"Wealth is liberty... it is disposable time and nothing more."
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Jim Devine wrote,
>July 25, 2004
>GRETCHEN MORGENSON
>Housing Bust: It Won't Be Pretty
>I don't know the web-page that this came from.
New York Times
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eas P
labor
>does.
>I don't know if the concept U/P is very useful, though.
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"Is it possible that some Republican delegate might hop in a pedicab this
summer and pause to ruminate on an economy in which some are always pulled
and more and more are always pulling?"
No.
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niel, he would have paid up:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg07948.html
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I love it! Total Information Awareness meets ParEcon. Robin Hanson, may I
introduce you to Robin Hahnel...
Charles Brown wrote,
> TIME.com: The End Of Management? -- Jul. 12, 2004
>
http://www.time.com/time/insidebiz/article/0,9171,1101040712-660965,00.html
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or cranks. Nobody loves a critic,
no one takes a crank seriously. There's no fraud like an avuncular old
fraud.
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so clearly (he
thinks) sees? Or is there perhaps some kind of fusion there where Sowell's
suffering the bureaucratic fools in itself redeems the suffering of the
poor, regardless of any policy consequences? I only pray that if I ever see
the light, it not be the glow of such thread-bare doctrinal kaka.
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e Economist own
propagandistic use.
For more on this story see my MaxSpeak post at
http://maxspeak.org/mt/archives/000587.html
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Classic Steve Bell:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/stevebell/0,7371,1233866,00.html
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Carrol Cox wrote,
>What needs to be debated is the views of those involved in the debate,
>not an antiquarian issue about some particular person not involved in
>the debate.
Hear! Hear! Thank you for saying it, Carrol.
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esources leads
>to increasing misery and/or conflict.
>Of course, as with Ricardo & Malths, that ignores such matters as
>technical change (improvements in the efficiency of oil use, etc.)
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en and
euro/dollar," said Patrick Bennett, currency strategist at Commerzbank in
London.
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s Hubbert would have called it." Are you then
"paraphrasing" something you project Hubbert "would have" said but never
actually said? Or are you constructing a phrase out of separate words that
Hubbert actually used? One needs to know what deep design lies behind such a
peculiar and radically ungrammatical construction.
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are, effectively, ways to "run out of oil." One also "runs
out of oil" when one expends the better part of the productivity gains won
from the use of energy in military action to secure the supply. You could
call it robbing Peter to pay Paul. Conceivably, it might also be feasible to
boost oil production by blasting it out of the ground with low-yield nuclear
devices. The contaminated crude might make us glow in the dark but at least
we wouldn't run out.
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home with him."
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cuous consumption of hours at the office.
What does this have to do with sex? I'll answer that if someone can just
explain to me what such time serving has to do with the "work ethic."
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Ken Hanly wrote,
>Quite a bit of the stuff is speculation by conspiracy buffs
>The family firm of beheaded American Nick Berg, was named by a conservative
>website in a list of 'enemies' of the Iraq occupation.
There is indeed speculation in the article Ken posted a link to and it is
unfortunate
in
Philadelphia federal court. Nicolaus Berg was not heard from again after
April 9.
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- not of value but of real wealth -- finally reaches its limit?
Will it be capital per se or simply the last shred of bourgeois legitimacy
and legality formerly associated with capitalism (re: the Brandeis quote).
>Wealth on the other hand has to be painstakingly produced.
Yes. But not necessarily by the expenditure of labour power. Again, see
Grundrisse e.g., pp. 704-709.
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lth can also be destroyed in the pursuit of a
insignificant amount of value.
That would appear to be the "stage" of capitalism that we're currently in:
the one in which, overall, the expansion of value needed to service the
accumulation of capital requires the destruction of more we
tled to appropriate more dead labour,
compounded, in the future. Doesn't matter if you appropriated it there then
and here now. Joan Robinson quipped the only thing worse than having one's
labour power exploited is not having one's labour power exploited.
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alties paid
to all third world musicians? Maybe that question encapsulates too many of
the qualitative imponderables. But whoops, there I go making those moral
judgements that the free market prohibits me from making.
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of wealth -- the rich. Social Security benefits are simply
deferred wages. Therefore, the fewer SS benefits workers receive and the
longer they have to work for those benefits, the more of their own
hard-earned income the wealthy get to keep.
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imply do away
with the superfluous as frivolous, excessive, degrading but to transform it
into the free and creative _use_ of disposable time, freed from the
domination of capital. Otherwise the disposable time confronts us as empty
time to be filled up with the products of commercialized culture.
Seen in that light, the superfluous *remains* "a condition -- question of
life or death -- for the necessary," whether under capitalism or any
realizable alternative.
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Jim Devine wrote,
> I see nothing wrong with utopian dreaming, as long as it's not seen as a
> matter
> of thinking up blueprints that _must_ be imposed.
Just about everything I lay my hands on these days has the word Utopia in
it. Chapman (1909): "It occurred to me after a cursory examination o
work-sharing is unlikely to produce much of
a reduction in unemployment." One of those "good reasons" being his
theoretically bankrupt model and the other being the allegedly fallacious
assumption "implicit" in arguments for work-sharing. That, I'm afraid is
what passes for the conventional wisdom in economics on the hours of labour.
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l that there is not a fixed amount of
work. The Economist has, over the past decade been the leading propagandist
against the lump-of-labor fallacy, so they should be especially impressed
when I begin my essay with the words: "There is most definitely *not* a
fixed amount of work to be done..."
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warrant."
DEM 1932:
"We advocate the spread of employment by a substantial reduction in the
hours of labor, the encouragement of the shorter week by applying that
principle in government service,
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with the
substitute term signifying the author's commitment to the ideas of William
Godwin, as expressed in his "Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and its
Influence on General Virtue and Happiness."
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>Porter is prety cold-eyed about love, which was my
>point to Joanna. He's the fella that wrote Love For
>Sale, among others.
Electric eels, I might add, do it
Though it shocks 'em I know
Why ask if shad do it
Waiter, bring me shadroe
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to "les autres." The maxim thus boils down to something like
"those who love are in love with love." "les femmes" and "les premières
passions" give the maxim character and animate it, just as "l'amant" does
for "l'amour".
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rginalised into part-time employment or given their pink slips. A
shrinking workforce, however, means diminished income, reduced consumer
demand, and an economy unable to grow. This is the new structural reality
that government and business leaders and so many economists are reluctant to
acknowl
Joanna:
> > Why not simply say that human relationships are
> bound by love. After all,
> > contracts are always conditional, whereas love is
> not.
"Dans les premières passions les femmes aiment l'amant, et dans les autres
elles aiment l'amour." -- François
le Revolutions of Our Time (New York, 1949) p. 19-20
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come growth would increase inflationary pressures leading to the raising
of interest rates and, ultimately, the bursting of the housing bubble.
The other paradox is that poor job growth is likely keeping the unemployment
rate lower than it otherwise would be. A hiring boom would swell the labour
force. Interesting times.
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Michael Perelman wrote,
> This stance is conclusive proof that gov't contracts are pork, not
> transactions at arms length. The gov't is not usually that open about its
> dealings.
Yes, indeed. It's about the loot. There's also a formidible subtext here
about the weapons of mass destruction. Tha
"It's very simple. Our people risked their lives. Friendly coalition folks
risked their lives, and therefore the contracting is going to reflect that,
and that's what the U.S. taxpayers expect," Ui said. Vino vendibili hedera
non opus est.
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ne analysis of the hours of labor.
Think of the arid circles policy debates must wander in if the single most
worker-friendly region of economic policy intervention were ruled 'out of
bounds' simply because economists refuse to critically examine a trivial bit
of textbook lore.
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Workin' on it.
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Ian wrote:
[cue to the Sandwichman]
[New York Times]
October 7, 2003
Lumps of Labor
By PAUL KRUGMAN
It looks like vancouver community net has deleted timework web. I had
requested that they terminate my email account there because it got too much
spam. Apparently when they closed the email, they just deleted the entire
timework user file including the web pages.
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he pamphlet was apparently
Charles Wentworth Dilke.
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://www.showtimeonline.com/movies/movies_product.cfm?titleid=119354
Only in America, you say? Pity.
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e also received virus
emails from three addresses I recognized as pen-l subscribers. Apparently,
some hacker or hacker-program has been forging pen-ler's addresses en mass.
Fortunately, my work email address is unscathed.
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quot;The anti-gravity generator goes
right over there, next to the perpetual motion drive belt." Presumably it
runs on electricity. Cheap, clean and reliable. And if it doesn't work,
blame it on the weather. Who could have predicted it would get hotter?
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y in the news. I remember
because I won the $1,000 prize.
Market analysis of potential events - Nanodot:
http://nanodot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/0658256
PEN-L:1349] Economists for sale. Make big bucks:
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pen-l/1995m11.b/msg00099.htm
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are private companies, but the enormous scope of their influence
comes
> largely as a result of their government-conferred power."
>
> 1. Who said it?
> 2. What was the circumstances?
> 3. Which private companies was s/he referring to?
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You googled? But you didn't answer 2. and 3.
Ian wrote:
>What, is Lieberman's staff lurking on Pen-L?
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"They are private companies, but the enormous scope of their influence comes
largely as a result of their government-conferred power."
1. Who said it?
2. What was the circumstances?
3. Which private companies was s/he referring to?
NO GOOGLING!
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t;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Nelson Lichtenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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tending to intimidate non-economists who have
not mis-spent their youth in mastering the intricacies of modern utility
theory.'"
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S AIMIEZ
QUELQUE CHOSE IL FAUT
QUE VOUS L'AYEZ VU et ENTENDU
DEPUIS LONGTEMPS tas D'IDIOTS
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en a bicycle wheel to a kitchen stool
and watch it turn"
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Carrol Cox wrote,
> This "high and higher efforts" that Danto speaks of, leading to chaos,
> must owe something to Laurel and Hardy as well. And of course Chaplin's
> Modern Times. In fact to much of the great slapstick, 1915-1940.
Yes, also constructivism and dada. As Walter Benjamin wrote: "Mo
Or, digging deeper into the ruins...
Homage to New York <1960>
http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/archives/Kluver/00_Homage.html
I asked Jean what I could do for him. Jean explained that he wanted to make
a machine that destroyed itself and that he needed bicycle wheels...
...It was all over in 27 m
s and polished hardwood floors
of the Honda re-make.
Interesting that the Biz 2.0 article fails to mention the Fischli and Weiss
film. It's not as if the resemblance is a secret. For another take on "The
Way Things Go," here's an excerpt from Arthur Danto:
http://www.postmedia.net/999/fischweiss1.htm
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"From each according to his need..."
I believe that Marx got it from Louis Blanc who adapted a slightly different
notion from the St. Simonists. The basic idea is biblical.
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t, my Lord, if they are true,
they have most important consequences; I therefore earnestly intreat you not
to reject them without a patient and attentive examination." -- anonymous
Post-Ricardian pamphleteer
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/remedy.htm
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.]
[NYTimes]
June 8, 2003
Why America Outpaces Europe (Clue: The God Factor)
By NIALL FERGUSON
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offered
their services for fifty centimes."
"Patriotism" consists of picking up the tab for the freebooters.
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preferred the latter. But given the choice between
4 weeks of vacation when the average was 8
week or 2 weeks when the average was 1 week, people chose the former.
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s of the Iraq invasion apparently thought that
with their vast arsenal of special 'fx' they
could, at the very least produce the greatest spectacle ever.
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would be easier to fake and harder to expose
such histrionics (or perhaps not?). In a similar vein, when I read Ledeen's September
13, 2001 NRO column "Who Killed Barbara Olson"
the prose struck me as eerily, calculatedly overwrought.
http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/ledeen091301.shtml
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"He was asked about remarks made by US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher in
Washington that "violence will not solve
Kashmir's problems. Dialogue remains a critical element in the normalization of
relations between India and Pakistan."
Chickens. Home. Roost.
Duct tape is for dummies; stock up on piano wire.
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.
Ledeen is a contributing editor to National Review. A guest contribution to NRO is
Gabriel Ledeen, who I would hazard a guess is his
son and would speculate is named after Gabrielle D'Annunzio. I suppose when the AEI
endows a freedom chair, they have in might a
certain kind of aesthetic freedom exemplified by the phrase, Fiat ars -- pereat mundus.
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And according to this story, Perle is threatening to sue Hersh for libel -- England
where the libel laws put a severe onus of proof
on the defendent
http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2003/03/12&ID=Ar00200
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beleagured good cop Tony Blair. The way the U.S. media is stage managed these days, I
would be skeptical about any message that gets
out from the administration that isn't "on message".
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space cannot be relied on to obey
the "principles" established by
two-dimensional representational perspective.
If Mandelson believes such extravagant cleverness, he is a fool. If he doesn't, he is
a charlatan.
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Deception is not new but as Chris's 'post modern' suggests, there is something new
about the deployment of deception here. My point
of reference would be Enron: Enron, Enron. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, etc.,etc.,etc.
What I allude to is a political economy OF deceit, not simply a political economy wi
ally towards children.
7. We should redistribute income towards the poor.
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Rowley letter to FBI Director
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/3738192.html
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ies/2003030600831500.htm
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POLL
Do you think your agency has adequate oversight of its contractors?
Yes 8 % (101)
No 92 % (1,102)
Total votes: 1203
http://federaltimes.com/index.php?showresults=true
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e will not magically restore the bankrupt to prosperity. The task of
the anti-war movement will be to understand
and explain why the war itself was not the sole cause of the hardships -- to pin the
PNAC tail on the (emblematic) Enron donkey, so
to speak.
Keywords: Bankrupt, embezzlers, arsonists.
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hs after a year of tortuous negotiations, has sought to distance
itself from the arrest.
Copyright 2003, Reuters News Service
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Minister's Official Spokesman trying to brush it off as
"processology". But I wonder how is the U.S. media
playing it (or not)? Are they, as I would fear, putting it on a back page and hoping
it will go away?
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ay is probably better explained in Oscar Wilde's The
Picture of Dorian Gray. I'd better read it
first, though, to be sure.
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at the center. An auto worker
> with 30 hours of overtime makes a good wage, but probably does not lead a
> good life. Marx said that all economics comes down to the economics of
> time.
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memorates a small Basque village in northern Spain that was used
by Germany for bombing practice for more than
three hours on April 27, 1937.
The raid killed or wounded some 1,600 civilians and left the village in flames for
three days.
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Shuttle Disaster Hurts Retail Sales
Tue 10:07am ET - Reuters
Nonstop television coverage of the space shuttle Columbia disaster
on Saturday kept riveted consumers away from stores, hurting retail
demand last week, according to a report released on Tuesday.
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people." If Mr. Bush
fails to promptly courtmartial the officials who came up with the Shock and Awe
atrocity, he may soon find himself standing
shoulder-to-shoulder with Mr. Hussein and facing history's judgment as another
ruthless leader who "killed his own people" in a mad
bid for power.
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t would not be an appropriate background if the
ambassador of the United States at the U.N. John Negroponte, or Powell,
talk about war surrounded with women, children and animals shouting with
horror and showing the suffering of the bombings.
This work is a reproduction of the Guernica that was donated by Nelson A.
Rockefeller to the U.N. in 1985.
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y all their money to wade back again.
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y of the killers who occupy the high levels
of their government, my advice is, don't
follow that order. Because if you choose to do so, when Iraq is liberated, you will be
treated, tried and persecuted as a war
criminal," said President Bush."
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I'd be very interested if so ..."
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far tests with the robot have proved promising. The machine responds on
> cue to signals of distress and approaches its human counterpart to ask if
> he's OK.
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n.com/comics/boll/2002/12/19/boll/index.html?x
Could it be that the Wall Street Journal and the Economist have been
infiltrated by Onion satirists?
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Ahmet,
I did a dossier on Sodexho for the B.C. Hospital Employees Union about 6
months ago. A copy of it is online at:
http://www.cupe.ca/downloads/sodexho_profile.pdf
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the nicked veneers and wobbly joints of Ikea regret
self-assembled furniture
requires retightening over time
"We sold screwdrivers like you can't believe."
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So what ever happened to the old custom of the king personally leading the
troops into battle?
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hey won seats on the parks
board, the school board, and city council.
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/11/17/vcr_elxn021117
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rding
announcing Arthur's name "in large capitals" and "the subject of
that evening's lecture".
Arthur manages to delude himself into believing that hawking culture as
if it were furniture is somehow more 'respectible' than hawking furniture,
but other than the delusion, the former comes off as a more profound
humiliation than the former.
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Joanna Bujes wrote:
> well, wouldn't you be?
>
> Joanna
>
> At 05:50 PM 11/14/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> >"the death of Satan was a tragedy for the imagination"
> > -- Wallace Stevens
> >
> >Satan is NOT dead, 'e's just pinin' for the fjords.
Not really. I'm one hour away from
the plan is the stench of corruption.
The Government Accounting Office has determined that public-private
competition will save taxpayers 30 percent on each contract.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! And they charged poor Andy Fastow for pilfering
the petty cash box! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
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"the death of Satan was a tragedy for the imagination"
-- Wallace Stevens
Satan is NOT dead, 'e's just pinin' for the fjords.
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odities. To the extent that political economy focuses on the latter and
neglects the former, it is an exercise in mystification.
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I wrote,
>>...shit happens, Doug. And time marches on.
Doug Henwood replied,
>Oh, of course. Why didn't I think of that?
Presumably because you have other fish to fry and a hard row to hoe.
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t of the world": shit happens, Doug. And time marches on.
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VNS Unable to Deliver Exit Polls
ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox News Channel -- anticipating possible problems with
exit polls -- each did last-minute telephone surveys to gauge voter
attitudes. Fox conducted its survey in 10 states on Monday night and Tuesday
and used some of those findings on the air.
"
What I want to know is: is there any money in a correct prediction and if
there is, how does one collect if one is dead?
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