Not politics - Pynchon (bombs)

[Joe Allonby]

They shot a cop in a bank robbery about two blocks from where I'm typing
this.

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
> wrote:

> there are a lot of good books reviewing the Weather Underground
> and a couple of videos
>
> what I came away with from looking at a few of them was
>
> they managed to not kill a lot of people (I'm thinking zero, but that
> could be wrong)
>
> they got some impressive targets
>
> their statements indicate they were reacting from understandable
> outrage at the unimaginably
> evil bombing of Cambodia
>
> they didn't accomplish a whole heck of a lot
>
> they could easily have been provocateurs, in that their actions justified
> draconian enforcement AND took attention away from Amerikka's SE Asia
> murders
>
> oh, a-and that Mark Rudd went on to become a community college math
> teacher!
>
>
>
> On 10/7/08, Glenn Scheper <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > From a political email...
> >
> >  During The Time Obama And Ayers Served Together On The Woods Fund, Ayers
> Was
> >  Quoted Saying "I Don't Regret Setting Bombs ... I Feel We Didn't Do
> Enough." "'I
> >  don't regret setting bombs,' Bill Ayers said. 'I feel we didn't do
> enough.' Mr.
> >  Ayers, who spent the 1970's as a fugitive in the Weather Underground,
> was
> >  sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house
> in the
> >  Hyde Park district of Chicago." (Dinitia Smith, "No Regrets For A Love
> Of
> >  Explosives," The New York Times, 9/11/01)
> >   -- file://PastedText/854250
> >
> >  ==========
> >
> >  BTW, a hiatus in my help(?) on the TMoP read:
> >
> >  I got a local apt w/o web access yet;
> >  I fled work when the wife showed up.
> >
> >  I'm in a small town that is sooo cool!
> >
> >  I saw a town parade, and knew two people in it.
> >
> >  I dropped in at a van there to give blood for the
> >  first time (although postponed due to anitbiotics).
> >
> >  I'm walking around in a relaxed, loving spirit,
> >  and people are very cordial.
> >
> >  A scary looking bulked ethnic flashed me "peace".
> >
> >  I got my first real cheeseburger at a local joint.
> >  "I've been victimized by McDonalds all these years."
> >
> >  A local emporium--not Walmart--has everything.
> >  I even saw a pair of welding googles.
> >  I got a wine bottle opener, and other needful things.
> >
> >  Some friends with a business set me up in a spare office with Internet.
> >
> >  A man gave me a guava off his tree this morning.
> >
> >  I'm checking out Toastmasters tomorrow evening.
> >
> >  Yours truly,
> >  Glenn Scheper
> >  http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
> >
> > glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
> >  Copyleft(!) Forward freely.
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> "He ain't crazy, he's a-makin' pottery" - Finley Pater Dunne
>
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