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Thu 7 Aug 2008

Gore Vidal Interview

Thursday, Aug 7th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Categories: Voting; Politics; Vidal, Gore
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“There are no American political parties … because we have none, we have no opposition to those who rule us.”

Gore Vidal

We don’t have political parties, let’s begin with that. And we’ve never had them since John Adams said “I want a nation of laws, not of men.” Well that’s very lofty, of course, but what he meant was he didn’t want faction. Well, faction is political parties. Now, without faction you don’t have any kind of, well, motion going within the state … we’re suffering from it now.

- Gore Vidal, interview (wmv format) - via The Young Turks

See also:

Wikipedia: What Went Wrong in Ohio by John Conyers.

Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio: Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff (pdf)

Henry Rollins Interviews Gore Vidal @ YouTube



Wed 28 Nov 2007

Norman Mailer Tribute

Wednesday, Nov 28th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Categories: Mailer, Norman; Robbins, Tom; Vidal, Gore
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Norman Mailer
“Norman Mailer. Relentless radical, ultimate hipster, pugilist poseur, feminist scourge, outrageous rake. Think of him what you will, his like will not pass this way again.”
- Tom Robbins

[T]ake it from this child of the sixties, someone who cheerfully passed over his last four or five door-stopping novels, but who devoured every word of The Naked and the Dead, Barbary Shore, The Deer Park, An American Dream, Why Are We in Vietnam?, and most of the big journalistic tomes: No one, with the possible exception of Bob Dylan, loomed larger in the imagination of my particular generational faction than Norman Mailer.

- Tom Robbins @ Village Voice: link.

The Furious Passions of Norman Mailer

Each time he speaks he must become more bold, more loud, put on brighter motley and shake more foolish bells. Yet of all my contemporaries I retain the greatest affection for Norman as a force and as an artist.

- Gore Vidal @ 10 Zen Monkeys: link.

Wikipedia: Norman Mailer