On the Unpopularity of Leftish TV shows....

[Dennis Breslin]

> Years ago, at an URPE summer camp, Alex Cockburn picked up a copy of 
> Against the Current bearing the headline "Stop The Killings!" (Can't 
> remember which killings these were - and ATC liked the headline so 
> much, they used it again recently.) AC said - "This embodies 
> everything that's wrong with left journalism. Can't we have a few of 
> our killings?"
> 
> Doug

When asked why he didn't write funny songs anymore, Tom Lehrer
replied that asking him to do that was a lot like asking residents of 
Pompeii for humorous comments on lava.  

Dennis Breslin