Title: gossip
from SLATE's survey of major US newspapers: >The [Washington] Post's Lloyd Grove picks up on an important interview neo-lefty [?!?!?] polemicist Christopher Hitchens gave Doublethink, a conservative magazine. Among the apparent revelations Hitchens makes: 1) His
Jim Devine wrote,
>and why do these financial whizzes care about a statistic for only one
>quarter, one that will likely be revised within the next year or so? (See
>Dean Baker's comment on these stats, how revisions make the "New Economy"
>look more paltry.) They deserve their fate if they ar
Tom Walket writes:
>... Featured with the Greenspan rumour is Friday's Dresdner bank
>"forecast" of a 1.5% productivity revision. The productivity revision is
>out and it's 2.5%. So much for the Apocalyse. ...
and why do these financial whizzes care about a statistic for only one
quarter, one
Looks like a silly right-wing site. Featured with the Greenspan rumour is
Friday's Dresdner bank "forecast" of a 1.5% productivity revision. The
productivity revision is out and it's 2.5%. So much for the Apocalyse. Maybe
some folks went on a shorting binge and are hoping to start a stampede
befor
http://finance.yahoo.com/mo
"A site called newsmax.com is running a story titled "Greenspan Reportedly To
Quit" which claims that administration sources have said that Greenspan will
retire by year-end. Briefing.com has never heard of newsmax.com and, needless
to say, this is an unlikely place to
Jim Devine wrote:
>Does anyone know why Ellen Meiksins Wood is no longer a co-editor of
>MONTHLY REVIEW? Political differences?
No, mostly personality conflicts.
Doug
Does anyone know why Ellen Meiksins Wood is no longer a co-editor of
MONTHLY REVIEW? Political differences?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Well, for those of you care...
Late afternoon media gossip, based on exit polls, is that Clinton is ahead
by 7 points. Dems will pick up some seats in both House & Senate, but won't
take control.
Doug
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Speaking of hunks, buns, muscles and sports - have you seen the ad (for what I
do not remember) where these stunning twenty-somethings are playing sand
volleyball with all the grim competitive determination of a stock market
trader. California noire.
--Lau
Jim D. notes that women would be more interested in sports for two reasons:
1. if women's sports got more air time, more women would watch
2. Women should realize there are hunks playing men's sports.
I'm not really sure the first is true, and 'we' (women) all already know the
second is true --
Re: film, go...
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Patrick Mason correctly points out my glaring ommission of SPORTS,
SPORTS, SPORTS for male gossip (though I know a number of men who
would be highly insulted if I termed their Monday morning
quarter-backing 'gossip'). T
I wish I had worked in Jerry Levy's old workplace where the check pool could
be worth thousands of dollars. Ours were penny ante stuff. I knew one guy
who was completely obsessed with the lottery. He was convinced there was a
system for pickcing the numbers for the big money pots. He would s
nterested in exploring the lessons of the "industrialized
left" if anyone else is.
I agree with Jim Craven that gossip can be petty and even vicious, but it
also can remind us that we are human. The ability to frame reality in a
particular fashion does not convey immunity to its ef
maggie coleman can't think of a topic that is as important to
women as sports is to men in day-to-day conversation (or the
equivalent of sports in women's gossip).
I think the fact that women don't talk much about sports may be
an artifact of the under-investment of resou
maggie coleman can't think of a topic that is the equivalent in
importance to women as sports is to men. I think women would be
more interested in sports if women's sports got more resources
dedicated to their promotion. (Of course, more resources would go
to women's sports if more women were
Re Laurie's list: One large and continuous subject for "shop talk" that I
remember (while working on assembly lines at Ford and GM in NJ) was
*gambling*. This most frequently took the form of discussing "lotto" and
what workers would do _when_ they won $1 million. Every other form of
gambling as w
I can't say how impressed I am with Laurie Dougherty's post. It
reminds me of my earlier participation in a certain 1970's tendency
on the American left which was heavily "industrialized." While this
tendency has I think diappeared without even a remnant (and probably
deservedly so), it would
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> Laurie's descriptive passages about work at GE in Appliance Park is
> excellent--it certainly capture
Laurie's descriptive passages about work at GE in Appliance Park is
excellent--it certainly captures the essence of gossip where I work as well.
Not to add to (that would be difficult, and my adding would only be more of
the same), but comment on only three points:
1. Gossip is impo
Expanding on Maggie Coleman's list of gossip topics by gender, the following
is based on years of working (when I wasn't laid off) on General Electric
assembly lines in Louisville, KY. In this particular variant gender balance,
on the the assembly lines anyway, was roughly equal
Consider Maggie Coleman's gender comparison of gossip topics:
MEN TALK FEMALE EQUIVALENT
Weight lifting diets
kids kids
sexual prowess dating
women's bodies diets
union complaints union
One my good days I am magnanimous and think that both men and women gossip
about the same, but about different things. On my bad days, I think men
gossip more.
Do I have any proof? Almost 18 years working in a primarily male work
environment has taught me that men gossip just as much as women
While we're talking about films I just wanted to record what a high I'm
on having just watched the last 45 minutes of Grapes of Wrath which was
on cable tonight. The bad landowners and thugs, the prophets of revolt
of the common man, the illustration of a collective capacity to build
community
The name of the movie was Logan's Run. In Logan's Run everyone over
30 was dead. In The Long Run we are all dead.
Terry McDonough
Lisa sez: Peter York played Logan. Farah Fawcett's first screen
role was the short-lived woman who helped him escape.
> WOW! I didn'
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