Re: Fiction: "Rich and poor"

Maybe you mean "domesday book" [TR Introduction] The first approach to a modern assessment roll or cataster is the well known Domesday Book. The existing literature on this remarkable memorial is so extensive, that it has not appeared advisable to quote largely from it. Our first quotation contain

Re: the next wedge issue

ravi wrote: what is the working class, in terms of unique characteristics or use characteristics that help lend it definition? i am truly puzzled: i go to work each day. i am part of the yuppie privileged class. there's a guy wearing a union t-shirt who installs furniture in my building. am i in t

Re: Nitzan on oil

Haven't read Nizan yet, but maybe the Iraq campaign was more of a Goldfinger move. Remember Goldfinger? He wanted to render all the gold in Fort Knox radioactive so that _his_ gold would be worth more. One view of the war holds that it was over control of oil. This translates in a lot of people's m

Re: the next wedge issue

Carrol Cox wrote: As Lou says, a revolutinary party that did not expel Melvin would not be a revolutionary party. Well, if a specific revolutionary party sought human liberation irrespective of wether that human was straight or gay, I assume Melvin would not join this party. Solidarity is no

Re: the next wedge issue

Doyle Saylor wrote: My only answer to that is the whole working class is the whole working class. We cannot build a socialist society that does not acknowledge all the different elements that build a society and builds a whole society. Thanks, Doyle Well put. Joanna

Re: Subject: Re: Re: value and gender

The relationship between nutrition and health is not a middle class or bourgeois prejudice. It is a fact. Joanna I don't know if that is good or bad, but anyway it is not true and more a middleclass or bourgeois prejudice. Seth Sandronsky

Re: The text of Bush's speech at Whitehall Palace

I don't actually know if I can make myself read it, but thank you for sending it. I guess it will tell me what the current voodoo words are, and perhaps I will be able to tell whether they have a real plan or a just another spin. Joanna Jurriaan Bendien wrote: The NZH reports: "Police were out in

Re: the next wedge issue

Melvin wrote: Personally, I abhor homosexuality and feel no compulsion whatsoever to explain why I think a man penis should be place in a women and not another man. I am not required to explain my ideology. Actually, there is no such thing as "a man's penis," right? I mean there's your penis, whic

Re: the next wedge issue

also don't mean? --- joanna bujes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, Christ!, Justin. Many college students still find oral sex viscerally disgusting...it takes a while. Besides, one thing I can tell you is that while men may publically gag at the idea of having sex with another man, when they get

Re: the next wedge issue

believe that it is even _coherent_ to talk about any sort of behaviore independently of social conditioning. (I'll send you a paper on this that I can'ts eem to get published . . . )jks --- joanna bujes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But therea re lot of people who have a visceral disgust ab

Re: the next wedge issue

But therea re lot of people who have a visceral disgust about sexual behavior different from theirs that is independent of any religiosu beliefs. "Visceral"? I'm skeptical. Aren't you the one who argues against the causative value of "inborn" anything. Do you mean "visceral disgust" independent o

Re: value and gender

Jurriaan Bendien wrote: The peculiar thing which Marx doesn't really mention in his 1844 Manuscripts is how human "species activities" such as caring for an infant can cease to be fully human expressions which offer satisfaction or interest, but just become "work which has to be done", which we si

Re: value and gender

men." On valuing women's . But I couldn't think of the several words to fill in the blank. Gene Coyle. joanna bujes wrote: It's pretty clear to me that men take a very different view of it than women. At the same time, they seem to enjoy the comfort of a clean house. I don'

Re: the next wedge issue

Jurriaan Bendien wrote: I am always perplexed by the combination of an obsessive preoccupation of Americans with sexual relations, and a puritan christianist morality which stigmatises a frank and open discussion about it, which seems to lead to the idea that expressing or using sexual imagery is

Re: value and gender

aay cleaner. .... Joanna ravi wrote: joanna bujes wrote: It's pretty clear to me that men take a very different view of it than women. At the same time, they seem to enjoy the comfort of a clean house. I don't know why we'd call it "bourgeois" -- people have been cleani

Re: value and gender

It's pretty clear to me that men take a very different view of it than women. At the same time, they seem to enjoy the comfort of a clean house. I don't know why we'd call it "bourgeois" -- people have been cleaning themselves and their houses for ever. Joanna ravi w

Re: value and gender

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: That's how things are in a number of households in many societies, but men would benefit if their wives made wages equal to theirs or higher wages than theirs and if combined incomes could purchase the housework services on the market whose quality is better than what the w

Re: value and gender

Jurriaan Bendien wrote: The wealth of a household = disposable income + unpaid work. You wouldn't catch me saying that. If I was married and said things like that, my wife would have a fit, and boot me out. Why, it would be the truth. The man who fixes a car or paints a room or shovels the snow

Re: Mickey Mouse

Yeah, fuck Disney and the mouse. Infinitely more delectable is the divine Betty (Boop), whose creator, Max Fleischer was far more imaginative, fun, creative, iconoclastic than Disney. You can get the complete (6 vol) Betty Boop cartoons on video for sixty bucks or so. Endless entertainment for

Re: value and gender

This of course means there are probably times when I am not part of the solution. There are times on the dance floor where I have stepped on my partners feet, but very few times when they have stepped on my feet. I wonder why that is? I asked my wife and she said something about "trying to lead." :

Re: value and gender

But now you have to prove to me that hubby proletarian actually benefits from the fact that his wife earns less per hour than he does, and it is clear as day that he DOESN'T, because it means that real disposable household income is less than it could be, and if her wage was equal to his, they wo

Today in Iraq

Good site for Iraq news. http://dailywarnews.blogspot.com/ Joanna

Re: the Clinton years

I don't know that I think in terms of "socialist art." But I know what you're getting at. Here's a few -- off the top of my head -- there's nothing systematic about this list except that I read or saw everything on the list and thought it was great. Not all these are contemporary, but I figure 20th

[Fwd: [Fwd: Fwd: Bring Halliburton Home]]

Bring Halliburton Home lookout by Naomi Klein [from the November 24, 2003 issue of The Nation] This article can be found on the web at http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20031124&s=klein Cancel the contracts. Ditch the deals. Rip up the rules. Those are a few suggestions for slogans that coul

Re: New anti-war slogan

Right on. ...another bottom feeder I guess Joanna ravi wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hand-outs don't enable people for self-suffiency. > are human beings capable of being self-sufficient? i do not know of a single one that is so, but perhaps thats because my friends and i are all "bottom fe

Re: My working class students

That's great news. Thanks. Joanna MICHAEL YATES wrote: I have read with interest recent posts under the heading "Step into the Classroom." I have been a labor educator since 1980. I have taught working class students, mostly local union activists, through labor studies programs at Penn State U

Re: New anti-war slogan

So if I give money to a beggar, that's a bad thing? Joanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but it suggests that a hand-out is a bad thing. How about "a dollar for Bush is a dollar for war"? Hand-outs are a bad thing. At least at the micro level.

Re: New anti-war slogan

Better, you're right. Joanna Devine, James wrote: but it suggests that a hand-out is a bad thing. How about "a dollar for Bush is a dollar for war"? -Original Message----- From: joanna bujes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 11/15/2003 8:02 PM To: [

Re: New anti-war slogan

Pretty good, I'll pass it on. Joanna Jurriaan Bendien wrote: "A tax-dollar for Bush is a hand-out for war"

Re: the Clinton years

Not to mention the films -- a significant slice of the great art of the twentieth century. In the visual arts, they were the bomb!. And then there were the writers: Akhmatova, Yesenin, Trifonov, Bulgakov, and lots, lots more that I just don't know about ... ...and the dancers -- Galina Ulanova, Nur

Re: McJob

Good one, thanks. Joanna Dan Scanlan wrote: 2. Topical Words: McJob --- The Associated Press reported last Saturday that Jim Cantalupo, the Chairman and CEO of the fast-food firm McDonald's, had published an open letter to Merriam-

Re: the Clinton years

Ian writes Welcome to the contradictions of the division of labor and bounded rationality. Seems to me that coaxing fellow learners to 'see' connections that weren't apparent in their quest to improve the quality of their lives is a small first step creating greater public discussion whereby eve

Re: "Paper bears anything; so does a certain public"

Have you read this guy? Would you recommend? Joanna Jurriaan Bendien wrote: The radical imagination of Cornelius Castoriadis, by Scott McLemee Paris in the forties was a city awash in forged identities and remade lives. But few transformed themselves as completely as Cornelius Castoriadis. When

Drive, He Said

New York Press - November 12-18, 2003 Cage Match Back at the Wheel Thomas Friedman just loves to grind the gears. [Matt Taibbi] The New York Times' Tom Friedman has a thing about wheels. They recur in his columns with chilling frequency. The tendency is so overt that he often reads like a classic

Re: Advertising

No, I'm arguing, that advertising isn't netural; I'm arguing that its rhetoric has an implicit message, that this implicit message is a form of brainwashing, and that a free society should not promote brainwashing. My point about the seven deadlies is not an assertion to be taken on faith, but an e

Advertising

Jurriaan Bendien wrote: There is no good reason to ban advertising, only advertising which does not provide useful and accurate information about the product. If I am overposting, I am sorry. Jurriaan Sometimes you shock me. There are many, many good reasons to get rid of advertising. Off the top

Re: Western rationality

Agreedand great quote: "To be Greek, one must have no clothes. To be Medieval, one must have no body. To be Modern, one must have no soul" (Oscar Wilde) Joanna Shane Mage wrote: Originally "Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît p

Re: Western rationality

"Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point" I think Pascal's assertion has more to do with the limitations of reason than with the powers or nature of the more ambiguous "coeur." In other words, it's difficult to say whether by "heart" Pascal means heart/feeling or heart/love. I see

Re: The next survivor series

Perhaps the single state of some women is the expression of this revolt...or at least revulsion. It's also hard to revolt when you have to take care of the kids. I have the luxury of an income that enables me to support my kids; many women do not have that luxury. But, yes, women and nature are the

The next survivor series

Apparently, this is making the rounds. I got it from my little sister. (Diane Monaco are you there?) THE NEXT SURVIVOR SERIES Six married men will be dropped on an island for six weeks with 1 car and 4 kids each. Each kid plays two sports and either takes music or dance class. There is no access t

Re: the socialism of risks/costs

I think Gore Vidal summed it up best when he said "What we have in this country is socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor." Joanna Eubulides wrote: [New York Times] November 10, 2003 When Subsidies to Lure Business Don't Pan Out By LOUIS UCHITELLE INDIANAPOLIS - A huge, light-gray bui

Re: Western rationality

Sabri Oncu wrote: Back to work, that is, homework and I tell you, you don't want to do this at my age. Yeah, work is bad enoughbut at least there, I can slog through it while repeating to myself: "I get paid $$/hour to do this; I get paid $$/hour to do this;" Hard to do that in school. By

Re: Western rationality

Jurriaan Bendien wrote: However, once it is admitted that human beings are part of the material world and connected with it all the time through conscious practical activity, most philosophical problems about our ability to know the world disappear and become practical, experiential questions. But

Rich Colleges Receiving Richest Share of U.S. Aid

November 9, 2003 By GREG WINTER The federal government typically gives the wealthiest private universities significantly more financial aid money than schools with much greater shares of poor students. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/education/09AID.html?ex=1069369809&ei=1&en=d3fc415b596e1d74

Re: Quick overview statistics for Holland

Jurriaan Bendien wrote: 1. More managers While the employed labour force grew in the last nine years by 20% in the Netherlands, Dutch CBS statistics show the number of operatives classified as managers increased by 75% during the same time to 177,000 managers in total, or an average of one manage

No Turkish troops

Also on Friday, Turkey decided not to deploy 10,000 troops to its southern neighbor. Washington had been pressuring Turkey for months to send what would have been the first contingent of troops from a Muslim country, but the move faced strong resistance from the Iraqi Governing Council. Secretary o

Re: One sentence posts to PEN-L

...and I have to admit, I'm irritated by this desire to control discourse before you hear what someone has to say. There's something light-hearted about brief interchanges -- I don't mind them. Joanna Devine, James wrote: it's the quality of sentences that counts, not the quantity. -Or

Lynch speaks...

Jessica Lynch Criticizes U.S. Accounts of Her Ordeal November 7, 2003 By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK In her first public statements since her rescue in Iraq, Jessica Lynch criticized the military for exaggerating accounts of her rescue and recasting her ordeal as a patriotic fable. http://www.nytimes.c

Re: cronysm? What cronyism?

His screed has the virtue of being so unbelievable(who hasn't heard of the $5,000 toilet seats)...that it's well, unbelievable. Joanna Max B. Sawicky wrote: I want the drugs this guy is using. - Original Message - From: "Eubulides" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: They decapitate babies don't they?

Yes -- a magnificent play -- The Duchess of Malfi -- Joanna Carrol Cox wrote: andie nachgeborenen wrote: But that was in another country, and, besides, the wench is dead. If we're poaching on non-Shakespearean territory, I prefer I am the Duchess of Malfi still!* and Cover her face, mine

Re: Guardian: Resurrecting Draft Boards?

Devine, James wrote: I say: draft all those who support the war! Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine Waaay too logical... Joanna

Re: More on anti-corruption

Jurriaan Bendien wrote We only make progress if we extract the hidden logic behind the metaphors that paralyse our thinking. Yes. True. Interestingly enough, the following was posted to LBO a few days ago. I knew Lakoff at UC Berkeley when his star was rising. He was doing interesting work and so

Re: The concept of corruption

ible with historical materialism. I wrote a paper on this a decade ago, Metaphysical Individualism and Functional Explanation, Phil Science (1993). jks --- Eubulides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - From: "joanna bujes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PRO

Re: The concept of corruption

Corruption is defined as "the abuse of public power for private gain." === This is way too thin a definition of corruption. It concedes too much to methodological individualism. Ian The definition seems pretty good to me. What's "methodological individualism"? Joanna

Re: General Strike In Israel

Good. Joanna Jurriaan Bendien wrote: 11:24 am PST, 2 November 2003 Israeli motorists are waiting in long lines at petrol stations as trade unions halted fuel supplies ahead of a general strike aimed at paralysing the whole economy. Israel's cabinet approved the issuing of emergency back-to-work

Re: New rules - reply to Ian

Jurriaan Bendien wrote: "The theorem is that we all have something to sell, just like prostitutes, and the whole way to expand the market is to focus on those things you've got that you can sell." Something tells me it's a bit worse for the "consolidated account" than for the prostitute. The prost

Re: A new start: the meaning of "weapons of mass destruction", and an Al Jazeera poll result

If this is not genocide, I don't know what is. Joanna Jurriaan Bendien wrote: (this article describes how the forces of imperialism literally poison people to death, which over time may make official war casualty rates look like chickenfeed - and I am not talking tobacco. The poisoning would als

Re: Reflections on Vietnam War statistics

Jurriaan Bendien wrote: In the American involvement in the Vietnam war from 1964-1975, it is generally accepted that of the American military personnel deployed, about 58,200 died, another 153,000 casualties were hospitalized with injuries, and of those, about 100,000 were permanently disabled or

Re: PK on GDP surge - what could a socialist say ?

No, in fact, rental prices in the Bay area are dropping. To get an apt in the building in which I live, you practically had to inherit it. For the last nine months we've had three vacancies, and they're not renting because the prices are too high. Joanna Doug Henwood wrote: Jurriaan Bendien wrote

Re: PK on GDP surge - what could a socialist say ?

Jurriaan Bendien wrote: Presumably, they would do that only if for example they were sure that they had job security, or if they gained a rise in pay, and so on. And that cuts out a lot of people already, because we know there is a lot of job insecurity. No. It's not a rational thing. Until very

Re: PK on GDP surge - what could a socialist say ?

rket value. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -Original Message- From: joanna bujes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 12:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] PK on GDP surge - what could a so

Re: PK on GDP surge - what could a socialist say ?

Here's what I'm curious about: I buy a house for 300,000. Within five years, the house is valued at 500,000 (not unusual in the Bay area); now I re-finance. Is my "collateral" based on the portion of the 300,000 I have paid off? Or is it based on the revised market value of the house? Joanna Doug

Re: In defence of Krugman and against Alexander Cockburn: choice of targets

Wait a sec Justin. If you're making big bucks defending tabbacco, well that's understandable. Big tabbacco makes big bucks that they use to pay you. But if some guy is making big bucks from poor black people who think that he will defend them in discrimination/criminal suits and then spending all

iraq joke

Mildly funny. J. > Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny > Subject: Iraq perspective > > Up in Heaven, Alexander the Great, Frederick the Great and Napoleon are > looking down on events in Iraq. Alexander says, "Wow, if I had just one of > Bush's armored divisions, I would definitely have conquere

Re: Power Point

Oh, definitely, the Tufte book is a technical writer's visual bible!!! An exceptional book. Joanna Eugene Coyle wrote: For a funny put-down of "Power Point" lectures, look at www.edwardtufte.com. Tufte, at Yale I think, is the graphics/statistics whiz who has produced some beautiful books, one o

Re: gift idea

Awright, awrightbut you have to sign it when you come to SF. Joanna Doug Henwood wrote: Devine, James wrote: for the Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanzaa/Saturnalia season, here's a gift idea: http://www.talkingpresidents.com/products-af-coulter.shtml And don't forget

Re: Itel vs. California

Bill Lear wrote In other words, Intel demands that it be able to suckle at the teat of the nanny state. Exactly, and one can't help but notice that capital is headed straight for those countries who, as a result of evil socialist and state-funded educational development, have a highly educated wo

Priceless...

A Small Country with a Moustache: Why Amnon Dankner Sacked his Satire Columnist? The following piece was published last week in Israeli daily Ma'ariv's chain of local magazines. Within 48 hours, Ma'ariv's editor in chief fired its author, columnist Yehuda Nuriel. The item, part of Nuriel's weekly c

Re: 200,000 jobs

I don't believe it. Will we need 2,000,000 more prison guards over the next year? He also predicted higher interest rates... Higher interest rates I could believe; it might cost Bush the election, but he can be sacrificed; there are many who are not happy with his, uh, destabilizing moves. High rat

Onion on Calif Elections

See http://www.theonion.com/3940/wdyt.html Joanna

Re: Please support grocery workers' strike (and locked-out status)

So does this mean boycott Safeway too? Joanna Devine, James wrote: Friends: The baggers, deli clerks, cashiers, and other employees at Vons/Pavillion (owned by Safeway), Ralphs (owned by Kroger), and Albertsons are on strike, as of Saturday night, and would appreciate your not crossing their pi

Re: China: property

He looked from pig to man, and man to pig (quoting from memory) Joanna Eubulides wrote: Chinese Leaders Endorse Property Rights In Break From Founding Ideals, Party Also Decides to Allow Large Land Holdings

Baghdad hotel bombed

From http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/ Joanna Baghdad Hotel... Baghdad Hotel was bombed today on Al-Sa adun street, which is a mercantile area in Baghdad. Al-Sa adun area is one of the oldest areas in Baghdad. The street is lined with pharmacies, optometrists, phot

Re: question about Iraq

This is fucking priceless: (sorry Yoshie -- polite speech eludes me more and more) "Economists, while acknowledging the need for protecting consumers during the transition, say that a market economy would provide food much more cheaply and efficiently than the current government-run system. But the

Re: Social transformation of the Cuban peasantry

I read an excellent book on the development of Cuba's medical care programmes. It was written by an academic from the mid-west, who was obviously not a socialist. And yet he was impressed and his account was one of the most amazing accounts of what intelligence, good will, and a humane project coul

Re: Cancun

Yes, I left the "ask the people" stuff off my post, because people in the third world have a skewed image of what industralization and "modernity" imply. What they're exposed to in the media is the "magic" outcome of that process...without understanding what that process implies. So, health, educat

Re: Cancun

Focus on food, education, health, & housing first. When that is dealt with, proceed at a very deliberate pace, with ample time for review and evaluation, with an ecologically responsible industrialization policy. Prepare to be invaded for terrorizing the capitalists. Joanna Doug Henwood wrote: I

Re: The frontier of modern imperialism: primitive accumulation in Iraq, at the taxpayers expense

Yes, the "Life is Beautiful" argument. (That Italian movie where a clownish man acts out in order to convince his son that a concentration camp is not a concentration camp. I couldn't force myself to see it, but apparently that was the plot)...or perhaps "Schindler's List," where the essential argu

Re: The frontier of modern imperialism: primitive accumulation in Iraq, at the taxpayers expense

Well, that's about as succinct a presentation of the problem as I've seen so far. What have we got? A recipie for war-lord imperalism: 1. Destroy/ravage/immiserate/traumatize a country through bombing, economic sancations, and chemical warfareto soften it up and make it a "reconstruction" candi

Re: Fw: UN expert exposes starvation policy

Hey Jim, Thanks for the post. I am no longer capable of rational speech on this subject. Joanna

Putin rattling their chains...

Putin: Why Not Price Oil in Euros? By Catherine Belton Staff Writer President Vladimir Putin said Thursday Russia could switch its trade in oil from dollars to euros, a move that could have far-reaching repercussions for the global balance of power -- potentially hurting the U.S. dollar and econom

Yogi

* "This is like deja vu all over again." * "You can observe a lot just by watching." * "He must have made that before he died." -- Referring to a Steve McQueen movie. * "I want to thank you for making this day necessary." -- On Yogi Berra Appreciation Day in St. Louis in 1

Re: Allen Barra defends Limbaugh's football comments

Uh, he's still alive? I quote him all the time :) (mostly to myself.) Joanna Michael Hoover wrote: has yogi berra had anything to say on matter...

Re: internet infrastructure investment data

No, I mean "hackers". Obviously it's not a monolithic set of attitudes & beliefs. There are obviously pockets of leftie hackers and geeks. But I still stand by my claim that the dominant ideology is right libertarian. I'm thinking of the Slashdot crowd, Eric Raymond and his hangers-on, and the li

Re: internet infrastructure investment data

Web Services seems to be just another mechanism for decoupling that allows independent change of implementation, and (supposedly) some sort of dynamic lookup of implementation. You might look at Creating the Computer: Government, Industry, and High Technology by Kenneth Flamm, and also his Target

Giant Poster of Mao Wins Power in China

Oh, God, can't stop laughing http://www.theonion.com/3938/history.html Joanna

Re: Allen Barra defends Limbaugh's football comments

Racial stereotypes and how these connect with sports are hillarious. The last time I watched football was during my first marriage (25 years ago). This was partly to keep hubby company and partly because he liked sex at half-time, but not much at any other time. Back then, there were no black quart

Re: American eugenics and Nazism

"But you could well imagine that the bourgeois would like to impose private property relations on this activity, such that beautiful, intelligent, healthy babies are only for the propertied classes, and the proles can spurt uglies." This is why beautiful women should never marry for money :) Joann

Re: Positive psychology and emotional management in the USA

Yup, yup. You're right. God, my mind is goinggoing... Thanks, Joanna Michael Pollak wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Joanna Bujes wrote: Lessing wrote a most wonderful treatise about this: "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man." I think you actually mean Friedrich Schiller, no? Michael

immigration question...urgent

OK. My parents emigrated to the USA. I was born in Romania and came with them. My sister was born in the USA. Are my parents "first generation" immigrants? or 0th generation? Is my sister "first generation" or "second generation"? You get the drift? How exactly do you define first, second, nth ge

Re: Positive psychology and emotional management in the USA

Thanks Brian. You're very kind to say so and I can't tell you how happy it makes me that my writing has an effect on someone. I think of myself as a sellout, since I abandoned academia and started to make my living writing computer manuals. But, hey, I'm a single mom with two kids to supportone

Re: Positive psychology and emotional management in the USA

True, very true, but what is this in reply to? Joanna Brian McKenna wrote: doris lessing is always hot. . .

Re: Allen Barra defends Limbaugh's football comments

Carrol Cox wrote: This wanders far from the original focus of this thread, but is perhaps distantly related. I listened on the radio to the Ali-Liston fight in which Ali won the title. Afterwards the reporters were trying to interview Ali, and this led to the greatest radio episode ever. Ali refus

Re: Idiocy of rural life?

Thanks Louis. I am familiar with Draper's work on Israel/Palestine, which I thought was excellent. I did not know about his work on the manifesto. Marx was a great scholar. I have personally found that close aquaintance with the classical period and languages to be an extraordinary help in unravell

Re: Positive psychology and emotional management in the USA

Maybe what the left needs is the sociological equivalent of Depakote, a mood-stabilizer, or Prozac... I think it's called art :) Music, dance, theater. Lessing wrote a most wonderful treatise about this: "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man." It's a bit thick with eighteenth century abst

Re: Positive psychology and emotional management in the USA

Very true. Which makes me wonder about the left propensity for gloom. The only radicals that speak of hope these days are the Zapatistas. Wonder why? Joanna Jurriaan Bendien wrote: "Positive emotions don't necessarily narrow people toward a specific action, like negative emotions do. Positive emo

Re: Ponzi economy

wealth than ever could before. The capitalist class just has to find places to unload it. One of those places is, of course, the credit cards which the working class possess. Mike B) --- joanna bujes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/daily/2003/091

Ponzi economy

http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/daily/2003/0912a.htm Ponzi Economy by Kurt Richebacher Contributor, The Daily Reckoning September 12, 2003 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS Bullish sentiment is riding at 1987 levels; tech stocks are leading the way in the reflation rally. What can we say, dear

Suicide as entrtainment...

It looks like capitalism can make money on anything--in this sensation-hungry, soul-dead age. What next? The staging of public executions to fill the states' empty coffers? Joanna _ Band promises concert suicide From correspondents in Tampa, Florida Octob

Re: Can computers help reverse falling employment?

Mike wrote: "Wage-slavery is one thing, work is another." Absolutely. But ending wage-slavery is only the beginning! (And what a beginning!) The next step is to restore our capacity for living, which has been grossly distorted by the ideology of work as a means of self-justification. Joanna

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