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Julia O'Malley writes a general interest column about life and politics in Anchorage and around Alaska. She grew up in Anchorage and has worked at the ADN on and off as a columnist and reporter since 1996. She came back full time as a reporter in 2005.
As a reporter, she covered the court system and wrote extensively about life in Anchorage, including big changes in the city's ethnic and minority communities.
In 2008, she won the Scripps-Howard Foundation's Ernie Pyle award for the best human-interest writing in America. She has also written for the Oregonian, the Juneau Empire and the Anchorage Press.
September 28, 2009
Recent columns by Julia O’Malley:
Hey Truck Dude, some things are best left in the garage - 9/27/2009 7:00 pm
Masek excuses sound hollow, sentence disappoints - 9/24/2009 11:54 pm
Losing a day or two on Kodiak Island - 9/22/2009 7:56 pm
Reaction to John Mayo's story - 9/21/2009 3:00 pm
I want to know more about Desirae Douglas - 9/21/2009 11:39 am
Damaged and discharged, a soldier on edge - 9/17/2009 12:17 am
Do you have a library card? - 9/16/2009 11:14 am
A president's speech, a lesson on civility - 9/8/2009 9:53 pm
When you see a fire truck, wave - 9/5/2009 8:41 pm
A food line grows, pantry shelves go empty - 8/26/2009 8:58 pm
Boomers: this is not personal, it's about statistics - 8/19/2009 2:42 pm
What decade is it again, Mayor Sullivan? - 8/18/2009 9:21 pm
When loving your dog isn't enough - 8/15/2009 10:28 pm
Tomato quest leads to Alison Arians, queen of things local and green - 8/14/2009 10:58 pm
Protesting the Feds on Fifth Avenue - 8/11/2009 8:27 pm
Mailbag: Seward Highway survivor stories - 8/11/2009 3:23 pm
All that rides on the center line - 8/8/2009 9:49 pm
Do you have a doctor? - 8/5/2009 1:59 pm
Bad dog heaven - 8/4/2009 4:11 pm
My dinner with Team Levi - 8/1/2009 11:18 pm
Seriously, breastfeeding isn't like public urination - 7/31/2009 1:53 pm
Highway stories - 7/29/2009 4:54 pm
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Video tribute to journalists: ‘God rest ye weary journalists’
Kurt Greenbaum – “STL Social Media Guy”: Video tribute: ‘God rest ye weary journalists’ December 15, 2008 by Kurt
Hat Tip: Lauren King
Writers in the “Post-Dispatch’s newsroom conspired to put together this video/commentary on the industry.” Its quite good…
“Pass it on to your journalism friends: A humorous look at the state of journalism today just in time for the holidays. All in good fun. And by someone who believes firmly in the ability of the Web to save our industry.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTENC6wK3p4&eurl=http://www.igreenbaum.com/2008/12/video-tribute-god-rest-ye-weary-journalists/
20081215 Video tribute: ‘God rest ye weary journalists’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTENC6wK3p4
05/16/08 EAGLE ARCHIVE by
Prohibition became the law of the land after the 18th Amendment went into effect on Jan. 16, 1920, but Carroll Countians had already voted to outlaw the sale of alcohol six years earlier in 1914.
Throughout the roaring '20s, until prohibition was repealed on Dec. 5, 1933, by the 21st Amendment, many legendary accounts of stills, moonshiners, speakeasies and enforcement raids became a part of a folklore and story-telling tradition in the county.
If only half of the stories are true,
A May 18, 1923, newspaper account stirred the kettle about one such event -- a May 5 raid on the North Branch Hotel by prohibition agents.
As a result, the paper reported: "More than 300 signatures were attached to a petition filed Tuesday in the office of Amos W. W. Woodcock, United States District Attorney, asking for the closing of the North Branch Hotel, at North Branch, on the border of Baltimore and Carroll counties."
Even before that, on Dec. 15, 1922, the old Democratic Advocate railed about the "law of unintended consequences" in an editorial titled, "Does Prohibition Prohibit?"
It says, "The United States has now been subject to constitutional prohibition for nearly three years. During that time there has been more drunkenness, more deaths from alcoholism, more theft, more robbery, more murders and other heinous crimes, than ever transposed in the history of the
"Young men and boys who were never seen at a saloon during the old wet regime now get gloriously hilarious on home brew home-made wines and last, but not least, hard cider.' "
Certainly Carroll Countians did not find these events "gloriously hilarious" and they were in such an uproar over concerns about lawlessness, crime and enforcement of prohibition that a "Law and Order League for
An Aug. 6, 1926, newspaper account reported the "executive committee of the Law and Order League for
"Mr. George Mather, president of the organization, presided. Rev. E. R. Spencer, pastor of the M. E. Church, in
High spirits, indeed
From prayer and booze we get to bravery and last week's Sunday Carroll Eagle trivia question, which asked: Who was the Confederate cavalry commander who was delayed on his way to the Battle of Gettysburg by "Corbit's Charge" as his unit came through
Many folks got it right.
Elaine and Bob Breeding, Herb Howard, Matt Candland, Robbie Foster, Ruth Anderson and Mike Devine all knew that it was Major General, CSA, James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart, who died at the age of 31 on May 12, 1864.
His wife, Flora, "wore the black of mourning for the remaining 49 years of her life," according to Civil War historian Derek Smith.
This week's winner of the coveted Sunday Carroll Eagle mug is none other than Matt Candland, who also happens to be town administrator for Sykesville.
He may very well be one of the few folks in
For this week's trivia question, let's stick with storytelling and booze.
Who was the
I have often wondered just how much the newspaper accounts of the distillery raids, bootleggers, robberies, and mayhem in
Just imagine Sam Spade roaming around
At any rate, this author maintained a torrid romance with Lillian Hellman for 30 years until his death in 1961.
Can one imagine this writer and Ms. Hellman sitting at the counter at Baugher's for lunch as they visited for a day in the country? I certainly can.
If you know who this famous author is, drop me a line at kdayhoff@carr.org, and I might just pull your name for the coffee mug. And please put Sunday Carroll Eagle in the subject line. Thanks.
When not reading old detective novels,
20080516 The Sunday Carroll Eagle: Alcohol, prohibition, mysterious women and the roaring '20s by
Friday, July 20th, 2007
“There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.”
Ernest Hemingway Death In The Afternoon
Photo above: Ernest Hemingway’s desk and typewriter in his studio office in
Who was Oriana Fallaci?
October 15, 2006
Author’s note: I finally had a chance to clean-up earlier “versions” and re-write the piece with no word limitations…
For my earlier posts about Ms. Fallaci, please see: “20060915 Italian lioness of letters Oriana Fallaci had died;” “20060917 Oriana Fallaci buried today Sun Sept 17 2006;” “20061003 Who was Oriana Fallaci?;” and here in The Tentacle: “Oriana Fallaci, a refreshing approach.”
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October 15, 2006 by
On September 15, Oriana Fallaci, the Italian lioness of letters, died of cancer.
Although Ms. Fallaci was one of the world’s greatest artists of letters; she is today, relatively unknown in the
A prolific – quite controversial - journalist and existential writer with an aggressive and indefatigable approach to life, she had been shot several times and left for dead, had torrid affairs and put on trial.
She never skipped a beat.
Born in
According to published accounts, “During the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre prior to the 1968 Summer Olympics, Fallaci was shot three times, dragged down stairs by her hair, and left for dead by Mexican armed forces.”
She continued her career by interviewing many of the world leaders of our time and consistently took no prisoners. Her journalistic style is the stuff of mythology and legend.
Ms. Fallaci would often wax philosophical about existentialism and then abruptly switch to calmly delivered, aggressive questioning that disarmed the greatest men of words. The many world leaders she interviewed included Henry Kissinger, the Shah of
In later years she penned a series of books and articles in which she was critical of the Muslim religion and culture.
It was only by a cruel coincidence that she passed away three days after Pope Benedict XVI, in a speech on Sept. 12, at the
Militant and extremist Muslims throughout the
Hmmm. Okay, moving on,
Ms. Fallaci, an existentialist and an atheist publicly stated on August 27, 2005, her respect and admiration of Pope Benedict, specifically citing his 2004 essay entitled "If Europe Hates Itself,” after she met with the Pope in a private audience.
“Fallaci, who made her name interviewing statesmen (and not a few tyrants), believes that ours is "an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century".”(Varadarajan, Telegraph, Apr. 9, 2005)
Ms. Fallaci, the subject of radical Islamists’ death threats, was diagnosed with cancer several years ago.
She was living in
"When I was given the news, I laughed," Fallaci says of her indictment.
"Bitterly, of course, but I laughed. No amusement, no surprise, because the trial is nothing else but a demonstration that everything I've written is true." (Varadarajan, Telegraph, Apr. 9, 2005)
The article had the long descriptive title: “The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.”
When Tunku Varadarajan interviewed Ms. Fallaci for the Telegraph article, shortly after an Italian judge had indicted her, she was in “her mid-seventies and stricken with a cancer that, for the moment, permits only the consumption of liquids - so yes, we drank champagne in the course of a three-hour interview.”
“She pauses to light a slim black cigarillo and take a sip of champagne…
She professes to "cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics somehow." (Varadarajan, Telegraph, Apr. 9, 2005)
(This writer certainly understands “I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics somehow.")
To add some punctuation to his article, Tunka Varadarajan then emphasized: "Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder," the historian Arnold Toynbee wrote, and these words could certainly be Fallaci's. She is in a black gloom about Europe and its future: "The increased presence of Muslims in
Tunka Varadarajan elaborated:
There is about her a touch of Oswald Spengler, the German philosopher and prophet of decline, as well as a flavour of Samuel Huntington and his clash of civilisations. But above all there is pessimism, pure and unashamed. When I ask what "solution" there might be to prevent the European collapse of which she speaks, she flares up like a lit match.
"How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did?" She then gestures at slashing her wrists. "He committed suicide!" Seneca was accused of being involved in a plot to murder the emperor Nero. Without a trial, he was ordered by Nero to kill himself. One senses that Fallaci sees in Islam the shadow of Nero.
"What could Seneca do?" she asks, with a discernible shudder. "He knew it would end that way - with the fall of the
The cause of her most recent problems surfaced in a book that she wrote in 2004, called: “The Force of Reason,” which has reportedly sold over a million copies worldwide.
Part of the problem is a particularly indelicate passage in which she said, Muslims "multiply like rats" and said "the children of Allah spend their time with their bottoms in the air, praying five times a day;" according to an Associated Press article written by Alessandra Rizzo and published the day she passed away.
This just threw salt in a wounded relationship Ms. Fallaci had maintained since she published another best-seller, days after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001: “The Rage and the Pride.” This book also drew condemnation by the militant Muslim world.
There was an unsuccessful effort in
Part of what annoyed folks in
Tunka Varadarajan quotes Ms. Fallaci: “You cannot survive if you do not know the past. We know why all the other civilizations have collapsed - from an excess of welfare, of richness, and from lack of morality, of spirituality.”
As much as I’m not sure that I agree with Ms. Fallaci’s strident views on the Muslim religion, or that the Pope’s remarks were productive towards a meaningful dialogue with the Muslim world community; the approach of the late Ms. Fallaci and the Pope towards the extremists and terrorists is never-the-less thought provoking - - a hallmark of Ms. Fallaci’s brilliant work, whether one agrees with her or disagrees. (This writer takes no position on her politics. I respect her First Amendment rights and admire her “genius;” her “life of letters” and her joie de vie.)
It is only an existential, if not quixotic, perversion of reality that a child of the persecution of World War II, for which she became a legendary member of the resistance, a veteran war correspondent who often wrote from first-hand knowledge in the combat theatre – and a celebrated woman of letters and words in her seventies and stricken with cancer is persecuted for uttering words, while the world’s community of pandering appeasers apologize for extremist folks who want to kill women and children and you.
Oriana Fallaci will be greatly missed on the world stage.
E-mail him at: kdayhoff@carr.org
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