The question of 'over pay' and the question of the signigance of
refusing to stand for the national anthem seem to me to be unrelated.
The NBA's position on the issue is, I think, quite illustrative of
the ideological content of contemporary ritualized practices. The NBA,
of course, is
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Michael Etchison:
1) 'High-grade' anti-religious comments would be based on a serious
critique of the role of religion in capitalism. Low-grade comments
are the sort of cheap cracks Mr Torrent gave us. Isn't that obvious
enough?
2) I object just as much to low-grade anti-Catholic comments:
Blair Sandler recounts 3/16 horror stories about genetic engineering
and other sequelae of the Green Revolution of the Middle Hippie Period.
Granting for the moment that inserting a gene from one plant (to
which someone is allergic) into another (to which he has never been
Thanks, Shawgi, for setting out your views on this so fully and
carefully.
Now, I am happy to dissociate myself from the US GOVERNMENT's
hypocritical attacks on the PRC's "human rights record". But you
keep talking about COUNTRIES, not governments. There is a rather big
difference here. I
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Doug sent me this news just as a faculty member was telling me the same sad
story.
Doug is right. I think something on/from pen-l would be appropriate. Any
suggestions?
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At 8:16 AM 3/18/96, GC-ETCHISON, MICHAEL wrote:
Granting for the moment that inserting a gene from one plant (to
which someone is allergic) into another (to which he has never been
allergic), or developing "pesticide-resistant" plants (so that more
pesticide can be used, are Bad Things, how does
Michael,
In response to the news about David Gordon:
Could someone volunteer to be a postbox? Then anyone
with anything to say for or about David could send it in, and the
volunteer could edit together a pen-l memorial.
In the meantime, if anyone has just a bit of extra information about
the
David Gordon, one of the major contributors to radical political economy for
the past 20 years, and a great teacher and mainstay in the political economy
graduate program at the New School, died on Saturday. David was my
dissertation supervisor, as he was for many others of us working in
Michael,
I think it should be someone who knew him rather better
than I did..is Tom Weisskopf lurking out there on the list??
Hugo
I knew for some time that David had serious medical problems. Yet, the
news of his death still comes as a shock.
I saw David just last month walking his puppy "Slavo" on East 10th Street
in the East Village. It was a sunny day and he was so full of the joy of
life. Now he is gone.
There is
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The world today confronts two
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Bob and fellow pen-ler's,
I just reactivated my pen-l sub and David's death is the first
message I got - what a shock! I was not one of David's closest students
but he graciously agreed to serve on my committee and ended up offering
more to my dis than any of my other advisors, I
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Our next meeting will be held on April 20th, 1996, at the Conference Center
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