Steve Kudlak
Since 2004
Works in Watsonville, California United States of America

BIO
I have a BS in Biocehmistry and BA in Art with a concentration in Printmaking. Recently I have become interested in digital media. When I get a webpage done I will post the info
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Ronnie Raygun


Take a look at this from the village voice.
I am amazed at how young naive people here still
like the guy. Of course that was always the joke,
he was likeable and that was it.

Anyway the link is: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0423/carson.php

Have Fun,
Sends Steve

P.S. The local newspaper did say that opinion in Northern CA
was divided about him.

DISCUSSION

Re: Patriot Act Freindly Cities Maybe Dangerous to Artists?


I certainly hope so. Kerry doesn't seem to be really flashy attractive
like Clinton was. I mean Clinton could do things like rattle biblical
stuff to Christians and that made them happy. That's a big thing here.
I mean lots of folks really feel Bush is the epitome of Presidential
Morality. Kerry is basicly a Back Bay Brahmin and would probably be
bearable. The big problem is there are lots of people who feel Bush
is doing a good job keeping us safe. I hope he loses. I am going to
try my best to make sure he is not the President nex year. Even if it
means being politically active with mixed feelings.

Have Fun,
Sends Steve

>> Gack, if I could take the climate and they'd have me I'd consider
>> moving to Canada. That's how depressed I have becomeabout the US.
>
> The polls seem to indicate that we might be electing a conservative
> government in the upcoming federal election. Whereas I presume you have
> had
> about enough of Bush and will boot him out of office. So don't buy your
> igloo yet.
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> ja
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DISCUSSION

Re: Re: Re: reality check?


I dunno if this is the place to discuss Dubya who is behaving
like a King. Other than one can see he is screwing up the lives
of Artists via the Patriot Act. Fortunately or Unfortunately I
have never had to try to get a posting as an Art Professor. So people
like poor Steve Kurtz could not have known that Buffalo is not
like a freedom friendly place. And if you look at the Art Department
of our branch of UC they are pretty Classical Canon types.

But I'd certainly feel safer on the West Coast than in other places
in the US. Although Dubya claims he can pretty much hold a US Citizen
without charge indefinitely on his word alone. I hope we do get rid
of him in November, well make him a lame duck and then can go back
to Texas in January.

But part of the problem I suspect is Americans don't really understand
the freedoms they have. I mean one can quote the Bill of Right to them
and ask them without telling them it was the Bill of Rights and they
are sure "you can't say or do that". So I think the problem might be
ourselves and that for ome reasons most Americans are willing to forgive
their police even the most egregious zcrew-ups. It's hard to talk about
your rights with guns pointed at you. Oh sigh...

Have Fun,
Sends Steve

>> ... Ed Gillespie, the Republican chairman, said: "The parallels are
>> there. I don't know how you miss them."
>
> Dubya ran in 2000 as a "Compassionate Conservative". Doesn't this
> suggest he was different from the uncomapssionate conservatives before
> him?
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DISCUSSION

Patriot Act Freindly Cities Maybe Dangerous to Artists?


I admit I have a sort of agenda here. I belong to one of those groups
that try to convince cities to become Patriot Act Free Zones. I noted
from the Article in the Berkshire Eagle:
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101~7514~2201256,00.html
that it appeared that at least some members of the local government
are very supportive of the Patrito Act and the FBI's actions to a high
degree. Some were even critical to the point of saying it was something
a science department should do and not an art department.

I dunno but it is important that someone ask, because awhile ago the
Canadian Suprerme Court ruled that even if the wind blows geneticly
modified crops into your fields you owe the company for the plants that
are growing in your fields!

Anyway I liked some of that sort of stuff. I mean it seems like
something that someone should do Science Fair projects about too.
I mean this person was growing some of the same critter in her
Science Fair Experiments:
http://www.sas.org/E-Bulletin/2004-03-05/labNotes/body.html

What I was thinking is that if you Art or Science is anywhere beyond
the narrow confines that some define as Art you might want to be
in a city that and/or county that has declard itself to be a Patriot
Act Free Zone. I say this because Bush gave his pro-Patriot Act Speech
in Buffalo in front of the Police and Fire types. Even though the
resolutions might not really hold water, they might convince the local
police and fire folks not to call the Joint Terrorism Task Forces at the
least percieved Provocation.

My big worry is that "terrorism" is the new communism and people are
going to be looking for the terrorists in the neighborhoods the same
people used to look for communists. What if it was jusgt a9 crzy religious
guys that got lucky? I will spare people my gloomy thoughts about religion.
Gack, if I could take the climate and they'd have me I'd consider
moving to Canada. That's how depressed I have becomeabout the US. Yeah, ya
have a lot of Rights written down on 200+ year old pieces of paper
but when push comes to shove and the SWAT team comes with guns because
someone made a mistaken phone call where are your rights then? Well the
West Coast is somewhat better, gack am I glad I left the Ohio Valley.

Have Fun,
Sends Steve

Have Fun,
Sends Steve

DISCUSSION

Steve Kurtz and taking the lemons and making lemonade


(Feel Free to Redistribute this message especialluy to Bio Sciebce Lists)

The importance of the Steve Kurtz case is that it looks
very much like this is a case of The Joint Terrorism task
force, the FBI and the local police really really clearly
and truly overstepped the bounds, displayed amazing lack
of knowledge and behaved so egegiously that finally they
maybe able to called to account for it.

Indeed there are many cases in the past, but to a variety
of people it seemed like they have been willing to give
the powers that be the benefit of the doubt because afterall
people would say they were protecting us.

Now a clear examination of a case shows how this role
can go seriously wrong. How the whole "gung ho jump right in
and take over the situation" than many police and fire people
are taught, combined with a basic lack of knowldge is thretening
to cause a real disaster.

What would be good, and what I am doing to do, is that those
us who are in or were trained in the biological science should
send Steve Kurtz well written letters of support emphasizing the
biological aspects of the case and how that shows how Steve
Kurtz's actions were probably no worse that brewing bear with
a special strain of yeast and giving it out at parly to those
over 21. In fact seeing that drinking is such a problem ehat
he was doing was probably less dangerous.

Have Fun,
Sends Steve

P.S> Steve Kurtz's address for letetrs of support is:

Steve Kurtz
SUNY Buffalo
202 Center for the Arts
Buffalo, NY 14260-6010