Somehow this has been the only thing to cheer me up of late:
Bruce Springsteen News: brucespringsteen.net
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Charles and Jan Clouse taught English at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California for over three decades. As department chair, Jan published a newsletter called Englophile, while Charles maintained an instructor's Web site. Englophool replaces those publications and furthers their continuing interest in provocative ideas and the power of words.
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It might also cheer the Clouses up to hear the news that a club called "The Vonnegut Conspiracy (the Granfalloonery)" has been established at Dos Pueblos by some enterprising students.
Thank you for your thoughtful posting. However, I only agree with half of the Springsteen quote. American values were not "The human principles of economic justice, healing the sick, health care, feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, a living wage so folks don't have to break their backs and then come home and not be able to make ends meet" before 1935. For 150 years the country rested on the belief of individual responsibility. Can't make it in the East? go West. Can't make it there, die. The concepts that Springsteen ascribes to American values are concepts that were foreign--even antithetical--to what the values that the country had been founded upon. The rest of the quotation: "an open American government that's unburdened by unnecessary secrecy, protection of our environment, a sane and responsible foreign policy where we take our place amongst a community of nations, civil rights and the safeguarding of our precious Democracy here at home," well, I can't really argue with that. He is absolutely correct and it terrifies me.
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