The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

Matthew Keeley · 18 Mar 2009, 19:35 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com (Matthew Keeley)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:35:46 -0400
Subject: (urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Son of Witz
<sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
>
> As a complete aside, it's quite interesting to talk about this stuff with
> y'all. ?It's too easy to end up in an echo chamber, especially when you live
> in SF. ?It's hard to even find self-proclaimed conservatives here. ?I'm
> pretty damn liberal, but living in SF long enough will make you gag at some
> of the thoughtless knee-jerk (not to mention arrogant) liberal attitudes.
>
> ~witz

I was in SF a few weeks back and, though I expected it to be very
liberal, I was surprised by some of the goings-on I heard about. The
trip I was on visited Alcatraz. Great, and interesting from a
historical perspective. Only later did I read about the plan - THAT
ACTUALLY MADE THE CITY BALLOT - to tear down the prison and replace it
with a peace center. Only 72% of people in the city voted against it.

http://www.globalpeacefoundation.org/AlcatrazConversion.html

-Matt, too much of a historian to countenance demolishing historic sites

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