You know, now I’ve really got myself wondering.
As I noted, because Schindler saved 1100 Jews, the result was 6000 Jews who would never have lived if it weren’t for his efforts.
So if 50,000 young men and women died in Vietnam, how many people does that mean, roughly, were never born over the course of the subsequent four decades?
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In a society where–horrifingly enough–polled high school students express little appreciation for the First Amendment, and see nothing wrong with the government curtailing freedom of expression, I notice that comics fans who knock the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund do so from two angles.
The first is a cavalier, “Well, they don’t win any cases.” I refer you to our latest endeavor, a case in which South Carolina customs officials embargoed comic books that lampooned George W. Bush. I am pleased to announce that, thanks to the CBLDF’s quick intervention, the books have been shaken loose from customs and are proceeding, none the worse for wear, to their proper destination. So that was a slam dunk against governmental abuse of power. More can be found on that over at www.cbldf.org.
The second knock is the false perception that the only comics which run into trouble are hard core pørņ, and why should people support the CBLDF when we “only” come to the aid of accused pornographers. To that I am now saying, Watch this space. Come Monday, we will be announcing a new case the CBLDF is going to be taking on. It is going to be a major undertaking, and it challenges laws that–if allowed to stand–would leave retailers open to obscenity prosecution for selling certain titles that are considered comics masterworks and are on the shelves of just about every serious comics collector in the country.
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So word down the pipeline is that “Enterprise” is canceled.
The immediate question being bandied about is, “Is Star Trek dead?” This doesn’t surprise me. Pundits were announcing that sitcoms were dead…until “Cosby.” TV westerns, once flourishing, were pronounced dead…until “Kung Fu.” Movie westerns were also believed unable to pull in an audience…until “Unforgiven.” Hëll, “Star Trek” was pronounced dead when the original series went off the air…and then it was alive with “ST:TMP,” but that was so poorly received that it was pronounced dead again…until the second feature film. “Star Trek” has died more often than Jean Gray, and yet it rises once more like…well, like a great bird.
I don’t think “Star Trek” is dead. I think that *a* Star Trek series that never fully engaged (no pun intended) the viewership is dead. But if they build a new series, I think viewers will come right back and at least sample it.
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