Unrelated Ruminations
More Spanish Prisoner:
The Nigerians have given my address to Kenneth Kabila from Zaire – Congo-Kinshasha. He has diamonds he would like me to help him export (smuggle?) out of the country. Incidentally, here is why that movie, “The Spanish Prisoner,” is called..the Spanish Prisoner (from the Urban Legend Reference Page):
The Nigerian Scam has been emptying the pockets of victims for decades — first through letters, then with faxes, and now via e-mail. In its earliest incarnation — which dates to the 1920s — it was known as “The Spanish Prisoner” con. In that long-ago version, businessmen were contacted by someone trying to smuggle the scion of a wealthy family out of a prison in Spain. But of course the wealthy family would shower with riches those who helped secure the release of the boy. Those who were suckered into this paid for one failed rescue attempt after another, with the fictitious prisoner continuing to languish in his non-existent dungeon, always just one more bribe, one more scheme, one more try, away from being released.
Shoutout:
A shoutout to my friend and former student, Helene K., from Sweden. I got an emal from her after many years of lost contact. She’s pregnant! Yay! And it sounds like she’s living quite a wonderful life as a journalist and teacher!
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From Shaun Treat:
Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren’t concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George III and had in 1776 accused the king of all the things that George W. Bush wants to do: Usurpation of the power of the people; Being above the law; Criminal abuse of authority.
–Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General
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I’m Finally linked:
DMOZ Open Directory, under Women’s Studies
Google Directory, under Women’s Studies
University of Iowa Communication’s Study Page — Links to Configurations article
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Censorship and bigotry:
A quote from Henry Louis Gates on censorship:
Related posts:“In the current environment of symbolic politics, the speech ban is a powerful thing: it can turn a garden variety bigot into a First Amendment martyr.”
