> >>Help me with the lingo please: what does it mean to "go postal"?
>
> >This refers to the postal workers who occasionally snap from the pressure
> >and bring guns to work and start shooting their supervisors or fellow
> >workers. There was a rash of this in recent years.
>
There has indee
Commentators who talk of the continuing strength of the US and Canadian
economy ignore the agricultural sector. Overproduction and weakening
demand in many cases have driven prices of agricultural commodities such
as wheat well below the cost of production. As a result US farmers
blockade bord
Bill Rosenberg wrote:
You are right! I mean correct.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
>
> Ken Hanly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Seems to me Jane Kelsey complained loudly about this manner of
> > accounting since it ignores the value of projects that might not
> > lead to GNP increases
>Brad De Long wrote:
>
>> A critique of humanism allows one to look into many places, including
>> the abyss.
>>
>> And then the abyss looks into you...
>
> gee, can an abyss look? interesting nightmare you have there brad.
>freud may have something to offer you on this fear of holes that 'look
Jim Devine wrote:
> Strictly speaking an anemic boom means that the US crisis will weak.
Jim, I have to disagree with you. It may be that you are correct, but the
connection is not necessary. I raised to question to suggest the
following possibility: suppose that the U.S. had been ready to go
1) What Clark College Told Jim Craven:
CLARK.COLLEGE
A PUBLICLY SUPPORTED COMMUNITY COLLEGE
MEMORANDUM
DATE: December 9, 1998
REF: CR 98: 138
RE: Directives regarding use of College resources
FROM: Chuck Ramsey, Interim Vice President of Instruction
TO: Prof. Jim Craven
As you know, Clark Col
IN response to Ajit, I was referring to the fact that Wittgenstein
thought that his model of how language operated in the TRACTATUS was
incorrect. The INVESTIGATIONS is an extended critique of that model
among other things.
Some people seem to think that it provides an alternative model--that
At 11:52 11/12/98 -0800, Ken Hanly wrote:
> My bit of whimsy mislead you. Of course the Sicilian gesture did not
cause the
>change in Wiittgenstein all by itself. I always like to pull economical
legs. Von
>Wright's remarks are probably quite accurate but my remarks do indicate
precisely t
Dear friends:
Help me with the lingo please: what does it mean to "go postal"?
At 12:23 14/12/98 EST, you wrote:
>Louis,
>
>Thanks for this. Since my mail is being read at the College, I guess even at
>home I have to point out that the phrase "provocations that would make Mother
>Teresa go posta
At 05:06 PM 12/14/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear friends:
>
>Help me with the lingo please: what does it mean to "go postal"?
>
This refers to the postal workers who occasionally snap from the pressure
and bring guns to work and start shooting their supervisors or fellow
workers. There was a rash of
Hang in there Jim! It all sounds so familiar! ajit sinha
At 11:42 11/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Friends,
>
>I just received a memo from our illustrious Interim Vice-President of
>Instruction who has reviewed the e-mails I was ordered to turn over at
risk of
>dismissal from employment for refus
At 12:22 11/12/98 -0400, Ricardo D.wrote:
>
>Ajit, now that you are reading Wittgenstein I can only defer to you.
>Let's say my knowledge of him is based on hearsay. Checking one of
>my readily available sources on 20th century philosophy, I can say
>that, in the passages cited below, W is qu
David Andrews, being so modest, send me this note privately. And I'm
putting this on the net without his permission. I hope he is not mad at me
for this.
>Dear Ajit,
>
>Generally I'm not one to blow my own horn, but I have a piece called
>"Nothing is hidden: A Wittgensteinian interpretation of S
At 19:47 11/12/98 +1100, Angela wrote:
>hello ajit,
>
>many of the things you say may well be the case, but a couple of comments: it
>seemed to me that 'spectres of marx' was most interesting when it tackled
many of
>the themes that walter benjamin had tackled; that the notion of surplus
value is
I mean to read your cover story, "The Prison-Industrial Complex,"
closely and end-to-end, but right now I'd like to point out
a factor that I think has been overlooked (after hearing you
on three talk shows).
For the sake of skimming a few hundred bucks per shaved head
myopic fools are curre
At 01:36 AM 12/13/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Remember the CIEC, the broad coalition cobbled together ~3 years ago to
>fight the CDA? Apparently it still exists; at least its Website does.
>I suppose a secretariat is still in existence, if not more.
>Some strange bedfellows here, assuredly,
The expression originates in the experience of postal employees who have
historically had to contend with one of the least enlightened managements and
most oppressive and stress-filled workplaces. As a consequences there has been
a spate of incidents in which postal employees after years of mistr
>>Help me with the lingo please: what does it mean to "go postal"?
>This refers to the postal workers who occasionally snap from the pressure
>and bring guns to work and start shooting their supervisors or fellow
>workers. There was a rash of this in recent years.
reading the newspapers, I've se
At 08:21 PM 12/10/98 -0800, Michael P. wrote:
>Jim, I would raise the following question: Given the boost from making
>labor pliant, new technology, and the opening of E. Europe and China, the
>expansion has been anemic. Does that mean that the following bust will be
>mild or that the crisis will
If I hadn't written about "The Tempest" recently, I wouldn't have bothered
to turn on NBC's made-for-TV movie version last night at 9pm, an hour that
I customarily devote to the X-Files. What's noteworthy about this
reasonably serious version of "The Tempest" is that it was done at all. The
typica
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From: Tom Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, December 14, 1998 1:04 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:1543] Re: Fwd: Re: Update
>Dear friends:
>Help me with the lingo please: what does it mean to "go postal"?
>Tom Kruse
>Casilla 5812 / C
Lou writes:
>[...] Something tells me that
>there are signs of government repression gathering momentum around the use
>of email. That is why it is important to fight for free speech on the
>Internet. In a time of growing class polarization, one of the few
>uncensored mediums will be the Internet
The message below tell us how to vote for Mumia. Last I looked he was up
to 4th position and voting is very easy. Just be sure to use his exact
name Mumia Abu-Jamal .
Paul Zarembka
> >Subject: Check out TIME.com -- Man of the Year 1998
> >
> >
> >
> > Award-winning journalist and former B
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Louis,
Thanks for this. Since my mail is being read at the College, I guess even at
home I have to point out that the phrase "provocations that would make Mother
Teresa go postal" is simply a metaphor and a bit of hyperbole
My earlier response to Louis is a bit one-sided. There may be occasions
when threats are genuine or at least the signs are clear that a person
may be approaching the stage of going berserk. I can't recall all the
details but there was a prof. in engineering, I believe, at a university
in Montr
Louis Proyect wrote:
While there was government involvemment in this case, it was a
friend of the defendant that started the ball rolling by sending his
email messages to postal authorities; also, it was a jury not a judge or
bureaucrat who found him guilty. Seems to me that the case re
Jim,
Could you please repeat for us whatever useful email
addresses there might be that we can send messages of
protest to. Whatever would be helpful to your case.
Barkley Rosser
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998 20:12:38 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> Just go back from up north and
"On the Left"
Sunday Journal(Suburban DC)
Sunday, December 13, 1998
Robert Naiman
Kissinger Should Join Pinochet in the Dock
As the House considers articles of impeachment against President Clinton, it
would be amusing if they asked Henry Kissinger to testify.
You may recall that the Judiciary
Jim Craven:
>Subject the targeted employee to systematic, calculated and
>repeated provocations that would make Mother Teresa go postal and then when
>the person reacts, use the reactions to try to show mental instability,
>insubordination or being a threat in the workplace without any reference o
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BLS DAILY REPORT, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1998
RELEASED TODAY: The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods decreased 0.2
which mall? is it the "Mall of America"? If so, then it's so large that a
victory for the owner abolishes free speech in a very large piece of real
estate.
At 10:35 PM 12/13/98 +1100, you wrote:
>Another quick one ...
>
>I hear a nice little capitalism v. democracy issue is unfolding at a
>Minna
hi all,
a conversation with someone several hundred kilometres away, via
telephone lines
of a few thousand... (i'm innumerate, so it doesn't really figure
anyway)
Rob Schaap wrote:
> One or two 'scientific Marxists' aside, we were nearly all humanists in the
> mid-seventies
and some importan
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Dear Friends,
This was sent by a friend in Canada who is a tireless activist on Indigneous
Peoples Sovereignty questions. I wanted to share it not to point to my own
case, but because the lessons and concepts are wide-reach
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