[lbo-talk] children losing sleep over cliamte change

[John Adams]

On Apr 28, 2007, at 5:39 PM, James Heartfield wrote:

> I have always thought that Alexander Cockburn was very smart, and 
> nothing
> would make me happier to be in the same club as such an idiot.

The one time I met him, back in '86, I was riding up the elevator to 
_The Nation_'s office and wondered who the guy in the shorts and the 
Hawaiian shirt (if I remember correctly) was. Then the receptionist in 
the office called him Alex, and I was a bit too in awe of him to 
introduce myself. I guess I didn't really meet him, then, did I?

Anyway, I was so in awe because he had such a corruscating way of 
slamming the swine that run the world. Over the years, the ability to 
criticize has become less important to me than the ability to 
oppose--not that criticism isn't useful, but it just isn't enough, and 
it seems to me that Cockburn doesn't have much more than that.

> Related to Claud Cockburn, I wonder? Or Cynthia?

Claud's son--it's where the title of his column, "Beat the Devil", 
comes from. I think it's one of Bogart's lesser vehicles--I've got a 
tape somewhere, but never watched it.

All the best,

	John A