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Love the new LGC newsletter! (Hate the title...)

1 by Elmo
I received my first ever emailed LGC newsletter today. It looks and reads great! Congratulations to all who produced it.

(For those who haven't seen it, it has mostly information about the Annual Mtg in Portland and general membership info, etc.)

But about the title of the newsletter, "Phalanx"....

The term has many meanings and connotations, some of them political, as shown in this Wikipedia disambiguation page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_(disambiguation)

But for me, there is only one outstanding political connotation -- the Spanish Falangist party of Catholic fascists who propped up Franco for 40 years. Other right wing religious fascists elsewhere have also called themselves, or been described by others as Phalangists (e.g., in France, Lebanon, and U.S. filth like Pat Buchanan).

So, notwithstanding other connotations which might be OK for Liberals (like the Fourier inspired utopian communities called phalanxes), I don't feel it is an appropriate term to associate with this group.

So what's my better suggestion? Gimme a minute, I'm working on it...
"To initiate a war of aggression...is the supreme international crime" - Nuremberg prosecutor Robert Jackson, 1946

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2 by the comedian
larrymod wrote:I received my first ever emailed LGC newsletter today. It looks and reads great! Congratulations to all who produced it.

(For those who haven't seen it, it has mostly information about the Annual Mtg in Portland and general membership info, etc.)

But about the title of the newsletter, "Phalanx"....

The term has many meanings and connotations, some of them political, as shown in this Wikipedia disambiguation page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_(disambiguation)

But for me, there is only one outstanding political connotation -- the Spanish Falangist party of Catholic fascists who propped up Franco for 40 years. Other right wing religious fascists elsewhere have also called themselves, or been described by others as Phalangists (e.g., in France, Lebanon, and U.S. filth like Pat Buchanan).

So, notwithstanding other connotations which might be OK for Liberals (like the Fourier inspired utopian communities called phalanxes), I don't feel it is an appropriate term to associate with this group.

So what's my better suggestion? Gimme a minute, I'm working on it...
Agreed. The first thing that the word phalanx brings to my mind is this:
" Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I attack." - Gen. Ferdinand Foch, 1st Battle Of The Marne ( 1914).
http://www.rudereds.blogspot.com
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4 by mark
Ok..... well, lets here some ideas. It was called that way back when I used to send them out more often. Of course, only in this group of historians would I get flack :P

Gimme something better. My thought was that it was an organized group of people leading a charge... in this case against right wing crap. Clearly, that message didn't resonate.

Now, I have also learned that this thread will quickly devolve into splinter groups with wildly different ideas leaving no consensus and me back where I started - a semi-crappy title and nothing to do about it. Of course someone will also chime in about how they think newsletters are stupid and why don't I just put it all up on facebook, and they don't like the color blue, or my name.

Don't take this the wrong way, I love feedback and I truly love you guys and gals.... but........experience has told me where this is going :)


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"The waves which dash on the shore are, one by one, broken; but yet the ocean conquers nevertheless."
- Lord Byron

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5 by mark
BUT.... thanks for the kind words. Glad you are getting it. Sending out the newsletter before was a much larger pain - the new system is much better. And there was no way for users to selectively remove themselves from the newsletter yet still remain members, etc. Where we are going with this will make all of our lives easier in the long run.

Look for more newsletters in the future. In fact, once I get the software tweaked I am likely going to ask someone to help - which will just entail finding some links in the forum to post and write a sentence or two about.
"The waves which dash on the shore are, one by one, broken; but yet the ocean conquers nevertheless."
- Lord Byron

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16 by the comedian
mark wrote:Ok..... well, lets here some ideas. It was called that way back when I used to send them out more often. Of course, only in this group of historians would I get flack :P

Gimme something better. My thought was that it was an organized group of people leading a charge... in this case against right wing crap. Clearly, that message didn't resonate.

Now, I have also learned that this thread will quickly devolve into splinter groups with wildly different ideas leaving no consensus and me back where I started - a semi-crappy title and nothing to do about it. Of course someone will also chime in about how they think newsletters are stupid and why don't I just put it all up on facebook, and they don't like the color blue, or my name.

Don't take this the wrong way, I love feedback and I truly love you guys and gals.... but........experience has told me where this is going :)


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The solution is simple... let me pick the title and ignore everyone else.
I'm surprised you haven't thought of that allready.
" Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I attack." - Gen. Ferdinand Foch, 1st Battle Of The Marne ( 1914).
http://www.rudereds.blogspot.com

Re: Love the new LGC newsletter! (Hate the title...)

20 by JimInATX
Inquisitor wrote:
I think the Greek phalanx is the right definition ;) we are a prickly defensive bunch.
I'm a Noob, but:

"The Porcupine"? :P

or, how about something ironic, like "Reasonable and Sensible Gun Nuts"?
There is no reason why . . . the state should not help to organize a comprehensive system of social insurance in providing for those common hazards of life against which few can make adequate provision.--Friedrich Hayek
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