Valerie Plame Wilson
Wednesday, April 16 @ UGA Chapel
originally published April 16, 2008
Here’s the new cocktail game: connect Roger Clemens to Valerie Plame Wilson in 10 seconds or less. Go.
Okay, if the Feds convict Clemens for lying under oath about steroid use, he’ll probably be pardoned by George W. Bush. Bush is also going to pardon the Vice President’s former Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby, for lying under oath about leaking Wilson’s name to the press. Libby and Clemens are both Bush’s boys: one’s a member of the heinous apparatchiks who shepherded the war in Iraq, the other is from Texas - which everyone knows you shouldn’t mess with. Did I win? Eleven seconds? Damn.
Hear Wilson explain the details of her story - minus the meathead baseball nonsense - on Wednesday, Apr. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the UGA Chapel. The comeliest spy this side of Barbara Bach will be discussing her book, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House. In 2003, Plame’s career as a CIA operative ended after the aforementioned powers (minus Clemens) outed her in retaliation for her husband’s anti-war op-ed piece in the New York Times. Former ambassador Joseph Wilson’s “What I Didn’t Find in Africa” discredited a major prop in the Bush Administration’s case that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction.
If CIA lawyers aren’t standing ready onstage with redacting pens, ask her what the life of a spy is really like. William F. Buckley wanted to scratch his skin off, he was so bored. Also, has she ever met Dick Cheney, and is he really as white and reptilian as he seems on TV?
Tickets are free for students with valid UGA Cards and $5 for non-students. They’re available at the Tate Student Center cashier’s window, Monday–Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call (706) 542-6396 or visit www.uga.edu/union.
Gene Baur
Tuesday, April 22 @ UGA Student Learning Center
originally published April 16, 2008
Gene Baur
Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food fires another salvo in the war against the established food system in America. Where Michael Pollan described the insidiousness of the corn industrial process, Gene Baur takes the reader to one of the ugliest destinations of all that Midwestern maize. If it’s not in your Coke or your fuel tank, it’s battening the nation’s meat supply at some massively dense feedlot.
Baur’s book is a striking indictment of stockyards, slaughterhouses and agribusiness in general, which has everything to do with the robotic efficiency of an assembly-line factory and nothing with the nurturing ideal of a family farm. Baur investigates the off-hand cruelty with which animals are treated and makes a personal plea for the compassionate treatment, in all phases of their lives, of our four-legged food.
Baur is the co-founder and president of Farm Sanctuary, one of the country’s leading farm animal protection organizations and food-advocacy groups. While documenting conditions at a stockyard, he was inspired to start the refuge after a sheep, cast aside and left in a pile of dead animals, raised her head and looked at him. “Hilda” became the first resident of Farm Sanctuary, and each year the organization rescues hundreds of sick and mistreated animals unfit for processing.
The book gives life to some of the unique and interesting creatures who have made Farm Sanctuary’s acres their home. It has been equally praised by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Jane Goodall and Alicia Silverstone. Baur speaks and signs books in the UGA Student Learning Center, Room 248, on Tuesday, Apr. 22 at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
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