No apology necessary as far as I see it. It is important to freely express what you feel and think. I did not take offense at anything, just questioned some of it. I am looking forward to meeting you and Doyle.
The symposium is probably going to be packed with a bunch of lawyer types anyway. I'm mischievously looking forward to blowing their minds in the tradition of Angela Davis.
Marta Russell
Chuck Grimes wrote:
> Apologies to Marta and Doyle.
>
> What you heard was the anger of listening to all sorts of nonsense for
> the last two decades on all these issues. I am no longer very rational
> about any of it--just spent too long watching an entire community
> destroyed by twenty years of stupid and malicious reactionary policies,
> while the clueless bourgeois stood around with their thumb up their
> collective ass. Gee, we never knew. Dot, dot, dot.
>
> Well, you get the idea. We don't have to do anything for breakfast,
> except eat and enjoy ourselves. I promise to be civil, even
> cheerful. Besides I won't be able to make the conference--probably
> charge too much anyway--but I want to hear what went on.
>
> Tonight I was re-reading chp 9, ADA in the New World Order, and
> tripping on the names from Evan Kemp and Liz Savage to Larry
> Scadden. Jesus. The last meaningful work I did was help design and
> write a proposal to Scadden at NSF to develop education and training
> materials for blind HS and lower division college science students. It
> was finally approved and is struggling along on some kind of
> half-assed funding at SFSU. Kemp died a couple of years ago. Not a bad
> sort of guy--but definitely sleazy.
>
> Take care,
>
> Chuck