BROADWAY BOONDOGGLE
It was sad to see EW editorialize against democratic decisions regarding plans to bulldoze part of downtown and subsidize new chain stores and condos (Slant, 8/16). EW condemned plans for a ballot initiative (i.e. democracy) to ask the taxpayers if they want to give this boondoggle $50 million — almost $400 from each citizen. The unfolding real estate crash shows it is nuts to promise more corporate welfare for development speculators — we could build a covered Farmers' Market, new parks, improve bus service and restore school services for less money.
It was nice to see EW's cover story that college football is not really academics. Watching mass events involving extreme competition for territory teaches passive acceptance of automated warfare. Perhaps the UO football department could be spun off as a separate corporation, keeping academics and industrial pseudo-sports separate.
Football is such a state religion in this country that it's even used as an indicator of presidential selections. From 1936 to 2000, when the Washington Redskins team won the game before the "election," the president or his successor was re-elected. When the Redskins lost the game before the "election," then the president or his successor was defeated. The odds of this being chance (17 times in a row) is less than one in 100,000. The U.S. presidential election is decided before votes are cast, and the rigging of the football game is an inside joke for the financial elites. More details are at www.oilempire.us/elections.html
Mark Robinowitz, Eugene
EDITOR'S NOTE: For the record, what we said in Slant last week regarding the proposed public-private partnership downtown was, "Let's gather more information before we as a community decide to kill it."
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Makes you pine for the good ole days when he was just pushing the "9/11 was an inside job" line. Now that was a consistent product.
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