-nukes are not going away. I saw one of their leaders come to every important meeting at the NRC where the new designs were discussed. He made sure that he heard and understood all of the discussions between the designers and the regulators, and he will certainly use those disagreements against the new plants.

    In addition, there are still a number of technical issues that are not resolved for these new designs, and there are a number of significant systems whose design is not complete (I&C, for example). FInally, there is a need for nuclear-qualified suppliers, who just do not exist in the US. Many of the delays in the first generation of plants arose from whistleblowers who complained about lack of quality. The Finns and the French are having problems getting contractors to pour nuclear-grade concrete, and if you have whistle-blowers complaining about concrete voids, you are bound to have delays and increases in costs.

    The nuclear industry needs to be revived because it is a good source of energy. It can be used to convert coal and water into liquid fuels that cannot be replaced by electric power from windmills. It can be used to replace gas-powerplants, which are burning a very valuable resource as a dumb heat source. But the nuclear industry cannot be revived by attempts to throw money at it. It needs a decision by the country that it is going to support it, and not allow nay-sayers and second-guessers to stand in the way. And here I include both the anti-nukes and people like Mr. Taylor, who want to just leave it to the market, which can be manipulated by people who have their own best interests at heart to make anything seem like a bad idea. His use of the phrase "light water breeder reactors" shows that he has no idea what he is talking about, because none of the proposed plants are light water breeders - in fact, the only light water breeder was the Shippingport Plant, designed by the Rickover organization.

    Once the country decides to build these plants, it needs to be done by organizations with experience constructing and operating them, and not by anyone who can write a check or con a banker into signing one. It will take time to build up the infrastructure to support it.

    The waste issue is a red herring â€“ someone should ask the anti-nukes what they are going to do with all of those fiberglass windmill blades when they need to be replaced â€“ the metal parts can be recycled, but I donâ€™t know of anyone who recycles fiberglass. And there are a LOT of windmill blades out there. I just read an article about the abandoned windmills in California, and it is not pretty.

    Sorry to take so much space, but this is not a simple matter that can be resolved with words or money. It will take committment and a long term view of the world, which is not common in the US.

  • Kris

    This kind of reminds me of the argument that global warming can't exist because it's a cold winter. Or that we should find alternatives to fossil fuels because of global warming. One winter in the pool of data is almost negligible, and as I understand it, colder winters and/or increased snowfall aren't necessarily opposed to the theory of climate change. And we should move away from fossil fuels because they are limited, and a real alternative would make fortunes. I don't know why people support otherwise legitimate positions with bullshit arguments, but it seems to happen a lot.

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The coywolf is currently most commonly called “eastern coyote”. However, recent research suggests that this animal is both genetically and morphologically intermediate to western coyotes and eastern wolves. So, even though most people refer to these canids in the Northeast simply as “coyotes”, their background is much more complex and recent science states that we should more properly call this animal coywolf. It is important to note that this hybridization episode did not occur recently; rather, the animal has always been a hybrid of two different closely related species since it colonized the Northeast US starting 50-70 years ago (and now, they are found throughout the region). Initially they were called coydog, then eastern coyote, but we now know that coywolf is the most appropriate descriptor of this animal because the original wolf found in the Northeast was most probably the smallish (~60 pound) eastern wolf (Canis lycaon), which is very closely related to (and possibly the same species as) the red wolf (Canis rufus). The eastern wolf is actually more closely related to western coyotes than they are to the larger gray (western) wolf (Canis lupus). Thus, the coywolf has “native” wolf genes and got here on its own four feet: it therefore should not be considered non-native or invasive. Furthermore, it is questionable if the gray wolf actually ever lived in the Northeast, or if the eastern wolf and possibly gray/eastern wolf hybrids (which are common in the Great Lakes states, Canis lupus x C. lycaon) were endemic to this region.

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Common/vernacular names: coywolf, coyote, eastern coyote, northeastern coyote, brush wolf, coydog, new wolf, Tweed wolf.

Scientific classification: formerly Canis latrans var.; currently Canis latrans x C. lycaon.

Food habits: small to medium sized mammals such as mice/voles, rabbits, and woodchucks, all the way to deer including fawns of the year and sometimes even adults (mostly in late winter/early spring).

Size: 30-55 pounds, average 32-40 pounds

4-5 feet long from nose to tail tip

Tracks (heel to claw tip): 3 – 3.5 inches (occasionally 3.75 inches)

Range: Northeast US and Southeastern Canada

1. Coywolf Range

Map of contemporary Canis (coyotes and wolves) in North America focusing around northeastern Coyote/Coywolf range. Note: map reflects approximate locations of locations of where various Canis can be found. Dashed lines (e.g., southern Ontario) include probable zone of hybridization between northeastern Coyotes and Eastern Wolves and western Coyotes and northeastern Coyotes. Question marks and dashed line at south edge of northeastern coyote range reflects uncertainty in mid-Atlantic United States of where northeastern Coyote range ends and southern wave of western Coyote expansion continues. Boundaries should not be considered static as there is hybridization between canids at the edges of their respective ranges.

2. Body Mass Comparisons of Western Coyote, Eastern Coyotes (Coywolves), and Eastern Wolves

Ranges of body masses (kg) of western Coyotes, eastern Coyotes/Coywolves, and Eastern Wolves showing that Coywolves are intermediate to the two other types of canids.

3. Comparison of Body Mass of “Coyotes” (including Coywolves) based on Latitude and Longitude. Figures show that Longitude (i.e., degrees East to West) has four times the variability that Latitude (i.e., South to North) has. Thus, “Coyotes” are bigger the further east they go not the further north.

Coyote body masses (kg) in different regions of North America correlated with longitude: Male coyote body masses and longitude.

Coyote body masses (kg) in different regions of North America correlated with latitude: Male coyote body masses and latitude.

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The state House Commerce Committee is expected to debate a bill Tuesday aimed at speeding up the process of switching power suppliers.

Rep. Robert Godshall, R-53, Hatfield, and Sen. Lisa Boscola, D-18, Bethlehem, have circulated co-sponsorship memos for legislation that would reduce the 16 to 45 days it can take to change power suppliers. This lag time has left customers paying high power bills after already deciding to switch suppliers, the legislators said.

Godshall said he has heard stories from constituents and colleagues who report customers signing up for a low 6-cent-per-kWh power rate, only to have that rate expire after a month and jump to as high as 30 cents per kWh.

"It currently takes up to one full billing cycle for a customer to change electric suppliers. This is much too long and results in customers being stuck with high rates for a period of time after they request to be switched to another supplier," he wrote in his sponsorship memo. "I fully support the concept of electric competition but believe that the current process can be improved to provide additional consumer protections to mitigate future occurrences of 'rate shock.'"

Godshall's legislation would also include significant consumer protections. That includes requiring specific information be contained in all supplier contracts and that this information is provided in an easily readable and understandable manner, he said.

His bill also would place a cap on the amount by which a rate may change under a variable rate contract, prohibit cancellation and early termination fees for variable rate contracts and require the posting of current and historic rates on the PA Power Switch website.

Boscola's measure would focus only on the time it takes to switch suppliers.

"My legislation would direct the (Public Utility Commission) to develop regulations to shorten the current time frame for switching suppliers, not to exceed one billing cycle," she wrote in her sponsorship memo.

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The Richard Blanco Debate

Richard Blanco’s inaugural poem, “One Today,” sucked. Take the first stanza, which manages to be at once portentous, vaguely imperialistic, and dull:

One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores,
peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces
of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth
across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies.
One light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story
told by our silent gestures moving behind windows.

This is Manifest Destiny via a 1984 Reagan-Bush campaign commercial, with the jingoism muted to a relatively inoffensive level. It was a slog, a snooze, an anodyne mélange of pale Woody Guthrie knock-offs coupled with inoffensive nods to Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Sandy Hook Massacre. Throw in the palaver of “hello, shalom,/buon giorno, howdy, namaste, or buenos días/in the language my mother taught me,” which name-checks linguistic diversity without saying much about it, and one has a fairly bog-standard, bloodless, mainstream centrist-to-liberal political poem.

But so what? Most inaugural poems suck, as voices across cyberspace have reminded us. It is probably also true that it’s hard being beautiful, but don’t try to get much sympathy out of ugly people with that assertion. Still, the poem’s sub-mediocrity was hardly shocking. Meanwhile, the debate over the public role of poetry that ensued was even more limp than Blanco’s poem itself, a rehash of the “who killed poetry and can it matter, anyway” debate that everyone who follows contemporary poetry is a bit bored of — only a bit louder and a bit cruder.

The telling high-profile (as these things are reckoned) exchange began with Alexandra Petri’s gut-bustingly unfunny bit of snark on the Washington Post website, which was chock-a-block with such damning putdowns as this:

There are about six people who buy new poetry, but they are not feeling very well. I bumped very lightly into one of them while walking down the sidewalk, and for a while I was terrified that I would have to write to eleven MFA programs explaining why everyone was going to have to apply for grants that year. The last time I stumbled upon a poetry reading, the attendees were almost without exception students of the poet who were there in the hopes of extra credit. One of the poems, if memory serves, consisted of a list of names of Supreme Court justices.

Burn! No, wait! Petri’s evidence appears to be: a single, shitty reading she may (or may not) have attended a while back, coupled with rather generic kvetches about the MFA program culture. It’s not news that poetry books tend to sell fewer copies than celebrity cookbooks or tomes on pet accessorizing for the ultra-rich (my books have both sold well into the triple digits, and I’m not even some overrated flavor of the month with Establishment buzz at my back and diarrhea jokes in my mouth). This is the same crap that journalistic hacks have been throwing at contemporary poetry for decades based, usually, on superficial readings of small numbers of poems. Yawn.

That Petri, as someone with no particular background (or apparent interest) in poetry is able to rattle off lobotomized versions of arguments that one has heard from the likes of Joseph Epstein to Donald Hall to Dana Gioia indicates how tired and overplayed the “death of poetry” debate is. She, as a back-bench pundit, can retch out approximations of the usual arguments with little apparent knowledge of the source material. Blowing apart this claptrap should be about as easy as wasting a beached dolphin with a bazooka.

John Deming, the editor of Coldfront, managed to score a flesh wound in an insipid essay that Salon picked up. After rattling off a variation of the equally facile “beautiful but useless” idea that David Orr used in his interminable defense of the poetic status quo recently, Deming argues that:

Poetry changes things every day for many thousands of people in this country. (You [Petri] claim “six.” I guess that is a “joke.”) So many of these poets are devoted not only to their craft, but to publishing magazines, to starting presses, to finding their way in a thriving, diverse, multifaceted, multi-talented, international community.

Burn! No, wait. So if poetry gives me and others pleasure, it makes a difference in some inchoate way. Isn’t that sweet? The same, however, could be said for amateur pornography, the Arthurian Order of Avalon, and the Linux operating system. Surely poetry does something—or can do something—different from any of these.

Eric Norris neatly eviscerated Deming—on Facebook, naturally—when he wrote that Deming’s rejoinder:

…comes off just as stupid and poorly reasoned as Alexandra Petri’s attack on contemporary poetry in the Washington Post, and for the same reason: it provides zero evidence that poetry being written today is better, worse or equal to the poetry written, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2000, or 3000 years ago…. If he thinks Anne Carson (or anybody else) is a peer of Emily Dickinson (to propose a test case) he should be able to show us why…. All I require as a reader is a rational argument. This is really not an advanced concept. This is Composition 101: assertions require evidence.

And indeed, Deming’s evidence largely consists of name-dropping—and do we really want Dana Levin acting as a key exhibit for the vitality of American poetry?

Both Deming and Petri implicitly equate “poetry” with the effusions of the MFA programs, the winners of the associated contests, and the books emerging from the resulting swamp to eat the brains of an unsuspecting public. While Deming alludes to the more participatory side of poetry, he drastically underplays it—poetry is consumed as spoken-word, as recording, as video, a lot of which does quite well outside the MFA system. Perhaps the “po-biz” moniker has become a bit of a cliché, but it does continue to have some explanatory power—though one should not assume that everything in it is crap any more than that what lies outside it is any good. Poetry can, and does, allow us to shape and concentrate the language that we use, to marry sound and sense in a uniquely concentrated way. The kids at the slams, the open mic readers at Carmine St. Metrics, and, hell, my mother understand this better than Petri, Deming, and, judging by his rhetorically wilted inaugural poem, Richard Blanco.

Can poetry change anything? Sure. It’s changed the way I think, the way I express myself, the tightness of my trousers. It has wreaked havoc on my sleep, caused my bookshelves to bulge dangerously. Yes, poetry can change rather a lot. Go to a reading at the Nuyorican, and whether the poetry’s to your taste or not (and it often isn’t to mine), one can’t deny that the audience is into it. Will Richard Blanco’s poem change anything? Probably not. Will the ensuing discussion? At the official level, probably not. After all, an inauguration is (by its nature) a festival of the accomplished fact. Perhaps, though, we can finally dispense with these tiresome discussions about whether or not poetry is dead, in a coma, too politically correct, and all the rest. If Blanco’s lackluster poem gives us that, he will have done poetry a great service.

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6 Responses to “The Richard Blanco Debate”

  1. Sam Gwynn says:

    I take up this matter, albeit more generally, in the upcoming issue of the Hudson Review.

  2. Greg Grummer says:

    I wish poetry cared half as much about us as we care about it, and thought half as hard about whether we exist and are a good, useful, prosperous thing as we wonder those things about it. We don’t need to worry after the health of poetry. But I do worry that poetry isn’t worrying after the health of us.

  3. Charles Coe says:

    There was something about Blanco’s poem for the Inauguration that left me unsettled and unsatisfied. But I doubted my instincts because, well Geez…this is the guy chosen to write a poem for the President’s party. And everybody was talking about how amazing a poem it was, so who is little old me to be a spoilsport? Thanks for giving shape to my unease providing much food for thought on the endless “does poetry matter” question.

  4. It is hard to see the forest of the present state of poetry while dancing in the middle of it. I have written about 7000 poems the past 25 years yet published only about 6. I am now writing an epic in blank verse about scientists currently at 59,000 lines. I am constantly reading poetry from all eras, including all the old obscure narrative epics I can find, as well as verse from all around the world, ancient and contemporary. I feel we are in a very prolific period of poetry writing. Even though I am totally outside the MFA academy po-biz world, unknown, unread, and unreviewed, yet I am very excited to be participating in my own small way. I love writing poems and will till I die soon enough.

  5. Excellent. Refreshingly intelligent, boldly stated truth. Thanks!

  6. Toni Seger says:

    I felt sorry for Blanco because he seemed like a nice person who’d been chosen, purely for political reasons, to fulfill a task he simply wasn’t up to. The silence about his poetry that followed his national debut, which was nationally televised, was deafening while everyone kept their chatter to the brilliant choice of a gay Hispanic.

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