This and that and this

Was talking to a good friend who is involved in the administration part of government and he had some pretty good arguments against measures 66 and 67.

"Yeah," I said, " but the argument was framed "if the poor little corporations are taxed it will....."

Defending Corporations is a losing argument, right now, and it's no ones fault but big business. Unions don't happen to be the big bad boogeyman, right now.

I really don't want to get into an argument about the merits of the measure, but just to measure the public anger.

Wonder what would happen if there was a national referendum on universal healthcare and banking reform.....

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Wow. KTVZ gave up the names of anonymous posters on the Tami Sawyer stories?

That's scary, 1.) because Tami would do such a thing and what she could do with that knowledge.
2.) that KTVZ actually had the names of anonymous posters.
3.) that KTVZ would wuss out so quietly and quickly.

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Woke up with a fiction story in mind last week, quickly wrote it out, really liked it.

First 3 people who read it, completely misunderstood what was happening.

I set it aside and then read it at Farewell Bend Writer's Group last night -- and immediately realized that it was unclear and why. I don't know why, but I find the writer's groups criticisms are pretty close to the mark, even when it's my material they're commenting on. Even the act of reading it out loud to others, will usually improve the story.

Re-writing it will be twice as hard -- ten times harder -- than the original burst of inspiration. I enjoy that first part of the creative process, (a quick flow of story and characters and action) and I'm better at it now than I used to be, but trying to make it publish worthy always reminds me that writing is hard work.

I think I'll probably finish it, because it's more or less a complete short story, and eventually post it on my writing site.

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The Bulletin editorializes that the state ought to pay for Bend's appeal of the UGB.

To which I say,

"Huh?"