> Things are getting mighty strange on the so-called left. I just read
> this in the new Counterpunch (an item I believe that the CP editor on
> this list had nothing to do with, which is another way of saying it
> was written by Alexander Cockburn):
>
> "One of the pleasures of talking to Larry Pratt, executive director
> of the Gun Owners of America, is hearing Charlton Heston denounced as
> a chardonnay-swilling Hollywood sellout....
> Pratt's solution to the schoolyard killings: Let the teachers bear
> arms, just like they do in South Africa, where on instructor recently
> gunned down a bellicose student...."
I had to read that one twice to make sure I wasn't missing some irony -- I wasn't. Then there is his paen to Jesse Ventura on the back page. Pretty strange left indeed.
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Joseph Noonan jfn1 at msc.com