[Vision2020] The Wizard of Blogz

[J Ford]

WOW!  What a great piece.

Oh, but Gena - watch your back.  You now have the "distinct privilege" of being on Dougie-Boy's hit list.  I'd start talking to your employers now and checking your business connections to make them aware of the above - take it to the bank they WILL be contacted sometime in immediate future and your good name will be attacked.  

Not by Dougie (he never sullies his pretty little hands with such mundane tasks) but by his many minions that he likes to dispatch for this type of thing.

J  :]


> From: thansen at moscow.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:11:44 -0800
> Subject: [Vision2020] The Wizard of Blogz
> 
> >From today's (November 10, 2007) edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News
> with thanks to Gene Rosa -
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The Wizard of Blogz
> 
> Who could ever forget that penultimate scene in the "Wizard of Oz," where
> the tempestuous Wizard - thanks to the dog, Toto - is found practicing his
> bombast behind a curtain?
> 
> Peaking behind the curtain, Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the Lion
> discover the Wizard to be nothing more than an ordinary, avuncular man who,
> like Dorothy, had arrived in Oz from Kansas. Despite the deception the
> "wizard" is able to solve the problems of Dorothy and her friends, not with
> magic but with a little common sense and some effective double talk. The key
> joy of the scene is the realization that one's goals, however difficult, can
> be achieved with belief and commitment. But, is there a larger message in
> the story's denouement? I was never certain. Never certain, that is, until
> now. 
> 
> Thanks to a striking photo on the front page of the Daily News last week,
> where some protestors affiliated with Christ Church are claiming that
> certain candidates for City Council are bigots, we find that the curtain
> lives on. In modern times it apparently lives on in electronic form. For
> Moscow apparently has its own "wizard" in a Christ Church pastor (from the
> Latin for shepherd) who in his blog refers to the same candidates for Moscow
> City Council as religious bigots who should be voted out of office. So,
> there is a man behind the curtain after all. However, he doesn't appear to
> have the avuncular style of the original wizard, but has instead a penchant
> for finding repugnant epithets to hurl at devoted public servants who enact
> policies he opposes.
> 
> Wizardry, indeed.
> 
> Gene Rosa, Moscow
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
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> 
> "People walking up to you
> Singing glory hallelujah
> And they're trying to sock it to you
> In the name of the Lord."
> 
> - Joe South (from "Games People Play")
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