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Memo from the Editor Disclaimer Does Washington really need another conservative think tank when it is already amply endowed with such fudge factories as the Heritage Foundation and the American...
...Perhaps it could set aside a bit of the cash for design of a new logo—one that looks a lot less like ours...
...The Progressive doesn't own the word "progressive," and our art director, Patrick JB Flynn, who designed our logo, is accustomed to having his work ripped off...
...But I thought I'd better state, for the record, that the Progressive Policy Institute has nothing at all to do with The Progressive...
...I hope Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, the nation's new, self-appointed Commissar of Culture, doesn't find out...
...Well, we can't and we won't...
...The Institute hopes—again according to The Times—for an annual operating budget of $1 million...
...That label is even more popular than "progressive...
...It was the seventh in this epic series, which bids fair to become one of the more durable institutions on the American Left...
...I'd say enough is enough—but nobody asked me...
...I can say that because I didn't play...
...I say you sue the bastards," one reader wrote...
...The score of the second game can only be hinted at in a magazine that sometimes makes its way into high-school libraries...
...According to a story in The New York Times, "the most prominent academic associated with the Progressive Policy Institute, Seymour Martin Lipset, a professor of sociology at Stanford University, thinks it was wise to pick the word 'progressive,' since public-opinion polls show that label to be far more popular than either 'liberal' or 'conservative.' " He's probably right about that, but then why not call the Institute "Diet Coke...
...In These Times was ahead by something like 14 to 0 when I shut my eyes and stopped counting—a rout that must be attributed to an unfathomable combination of sheer luck and happenstance...
...This issue contains graphics by Wis-consinites Lester Dore (Page 9), David McLimans (Page 46), and Dennis Nech-vatal (Page 38...
...The Institute, which represents the thinking of such right-wing Democrats as Senators Sam Nunn of Georgia and Charles S. Robb of Virginia, is apparently devoted to the highly dubious proposition that if Democrats want to win elections, they must think and talk and be more like Republicans...
...As I said a year ago, wait till next year...
...The article told how military personnel up the line to the Secretary of Defense joined in concealing dangerous radioactive contamination at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio...
...A sizable contingent of staff members (and ringers) from In These Times, the Chicago-based socialist weekly, braved interstate-highway construction and other summer hazards to travel to Madison, Wisconsin, on Saturday, July 15, to compete with The Progressive's staff (and ringers) in the Annual Softball Grudge Match and Solidarity Celebration...
...Why would that sort of outfit want to call itself "progressive...
...Keith C. Epstein's "Hot Trash in Building 4060: An Air Force Cover-up," which appeared as the cover story in The Progressive's March 1988 issue, is a finalist in the Free Press Association's 1989 Mencken Awards competition...
...Speaking of design, The Progressive gratefully acknowledges its second annual grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board (with funds from the state of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts) to help underwrite the cost of publishing the work of Wisconsin graphic artists...
...The trouble is that the latest entry—it started up this summer—calls itself the Progressive Policy Institute and uses a letterhead that looks as if it might have been "designed" by laying a sheet of tracing paper across The Progressive's logotype...
...The Progressive won the first game of a doubleheader by a score of 10 to 7—a triumph that must be attributed to superb hitting and fielding...
...The Mencken Awards are presented for "outstanding journalism in defense of human rights and civil liberties...
...Given its politics, it should have no trouble at all raising that sum...
...Indignant subscribers have been sending me newspaper clippings about the Progressive Policy Institute...
...Memo from the Editor Disclaimer Does Washington really need another conservative think tank when it is already amply endowed with such fudge factories as the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute...
Vol. 53 • September 1989 • No. 9
