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To: Raymond Clutts who wrote (3011)	6/19/2000 12:04:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

I have not researched this deeply, but it is my feeling that he was the actual author. I think that he had a decent grammar school education, which would have been literary, and a glib tongue, the inspiration of several predecessors, notably Marlowe, and an intimate acquaintance with stagecraft and what worked. A gentleman, like Bacon or Shaftesbury, would have shown the influence of Roman models, and been more self- conscious about form, as Dryden and Addison were later when writing tragedy.......

To: Raymond Clutts who wrote (3011)	6/21/2000 9:59:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

Jerry Pournelle had a first hand look at the unpleasantries that followed the LA Laker game, and was a bit unnerved at seeing his current novel being played out: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 Well, I'm not a big basketball fan, but I got interested in the NBA championships, and watched LA win. Later we saw the riots covered live. It's a bit un-nerving to see The Burning City enacted while you watch from San Diego. What we saw was mostly black and Latino gangs, not many of them, burn cars including two police cars while the police stood by and watched. Apparently the police strategy was to "contain" things, meaning that they could loot a computer store and burn police cars with impunity. This morning's LA TIMES shows two white kids, once carrying a camcorder, being chased away from a burnt police care. Since by the time the police got to that car it had long since been put out by the Fire Department and the actual perpetrators, who weren't white, were long since gone, I presume the crime they were being chased for was photographing the police doing nothing, and the picture was selected in the name of racial harmony: the new responsible journalism has little to do with truth, and a lot to do with political correctness. And before anyone bothers to tell me, I know quite well that most black and Hispanic citizens of LA celebrated the victory without vandalism, that most of the "vandalism" was exuberance and consisted of building unauthorized bonfires in the middle of the street -- rather understandable actually -- and that most of the black and Hispanic citizens of LA were as horrified by the rioting and looting as anyone, perhaps more than most. The question really is, given that the TV live shots made it quite clear who the rioters were -- heck, some of them were filmed in the act should anyone care to prosecute -- what is the point of running a picture of two white kids not involved in the riot as the illustration in the newspaper the next morning? Does this do any conceivable good, or does it merely confirm existing suspicions and attitudes? When I was in the journalism business -- I still am really -- I thought reporting the truth as best I knew it after reasonable effort was the goal. I must have missed a point. jerrypournelle.com