2 October 2003 - Socialist Party parliamentarians Jan Marijnissen and Krista
van Velzen stood in front of a class at their old school a few days ago, to
teach a lesson about biotechnology. They did this under the auspices of a
campaign of the Animal Awake Foundation in which filmstar Georgina
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
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Doug Henwood wrote:
And it's taken about 2 years for 9/11 to wear off.
That's an important point. Because it wasn't just 9/11. It was 9/11,
followed by Afghanistan (and the automatic boost in support for the
president that comes with every war), followed by Iraq. They've
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Michael Perelman wrote:
Michael may be correct that it was a pebble causing an avalanche, but
the absence of an avalanche heretofor seems to defy the laws of physics
No, actually, that's exactly how avalanches work. Before they happen,
nothing happens. The weight just
The nearly six months of British army occupation in Basra has been a
season of killing. After riots last month, crime and violence have
spiked in September. Hospitals report a rising toll of people killed
or injured in carjackings, robberies, feuds and unexplained attacks
with guns
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
This is an interesting question. To an extent this is related to the
post-Marxist outlook of some of its leaders. If you forsake daunting
Actually it's kind of interesting:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2089193/
Barra is not a racist. And he is not denying that Limbaugh is. (On which
point, see http://www.fair.org/articles/limbaugh-color.html) He's just
saying Limbaugh is quite right on the facts in this case. The only
difference is
Hi Jo,
You make such interesting comments...
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?
This is a very big topic. I think from personal experience it has to do
with, among other things,
(The double standard here is beyond belief. For years Jesse Jackson was
pilloried by his use of the term hymietown, while Schwarzenegger--once
again--will probably get off relatively unscathed. If 1/10th of the fury
directed at Jackson was directed at him, he'd be history right now.)
NY Times,
Anti-semitism nears complete redefinition as opposition
to Israeli policies. Anything you say otherwise has been
redefined as inconsequential. But if you're a critic of
Zionism, the slightest thing is grounds for opprobrium.
It's really remarkable. Not good for the Jews, I would say.
mbs
Americans are losing jobs at home, and American soldiers are losing
lives and limbs in Iraq, and there is no way the Bush administration
can turn them around in thirteen months.
==
What did that guy Keynes say again?
---
cut taxes for the rich and everything will
Joanna asks why the US left has so many negative emotions. We're in a vicious circle.
Real-world failures -- including such events as the conquest of the old USSR by the US
-- encourage a gloomy atitude. This encourages limited thinking (as below). This
encourages an intensification of the
Max wrote:
Anti-semitism nears complete redefinition as opposition
to Israeli policies. Anything you say otherwise has been
redefined as inconsequential. But if you're a critic of
Zionism, the slightest thing is grounds for opprobrium.
It's really remarkable. Not good for the Jews, I would
FWIW, today's papers say that the interviewer says that his quotes from Ah-Nold about
Hitler were taken out of context by the New York TIMES and ABC news, so that the
future Acting Governor isn't as bad as assumed.
Jim
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From: Max B. Sawicky
Of course Michael Perelman is well-known to PEN-L list subscribers. Michael
graciously agreed to be interviewed for the info-commons site and we
recently posted the interview. The announcement and a direct link to the
interview follow below:
At info-commons.org, we post a provocative interview
A fine article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/michaelmoore/story/0,13947,1055591,00.html
Carl
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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
From MR notes from the editor:
Given the concern with changing conditions in rural society in much of this
issue (as represented by the work of Amin and William Hinton) we thought
that readers would be interested in the origin of a misunderstanding that
surrounds Marx's thoughts on 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
In light of the LDC debt problem, I have just been looking at:
Kroszner, Randall S. 1999. Is It Better to Forgive than to
Receive? Repudiation of the Gold Indexation Clause in Long-Term
Debt during the Great Depression. Manuscript. Chicago: University
of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.?
Michael,
Can you tell us WHY the Supreme Court so ruled?
Gene
PS I will look later at the reference you give.
michael wrote:
In light of the LDC debt problem, I have just been looking at:
Kroszner, Randall S. 1999. Is It Better to Forgive than to
Receive? Repudiation of the Gold Indexation
If Schwarzenegger had said he admired Stalin -- on the same basis as he
admits admiring Hitler -- he'd be finished. Another double standard.
Gene
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
Anti-semitism nears complete redefinition as opposition
to Israeli policies. Anything you say otherwise has been
redefined as
doris lessing is always hot. . .
Michael,
I thought the Allan Barra piece was pretty good, till I got to this
sentence near the end:
Rush Limbaugh didn't say Donovan McNabb was a bad quarterback because
he is black. He said that the media have overrated McNabb because he
is black, and Limbaugh is right.
The media over-rate a
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Eugene Coyle wrote:
I thought the Allan Barra piece was pretty good, till I got to this
sentence near the end:
Rush Limbaugh didn't say Donovan McNabb was a bad quarterback because
he is black. He said that the media have overrated McNabb because he
is black, and
I cannot say about the reasoning of the Court. They seem to have been
swayed by the Treasury. Roosevelt wanted to inflate the dollar to help
the economy get going.
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:28:15PM -0700, Eugene Coyle wrote:
Michael,
Can you tell us WHY the Supreme Court so ruled?
Gene
Part of why McNabb is overrated might be because he's black. But a lot
of it, and maybe most of it, is surely simply because he was a superstar
in college, he's paid a lot, the fans like him personally and his team
wins.
Also I left out the most important one: he's physically more exciting
A good quarterback cannot operate alone. Without a solid backup from the
rest of the offense, the quarterback will get hammered.
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:30:09PM -0400, Michael Pollak wrote:
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Eugene Coyle wrote:
I thought the Allan Barra piece was pretty good, till I got
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Michael Perelman wrote:
A good quarterback cannot operate alone.
Absolutely. But the point is that the mindset that identifies him with
victory is nothing new. McNabb is the beneficiary of a long tradition.
As Brecht put it in his poem, A Worker Reads History: Alexander
--- Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anybody uncontroversially
define and specify what a
semite is anyway ?
*
A person whose mother tongue is a semetic languange,
like Hebrew or Arabic.
Best,
Mike B)
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--- joanna bujes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On this weekend, this should be the most important political story in the
national news media, but it is no where to be found.fairly shocking
political news to say the least. .not Arnold's Hitler-Envy
and career groping behaviour
http://gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=283row=0
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
refused to answer any
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
True, very true, but what is this in reply to?
Joanna
Brian McKenna wrote:
doris lessing is always hot. . .
I'll paste here a press release from a few days ago -- haven't seen
anything about it in print, except the Greg Palast piece that Brian
McKenna cites.
Gene
For Immediate Release
October 3, 2003
Contact: Doug Heller
(310) 392-0522 ext. 309
Schwarzenegger: Total Amnesia?
Enron E-Mails
But sports pages have some of the best writing in the newspapers.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Joanna,
you had mentioned the great writer's advice to leftists (and all sorts really). . .go to the arts for sustenance. . .music, dance, theater and so on. . .in my 40 plus years (25 as a marxist) I've turned to a tapestry of tonics to retain my mental health. . .but lately few seem to work
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
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
Brian McKenna:
you had mentioned the great writer's advice to leftists
(and all sorts really). . .go to the arts for sustenance...
music, dance, theater and so on. . .in my 40 plus years
(25 as a marxist) I've turned to a tapestry of tonics to
retain my mental health. . .but lately few
washingtonpost.com
Fiscal Doomsday in the Offing
By David S. Broder
Sunday, October 5, 2003; Page B07
Maybe all the others are wrong. Maybe those in the Bush administration who claim we
can grow
our way out of these big budget deficits if we just keep cutting taxes to stimulate
the economy
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