Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:57:19 -0700
Subject: Daily Bleed: 6/30 FESTIVAL OF ASS KISSING.


Today's Bleed in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/today.htm

Itsy Bitsy pieces:

THORSTEIN VEBLEN
Iconoclastic, sardonic theorist of profit, status & class,
he understood the irrational forces of capitalist culture.


1741 -- Traffic Report?: Pope Benedict XIV encyclical
forbidding traffic in alms.

1841 -- Rain of fish, Boston, Massachusetts.

1909 -- US: Large meeting organized by the Free Speech Society held
at Cooper Union to protest harassment of anarchist speaker Emma Goldman
& to win back the right of  free speech...

1934 -- "Night of the Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi
party.

1934 -- Emperor Norton I reburied in Woodlawn Cemetery (Colma
Cemetery?)...

1952 -- Let Freedom Ring?: Congress passes McCarran-Walter Immigration
Act,
to screen out "subversive" aliens & deport them, even if they have
become US citizens.

1959 -- During a baseball game at Wrigley Field, two balls were in play
at same
time.

1971 -- Nixon orders felony burglary of the Brookings Institute...
Colson later proposed a firebombing. When this meeting was later
revealed, Kissinger claimed he couldn't recall the meeting...

1984 -- Lillian Hellman playwright, dies of cardiac arrest at 79.

1998 -- France: Paris, a group of 100 people manages to enter the
buildings
of the Constitutional Council. One of them seizes an original specimen
of the
constitution, tears it, declaring:

"The dictatorship of capitalism is abolished.
The workers declare anarchist-communism".