Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:03:59 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Things of Interest
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> ronkean at juno.com 10/29/02 12:10PM
>>On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:50:47 -0500 "Strong, Lee"
><StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
>writes:
>>         Keith Lynch proposed posting to the WSFA Calendar anything
>> requested
>> by a WSFA member.  He wondered if this would annoy anyone?  Answer:
>> GIven
>> WSFA's diversity of opinion, such a policy would be bound to annoy
>> someone.
>>         I suggest that we leave non-fannish politics off the WSFA
>> Calendar
>> as (1) not having sufficient fannish interest to merit placement,
>> and (2)
>> likely to provoke heated debate.
>>
>>
>
>A problem I see with trying to have such a policy as an explicit rule is
>that the boundaries among politics, science, and philosophy are sometimes
>blurred, so rejecting announcements on the grounds of being 'political'
>could cause readers to miss out on events or news which might be of
>genuine interest to some, including items of interest for reasons other
>than political.  For example, politics and fantasy have a strange
>conjunction in the current Congressional race in Maryland's 8th district.
> One of the on-the-ballot candidates is running to publicize what he says
>is the government's shameful failure to disclose that it knows about the
>presence of space aliens living among us.  See
>http://www.disclosure2003.net/ .

It's really hard to be taken seriously when there also folks like this out =
there: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/aliens.cfm?page=6

 . . . with "friends" like these . . . .

mjw