psychology or biology, not needing Pinker or Dawkins.
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The Dirty Little Secret of Credential Inflation, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, 49 (27
, was asked what he did when he read a scientific
paper and came across mathematical formulas, he said, I hum
them.)
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scads of money available to corporate enterprise, BUT
ONLY ON CERTAIN TERMS which, in the event, encouraged the
bad behavior which has led to the crises of which you speak.
OK. More later ...
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Keith:
... I would still maintain that it was this strategy of governments
and the subsequent impoverishment of millions of prudent people who'd saved
for years that gave the go-ahead to financial malefactors of all types in
the following decades. There'd always been crooks, but they fairly
and explained in terms of social reproduction
alone. But I've not got the argument put together. This is
for another post, another time.)
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Bacon.
[If anyone wants a formatted copy of these pieces in an
*.rtf MS-Word document, let me know I will send along. Or
I can just send in the body an e-mail.]
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from Nicholas Lemann:
#1
Today the academically selected elite does not control
America to nearly the extent that is commonly assumed.
Business, either
offended Bryan came from a
discussion of evolution in George William Hunter's _Civic
Biology_, the textbook assigned to John Thomas Scopes's
biology class. Bryan responded viscerally to the image.[2]
...
... o brave new world that has such folks in it!
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centuries for acquiring wisdom, and it would be
wise to compress our learning into the years immediately
ahead. We have to discover what has made the climate of the
past 8,000 years relatively stable, and then figure out how
to prop it up.
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technology policy: totalitarian vs.
democratic technics.
The Atlantic Monthly piece I'm sending seems to me to be
evidence that Lovins is not quite as you describe him.
But then! You may well have had more immediate experiences
(and, perhaps, disappointments).
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FWers -
Here is a 1995 essay on a hybrid car by the Lovinses. It
identifies and takes on the political and economic forces
arrayed against the future. Along the way it takes up the
question of oil and Iraq.
Comments?
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BEWARE!
If the Bush regime is a business regime ... CAVEAT EMPTOR.
Buyer beware!
How's that for a progressive slogan?
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for the magazine.
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-- we see
him from behind -- is the hooded figure of The Grim Reaper,
Lord Death. Caption: Take it easy, Lady. I've come for your
toaster.
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Vancouver BC
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FYI -- SS
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Dear Ray,
Hear! Hear! I am properly *and gratefully* humbled.
I have for a long time been quite impatient with the Esalen
folks - humanistic psychology and such-like - and
*therefore* willfully ignorant of much of it, SO ... I was
quite content to be cheerfully superficial glib about
wholism
of
hanky panky by the world bank and corporations.
I'm missing a step here. How does the water case shed light
on the oil case?
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rumbles, clouds part, VOICE from
above;] YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN ...
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. If Harper
and his 28 fellow plaintiffs win an early procedural battle
and are allowed to represent a class of 6,400 onetime
employee agents, this could be the biggest case ever
charging a company with age discrimination.
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on what we're doing.
Sounds like hype - after all, this is the salesman speaking.
Anybody know of exemplary blogs to visit?
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was linked from MetaFilter, a links-and-discussion site with
strong blog community ties
See:
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=938
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be that there are organisms
with feedback loops such that they don't get knocked around
everytime something in their environment jiggles, nor to
explain how the earth could be that a system with a number
of meta-stable equilibrium states.
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a smoldering pile. It bespeaks something deeper
and more real.
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Oooops. PS - I'd be happy to get the whole Berkowitz piece
by attached *.doc
Thanks
. Tradition. No crises.
sound right?
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on
Hamish McCrae - he might help me understand any number of
things that are now obscured in fog.
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Fiore's clever cartoon ---
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/planner.html
And while you're at it ---
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/looting.html
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a bad idea, if doing so would detract from
the value of the list, then I wouldn't want to pursue it any
further.
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) and you'd face an
immediate and daunting problem of sorting. It becomes much
*more* difficult to focus on a particular thread or to
respond to it.
OK. As you were ...
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forceful.
I guess we shall know pretty soon.
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This is significant. This is part of the Bush base.arthur
Oh, I don't think that one of these radical
Catholic feminist left-wingers is likely part of a
Bush base.
Stephen Straker
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A Benedictine Sister of Erie, Sister Joan is a
best-selling author
minefield.
... there ... aren't you glad you asked???
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Has anyone done this proper kind of social cost
accounting?
THEN people would have a better idea of whether
they're saving money or whether the convenience is
worth it when they choose Home Depot.
Stephen Straker
Karen -
Very good stuff. It's obviously about taking land-use
*planning* seriously and having a planning regime.
But this is all so wishy-washy and not nearly as VIRILE or
exciting as the thrusting forward of unfettered GROWTH. I do
mean seriously that there is a gendered element here -
AND FINALLY
He's gone to the big chookery in the sky, senior sergeant
Ian Freeman, of Christchurch police, told the NZPA news
service after an hour-long standoff between a New Zealand
rooster and bomb disposal experts came to an abrupt end.
A member of the public had noticed the bird acting
pronto.
Hmmm. It's been out some 16 years now - a teenager - how
come the world isn't more different? Maybe it is and I'm
just not noticing. The stuff Karen and Ray and others have
been sending around suggest as much.
Thanks again for this.
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(a
mill-rate set by City Hall). Does this mean that here the
property tax IS a land-value tax?
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for Biblical Law and Economics ... is unique in
its explicitly Reformed foundations, and its focused
approach to law and economics that probes more deeply than
more broad-based groups can.
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a property right.
See:
http://www.delgamuukw.org/
the Internet's most extensive collection of resources
relating to the Delgamuukw decision.
Anyway, Locke gave us a text much to conjure with ... as
they do down at the Center for Biblical Law and Economics.
Enuf for now ...
Stephen Straker
collected.
Oh and PS - This is the point I was making a fuss about.
This sounds exactly right fair.
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original point stands. Thanks for correcting
clarifying.
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' and is all the rage in
academia, says Jon Turney.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/sciences/story/0,12243,980112,00.html
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how in the world a thing the size of a grain
of sand could find the energy to broadcast rf waves to
anybody even if across the room?
Inquiring old minds want to know.
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others
before they do it unto you, etc.). Many things we have
talked about on this list over the years would suggest as
much.
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say no one warned you.
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are the
best of men ... and we elect 'em again and again. Can't one
*learn* something false just because one can be *taught*
something false?? - SS]
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looked like ... As did you,
obviously, except you didn't believe in it.
This seems a more likely account of what happened than your
account which requires the grad student to be a chump and
Paul Weiss a lazy pandering jerk.
Stephen Straker
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Clinton, we know, technically did not have
sex with [whateverhernamewas], because the definition
of sexual relations is male-female...
BECAUSE this has been brought up
and
BECAUSE it reminds me of a time when the whole USA was so
annoyed by the Republicans - *especially* the right wing
weeks and months are archived easily acccessible.
Cursor.org is the best straight politics [USA mainly] list I
know about.
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believe??
Does GW Bush really believe that Jesus is his personal
Saviour and favourite philosopher? Does Dr Wolfowitz believe
what he says? Does Henry Kissinger?
And so, in just the sense that Prof Latour intended it,
(We have never yet really been modern.)
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,
widely admired and working pretty well. (You could think of
such activities as aiming at creating good neighbourhoods,
with downtowns, rather than acres of bedrooms. And I
suppose it is then a good thing if such downtowns vie for
status.)
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that this mechanistic vision is
in trouble.
Perhaps this makes some sense of things ...
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engineer [:)]. I think
it would be interesting to send your tutorial on the
bacterial generation of hydrogen off to Lovins and see what
he and the folks at RMI have to say. You might get invited
out to Snowmass, CO for a briefing/debriefing!
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is still in print and still widely used, I think. I
wonder if any of it has been excerpted and can be found
on-line.
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Hello Lawry,
This is a very controversial theory, vigorously espoused by
one fellow, vigorously doubted by most geoscientists. I have
some references and will search for more or better ones.
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Lawrence DeBivort wrote:
Recently, a most
? (And Liberia? And Afghanistan?), The
New York Times Magazine (7 September 2003)
by Michael Ignatieff
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/magazine/07INTERVENTION.html
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? (And Liberia? And Afghanistan?), The
New York Times Magazine (7 September 2003)
by Michael Ignatieff
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/magazine/07INTERVENTION.html
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a review of:
*High and Mighty: SUVs - The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles
and How They Got That Way*
by Keith Bradsher (PublicAffairs)
*America's twisted love affair with sociopathic cars.*
Stephen Straker
Vancouver, B.C
://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/864777.stm
But that may not be relevant.
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a review of:
*High and Mighty: SUVs - The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles
and How They Got That Way*
by Keith Bradsher (PublicAffairs)
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of
understanding contemporary capitalist society.
[to be continued ...]
SS
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(as does KWC I believe); if you wish a copy and can accept
)
Cartoon:
Bush at his desk, fiddling with paper, looking stunned. On
desk is paperweight plaque which says: The BUCK stops
somewhere else.
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if a correspondent forgets to put igve into his/her
message and then assumes that you don't wish to reply (when,
in fact, you never got his/her message)?
curioser and curioser,
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really is fiercely
ruthless, dishonest, and nasty. There are no obvious limits
to what they might do in pursuit of their anti-progressive
goals.
Here are two interviews of Krugman from recent weeks which
both give pause and yet stiffen the spine.
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*both* nature and art, both the
natural and the artificial (civil, political) without
getting occupied by just one side, one aspect, of the human
condition.
Does Hobbes** help?
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**
from:
Thomas Hobbes, LEVIATHAN (1651)
CHAPTER XIII
Clarification ...
I wrote:
then no animal can defend its
property. ...
But should have written:
then no animal can defend its 'property' because it never
has property to defend; it only has what it wants that it
can obtain and hang onto despite the incursions of others
...
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Sorry to be so long replying on Hobbes. I have been
meditating a decent response.
Ed says:
... I must say Ive never felt comfortable with
Hobbes articulation of man in the state of nature. It
depicts man as solitary, acting only to satisfy himself,
being nothing more than an organic
[I want to rewrite two short paragraphs at the end in order
to emphasize that we are not *necessarily* acting alone in
trying to being down a regime we believe must be destroyed.]
Does this mean there can be no grounds for revolution? no
such thing as a bad king who *therefore* ought not to be
that support them! and I say Hear! Hear! Say it
Again Again!
Thanks, Karen, for sending JF's piece around.
best wishes Happy Winter to all,
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Stephen posted this site sometime ago. I just refound
it. Its terrific.
REH
Yes indeed, it sure is. It was begun just 5 years ago (Sept
1998) by Dennis Dutton, an Australian Philosophy prof and
editor of the journal _Philosophy and Literature_. A while
later he
and the emergence
of a robust liberal-democratic polity.)
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