[PEN-L:3200] Re: Buchanan's Bigoted Statements (fwd)

1996-03-01 Thread Jonathon Peirce
In reading through this amazing group of quotations from would-be Fuhrer von Patrick, I am reminded of the delightful portrait of Charles Kusz, "Mr. Hate," in Carl Sifakis' entertaining book, "Great American Eccentrics," (New York: Galahad, 1984). Kusz hated all cowboys, Mexicans, Roman Cat

[PEN-L:3178] Re: Buchanan's Bigoted Statements (fwd)

1996-02-28 Thread Jonathon Peirce
Has anybody thought to give Buchanan a rabies test? Jon Peirce Memorial U. of Nfld.

[PEN-L:3173] Re: Pro-worker Republicans? (fwd)

1996-02-28 Thread Jonathon Peirce
Pat Buchanan sounds like the closest approximation to Hitler the U.S. has come up with. Rising out of the same background of physical abuse, son of a father who idolized Franco and Joe McCarthy, he appeals to just about the same constituency as Hitler did. David Duke, I understand, backed hi

[PEN-L:2948] Re: Spousal and child abuse within the "corporate family"

1996-02-13 Thread Jonathon Peirce
I may vomit. Why not a 4-day week? Jon Peirce Memorial U. of Nfld., Ind. Relations

[PEN-L:2460] Re: E;Amn.Int'l, Hum.Rights Advocate Threatened, Jan 16 (fwd)

1996-01-20 Thread Jonathon Peirce
You get a life, Marty. Some of us are glad to learn about these things, as distressing as they may be. Who do you think you are to pontificate in this way? Jon Peirce Memorial U. of Nfld.

[PEN-L:2191] Re: Yale strike

1995-12-29 Thread Jonathon Peirce
I have just read Eileen Applebaum's chilling description of discrimination against extremely vulnerable graduate students and use of an untenured junior faculty member to do a department's dirty work. This stuff makes me want to throw up (I am glad I haven't yet dined!) Is there no

[PEN-L:828] Re: The Fraser Institute on labour-management relations

1995-10-13 Thread Jonathon Peirce
On Thu, 12 Oct 1995, D Shniad wrote: > The Vancouver-based, right wing, corporate-sponsored Fraser > Institute is presenting a series of free student seminars, with lunch > provided, dealing with public policy issues. Notable among the list > of topics to be covered in the program is a pres

[PEN-L:4779] Re: U.S. income inequality

1995-04-20 Thread Jonathon Peirce
Oddly enough, I think that in a class-based society, where frank admission was made of the fact, government would generally tend to play a more prominent redistributive role and income would be less stratified. It is revealing, I think, that the only prominent American politician (at least to