From: Louis N Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:11959] Re: Big mouth
The biggest problem with "Law and Order" is that poverty as a causal
explanation of crime is simply absent from the show. All of the gangsters, . . .
You could take that two ways. You could take
Even from 5,000 feet up, I found evidence of American arrogance.
The U.S. Army's First Division, the famous Big Red One, had been
stationed at Lai Khe, the base near An Loc, until shortly before
my arrival in Saigon. From my vantage point inside the helicopter,
I looked
I know people like this myself and it's not an easy thing for
anybody to address. The afflicted have sufficient faculties to
refuse care that is good for them and society and the legal rights
to enforce such a refusal. Often the only thing they will let you
do is give them money to piss
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1997
The pay gap that separates college and high school educated workers
favors only college graduates whose literacy skills are commensurate
with their educational level, according to a report in the July issue of
the BLS "Monthly Labor Review." The authors
Max Sawicky:
My brother was diagnosed chronic schizo when
he was 20. Now he's 45. He's been living with
his mother, unable to hold a job or take elementary
care of himself. In front of a judge, he's as lucid
as Socrates. Other times he talks incessantly about
the Mafia, the FBI, and the CIA
I would bet on something like the toilet-plunger case appearing on one or
the other of the cop shows this fall. But cops and/or prosecutors will end
up as good guys in that episode, because that is the only way that
producers think they can sell the shows.
-- Jim Cullen
Louis P:
This must be
Michael Perelman wrote,
A question, such as the percentage favoring socialism, will be highly
sensitive to the phrasing -- probably moreso at the time.
And Wojtek Sokolowski replied,
. . .
In more general terms, surveys are rather useless, if not misleading, in
testing opinions on
1 Once the work week has been reduced sufficiently to minimize fatigue, no
further improvements in productivity will be forthcoming from further
reductions in work time.
2 Even if the entire workforce could be retrained for highly skilled,
high-tech jobs there will never be enough
Just came back from Browning to interview candidates for a postion
here and will be going back. I thought I would share this with the
pen-lers. This is from one of the BLackfeet Elders given to
graduating high-school students.
"25 Things you'll Need to Know Now That You've Graduated From
Sorry for this blizzard of posts; soon the skies will clear. My friend
lead informant on Wall Street John Liscio says that Wall Street is quite
alarmed by the Teamster victory; there's lots of talk of "watersheds" and
the like. I'm guessing that this might be the most alarmed Wall Street has
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Teamster Scandals and Republicans
or why the Republicans should just shut up
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-- Nathan Newman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Union Education Project
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:11986] Re: THE FIGHT IN THE FIELDS (fwd)
. . .
founder of Synanon. I can say a lot more about Chavez if anyone is interested,
but it looks like his son-in-law who is now union president may be doing a lot
better job in building
This must be the same Jim Cullen who wrote the book on popular culture,
right? How rewarding it is to have conversations with people who know what
they are talking about. Glory to PEN-L.
Sorry, I'm not that Jim Cullen. I'm editor of the Progressive Populist, a
monthly magazine based in Austin,
In a message dated 97-08-27 00:35:56 EDT, Doug writes:
I'm guessing that this might be the most alarmed Wall Street has
been about labor in 20 years.
This, imho, make the whole strike worthwhile.
What I find most interesting about this is the amount of media attention
garnered by the ups
Max Sawicky:
I know people like this myself and it's not an easy thing for
anybody to address. The afflicted have sufficient faculties to
refuse care that is good for them and society and the legal rights
to enforce such a refusal. Often the only thing they will let you
do is give them money
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1997
The Labor Department announced a schedule for the release of databases
under its new Occupational Information Network (O*NET) -- a system for
collecting, classifying, and disseminating information about
requirements and characteristics of occupations
At 09:09 AM 8/25/97 -0700, Michael Perelman wrote:
A question, such as the percentage favoring socialism, will be highly
sensitive to the phrasing -- probably moreso at the time.
Certainly, but the issue goes far beyond mere wording. It touches the
problem of social value of the opinion or
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From: J Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:11973] Re: Big mouth
Law and Order, like nearly all cop shows, is inherently conservative, but
at least it provides some nuances. It is likely to show judges throwing out
evidence for what
Sorry to be running a little behind the times here, but I've been out of
town a lot, and away from a computer.
Just wondering: did it make any difference to the outcome of the strike
that UPS is not a public company, with no outside shareholders to answer to?
Doug
Still catching up...
John Gulick mentioned that that while the Teamster victory was important
good, no one acknowledged that UPS represents the highly dispersed nature
of American ecnomic space, rushing stuff all over the place using using
fossil fuels on nature-killing roads. I just got back
BLS DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1997
RELEASED TODAY: State unemployment rates were little changed in July,
as 43 states recorded changes of 0.3 percentage point or less from June.
The national jobless rate edged down to 4.8 percent in July. Nonfarm
payroll employment increased in 30
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Tom Walker wrote:
Another problem with a result like 25% favouring socialism is that it
doesn't tell us anything else about what the survey respondents thought.
The survey results actually come from Michael Denning's superb new book
called the "Cultural Front", a study of
In a message dated 97-08-26 21:10:17 EDT, you write:
By the way, I usually give anyone who ask at least some money.
I used to do this, but it got sooo overwhelming. I tend to work strange
hours (second and third shift) so I am on the subways at all hours.
Sometimes, between work and home,
Is the show "Law Order" liberal or right-wing?
It depends on your definition of "liberal." If you define "liberalism" in a
way that emphasizes its similarities to leftism, then LO cannot be
liberal. If, on the other hand, you define "liberalism" in a way that
stresses its differences from
At 11:08 AM 8/25/97 -0700, Harry Cleaver wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Louis Proyect wrote:
I'm glad god blessed me with a big mouth. The TV show "Law and Order" is
filming on the premises of Columbia Teachers College where I work. The show
presents a right-wing version of the crime problem, as
Friends,
We don't wnat to miss the truth that it became public policy some time ago to
throw people with serious mental illnesses out into the streets. I'm not saying
that the institutions were good because they most certainly were not. But our
society does precious little for the
Friends,
I will be interested to see the Chavez film. Chavez was a great leader but one
with significant flaws, flaws which helped to nearly destroy the movement he did
so much to build. He was fanatically paranoid, never let anyone other than
himself make any decisions in the union,
J Cullen wrote:
As I recall, didn't Michael Moriarity, who used to play the chief
prosecutor, walk off the show in a dispute with the producers because of
the rightward tilt?
Moriarity left because he was disgusted by the networks willingness to
censor for sex and violence.
Michael
Welcome to the club. I had a brother who hung himself in a mental hospital
in 1971. Frankly, anecdotes like this are about as useful as Ronald
Reagan's anecdotes about welfare queens driving Cadillacs. . . .
The problem we are dealing with is a social problem. The American people
were
Law and Order, like nearly all cop shows, is inherently conservative, but
at least it provides some nuances. It is likely to show judges throwing out
evidence for what appears to be capricious reasons, but the judges also
occasionally tilt toward the prosecution. My major criticism is that the
BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1997:
Experimental geometric mean version of the CPI continues to conform to
expectations in its pattern of divergence with the official CPI, rising
by 1.9 percent in the year ending in July. After testing the
experimental measure for the remainder of this
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