In a message dated 12/27/02 4:13:15 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am disappointed by Melvin's contribution - Re: [PEN-L:33437] Re: Rael: "atheist, non-profit, spiritual organisation",
You do raise an interesting question concerning the rise of commodity production and
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33433] Re: Re: Re: Too much PC
It is quite hopeless to fight against the use of terms such as
crazy, nuts, loony tunes, even lunacy and lunatic, to apply to
intellectual, social, or political characteristics. But your (and my)
goal can still be achieved. We must attack the
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33442] Re: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx new ref # 33417
Joanna writes:
But take my word for it, [in the US] there is a level of anxiety, of unrelenting fear and mistrust, the likes of which I have not encountered anywhere else on earth.
Michael Moore's BOWLING
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33463] Re: The ideological implications of Scorcese's latest film
for what it's worth, I read that before Daniel Day-Lewis starred in G of NY, he had dropped out of acting to work as an Italian shoe-maker.
Jim
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From: Yoshie Furuhashi
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To my mind, the rejection of Mark Twain's HUCK FINN as
racist because it uses the N word
Just for accuracy's sake. I suppose some label racist for that reason,
but the feature of the book focused on by those who read it is not the
language but that last terrible section in which Tom Sawyer
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33479] Huck Finn
that's my favorite part of the book, not because it's pleasant (it's not) but because it makes the moral message of the book as clear as possible. One the one hand, there's Tom Sawyer, the representative of the conventional morality of the day: Tom follows
Greetings Economists,
Eugene Coyle wrote a nice response to me, and I thought I would add some
clarification to my somewhat cryptic response to Carrol. There is a good
metaphor from Spike Milligan who died this year. Spike was a British
comedian post WWII who worked early on with Peter Sellers.
Posted on Fri, Dec. 27, 2002
Unmanned drones will guard U.S. coastlines
BY DEREK ROSE
New York Daily News
NEW YORK - Aerial drones have had starring roles in the war on
terrorism, but a new generation of the flying robots is going to be
deployed to patrol the U.S. coastline for drug
Original Message
http://tinyurl.com/3us2
[...]
No. 1: Lucent execs
Claiming the top spot for the second year in a row (see 2001 Top
Ten: Fat Cats ), Lucent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: LU - message board)
again demonstrated its ability to richly reward a chosen few while
On the Opinion Page of the WSJ, 12/26/02 there is an essay by Peter
Huber, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Title: Antitrust's
Real Legacy. (read it below.)
There are two things that are important about the essay. First, Huber
has figured out that deregulation of network
On Sunday, December 29, 2002 at 12:42:17 (-0800) Eugene Coyle writes:
Because the right relentlessly
preaches competition, competition, competition, competition, as the
essence of the free enterprise system, there is no way a politician
can come forward
Agreed, they want profit -- but they talk competition.
Gene
Bill Lear wrote:
On Sunday, December 29, 2002 at 12:42:17 (-0800) Eugene Coyle writes:
Because the right relentlessly
preaches competition, competition, competition, competition, as the
essence
Eugene Coyle wrote:
Agreed, they want profit -- but they talk competition.
So why did capital back deregulation in so many industries if it's so
opposed to competition?
Doug
Anti-Racist Action has called for mass opposition to the Jan. 10
deadline by the INS for nationals from 13 more countries to report,
and had been planning a Jan 4 meeting to make further plans, but we
are happy to participate in the call for a meeting January 2 at
CARECEN, initiated by Not In
On Sunday, December 29, 2002 at 13:19:06 (-0800) Eugene Coyle writes:
Agreed, they want profit -- but they talk competition.
Yes indeed, and they (corporations) are very good (read, they have
lots of money to pay for exquisitely detailed propaganda services) at
pretending that what they crave is
On Sunday, December 29, 2002 at 16:51:25 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
Eugene Coyle wrote:
Agreed, they want profit -- but they talk competition.
So why did capital back deregulation in so many industries if it's so
opposed to competition?
Because short-term competition can weed out weak ones?
So why did capital back deregulation in so many industries if it's
so opposed to competition?
It needed a bigger playing field? If you've already got most of the
marbles, regulations to keep out the competition don't matter. But
you do need more space (options) to stash your stuff.
Dan
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33489] Re: Re: Right wing sees the light! (almost)
On Sunday, December 29, 2002 at 13:19:06 (-0800) Eugene Coyle writes:
Agreed, they want profit -- but they talk competition.
Bill Lear writes: Yes indeed, and they (corporations) are very good (read, they have lots of
Which industries are you thinking about and which regulations? Some
regulation limits competition and some put limits on corporations. So
deregulation is a fuzzy term.
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 04:51:25PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
So why did capital back deregulation in so many industries if
that's my favorite part of the book, not because it's pleasant
(it's not) but because it makes the moral message of the book as
clear as possible. One the one hand, there's Tom Sawyer, the
representative of the conventional morality of the day: Tom follows
all the official rules (since he's
To my mind, the rejection of Mark Twain's HUCK FINN as
racist because it uses the N word
Just for accuracy's sake. I suppose some label racist for that reason,
but the feature of the book focused on by those who read it is not the
language but that last terrible section in which Tom Sawyer
I've heard that the second national gathering of Racial Justice 9-11
(Cf. http://www.rj911.org/
http://www.war-times.org/current/6art9.html) was held in Los
Angeles. Did anyone attend it? What came out of it?
--
Yoshie
* Calendar of Events in Columbus:
http://www.racetraitor.org/huckfinn.html
Seeing Gangs got me to reading How the Irish Became White
by Noel Ignatiev, which I like a lot. He also edits the
Race Traitor mag/web site (see above). In the book he
proposes that Huck Finn is modeled after slave narratives, which
by then had been
Yes, yes. yes. This is the economics of the economists of the late 19th
century, as well as that of Herbert Hoover, who wanted the ceconomy to be
regulated by industrial organizations.
The all saw that markets could not work with high capital costs and low
fixed costs.
Wierdly enough, these same
At 06:45 PM 12/28/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Good Vibrations is a business, and thriving in a difficult time.
What is happening?
You bet Good Vibrations is doing great! According to my roommate who works
there, they are thriving and expanding. She said the best thing she saw
this Xmas were whole
At 09:51 AM 12/29/2002 -0600, you wrote:
Just for accuracy's sake. I suppose some label racist for that reason,
but the feature of the book focused on by those who read it is not the
language but that last terrible section in which Tom Sawyer frees Jim.
Try to imagine a book in which two black
I always thought a little bit too much had been made of Huck Finn,
and not quite enough of Puddinhead Wilson. It's been decades since
I read either, but I have a clear recollection of the latter as much
more subversive of the times. Ditto for A Connecticut Yankee.
Perhaps both were less
Weirdly enough, these same 19th C. economists wrote neoclassical
textbooks that taught just the opposite.
Like who? And where did they expound the ideas that were the opposite
of what was in their textbooks?
I'm sure you've written a book on this so you can just fob me off with the
title :o)
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Michael Perelman wrote:
So why did capital back deregulation in so many industries if it's so
opposed to competition?
Which industries are you thinking about and which regulations?
Airlines, telecoms and electricity?
Michael
This subject line looks like Max Headroom tagline.
Michael
Michael Pollock asks
Like who? And where did they expound the ideas that were the opposite
of what was in their textbooks?
Like who? A. T. Hadley, Economics, 1896. He wrote
The price which will induce new competitors to enter the field is also
much higher than that which will lead
Just for accuracy's sake. I suppose some label racist for that reason,
but the feature of the book focused on by those who read it is not the
language but that last terrible section in which Tom Sawyer frees Jim.
Try to imagine a book in which two black men subject a white woman to
such
NYT December 26, 2002
Growing U.S. Need for Oil From the Mideast Is Forecast
By JEFF GERTH
WASHINGTON Dec. 25 - As President Bush seeks to reduce American
reliance on oil imported from the Persian Gulf, new government
studies predict that in two decades the West will be even more
dependent
* 29 Dec 2002 11:54
Nepal capital paralysed by rebel strike
(Recasts with quotes from government official)
By Gopal Sharma
KATHMANDU, Dec 29 (Reuters) - A general strike called by Maoist
rebels paralysed Nepal's capital Kathmandu on Sunday but was
generally peaceful.
Most shops were
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