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Even though I'm still a registered Republican, I'm a North-East Republican. Moderate Republicans are sometimes called "Rockefeller Republicans," after Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller. Rockefeller was Governor of New York when I was in High School, and my father was a liberal Republican. That wasn't a dirty word back then, and I'd like to see it return. That's why I support Tom Campbell for Senator.
I supported Tom Campbell when he was running for Governor, and I was very annoyed when he switched his campaign to Senator. I don't like the choices for Governor on either side now.
I don't like rich people trying to buy their way into political office. I don't like it when Meg Whitman does it, or Carly Fiorina, or even Steve Poisner. At least Poisner has some experience and some good ideas, when he steps back from the mudslinging to explain them.
Whitman may have done a good job running eBay, but we've already seen that just because someone is successful in business it doesn't mean they can run a state government. Arnold Schwarzenegger came charging into Sacramento as the Governator, but he found out that running a state government isn't the same as making fantasy action movies. I don't want Meg Whitman to learn at our expense that she can't ax State Senators and Assemblymen the way she could fire ineffective employees at eBay.
Either Poisner or Brown would be my choice for Governor not a great choice, but at least a pair who might be able to handle the job. I didn't like Jerry Brown when he was Governor 35 years ago, but he's older, and we hope wiser, now. He's a very smart guy, and I like smart people.
That's another reason why I like Tom Campbell. He's a Professor of Economics what better experience for the financial mess we are in now. He has experience in Congress and can work with both parties. This has become a detriment to getting elected these days, but the polarization in Washington and Sacramento is one of the main reasons we are in the kind of trouble we are in.
I oppose Senator Barbara Boxer because she's polarizing. Senator Diane Feinstein isn't. Feinstein and Representative Richard Pombo collaborated to do a lot of good for this region. The problem with Pombo wasn't the false charges of corruption, but the kind of cockiness that long-term Congressmen and Senators get when they lose touch with the reasons they went to DC in the first place.
It's funny that so many Republicans call themselves "Reagan Republicans" now. Ronald Reagan was a conservative, but he wasn't mean. He wasn't device. He was able to work with Democrats and even Soviet leaders to bring about change.
President Reagan gave amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants, who are now American citizens; yet the slogan of all the so-called Reagan Republicans is "No amnesty." Reagan kept Social Security solvent, so I could grow old enough to get it. "Reagan Republicans" want to get rid of Social Security.
The Soviet Union fell apart, not because President Reagan called it an "evil Empire," but because Ronald Reagan trusted Mikhail Gorbachev to have the best interests of his country at heart.
How many of our extreme right wing Republicans are willing to trust anyone with differing political views these days? It's just one attack after another.
We need to break away from these extreme, "My way or the highway," views, where everyone in the other Party is demonized. These Parties used to be cordial to each other and allow a spectrum of views. Now those who don't toe the Party line are kicked out. I'm as appalled by Democrats' treatment of Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln as I am by the Republicans' treatment of Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter. This isn't healthy, and it isn't a good way to run a government.
We need more moderate Senators who support their Party's principles without being so dogmatic and negative that they can't get anything done without cloning themselves. That's why I'm voting for Tom Campbell in the Republican Senatorial primary next week.
I haven't decided on which of the Republican Congressional candidates to vote for yet; so I have no recommendations there. I will probably vote for Jerry McNerney again in November anyway.


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This is Holy Week in the Christian calendar. Today is Maudy Thursday, and tomorrow is Good Friday. It seems an appropriate time to talk about Leonardo Da Vinci's fresco, The Last Supper.
Here are some surprising things I learned about The Last Supper when The Art Caravan visited Milan and had a look…..
*It's a fresco, not a painting. (In my mind's eye, I expected a "Paint-by-Numbers" sized oil, hanging on a wall.)
*It's painted on the (former) refectory wall of Santa Maria delle Grazie, a 15th century church and Dominican convent. Yes! That's the top of a doorframe butting into the tablecloth under the centre figure of Jesus.
*Leonardo da Vinci used an experimental technique to paint the fresco, and it started deteriorating twenty years after its completion.
*The colours are muted; most reproductions don't reflect the deterioration of the work.
*It's been restored many times, some attempts more successful, and more sensitive, than others. (Pietro Marani, a curator and Renaissance scholar expresses this graciously: "The beautiful heads of Bartholomew and James the Lesser–which recall the busts of antiquity–can now vaunt their original design and no small part of their former beauty, a perfect counterpoint to that of Matthew.")
*Santa Maria delle Grazie is beautiful, too, and worth a visit. It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Travel tip (courtesy of Rick Steves):
When you plan to visit Milan and see The Last Supper (of course you will!) you MUST have reservations. You can (theoretically) purchase tickets on-line, but the website (the last time I tried) didn't work all that well. It's better to pay for a walking tour that guarantees your admission.


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In "Scientific American's Editor and Its President to Step Down", (New York Times, April 24, 2009), Stephanie Clifford notes
In a shake-up at Scientific American, the longtime editor John Rennie and the magazine's president, Steven Yee, are leaving.
Rennie had been around since 1994, and was associated by various people I talked to with an aggressive slant toward Darwinism and multiverse theory.
This article by Max Tegmark, promoting four layers of multiverses – essentially to avoid the implications of the fine tuning of the only universe whose existence we can verify – may have been the oddest moment in the history of a magazine that dates back to 1845.
I've heard various figures quoted about the staff reductions, ranging from 5-30%. But it's hard to say because many staff may have gone freelance (or, as the elite would prefer it, "became consultants") or been reassigned to other divisions of the parent company, MacMillan.
Some friends have supposed that the decline was due to the ideological slant of the mag, which was increasingly at odds with that of the public. I think it had more to do with the recent 18% drop in ad revenue. A friend remembers glossy car ads, but these days that may even be politically incorrect.
Some of my friends cancelled their subscriptions to Scientific American, when it became increasingly political. However, most readers probably did not stop reading media like SciAm because they became more ideological. The process was actually the opposite. Magazines like SciAm became more ideological when they became less necessary for the purpose of delivering information.
In general, the more necessary a news source is, the less ideological it can afford to be.
If there is only one local weather forecaster in a rural county, he better not be using his forecast to stump at length for some odd cause. The farmers will make short work of him.
And I wonder how often air traffic controllers are allowed to bug pilots with their opinions about the government or the economy?
It is now so easy to get news from so many different sources that the readers scattered, and major media could no longer maintain their ad rates.
This is happening at major media worldwide. Some commentators are calling for government bailouts, and many journalists' lists sound like a shearing shed somewhere in Australia [bleat, bleat, bleat].
(I can't think of a worse solution than a bailout, of course, because the change is a natural one, caused by the redundancy of information sources. Should the government have rescued companies that sell carbon paper and whiteout in the 1990s? Why?)
Anyway, we shall see.


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THE character of few has received more unjust censure than Edgar Allan Poe's. Wherever his writings have read abuse of his private character, based on ignorance of his life, has generally followed.
It has been stated in various recent sketches of Poe's life, in prominent newspapers, and also by one of his most distinguished biographers, that his student-life at the University of Virginia was one of idleness, dissipation and extravagance, which course led to his final expulsion from that institution. Charles Baudelaire, a French author of fair ability, but far less accuracy, in his "Life of Edgar Allan Poe," thus speaks of him when attending the University: "At the University of Charlottesville, which he entered in 1825, Poe distinguished himself, not only by an intelligence quasi miraculous, but also by a sinister abundance of passions — a precocity truly American — which was finally the cause of his expulsion." [page 374:]
I am in possession of facts which prove these charges to be utterly false. In conversation (in the summer of 1876) with Mr. William Wertenbaker, the present Librarian and keeper of records of he University of Virginia, and who occupied the same position while Poe was a student there, and was also a fellow-student and classmate with him, I was informed that Poe was not expelled from the University, nor had he ever been censured or rebuked while at that institution for misconduct of any sort. "Edgar Poe was exceedingly studious, and had little or no time for frolics or dissipation," said Mr. Wertenbaker; "and I am certain he was never guilty of any offence against the laws of the institution, which could have been ground for expulsion, known to either its officers or professors; for under the rules it would have been my duty, as the keeper of the records, to have entered that, as I do all other instances of very refractory conduct, censure or expulsion."
Mr. Wertenbaker related an instance which, while it shows the standing of Poe at the University, also very fairly explains the falsity of such accusations as the above: The instructor in the Italian language on one occasion suggested to his class, who were at that time reading Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered," the advantage to be derived by translating a few lines of the blank verse of Tasso from the Italian into English rhythm, though he did not require this as a task. At the next lecture in Italian the professor enquired if any of the class had complied with his suggestion. No one responded but Edgar Poe, who arose from his seat and proceeded to read line after line of Tasso, translated just as he had directed. The professor expressed his regrets that no one by Poe had profited by his advice, and complimented him upon the rare poetical talent and extraordinary powers of application he had evinced by his difficult performance. [page 375:]
These are the facts concerning Poe's student-life at the University of Virginia, and I have gotten them from a gentleman of proverbial probity — William Wertenbaker, the octogenarian Librarian of Virginia's great seminary. "None e'er knew him but to love him." "Be thou pure as snow or chaste as ice, thou shalt not escape calumny." Only let genius make itself famous, and if there be a blot on the character of the man, or a weakness in his natural imperfectness, the prying eyes of the ungrateful world will visit him lying a babe in his mother's arms; visit him through prattling childhood, and continue its gaze to the very college walls, and pronounce him "a devil from the beginning."
In vindication of Poe's private character, in general, it is only fair to observe that recent impartial and thorough investigations have proved him not to have been very drunken, sullen, nomadic and purposeless wretch, that ignorance and falsehood for so long a time pictured him with such apparency of reality to over-credulous mankind. The ascertainment of truth has wrought widely different opinions concerning this "unhappy master." While at times overwhelming circumstances capriciously distorted his character and unjustly rendered it reproachful; yet we may now rejoice that he was, indeed, a courteous, honorable and cheerful gentleman — poor, proud and unfortunate — respectful to age, chaste and gallant with ladies, loving and playful to children, and, to the surprise of many, his life was replete with purposes: he was not purposely a poet, for that were impossible. In a word, Edgar Allan Poe was a Man — desolate and tempest-tossed; a Man — whose sad history may well be written in these lines from his "Raven,"
"Unhappy master, whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast, and followed faster, till his songs one burden bore —
Till the dirges of his hope the melancholy burden bore
Of "Never — Nevermore."
— Robert S. Burkholder.
The present article survives as a clipping in the Ingram Collection, item #744.
[S:0 - IND, 1877] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - A Poe Bookshelf - The Personality of Poe (R. S. Burkholder, 1877)