1."President Bush operates in Washington like the head of a small occupying army of insurgents," the pundit Fred Barnes writes in his recent book, "Rebel-in-Chief." (quoted by Thomas Frank, the New York TIMES, 12 August 2006.)
this sure fits with the notion I've floated that the Bush League is like an old-fashioned "Leninist" vanguard party, of course with a different transitional program. 2. I'm sure that there are people out there who agree with Mel Gibson's drunken rant and think that sending him to rehab was done to shut him up, to keep his truth from the public. 3. According to Jared Diamond (in his COLLAPSE), stockholders sued Henry Ford for paying his workers $5 per day -- and won. Is this true? if so, why do historians make such a big thing about the $5 day? (Diamond refers to this payscale as charity, but that's crap. It lowered turnover.) -- Jim Devine / "It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why an economist may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense...." -- Joseph Schumpeter [edited]
