Michael writes:
>Ken, this comes close to baiting.
Sorry. True... it could... but there is a difference, don't you think?
I was baiting on a "personal level" ("You freaking lawyers!") or just
the "unexpected" kind on this list ("As a group, US lawyers are not well
trained in other cultures")?
David Shemano writes:
>The issue is not whether East Germany, or any other socialist
>economy, was less "able" [...]
Yes it was -- the part you are responding to. It was about regions.
I wanted to show that you probably didn't even know where Europe is...
let alone why Germany is not a unit.
Th
David the Savior is back and writes:
>Let's try one last time.
Please do. We appreciate your altruism.
>The suggestion was made that a socialist economy will
>more highly value transportation safety than a
>capitalist economy.
If you are trying to cite thread precedent, I applaud you.
"Economi
Chris wrote:
>Russia engages in these grandiose "catching up with
>the West" adventures every couple of centuries or so.
What I have always enjoyed about Chris's posts about Russia is his love
of the populace...
Likewise, I do with North Americans...
Ken.
--
Since the whole affair had become o
David wrote:
>I was never good at geography.
That's apparent.
>The argument was made that a socialist economy would put more
>emphasis on transportation safety than a capitalist economy.
>Seems plausible. Silly me, I though one way to test that
>thesis was to examine and compare the actual prod
I like cars. I do not think there is some particularly capitalist
element about them... except their development.
But the subject of state subsidization is fair.
It is amazing, in a city the size of Toronto, how "taking the subway"
turned from a 1960s futuristic method of transport (say, 1967, Ex
Charles wrote:
>>It's hard because the Soviet Union (and all socialist
>>inspired economies) had to put so much economic
>>emphasis on military defense because capitalism was
>>constantly invading them or threatening to nuke 'em.
>>This throws off all ability to measure from Soviet and
>>socialist
David wrote:
>Any economy in a country whose name had or has the words
>"People's," "Socialist" or "Sweden" in it.
I like Sweden. You gotta problem with that, punk?
Ken.
--
I like Sweden. You gotta problem with that, punk?
-- Me in this thread
David wrote:
>Conceptually, you are right back where you are
>today, where the poor can buy a used Pinto.
>
>David Shemano
My parents were not poor... they were working class... they did work to
make ends meet. Your "mobile poverty metre" is a tad chintzy.
To assume that they might "have" to buy
David writes:
>I don't have a strong opinion on whether regulation should be
>done by legislation or litigation -- it seems like a
>peripheral issue.
I think that is a HUGE issue, not peripheral. But that's for another
thread and another day.
>[...] "safety" is not an absolute value that takes
>
Charles wrote:
>I think you are right that the problem wouldn't just go
>away with socialism. There might , in general, in
>socialism be more focus on some safety issues when the
>decision would not depend upon how the safer engineering
>impacted an individual corporation's bottomline. I can
>see
Yoshie wrote:
>My posting was in response to the remark that militant
>demonstrations in the streets are "tactics of another
>era" and that protests that are more theatrical than
>militant are merely "marginal."
Shame on the person who wrote that horrible thing you respond to...
Ken.
--
Fascism
Doug wrote:
Louis:
>>>The lesson here is to remain militant in the streets,
>>>not to back a bourgeois politician.
Me:
>>Ironically, this is, itself, a flawed analogy. "Militant
>>in the streets" >is lingo from an era of ascendant working
>>class interests -- in >particular, radical lingo from th
Charles' response (Economics and Law thread) about the politics behind
tort law -- especially law involving people against corporations --
reminded me of a WSJ editorial last fall.
Read the opening item, below, and check out the commentary, below it, if
you care about this kind of creation of urba
Charles wrote:
>You are probably aware that many juries ( composed largely
>on North American workers) have given such high awards
>often that the rightwing has been carrying out tort
>"reform" for a while, whereby caps are put on the amounts.
It was my understanding that many of these awards are
>The lesson here is to remain militant in the streets,
>not to back a bourgeois politician.
Ironically, this is, itself, a flawed analogy. "Militant in the streets"
is lingo from an era of ascendant working class interests -- in
particular, radical lingo from the 60s-70s. (Militancy, itself, is ol
>CB: Another infamous case of this was the exploding Pinto of Ford.
Thanks, CB. That was the 70s. May not apply to the original post I made,
in the time frame... but same principle.
Regardless... The notion that "lives have worth based upon economic
evaluation" is hated amongst normal working Nor
I've mentioned to friends I've known before law studies the plethora of
suits involving electric space heaters -- apparently a sort of a
chew-toy for tort lawyers.
There is an implied (depends how you read it) "acceptable death rates"
formula in tort. That "Learned Hand Formula?" Anyone read about
>Hi Kenneth Campbell,
Hi Jonathan Lassen!
>Who funds Monthly Review? I have no idea.
I have an idea... grin. But I love the publication, nonetheless.
>I do know a bit about China Study Group, since I work with them. The
>annual budget is about 100 dollars, which is what the website
Jonathan Lassen writes:
>Thanks LP for posting the review of Hart-Landsberg and
>Burkett's long MR piece. I just picked up a copy
>yesterday, and have been looking it over. I've got my
>own little quibbles with it (not enough emphasis on rural
>China, which I think is desperately important right n
Chris Doss wrote:
>For the NYT or WP, everything bad that happens in
>China or Russia is the result of a nefarious plot
>hatched in Beijing or Moscow. For the life of me I
>can't understand why people who would be
>hypersceptical over these papers' coverage of, say,
>Venezuela cite them as impeach
Ann Coulter is channeling Dick Cheney again... ?
Ken.
Diane wrote:
>>That being said and I agree again with you, the
>>Kurds are an oppressed nationality. Period.
Ulhas wrote
>Does it mean that the Left should support the breakup
>of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey?
>
>Ulhas
Of course not.
But I think your point is more along the lines of the foreig
David wrote:
>I am a reductionist, as some of you may
>remember from a previous exchange. Therefore, I insist on
>narrowing issues to their most basic.
You write: "I insist on narrowing issues to their most basic."
I do, too, sir.
Survival. Ability to raise kids. Dignity.
My dad was working c
David the non-trolled writes:
>You misunderstand my questions. I am not asking
>whether the crew should be paid. I am trying to
>understand the labor theory of value/surplus
>value/exploitation in context.
I don't think I misunderstand your question. I was talking about the
"value" of the crew
Michael writes:
>Please, no personal attacks. If David were a troller, he
>could have been very disruptive here. He has not been.
I honestly did not write "David the troller" in a negative way.
Honestly! I thought he was just here to be the straw that stirs the
drink that we all prefer.
I thin
David the troller writes:
>Humor me on this. I need some Marx 101. Let's imagine the
>crew does all their work. They set up the special sound and
>light systems, etc. However, Simon and Garfunkel get into a
>fight and refuse to perform, so the show is cancelled and all
>ticket are refunded. T
I really thank you for this piece, David.
It was more articulate than that which had come in quotes before.
But Mr Sowell does still seem quite... you know... stupid.
You actually quote this:
>Liberals tend to describe what they want in terms of
>goals rather than processes, and not to be overl
Respectfully, The Greens are proto-fascists. Environment over working
class reality.
Greens have nothing to do with class in terms of production. I think the
class component was important once to certain people.
Ken.
>CB: Well, sufferin' suckatash, is he saying the
>government bureaucrats were Marxists ?
Many of them are. (present tense) If you get to know them, of course.
But, Charles... don't tell him that. Next thing you know, David Shemano
might be against unions. (It is rumored that organized labor migh
I appreciate the distinction between rising wages and minimum wages,
David. Thanks.
>Now that I got that off my chest, I am off to see Simon and
>Garfunkel at the Hollywood Bowl. When I get back, how about a
>discussion of explaining the price of concert tickets from a
>Marxist perspective?
Peop
For what it's worth...
I saw Hussein on TV this morn, and Peter Jennings did an excellent job
of old Murrow-style radio reporting... describing scenes without the aid
of a TV camera. Jennings described a beaten down man, thin, polite,
alert, tangling with the judge once.
I have since seen the usu
Louis wrote:
>You may be a great economist, but sometimes you suck
>as a moderator.
Respectfully, I have to disagree. Michael is an excellent moderator.
Michael does something akin to actual life: keep differing ideas in
contact, because there is something that comes out of it that's better
than
Grin...
Michael... I don't mind the thread.
Someone has to point out what Louis does... Which is divide. Mr.Doss has
provided a fresh and direct perspective, so what? It was like your
invitation to that Chicago right wing lawyer chap...
We learn thorugh being in contact.
As for the "asshole" co
Glad to see you remain the same alienating asshole as ever, Lou.
Mr Doss has done nothing but offer his own opinion and plenty of
interesting material. I see no problem or a need to "cut him down." (All
your hackneyed adjectives about his posts are a reminder why you don't
have a book contract.)
J wrote:
>The first article I ever read about Fidel Castro was
>a story by Tad Szulc, in Playboy or Penthouse.
Playboy deserves a rightful place in Yanqui social liberation history.
The interviews were remarkable. As a lad, I was obviously attracted because of
beautiful females. And we males
joanna bujes wrote:
>I dont' want ANY messages, healthy or not, being
>broadcast about. I was never exposed to any form
>of advertisement until I emigrated to Paris in
>63...and then to the US in 64. My immediate
>reaction to it was that I felt manipulated and
>insulted. I still feel that way.
So
>A message to my fellow Americans who chose to live where
>the wheat waves, the buffalo roam and most rites of
?passage still involve a pickup truck:
>
>I'm sick and tired of having my pocket picked by your
>two-faced politicians who talk a good game about self-
>reliance and limited government, an
>Maybe you mean "domesday book"
No, no...
I know that Norman accounting tax grab census you mention...
I mean the "Doomsday Book"... you have to see his evil plot to get her
comment.
And I think, really, the idea of the Corporate Boss hiding in the shoe
department, scribbling about unionists in
Joanna wrote:
>It's interesting,in this regard, to note that all
>fictional plots involving the rich and the poor
>changing places, always have a capitalist trade
>places with a beggar...not a worker.
Today, yes, often so. Not always so...
One of my fave old movies is the "Devil and Miss Jones".
Michael brought the Berrigans up in the Thread-That-Will-Not-Be-Named.
I'd like to underline that point, even though it was only originally
mentioned in the context of Catholics and that dogma (and all its
facets, liberation theology, etc.). Raised a Catholic, I appreciate
reading about what they
I am just reading through this discussion.
This Julio Huato seems to have a grasp of strategy and tactics... But I
don't want to damn him with my praise.
Michael P. (the closet horsetrader) wrote:
> Julio is probably right, but think of how horrible
> this situation is.
Well... I'd say DON'T "t
I sense that this Cockburn guy is important in some way to some of you
Americans for some reason... And I would like to be polite and give him
a wide berth... since he matters a lot to your culture.
But this is lousy style:
* Clichés like "rubbing shoulders"... that's as bad "made a cool
millio
I like this one:
>"Westeronoid rational" behaviour?
After that, you can loot the fucking tradition. :)
Ken.
--
Fall out of the window with confetti in my hair.
-- Tom Waits
All Right!
Sabri writes, progressively:
>You are demonstrating a "westernly rational" behaviour.
It is slipping from an adjective to... well... a lesser adjective. Not
"western" now "westernly".
Soon it will be a "not eastern."
>Also, I never said that I want to take revenge from "western
>rat
Jim writes:
>(is "western rationality" like a "western saddle"?)
I had originally thought it was about the proportion of onion, green pepper and ham in
an omelets.
But Sabri has convinced me that it is about revenge against people who eat onion,
green pepper and ham omelets.
Ken.
P.S. Hang
Hi Sabri --
I didn't respond to this because I wanted to give it a lot of thought.
And try to separate out "layers" of influence in my own opinions. Maybe
I've just been "westernized" as you sort of imply.
(Plus, Jurriaan did a rather good job in dealing with the concept of
"western rationality"
Saw this chap on World View (on CBC Newsworld) this morn. Very extensive
and open interview. (CBC style, most Americans feel free to speak openly
in Canada because few people "back home" will ever hear about it. :)
He's author of _Rogue Nation_. Spoke critically of Bush (a radical) and
the theory
l civil libertarian court was the Warren Court,
>whose key members were Warren and Brennan, appointed
>by Eisenhower, and Goldberg, Fortas, and Marshall,
>appointed by Kennedy and Johnson. The one right thing
>you say here is that the Warren Court era is over. jks
>
>--- Kenneth
I wasn't talking about second hand smoke... That's another topic.
There are laws against smoking in public places. Nothing wrong with those.
Ken.
>with second-hand smoke, SOMEONE ELSE puts the smoke in your
>mouth and nose, while YOU have little choice but to inhale.
>Jim
>
> -Origina
Well... yes and no.
Yes, it was "Warren's" court, and Eisenhower was disappointed with his
two appointments.
But, no, Warren couldn't have done anything without Black and Douglas.
And Douglas was a major source of this extreme free speech-ism. (Mind
you, I wasn't there.)
Ken.
--
I used to
>JKS writes:>I'd be proud to defend the First
>Amendment ina NAzi case too.<
>
>if the gov't cracks down on the Nazis, they crack down on
>the Left, too, most often in a bigger way. A first
>amendment defense of the Nazis is indirectly
>defending the Left.
Elementary, my dear Mr. Devine. :)
You k
Sabri, yer gonna out live us all. Some Turkish hills thing. Worry not.
I don't smoke... But I think yer a bit harsh on our dyslexic lawyer
friend.
You wrote:
>Western rationality requires, or leads to, Justins of the world.
Adults have the right to kill themselves, in any way they wish. As long
Hey! soula avramidis!
>a young man ran towards the old marx all joy and zeal
>wanting to join the cause; marx simply told him to
>bugger off. he was nice but not naive.
That sounds heartbreaking. I'm sorry to hear it.
If you, personally, have to believe that Karl Marx was about the "iron
rule of
Carrol Cox writes:
[Some general gossip]
We all have our moments, good and bad. That's the very definition of
"quite human." Do you have a different one?
Ken.
--
Gossip is charming!
But scandal is merely gossip
made tedious by morality.
-- Oscar Wilde
soula avramidis writes:
>this Karl Marx is tame, domesticated and suitable
>for a western audience
Karl _was_ tame, polite and reasonable in interview and personal
interaction.
He spoke to the "other side" in a conversation -- didn't sit there
delivering monologues. Quite human.
Sorry about tha
Max B. Sawicky wrote:
>this was great.
>
>www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/ArticleView.asp?accessible=yes&P_Article=12
295
It is great! Thoroughly entertaining and inspirational at the same
time...
My two reasons for thinking it so...
1) The Nod to the Past:
The writer's assumption of Karl's styl
Here ya go...
--- cut here ---
Copyright 2003 The Times Mirror Company; Los Angeles Times
October 17, 2003 Friday Home Edition
SECTION: Calendar; Part 5; Page 30; Calendar Desk
LENGTH: 810 words
HEADLINE: AL MARTINEZ;
Feels like a people's war is brewing
BYLINE: AL MARTINEZ
BODY:
I've alw
Gore eyes CBC-launched cable company Newsworld International
Barbara Shecter and Isabel Vincent
National Post
Oct 3 2003
In his quest to set up a new liberal-leaning broadcaster in the United
States, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore and a group of investors
could end up buying Newsworld Intern
Now we are shifting from
a) ad hominem attacks on a local leader (Yanqui stuff)
to
b) war crimes.
At least change the thread name, Sabri.
Ken.
--
For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes,
new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.
-- Walt
Michael wrote:
>In short, he was not universally bad. Bush is. Carter was
>domestically a conventional Republican.
In business, they call it "managing expectations."
[In other words... ADAPT to your fucking environment... without losing
your whole purpose to exist]
:)
Ken.
--
If you are goi
Bill Lear writes about Carter and Bush:
>That's because yes, there is a significant difference in
>attitude of this faction of the ruling party, though not
>really in results. The differences are little more than
>mere window dressing, which is not to say I don't want
>Bush and his gang of splend
Any input on what this group is?
I know it's a conservative think tank in NYC -- but some more background
on funding and policy purpose would be appreciated. Or personalities
closely associated with it.
Thanks,
Ken.
--
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to
live with rich people.
I regret I don't have the time to search through archives... or make
uneducated guesses...
So I thought I'd try the blunt approach.
Would the lad who made the post with the theory that the Republicans
cannot "build" countries (like Iraq, as opposed to Japan in 46) is
because they _are_ Republican
Best line from debate, as formulated in NYT editorial:
The newcomer, retired Gen. Wesley Clark, was more affable
than forthcoming about his unformed policy views. He
insisted that he was a Democrat at heart, despite
previous votes for Republican presidents, and would prove
it i
Congress Shuts Pentagon Unit Over Privacy
By CARL HULSE
New York Times
September 26, 2003
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 — A Pentagon office that became steeped in
controversy over privacy issues and a market in terrorism futures was
shut down by Congress today as the Senate passed and sent to President
B
These kinds of heavy-handed policies are the stuff of rebellious
tension... or resigned despair. Depending on the surrounding social
climate. And the "noise" created around it.
Ken.
--
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he
lives with, insists on boring future generations.
Washington Post's Fast Forward (tech) section is naturally following the
"epic" struggle of the music industry (RIAA) against evolving
technology.
Latest column (Rob Pegaro):
RIAA Uses Law to Defend Interests
After years of trying to criminalize hardware and software
that can be used
Record labels getting desperate
By MATHEW INGRAM
Globe and Mail
September 5 2003
Universal Music, one of the five major record companies, announced late
on Wednesday that it is chopping the retail price of its "top line" CDs
by anywhere from 23 to 30 per cent. The company said it is making this
"Earned it" could mean many things.
More immediately, it would mean you did your 4-hours. It was not
"bestowed."
Ken.
--
CLARKE'S LAW: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
from magic.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
I wrote:
>You cannot let people have time... Yet I can think of
>nothing I would treasure more.
Just to make sure I was clear, there...
I do not mean the time one gets from calling in sick, or from getting
unemployment, or from welfare, or from being derelict... Nor do I mean
the time one gets f
Mike B) wrote:
>Commdification has made consciousness cheap along with
>everything else, most especially, our lives.
Idle hands... idle hands... the devil's work results, every time, under
any system. You cannot let people have time... Yet I can think of
nothing I would treasure more.
Ken.
--
.
These kinds of ideas are fine in an abstract, make-believe world -- the
Wired magazine/Negroponte realm. "Robinson Crusoe" versions of a wired
world. Everyone on their own little island, everyone wired together.
Deighton says, below: "It's about offering its customers and prospects
an identity tha
Sometimes Canadian business classes and intelligentsia surprise me.
There is an ability to see the world drastically differently than the
USA media "echo chamber" of the White House communications pipeline (a
pipeline/octopus that should be flow charted and studied as part of high
school education)
BBC News reports:
>They actually made people sing Beatles songs.
That should be a scene from a Terry Gilliam movie... a creepy,
"Brazil"-style setting at an airport...
Futuristic airport. Echoey footsteps can be heard
as jets take off and land.
Main character, looking a little nervous,
wander
I ain't talking about ultimate truths, here. As if Mr. Berlin had some
lock on truth. :)
I am talking about people (my community, say -- or better yet my family,
which was stunned by the world around them last night and is still
buzzing with questions) speaking their concerns.
Mass media, as Walt
Michael writes:
>guarantee -- we will hear that it was the environmentalists fault.
>We need more nukes, more coal Pass the damn energy bill.
Okay.
We're taking bets, here.
Michael says it will be the enviros who take the rap -- probably via
communications work by the White House (Bush ha
Ravi wrote:
>funny. i live in NJ and had power throughout y'day and up till
>this moment, today.
NYT has a pretty good graphic...
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/20030815_blk_GRID/030815_na
tGRID.pdf
You can dispute their statement with their editor if you like. (Hell,
everyone sho
ABC News ran the most stunningly disturbing graphic... A map of the NE
continent, here... with a little second clock in the corner. With each
second, a jurisdiction or two shut down. "Off the grid."
Michigan.
Tick.
Connecticut.
Tick.
Ohio.
Tick.
New Jersey.
Tick.
You are one helluva good man, Euble.
I appear to have missed it, or be caught between the replay and
conference. I will check it out on replay, though.
Many, many thanks.
Ken.
--
He took a face from the ancient gallery,
And he walked on down the hall.
-- Jim Morrison
Yeah, I botched Mr. Morrison's lyrics. Shows you how rattled I was.
>There's danger on the edge of town,
>Ride the king's highway.
>Weird scenes inside the goldmine;
>ride the king's highway west, baby.
Lemme tell ya, I was more than ready to ride the highway west, baby.
But, then, friends in Wi
I am still trying to figure out what happened. TV is out. Radio is
repeating same stuff. CNN site didn't work, last I tried it. CBC.ca is
repeating CBC Radio. Anyone outside the zone of collapse with better
data?
I wrote:
>but the "authorities" were absolutely useless.
The height of the stupidit
Man o man...
Wild scenes inside the gold mine.
Thank god for car batteries. I never would have been able to find out
anything. (Must keep supply of batteries in house... Must keep supply of
batteries in house... Must keep supply of batteries in house...)
Seriously, though, this system is as frag
Yoshie wrote:
>I'd prefer Red, Black, and Green together (the colors of
>revolutionary socialism, anarchism, and environmentalism),
>also the colors of the pan-African Black Liberation Flag.
Sounds good to me. I adopt that as my flag.
But don't tell anyone I agree with you. I would hate to be la
INTRO: I knew Bob Hunter fairly well in a previous incarnation. Bob
co-founded Greenpeace. His column appeared weekly. He wrote often about
global warming. It was humorous to see his winter columns about global
warming run during some terrible winter storms -- humorous to read the
mail responses th
Doug wrote:
>>It's always the person responding to the irritable grouch that
>>gets the reprimand, isn't it?
Louie wrote:
>Doug, when did you take Jerry Levy's place on PEN-L?
It amazes me that so little has changed.
I knew Jerry Levy online 6-7 years ago, back when I disappeared from
leftie l
Mike wrote:
>The State is the governmental expression of class
>rule.
Fair enough. I've heard many descriptions of what the state is. That's a
workable one.
>I've never met anyone--anarchists included--who argued
>that that State could be abolished by decree.
I agree with that. (In terms of rat
>Is this necessary?
>
>On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 06:05:38PM -0400, Kenneth Campbell wrote:
>> If you can't
>> sell it... well... languish in the warehouse with Lou's crew.
>
>--
>Michael Perelman
>Economics Department
>California State University
>
Jim writes:
>what kind of neurosis -- or psychosis -- do we leftists suffer from?
I thought Mr. Coyle had the funniest response to that... What Should We
Do? "Organize to free Mumia."
(He caveated his comment, as do I.)
If there is a leftie syndrome, it's the decentralization of the whole
body.
About 3,000 die of heat-related causes in France
Associated Press
August 14 2003
About 3,000 people have died in France of heat-related causes since
abnormally high temperatures swept across the country about two weeks
ago, the health ministry said Thursday.
"The number of deaths linked directl
Jim wrote about Stan Goff... His son is serving.
Reminds me:
The other day, I got off the 401 Highway at a PetroCan station and I
couldn't find the wallet right away. I did the "Go ahead" thing absently
to the other person.
It was someone in combat clothes. Little beret and all that.
He was ver
Judge Rejects Subpoenas in Music-Use Case
Aug 8, 10:21 PM
BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge rejected an attempt by the recording
industry to uncover the names of Boston College and MIT students
suspected of online music piracy.
U.S. District Judge Joseph L. Tauro said Friday that under federal
rule
Buffett joins team Terminator
By BARRIE McKENNA
>From Thursday's Globe and Mail
Aug. 14, 2003
Washington Decried by pundits as a political circus, the colourful
race to recall California Governor Gray Davis is suddenly attracting
some big-time talent.
U.S. President George W. Bush is schedule
Jim writes about the classic Marx v Bakunin battle of anarchism and intelligent
socialism.
I can never disagree with Karl, because he was just too damn smart. Never took a
position based on his own interests and fudged the rest.
But in this particular battle of definitions, I agree with all the
Fast Company's New Life in the Slow Lane
By DAVID CARR
New York Times
August 11, 2003
Fast Company, a magazine that advocated a business revolution, was first
published more than eight years ago on the verge of one. That
revolution, fomented by digital technologies and soaring stock prices,
came
I wrote:
>> But in this particular battle of definitions, I agree with
>> all the Yoshies out there. They call "anarchism" what Mr.
>> Marx would call "democracy."
>
>I think it's useful to avoid mushing concepts together that way.
I don't see that as "mushing." I see it as evolving language.
Bu
"General Winter" won three in Russia.
But I wonder if all three were not really won by "Russian feudalism."
Feudalist culture (declining or not) had the singular ability to absorb
massive blows to the communications infrastructure without collapsing.
(That's why they had fiefdoms... and created k
I always like to see the words "urban myth" used when talking about
academics. So much of accepted stuff is "legendary."
The connectedness of the world via the Net was always lauded in academia
and SEC prospective alike. While I think Stanley Milgram was brilliant,
things ain't really that differe
Geez, Jim...
This should be some kind of Lefty U. screening test.
Ken.
--
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several
times the same good things for the first time.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
>Devine, James wrote:
>> what kind of neurosis -- or psychosis -- do we leftists su
August 11, 2003 1:56 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Reply to an Observer article by the Italian
>Refounded CP
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>Kenneth Campbell wrote:
>> Lou --
>>
>> I hesitate to write... but I must state...
>>
>> I know you are smart... But these
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