[PEN-L:12176] Re: Can You Top This[?] If you insist.

1997-09-07 Thread maxsaw
Max Sawicky wrote, shagging debutantes. The bottom line is they can't stand to think about their own lives and the real problems of the mundane world, so they are drawn to fantasy. To which Tom Walker, in a rare moment of unalloyed yeehaw, replied: I couldn't agree

[PEN-L:12178] Re: Can You Top This

1997-09-07 Thread Tom Walker
Max Sawicky wrote, Max Sawicky wrote, And I'd gladly pay to see a jacquerie. Or a purple cow? This looks like a Chagall reference, but I don't get it. Please enlighten. I've never seen a purple cow I never hope to see one but I can tell you anyhow I'd rather see than be one I can't

[PEN-L:12179] Re: Slagging Di

1997-09-07 Thread Marianne Brun
I had urgently hoped that pen-l might be one place on earth, a tiny niche, where one would not discuss Diana. Not so - and the level of the texts I find in no way surpass the tabloids Marianne Brun

[PEN-L:12182] Re: Slagging Di

1997-09-07 Thread Ajit Sinha
At 12:21 7/09/97 -0700, you wrote: I had urgently hoped that pen-l might be one place on earth, a tiny niche, where one would not discuss Diana. Not so - and the level of the texts I find in no way surpass the tabloids Marianne Brun

[PEN-L:12171] Re: Slagging Di

1997-09-07 Thread MScoleman
In a message dated 97-09-06 19:59:25 EDT, you write: 2) Where was Camilla yesterday? tampon hunting. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:12181] Voces de La Frontera

1997-09-07 Thread Michael Eisenscher
FYI: And speaking of worthwhile labor publications, a friend just gave me a copy of the first issue of "Voces de La Frontera", a bilingual tabloid addressing maquiladoras. The address is p.o. box 341095 Austin, Tx. 78734-0195 The subs are twenty bucks a year, which is a bit steep, but it's

[PEN-L:12180] Bulgaria Beats US in Quality of Life

1997-09-07 Thread Michael Eisenscher
Study Says Life Is Better in Bulgaria Than in U.S. By BARBARA CROSSETTE UNITED NATIONS -- The appearance last week of another index ranking countries by their social conditions -- a study in which Bulgaria outranks the United States in quality of life -- raises new questions about how

[PEN-L:12177] Re: Slagging Di

1997-09-07 Thread maxsaw
I guess I'm getting old(er) and soft(er), but I have to admit more than a bit of admiration for someone from the bosom of the establishment who uses her (unearned, unjustified) celebrity to tackle the international arms industry and the British Tories on issues like land mines. The

[PEN-L:12175] Re: Can You Top This

1997-09-07 Thread maxsaw
Max Sawicky wrote, And I'd gladly pay to see a jacquerie. Or a purple cow? This looks like a Chagall reference, but I don't get it. Please enlighten. MBS == Max B. Sawicky Economic Policy Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:12174] don't cry for me Argentina

1997-09-07 Thread James Devine
Tom Walker has a good point. I wouldn't say that modern folks are exactly like peasants, but there is some similarity. Captalism is best able to reproduce itself over time when society is atomized, when people have little direct connection with each other through grass-roots organizations that

[PEN-L:12173] Re: Don't cry for me, Argentina

1997-09-07 Thread Louis N Proyect
On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, Tom Walker wrote: "just". We can often see, for instance in peasant revolts, the idea that the king only needed to be properly informed to put an immediate end to all evil. If he only knew how the peasants were being ill-treated, he would order it to stop. In this basic

[PEN-L:12172] Re: Slagging Di

1997-09-07 Thread bill mitchell
2) Where was Camilla yesterday? tampon hunting. wasn't he pretending to be contrite at the funeral? of-course, he was really thinking "how the fuck do i get to marry her, be king, and fend of the tabloids now?" kind regards bill -- ##William F. Mitchell