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airnos Posts: 16Anyone know if there's some sort of aftermarket tachometer available for those of us who cheaped out and bought an SE? I've looked at the one gauge recommended earlier in this forum and I'm not at all sure about it since I don't know where I could put it in order to read it "on the fly" while driving.
I've also run across some advertisements for a fan-shaped thing (you can tell I'm real up on car engines here) that you can put into your air intake and it's supposed to increase mileage. Would that void the warranty? -
bigtsr Posts: 149There are many aftermarket tachs floating around the trick is to install
it properly possibly if you have a RELIABLE mechanic you know of or
possibly get advice at a Chrysler dealer service dept before you make
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There is an instrument called Scanguage that you plug into the
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bigtsr Posts: 149I have not seen a chip offered yet other then the dubious junk
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You should check the EPA site for mpg ratings on the Caliber RT/AWD
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In the first two innings neither team gave up a run, with Walker Valley pitcher Kamren Barnes and Polk County pitcher Andrew Aldridge doing their best to stump the batters at the plate.
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A brief comment on Justice Kennedy's opinion in Windsor Sandy Levinson
So, the questions remains, did Justice Kennedy tie or untie the Windsor Knot? Justice "Scowlia" makes a prediction in his dissent.
The price paid by the left four to get Kennedy's vote was to join one of his metaphysical, law-free opinions on human dignity, a principle that only seems to exist in the alternative penumbral constitution of judicial imagination.
What Kennedy human dignity opinions lack in legal coherence, though, they more than make up in the entertainment value of particularly eviscerating Scalia dissents.
Justice "Scowlia's" dissent demonstrates his slippery slope predictions going back to Lawrence evolving. See Ruth Marcus' WaPo column today hoping that he continues predictive with his DOMA dissent.
Kennedy has wrote three gay rights cases so far. Two of them was given to him by Stevens. He probably would have gotten it anyway.
I think the complaints about the opaque nature of the ruling is overblown. He's an easy target but what about a case like Heller? Not a fan of it, are you? It clearly is a compromise job. Skips over a thing or two. The ruling made sense -- even the four others, including Ginsburg with her concerns that Roe rushed things, didn't want to go further. So, the state part made sense. Even gay activists have focused on that and specifically chose the issue since it is a moderate approach. They were more leery about Prop 8
Justice Scalia's slippery slope predictions in this area of anti-democratic penumbral law have been spot on.
Blankshot, remember when you used to crow about how gay marriage has never won a popular vote. Those were good times, weren't they? Now your side has to hope that young people don't notice that you're a bunch of homophobic bigots. Good times, indeed...
It is true that Maine voters approved a SSM initiative. This is how the redefining civil marriage should be handled in a democratic Republic.
Blankshot, the voters don't have an unrestricted right to discriminate against people. The Courts are supposed to protect minorities from that sort of abuse.
Good luck selling your homophobia to young voters!
BB: The Courts are supposed to protect minorities from that sort of abuse.
Courts are supposed to protect our liberties and enforce the law as written. Courts are most certainly not here to rewrite the law to impose the preferred policies of themselves or electoral minorities.
Blankshot, the Courts are there to protect everyone's liberties, not just the liberties of bigoted religious fanatics like you.
By the way, your claim that the Courts are not in place to protect the liberties of electoral minorities is probably the most idiotic thing I have ever seen you post, and you have posted a lot of really idiotic shit. In fact, the ONLY rights the Court needs to protect are those of electoral minorities. Electoral majorities, by definition, don't need anyone to protect their rights.
This has nothing to do with liberty. Homosexual couples are perfectly free to go to the Universalist Unitarian church of their choice, exchange vows and rings, then proclaim themselves to the world as "married." The government will not persecute them. The issue here is whether society through their government should recognize and subsidize homosexual unions by redefining civil marriage to include them. That is the province of our democracy and not the courts.
Dumbfuck, lack of persecution is not the same as having equal rights, and here in the U S of A we sort of value the fact that everyone has equal rights. And equal rights are most definitely a province of the Courts.
Again, good luck selling your bigot act to the voters of the future!
Equal protection means that the law treats similarly situated people the same. Homosexual and heterosexual unions are not similarly situated for self evident reasons. SSM proponents attempt to create similar situation by reducing marriage down to a contract for government benefits between people in a loving relationship. However, proponents undermine their own equality argument by urging that courts should rewrite civil marriage laws to add homosexual unions, but none of the other loving polygamous, polymorous and incestuous relationships out there. Once again, whether society wants to redefine civil marriage to include homosexual unions in up to society through the democratic process and not the courts. If your "voters of the future" join with other voters to form a majority to enact this proposal, that is what democracy is all about.
Homosexual and heterosexual unions are not similarly situated for self evident reasons.
Not "self evident" to the Court, apparently. In fact, I'd say their unions are very similarly situated to yours.
I can't tell you how sorry I am that, once again, this discussion has been hi-jacked not so much by Mr. DePalma, whose initial comment struck me as well within any boundaries of civility, but by people, especially "Bartbuster," who seems incapable of truly serious conversation.
By the way, the fact that you still don't realize that he is nothing but a propaganda spewing troll says a lot about how seriously you should be taken.
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Bart, I agree with you that Kennedy's opinion (and his opinions in this are in general) leave him particularly open to the charge of "metaphysical, law free opinions on human dignity."
Having said that I think you're both missing and begging the question before the Court when you say things like "Courts are most certainly not here to rewrite the law", "Homosexual and heterosexual unions are not similarly situated" and "The issue here is whether society through their government should recognize and subsidize homosexual unions by redefining civil marriage to include them." The issue before the Court could more fairly be framed as whether the government in recognizing opposite sex marriage but not same sex marriage is violating existing law, namely the Equal Protection or Due Process Clauses. It's not self-evident that they are not similarly situated in a way relevant to that law, and finding that they are and invoking the law seems short of 'rewriting' it to me. Having said that, I personally found Alito's opinion, once stripped of its own metaphysical trappings about the profundity of opposite sex marriage, to be the more compelling of all the opinions.
We then have other cases with metaphysical appeals to state dignity.
Alito's trappings is an important part of the argument and removal would rob it of a basic force. Why after all did DOMA treat a specific change in marriage, as compared to others where the couples are more diverse in numbers like easy divorce laws (that lead to a form of "polygamy" in the eyes of some), differently? The conservative concern for changing the rules to fast would seem to invite the laboratory approach but the charm there, and this is but one aspect of Kennedy's opinion that is worthy of praise, is that we let the states alone to experiment with marriage. The feds didn't deny certain ones benefits. There was not even a DOMA to stop forcing states from having to recognize interracial marriages. Why change in DOMA? Kennedy's opinion rings true there.
Neither federalism nor the states as "laboratories of democracy" argument on behalf of federalism should apply here. Congress is not unconstitutionally telling the states how they should define marriage. Rather, Congress is acting well within its Article I powers by determining to whom the federal government will extend recognition and benefits. Kennedy's opinion turns the Constitution's federal government into a confederacy where states determine to whom the national government will provide benefits in order to protect human dignity or some such metaphysical nonsense. I am looking forward to the day when a future president can replace a retiring Kennedy with his or her own Alito. As Sandy observed in his lead post, the left justices at least offer more intellectually coherent opinions when they rewrite the Constitution.
Rather, Congress is acting well within its Article I powers by determining to whom the federal government will extend recognition and benefits.
# posted by Bart DePalma : 12:53 PM Which it did in a discriminatory manner.
I agree with you on the 'dignity of the states' doctrine. If Kennedy's dignity talk is nonsense, then the dignity of the states doctrine is nonsense on stilts. I think Alito's opinion can survive well without buying some of the trappings I mentioned. One doesn't need to accept the metaphysical argument about the 'essence' of marriage to see that it's at least a rational viewpoint common in the US and there is a vigorous debate on the matter. Absent a clear directive from the Constitution I don't think a Court should wade into those waters, but then again I'm pretty big on judicial restraint. BB You make a good point, the matter can't be dismissed by saying Congress was simply defining marriage for the purposes of federal programs operated under enumerated powers since they cannot adopt definitions that violate the Equal Protection Clause or other parts of the Constitution. For example, I don't think Congress could define marriages in such a way that interracial marriages don't fall under it.
Mr. W: "the matter can't be dismissed by saying Congress was simply defining marriage for the purposes of federal programs operated under enumerated powers since they cannot adopt definitions that violate the Equal Protection Clause"
Sure we can. Kennedy acknowledges that Congress has the power to define marriage as it wishes in contravention of state definitions, then he proceeds to make an incoherent equal protection argument based upon human dignity that would not pass a first year Con Law exam to claim Congress may not do so in this case. Kennedy does not argue that heterosexual and homosexual unions are similarly situated, but rather that the federal government has to follow state marriage law. Nor does Kennedy claim Congress was acting irrationally in following the traditional definition of marriage or that a higher level of scrutiny applies to this issue. If Kennedy offered similarly incoherent nonsense to uphold this section of DOMA, the professors here and elsewhere would be roundly and justifiably be skewering the opinion.
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"Nor does Kennedy claim Congress was acting irrationally in following the traditional definition of marriage or that a higher level of scrutiny applies to this issue." but fails to point out the background for DOMA reacting to Hawaii's possible legalization of SSM and a thin congressional record, in contrast to many months of congressional discussion in reapproving the VRA in 2006 backed with 15,000+ pages of evidence of various sorts. Perhaps our SALADISTA agrees with Justice "Scowlia's" statement during orals that the overwhelming vote in reapproving VRA reading the minds of the Senators and Representatives in determining their intent, something a textualist normally doesn't do. Regardless of what Kennedy said, on a comparative basis DOMA was irrational - and little mind reading of Senators and Representatives is needed to confirms this.
Congress does not have to perform fact finding identifying a problem to make a statute constitutional, nor does such fact finding make an otherwise unconstitutional statute constitutional.
The "rational" argument against SSM is debatable (I think it is a matter of gender equality and that wouldn't be enough to meet heightened scrutiny, anyway) but that counsels letting the states experiment.
Why did the feds, suddenly in 1996, single out one specific change in marriage? Marriage changed in vast ways, ways directly affecting lots more people. There was a chance, especially after Perez v. Sharp, that states might be required to recognize interracial marriage, but Congress didn't pass a DOMA law then. They did it because of animus against homosexuals. They said so at the time. It was in the debates. It was in the legislative findings. When a group is singled out like this with some clear evidence of animus, especially when it interferes with something traditionally mostly left to the states, it is not really "rational" even if you are for restraint. IOW, there is a clear enough constitutional principle, especially given past cases protecting same sex couples. Perhaps, you think those are wrongly decided.
Opposition to courts rewriting the constitutional equal protection to redefine marriage to include homosuxual unions is not the same as animus against homosexuals. That is like arguing that laws against incestuous marriage show animus against families.
Our SALADISTA's (FKA our yodeler) pontification:
"Congress does not have to perform fact finding identifying a problem to make a statute constitutional, nor does such fact finding make an otherwise unconstitutional statute constitutional." seems to suggest that Congress can identify a problem without evidence, fact finding. We know what Justice "Scowlia" thinks of legislative history but that does not stop him from reading the minds of an almost unanimous Congress in reapproving VRA in 2006. So he can ignore legislative history when it suits his textualist purposes but can engage in mind reading when it serves his purposes, sort of blowing hot and cold. So our SALADISTA's response is a mere duck and weave with generalities.
Congress can and frequently has enacted statutes without much thought about whether there is an actual problem or whether the statute would work in solving the problem. So long as a court can find some rational basis for the law and it does not infringe upon a protected individual liberty, it passes muster. I am not Justice Scalia. Address my points, not his.
It's hard to follow what Kennedy is saying in his opinion, but think it goes like this: deviating from the usual practice of deferring to state definitions of marriage raises flags that Congress was up to something unusual, and that unusual thing was impermissible animus. See Professor Hellman's post here on Balkinization, I think she comes closest to capturing Kennedy's argument. "That is like arguing that laws against incestuous marriage show animus against families." Such laws show animus toward incestual relations, so why shouldn't laws against homosexual unions be thought to show animus towards such unions? "If Kennedy offered similarly incoherent nonsense to uphold this section of DOMA, the professors here and elsewhere would be roundly and justifiably be skewering the opinion." It's comments like this that make me think you are 'on script.' Have you read the posts on the opinion here? Several of them, including this very post, have roundly skewered Kennedy for a poor or odd opinion.
I would have liked to see the case analyzed under gender discrimination. It's odd they didn't go that way, it was quickly brought up and ignored at oral argument but interestingly the only justice who seemed interested was: Kennedy. I would think if he could have been convinced the four liberals would have signed on to that..
Our SALADISTA (FKA our yodeler) might inform us how " ... a court can find some rational basis for the law ... " from the mere words of a statute when there is no legislative history identifying the problem the statute may address and Congress' bases for enacting the statute. Maybe he can identify some substantive statutes so enacted by Congress.
I agree our SALADISTA is no Justice Scalia, as he is only a piping teapot in comparison Surely Scalia does not believe Congress acts in such a vacuous manner as our SALADISTA suggests.
Hellman: Respect for federalism does not play any role in justifying the decision. Rather, the deviation from traditional practices here serves the function of making clear that the federal action has the purpose and effect – or I would say the meaning – of demeaning gay couples.
Mr. W, this reading of the Kennedy syllogism does not quite work. Kennedy claims that Congress is deviating from the "traditional practice" of allowing the states to define civil marriage. While this is more respect for confederacy than federalism, Kennedy is relying on a respect for his version of the proper relationship between the national and state governments to tee up his argument that Congress is somehow acting with constitutionally impermissible animus. Kennedy's logic is incoherent because he is simultaneously attempting to avoid making a standard equal protection case in favor of SSM which can be used against the states, but wants to reverse a law he personally dislikes. BD: "That is like arguing that laws against incestuous marriage show animus against families." Mr. W: Such laws show animus toward incestual relations, so why shouldn't laws against homosexual unions be thought to show animus towards such unions? Let's reverse your observation. If the traditional definition of marriage shows unconstitutional animus toward homosexual unions, why can't the same argument be made on behalf of incestuous (not to mention polygamous and polymorous) unions? To the extent that it can be understood as objective test, Kennedy's metaphysical approach necessarily boils down to, if it declines to extend recognition and benefits to any group, the government is denying them human dignity and thus engaging in constitutionally impermissible animus. In reality, Kennedy's metaphysical nonsense is a completely subjective and arbitrary approach: if it declines to extend recognition and benefits to any group Kennedy personally favors, the government is denying them human dignity and thus engaging in constitutionally impermissible animus. Kennedy would never find that government refusal to extend recognition and benefits to polygamous, polymorous or incestuous was unconstitutional because Kennedy himself has animus toward such relationships.
If you'll recall I found Kennedy's opinion to be, in Professor Levinson's words, intellectually awkward. As I said, I preferred Alito's opinion. I think Professor Hellman's interpretation puts it in the most coherent light possible. You may be correct that Kennedy's odd pages of homage to state authority over marriage was supposed to play a more key role and especially one which would protect the states from the logic of the Romer-esque other parts of the opinion, and I think you're correct that it's even more intellectually awkward if it is read that way. As to your point about animus I imagine Kennedy would try to argue that polygamy and incest are different on the grounds that there is some harm present that he would be willing to accept as rational. Whether that would convince me is another question...
Gender discrimination has not been accepted by the courts as a whole in this context, so it is not surprising that the USSC didn't use that approach. It is often not even used by gay couples.
So, it is logical for the USSC to follow Romer and Lawrence (and CLS v. Martinez dicta) to focus on sexual orientation. Kennedy briefly referenced sexual equality and said it was "difficult" to argue. This doesn't help the cause much. The classification by personal characteristic (sex or sexual orientation / race) in the marriage context was noted by Ted Olson to be different than polygamy (different interests and conduct). IF states begin to recognize polygamy, the clash between federalism and EP would have to be further examined. As to incest, states already are allowed to recognize first cousin marriages, marriages between adopted and step-relations and even an uncle and a niece in one case w/o the denial of federal benefits. As with polygamy, historically, the "definition of marriage" included such things. But, there are different interests as well there, if again, the federal government decided to single them out. Which they never did to my knowledge like this. If the feds did something like it did in the late 19th Century, such as denying voting rights in federal territory even for the mere promotion of the idea of polygamy, that level of "animus" without reasonable cause very well might be an issue. See, e.g., Romer v. Evans noting something like that goes too far.
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So I'll be heading to Spain this Summer and I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice. I'll have classes for 4 weeks and then I plan staying roughly 2 weeks after that to just have a nice jaunt around the place. I was looking into getting a Eurail pass cause I have no other idea of how to get around, but they are kinda pricey.... I was wanting to get one where the days don't have to consecutive so I could travel on some weekends that I'm in school and then I could use the rest up in my later adventure. Also, was if anyone just had any advice in general when traveling with no real itinerary in mind. Where to stay, things to do, places to eat, those sort of shenanigans.
Really, anything is appreciated. Just realized I have like 3 months left and I'm getting a little antsy since I have no real solid plans, other than a plane ticket and my classes.
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Can't help you with the Eurail question, but I can offer some general travel advice.
I, personally, am a very cautious (read: paranoid) traveler. I always check the bus routes multiple times, and try to plan for multiple routes as well. Never depend on one bus or train, especially if you have a deadline.
Also, make sure you know how to read maps, and know the walking directions to everywhere you have to go. I always write down corner-by-corner directions so that I don't forget where I'm going. If it's complicated or confusing, print out a map and bring it with you.
Don't depend on GPS. That banks on you knowing where you want to go, and sometimes the information is wrong or out of date.
And most of all, plan ahead. Even if it's only a day in advance, make sure you select options of things to do and places to go, and know how to get there for each one. Then, when you feel like doing someting impulsive, you can pick a prepared trip and not have to worry about scrambling for a once-a-day train you didn't know about.
As a bonus, not related to travel: language. You know Spanish, but I have found in my own experience that speaking with natives also requires advance planning. I try to think about everything I might need or want to say (mostly questions) and translate them ahead of time, so that when I DO need to speak, I'm not left grasping after words and looking like an idiot foreigner (even if I am).
Hope that helps! Good luck, and enjoy your adventure!
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Fortunately, I can give advice on a Eurail pass. I travelled with Interrail last summer and it was a transportation nightmare. We were unprepared for the journeys we had to book in advance, so we got stuck in Lyon for a night with nowhere to stay. Couchsurfing came to our rescue, but I'll get to that later. If you're only planning to stay in Spain look for monthly or seasonal passes with national rail companies. Most will be pretty reasonable and have special rates for students. There will be a pass for unlimited travel within the time you're there but you should also look into the more restricted passes if money is an issue (travelling off-peak can be a real money-saver).
You mentioned Couchsurfing in the today thread. My advice is to follow your gut. We had the best experience with a lovely couple who gave us a bed and a meal with two hours' notice. Most of the people on there (myself included!) are just awesome people who want to pay it forwards and do a favour for a fellow traveller. As with anything though there will be some dodgy characters. Every couchsurfer is encouraged to give a detailed profile and you can request only the people you trust (only women, only people with kids, etc.) Look at profiles, look at what people are saying and you will be fine.
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For benefit of the International Red Cross, Nazis stage a football match at Theresienstadt, in Czechoslovakia, on 23 Jun 1944. Inspectors watch the game taking place in the camp square. (Comite International de la Croix Rouge)
For Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we publish a 2008 interview with William Heyen. A Brooklyn-born child of German immigrants, he has authored numerous collections of poetry and essays about the Holocaust. In his poem "Parity," Heyen addresses the collusion that Nazis at Auschwitz forced on special squads, or Sonderkommando, by giving the primarily Jewish units the job of running the crematorium. At least once in 1944, the SS also staged a football match between representatives of the two groups, held in a crematorium courtyard.
Primo Levi in The Drowned and the Saved uses the phrase "gray zone" to describe the camp's network of complicity in which perpetrator and victim were bound institutionally to the job of extermination. The warped reality is captured in the soccer game. In Heyen's poem, the SS in this match envisions "the conjoining of spirit / for mutual health & benefit."
"They put the ball into play. Sonorous laughter filled the courtyard," writes Jewish doctor and Josef Mengele assistant Miklos Nyiszli in his eyewitness account of camp life. He continues:
The spectators became excited and shouted encouragement at the players, as if this were the playing field of some peaceful town. Stupefied, I made that mental note as well. Without waiting for the end of the match, I returned to my room. After supper I swallowed two sleeping tablets of ten centigrams each and fell asleep. A badly needed sleep, for I felt my nerves stretched to the breaking point. In such cases, sleeping tablets were the best remedy. (57–58)
Heyen reads "Parity." Download interview (MP3) » (28:34)
Interview with William Heyen, 11 September 2008
GG: Say some of your connection with soccer. I know it's long-standing and that you've played the game. What are some of your first recollections?—I imagine it was a while before there was organized soccer for you to play.
WH: As a kid I played lots of kickball games and that kind of thing at the playground. When I went to high school, and this was at Smithtown in Long Island, I think I was a sophomore when I began playing soccer and felt part of a team. That's when I began playing. And then because my high school coach had gone to [SUNY] Brockport here in western New York, I ended up at this place. I played more than three years on the varsity. I was all–New York State for a few years, and then I was all-American for two years, including first-team in my senior year. Just a few months ago for the first time I was vain enough for the first time to have one of my all-American certificates framed.
In those days there were no divisions in college soccer. Even little Brockport. We had just 800 or 900 students. We played the University of Pittsburgh and CCNY [City College of New York] and Army and Navy and other good schools. Brockport was co–national champions with Penn State in 1955. After that the centers of soccer moved out to the Midwest and to the West. But in those days we were at the hub of things.
I played what we called center-half back in those days. I don't know how much I'm in touch with the game anymore. I did follow the [2006] World Cup, and I've watched big matches in the past. I'm sort of an American now who has fallen under the spell of football and basketball. But soccer is maybe my heart's sport.
GG: Growing up and learning the game of soccer, did you recall many other players outside the university context? Was there a network of amateur teams, ethnic-based teams—Portuguese, Italian and so on? Did that make an impact on you, to the extent that you were aware of them?
WH: I didn't follow any of the leagues, but I did during summers for a couple of years—college summers—I played for a Brauhaus team on Long Island. This was an all-German team. We did play other ethnic teams. We played a couple of games at Jones Beach I remember. I got to know something about the foreign players and how the game was played.
In college, because I did handle the ball a little bit better than most of the American players, a couple of times I was asked what country I was from. But I was born in Brooklyn. My old man, who was born in Germany, had been a goalie as a young man, and I kicked the ball to him a little bit against the garage once in a while. But no, I wasn't aware of leagues and things like that. …
GG: Thom Satterlee, who was coeditor of [The Global Game: Writers on Soccer] and was a student of yours, seems to think you had a trial with a professional side. It might have been the New York Generals …
WH: I had an invitation when I was a senior to show up and try out for a team in New York. I even forgot who they were. But I thought better of it and went to graduate school. I did when I taught at [SUNY] Cortland help out as an unofficial assistant coach. … When I was in graduate school at Ohio University in Athens again I helped out. That year I remember the team won the Mid-American Championship.
I remember hearing when I was in graduate school that they were having tryouts for the Olympics up in Cleveland. I thought I maybe could make it, who knows? But by then I had a child and had a car that didn't work very well. I fell into another kind of life. I got to be more interested in literature and reading and writing than in seeing what I could do in soccer.
GG: Your poem titled "Parity" appears in [The Global Game: Writers on Soccer]. It's ironic for it to be there in a way. It takes place in a setting in which sport seems very illogical and seems like the antithesis of sport, the antithesis of soccer, the match that's described there. Is that how you reacted when you first read about this occurrence?
WH: I think what happened, and this is in Primo Levi's terms, what happened there at Auschwitz with this soccer game was a perversion of sport in which the SS who were running the camp, Levi says, suggested that these special commando, Jews and others, were on their level and that is the reason they would play with them. It's as though they dragged down another segment of humanity, and this game was a manifestation of that. … [Heyen reads "Parity."]
I guess when I write a poem it's successful—and this one is somewhat successful anyway—when I can keep reading it and keep hearing things in it. And this one continues to give of itself for me. I'm listening to its sounds, "spirit" and "benefit," and then those long "a"s at the end, "Come, said the SS, today / we must play …" It seems to me to be a very sardonic poem. I don't get anything in there per se of the working of the game, and I've read an awful lot of Holocuast literature—and I haven't read about this soccer game anywhere else, so that's all I know about it.
Levi got it from a book by a Hungarian physician [Nyiszli] who worked with Mengele who talked about this soccer game. But there aren't any details about it. Again, the point being that when the SS who ran the camp had reduced the special commando to people like themselves, then a kind of parity was created. It's as though they destroyed another race's morality; therefore, they could, so-called, play.
I wish I did know more about soccer matches at Auschwitz. …
GG: You've done a lot of Holocaust literature, a few books of poems and essays, and assimilated what seems like an extraordinary amount of source material, survivors' literature and other sources. How has the process gone for you, turning that language and that source material into poetic form like in this poem "Parity," for instance? How does that transformation occur?
WH: I'm not sure, and I'm not sure if this answers your question. But I have a new book coming out this fall [2008]. It's called A Poetics of Hiroshima. Most of it, three-quarters of the book's poems, are Holocaust poems, and then there are some Hiroshima and "bomb" pieces. And what my theme is this time, and I face it fully maybe for the first time, is that art truly has to do with this collision between beauty and atrocity. So even writing a poem like "Parity" I'm trying to create something on the page that I care for, something of rhythmical intensity, something of imagistic interest and even beauty. And at the same time, lurking in the background, there is this idea of the absolute horror that's going on, so that it can seem almost obscene to be pursuing art.
Raul Hilberg, the famous scholar who wrote The Destruction of the European Jews—three big volumes—also has a newer book called The Politics of Memory. He talks about writing The Destruction of the European Jews and drafting it when he was a graduate student at Columbia and he was working in his parents' apartment. While he was constructing that book, which is kind of a ground zero for Holocaust history, he was listening to classical music, for example, Beethoven symphonies. And he was trying to construct his book, his study, as though it were a symphony.
So he very early on faced the idea that, yes, this is what we do, even while we are responding to the darkest history of the human race. I say in one poem, "Here is where God's darkness grew darkest." Even while we're responding to that, we have this other urge to create something meaningful and something beautiful, even if it's darkly beautiful. And we know of course from the camps that people too were trying to make paintings and make poems. There's a lot of literature that comes out of that.
… I have a German family background. My father got here in 1934. I think it was 1934 and [he] met my mother here as they were both born in Germany. But his two brothers died on the German side. My wife's father was a student at Tübingen. When he was given credit for getting rid of Jewish professors there he drew the attention of Dr. [Joseph] Goebbels, who called him up to Berlin. He was one of 50 regular participants at Goebbels's news conferences for years. So there is that German background in me that drew me toward it.
But it's that history. Still I read book after book, and I find myself just shaking my head saying, "Could this have happened? How could this have happened, that so-called civilized people of my blood did to others what they did?" Susan Sontag says that the Holocaust is opaque. We can't see into it, we can't finally see through it. And for me this is a good thing to keep in mind so that I don't freeze myself into any positions about how this kind of aberrant behavior, this sickness, this psychotic behavior could have occurred.
GG: You said you had been to one of the camps, Bergen-Belsen. One of your volumes is titled Erika, which is the type of heather or vegetation that now covers the ground. I wonder how much of that atmosphere, seeing a camp environment, was important in your creative work. Was it necessary physically to see one of the camps at some point?
WH: I don't know if it was necessary, because I seem to throw my mind—although really this is impossible—into these other scenes as I read these books. I still remember being at Bergen-Belsen that day. And what I really remember, and I don't think I've talked about this before, is that night at home I drafted an essay about the visit to Bergen-Belsen. It became the essay "Erika." But in early drafts I said it's important for me not to change a word. But then as time went by I did improve its various redundancies and clumsinesses and I inserted other things, so I could not resist trying to make the essay into a work of art.
To stand there in that very ground where so much had happened. It's unforgettable. In general the Holocaust has cast a shadow in my life. The city of Rochester has adopted Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl as a book that the whole city will read, and I'll be doing two or three talks in relation to the book over the next month or two. And one of the things I'm going to emphasize is this idea that in order to understand such a book or any Holocaust fiction, say, or poetry we have to understand that the term "Holocaust survivor" is an oxymoron. Someone like Charlotte Delbo just says over and over and over again, "I'm dead, don't you realize it? I'm dead."
So there is that. I've got a poem "The Legacy" in which I mention that—basically the poem says that the more alive we are, the deader the past is and the deader the dead are. The more we empathize with and bring them up and recall them and bring them back into our memory, then the deader we are. So this is finally the legacy of this terrible history.
GG: We mention in the introductory note to the poem "Parity" that you had a couple of uncles who fought on the German side in the Second World War, and I believe perished in it, and you dedicated some poems to them. How much do you know of their background, and did you ever know them personally?
WH: I didn't know them at all. I think I remember, when I was a boy, my father receiving the news of the deaths of his brothers. And all I heard was that one of them was a rabid Nazi, an idealist as they called them in those days, so he was glad to be doing what he did. This was Hermann Heyen, and he was shot down over Russia finally. The other one, my father said, Willy, Wilhelm, after whom I was named, was just a foot soldier who was one of the not many Germans who were killed at the beginning in Holland.
No, I never knew them or had any contact with them. My father was quiet about things regarding World War II.
GG: You had a volume earlier called The Swastika Poems. One of your earliest memories—you were born in 1940—and you still recalled swastikas, because you were from a German family, being painted—was it on your house or near the house?
WH: On the steps and on the side of the house. There was a tremendous amount of tension. I didn't know what the swastika represented, but I knew that it sort of vibrated within the house and made everybody nervous. At that time my father was working against the Axis for Bethlehem Steel.
By the time I got to high school, I don't think any high schools were offering German courses or anything like that.
GG: How is your connection with the sport of soccer now? You see the World Cup and occasionally a college game, the college team you played for?
WH: In fact there's an alumni weekend coming up here, and I'll be there and bullshit with the old ballplayers. Maybe I could tie together soccer and poetry in one thing that's been on my mind. What has really bothered me for a long time is how, to me, dirty the sport has become when I watch it on TV or even in the college ranks. I remember being bothered many years ago watching great players like Maradona chopped down from behind and then the yellow card coming out very reluctantly, and then maybe the red card. I saw in this recent World Cup in so many matches—I can't stand seeing some of the elbowing and some of the spikes flashing and especially the uniform pulling. It disrupts the whole finesse and the beauty of the game.
So I've done some thinking about this lately. The most brilliant thing anybody ever said about poetry to my mind was in Emerson's Journal, when he says, "Form always stands in dread of power. What the devil will he do next?" So there's always this equilibrium between form, shape, orderliness, control and, on the other hand, power or wildness or force. And in the real poem those things achieve a kind of balance, a sort of blending. And you know it when you've hit it, when you've got a forward velocity mixed in with a stasis. It's just a feeling you can get.
I think all this dirty play in soccer which gets out of hand—you've only got one guy on the field staying in control of things really. Even in pro basketball you've got three refs on the court. All of that disrupts the beauty, the poetry of the game, the rhythm of it, the skill of it. So that's been one thing that bothers me. I watch a game on television once in a while, and I have to look away and I become irritated with it. I know well enough as an athlete—I still play basketball at 67, I've been an athlete of one kind or another all my life—I know that in soccer you can fend off other players with forearms and keep your balance and everything else. But this deliberate dirty play of people being pulled down by their uniforms and all of that, that has put me off and, as I said, disrupted the possible poetry of the game and the great skills of these players now.
GG: Related to your own history as a soccer player, when you were playing the game did you think of it as a poetic form, as a sport that was capable of that kind of expression?
WH: I went to college as a phys ed major, and I was a phys ed major for two and a half years. If someone had told me back then that I'd be interested in literature or poetry someday, I'd have felt sort of insulted. No, I didn't. But I felt the rhythms of the game. When a play snaps into place in soccer or basketball or anything else you just have that feeling. It's like the proper swing of a golf club or whatever. But no, I wasn't thinking of the poetry of the game. I was thinking of trying to get a win and to get around the guy in front of me.
I'm six-five, so I was, again, center-halfback. I played mainly defense, but I was always in there on corner kicks, and so I did my share of damage to the other teams.
- Tadeusz Borowski, "The People Who Walked On," in This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, trans. Barbara Vedder, Writers from the Other Europe (1959; Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1976).
- William Heyen, "Sunlight," The American Poetry Review (March/April 2007): 55–56.
- Miklos Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account, trans. Tibere Kremer and Richard Seaver (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Crest, 1960).
- Stanislao G. Pugliese, review of The Grey Zone, The American Historical Review 108 (June 2003).
- Debarati Sanyal, "A Soccer Match in Auschwitz: Passing Culpability in Holocaust Criticism," Representations 79 (summer 2002): 1–27.
Heyen's poem "Parity" appears in The Global Game: Writers on Soccer (University of Nebraska Press, 2008).


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Men's Hiking Boots
Explore unknown terrain with men's hiking boots from Merrell. Our sturdy soles provide the support you need to climb higher, hike further and maneuver faster. Check out our men's hiking boots made with waterproof materials, so you can plow through snow and rain. You'll find men's hiking boots offering the comfort you need for a day-long hike or your day-to-day routine. Browse our men's hiking boots now to find the pair of shoes offering you the style and function you require.