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BLOG, AKA ONLINE NEWSLETTER: Sign Up to Receive Monthly Article Alerts Selected E-mails to the Editor ARCHIVES: ARCHIVE A: Access Past Mark Satin Articles, 2005- Present ARCHIVE B: Access Past Mark Satin Articles, 1999- 2004 ARCHIVE X: Access Past John Avlon Articles, 2004-06 RADICAL MIDDLE, THE BOOK: RESPOND TO OUR ARTICLES AND VIEW OTHERS' RESPONSES: Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2008 Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2007 Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2006 Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2005 Feisty Letters to the Editor, 2002-04 Feisty Letters to the Editor, 1999-2001 WHO WE ARE: About the Editor (In-House Version) About the Editor (By Marilyn Ferguson) About Our Wonderful Pledgers -- and How You Can Join Them About Our Directors and Advisors About Our Sponsor, the Center for Visionary Law RADICAL MIDDLE CONGRES- SIONAL SCORECARDS: 109th and 110th Congresses (2005-08) RADICAL MIDDLE POLITICAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS: SOME PRIOR RADICAL MIDDLE BOOKS: 50 Best "Third Way" Books of the 1990s 25 Best "Transformational" Books of the 1980s 25 Best "New Age Politics" Books of the 1970s SOME PRIOR BOOKS BY MARK SATIN: New Options for America (book drawn from New Options News- letter, 1983-92) |
August 15, 2005 -- Mark Satin, Editor Katrina's two-part message . . . a 100-word editorial Here is an e-mail we received last year from Ms. Yvonne Hamm of Metairie, Louisiana, just outside New Orleans. Pay special attention to the P.S.: You liberal Godless sh--heads are poisoning the minds of the people that are stupid enough to pay attention to the worthless folks that you are. I feel sorry for you and those like you. You make me sick!! P.S. Please stick your baseless environmental issues and shove them up your a--. Rush Limbaugh has your kind pegged. Hopefully even Ms. Hamm would now acknowledge that part of Katrina's message is "liberal": the environment must be a paramount concern. Global warming is real, and so is the need for environmentally appropriate infrastructure. The other part of Katrina's message is "conservative," though. We desperately need to reinvent government at all levels so it's more flexible and imaginative and efficient, even if that means constraining the power of the public employee unions (biggest stumbling block to the federal "reinventing government" initiatives of the 1990s). Can we broaden ourselves enough to absorb both parts of that message? |
THE RADICAL MIDDLE CONCEPT: Over 40 Good People (Try to) Describe the Radical Middle 50 Best Radical Middle Books of the '00s (so far) Ten Best Radical Middle Magazines, annotated Over 20 Arguably Radical Middle National POLITICIANS GREAT RADICAL MIDDLE GROUPS AND BLOGS: NEW: Over 50 Great Radical Centrist Blogs - all with their bloggers named and described! NOT JUST RADICAL MIDDLE: Ten Best U.S. Political Novels, annotated 25 RED- HOT RADICAL MIDDLE INITIATIVES: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Information Technology & Innovation Foundation Institute for Alternative Futures National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation Republican Main Street Partnership SOME PRIOR RADICAL MIDDLE INITIATIVES: Generational Equity and Communitarian platforms,1990s U.S. Green Party's "Ten Key Values" statement, 1980s Civil Rights Movement, 1960s (your editor is HERE, 6th from bottom) |