[PEN-L:12305] Comp.Econ.Sys. course bibliography

1997-09-13 Thread Paolo Giussani
Milano, 13 September 1997 Dear Eric Schutz I am a Pen-l'er, and would really like to take advantage of you kind offer of sending out your bibliography on socialist economics. Best regards, Paolo Giussani via Palermo 20 I-20121 Milano MI email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:12306] Re: New Democrat got her ass kicked

1997-09-13 Thread Doug Henwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: represent the poor, disadvantaged, etc. ... Ruth Messinger is relatively conservative--but then so are most Democrats. She also did not get her ass kicked, Al Sharpton rode the tide of racial anger against the horrors done to Abner Louima, for once old Al was in the

[PEN-L:12309] Re: Energizer bunny joke

1997-09-13 Thread Tom Walker
Does anyone know where I can get some of those backward batteries? Apparently the energizer bunny has died. The cause of death? Sexual overstimulation. When the bunnie's batteries were changed, they were put in backwards. Instead of going and going and going, the bunny kept coming and coming

[PEN-L:12310] the beautiful poor

1997-09-13 Thread Doug Henwood
Mother Teresa's successor, a Brahmin-born Nepali now known as Sister Nirmala, seems more frankly appalling than her predecessor. From the NYT story by Barbara Crossette - web version (the print version ran something had the Brahmin ID right after one of her remarks on the beauty of poverty):

[PEN-L:12313] Re: the beautiful poor

1997-09-13 Thread MScoleman
I am not sure how to say this without sounding like a cultural chauvanist, buuut, one of the most frightening things about someone like Sister Nirmala is that her strong positions on things like abortion and poverty simply reinforce some of the most negative gender stereotypes for women and

[PEN-L:12314] Fwd: Symposium on Same-Sex Relationships (fwd)

1997-09-13 Thread MScoleman
I thought people might be interested in this. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 97-09-13 19:24:16 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -- Forwarded message -- ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM: OCTOBER 4, 1997 "CONSTRUCTING FAMILY, CONSTRUCTING CHANGE: SHIFTING LEGAL PERSPECTIVES

[PEN-L:12319] Re: the beautiful poor

1997-09-13 Thread Stephen E Philion
Maggie, Perhaps it's not necessary to cringe. If the women had more savvy she wouldn't be so explicit and it would be impossible to ever make her (or her predecessor's) politics a subject of debate, let alone scrutiny. We should always be

[PEN-L:12318] Re: New Democrat got her ass kicked

1997-09-13 Thread Doug Henwood
maxsaw wrote: The major municipal union, DC 37, led by the undead Stanley Hill, has just endorsed Rudy. I was at a dinner party a few months ago with Mario Cuomo's former tax commissioner, who's never voted for a Republican in his life - and he's voting for Rudy (because Rudy "proved that

[PEN-L:12317] Re: Desperately Seeking Superlatives

1997-09-13 Thread Tom Walker
Valis wrote, Tom, after furtively glancing around: I'd just like to know where Valis gets his stage directions? Old Tom Swift novels? First, I'm "in a rare moment of unalloyed yeehaw" next I'm "furtively glancing around". With Valis doing my choreography and Max Sawicky my diet (beans, rice,

[PEN-L:12316] Re: New Democrat got her ass kicked

1997-09-13 Thread maxsaw
The major municipal union, DC 37, led by the undead Stanley Hill, has just endorsed Rudy. I was at a dinner party a few months ago with Mario Cuomo's former tax commissioner, who's never voted for a Republican in his life - and he's voting for Rudy (because Rudy "proved that New York City

[PEN-L:12315] Desperately Seeking Superlatives

1997-09-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tom, after furtively glancing around: Does anyone know where I can get some of those backward batteries? Apparently the energizer bunny has died. The cause of death? Sexual overstimulation. When the bunnie's batteries were changed, they were put in backwards. Instead of going and going

[PEN-L:12311] Re: New Democrat got her ass kicked

1997-09-13 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 97-09-13 12:35:56 EDT, Doug writes: For an established politico like Messinger, a 15% turnout and a low plurality is an asskicking. Like Wall Street, politics is often a game of reality measuring up against expectations. After thinking about this (and several other posts

[PEN-L:12308] Re: Comp.Econ.Sys. course bibliography

1997-09-13 Thread Joseph Green
Subject: [PEN-L:12256] Comp.Econ.Sys. course bibliography Date: Thursday, September 11, 1997 8:37AM I have just updated a bibliography on socialist economics that I sent out to pen-l'ers in 1991, suitable for use in courses on, e.g., Comp. Econ. Sys. I'll be happy to e-mail the new

[PEN-L:12307] Re: language thought

1997-09-13 Thread maxsaw
. . . BTW, I am assuming that ESP doesn't work. I knew that. MBS