This week on Against the Grain on Pacifica Radio's
KPFA (www.kpfa.org and 94.1 FM in the San Francisco
Bay Area, noon to 1pm Pacific time):
~Monday, May 2nd: A May Day look at the epic 1984-85
British miners' strike, 20 years later, with
journalist Nicholas Jones.
~Tuesday, May 3rd: A
This article doesn't say so, but Buffet plays the ukulele and often
starts his board meetings with a uke and song performance. This
according to a friend, a lawyer, who once sat on his board. In 1998 I
took the ukulele back to the island of Madeira (from whence came its
ancestors) in a project
From: Dan Scanlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This article doesn't say so, but Buffet plays the ukulele and often starts
his board meetings with a uke and song performance. ...
The ukulele is on the rise.
Shades of Arthur Godfrey! Yet another reason to despair about the current
state of the world :)
Carl
Today's Wall Street Journal has a front page story on Jimmy Buffet and
Warren Buffet and their DNA.
Dan Scanlan wrote:
This article doesn't say so, but Buffet plays the ukulele and often
starts his board meetings with a uke and song performance. This
according to a friend, a lawyer, who once sat
Carl Remick wrote:
Shades of Arthur Godfrey! Yet another reason to despair about the current
state of the world :)
The front page of today's WSJ has an article on how Warren Buffett
may be related to Jimmy Buffett. They, like, um, jam together and
stuff.
Wonder if he's as bad as Mark Crispin
Anne Jaclard wrote:
Let me finally note that what we mean by the term pluralism is not
necessarily the same as what others have meant. For what we mean by
the term, please see the mission statement on our homepage
http://new-space.mahost.org/http://new-space.mahost.org/
as well as our website's
Politics Versus Economics: Keeping It Real
by
Daniel Gay
(PhD student at the University of Stirling, UK)
post-autistic economics review
Issue no. 19; April 2, 2003
For someone who previously thought of duality as part
of the Kama Sutra and the business cycle as an
environmentally-friendly
Dan wrote: Too bad. The ukulele is on the rise.
it's too bad that the ukulele is on the rise?
--
Jim Devine
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http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine
oh yeah baby
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,854230,00.html
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Subject: Re: Buffett's lament redux
Dan wrote: Too bad. The
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Tomorrow night Michael Yates will be interviewed by African-American
political commentator Tavis Smiley about trade unions. Tavis's program is
on PBS, but not all stations. If it is not available in your city, check
the Tavis Smiley archives on Wednesday. He has audio archives of recent
shows.
Re the Guardian: George Formby comes down to us, in 21st-century Britain,
as a squeaky voice with buck teeth playing what many regard as the musical
world's most potent weapon of mass destruction, the ukelele. In fact, as
Formbyites would hasten to correct us, it was a more singular type of
The ukelele, as WC Fields said of Wagner, is not as bad as it sounds.
Ralph
Doug Henwood wrote:
Carl Remick wrote:
Shades of Arthur Godfrey! Yet another reason to despair about the
current
state of the world :)
The front page of today's WSJ has an article on how Warren Buffett
may be related to
I wonder if someone can help me with a citation. I am reading an
interesting little book called We Are Everywhere. Along with the text
that highlights global organizing against neoliberalism there is a running
commentary about events/struggles related to globalization since 1994.
Under the
I believe such an offer was made by Ralph Nader -- not sure of the date,
or if it was the WTO, or of the outcome. I'd search under Nader for this.
Gene Coyle
Martin Hart-Landsberg wrote:
I wonder if someone can help me with a citation. I am reading an
interesting little book called We Are
Consumption and habituation?
I'm reading Richard Layard on "Happiness." He talks about two sources
of people spending more and not being happier for it. One is
habituation -- and I think this is part of what I got from Marglin.
Layard says of habituation "As I ratchet up my standards, this
Thanks Gene, that was the help I needed. I found the following which was
written in 1999 by Mark Weisbrot:
Most of America slept right through the birth of this 134-nation
organization five years ago-- including many in Congress who voted to
ratify US membership. In the fall of 1994 Ralph
Marty,
I took my own suggestion and Googled Nader $10,000 treaty and found a
speech by Nader in which he answers your question. The money would go to
a favorite charity, the Congress person was quizzed to see if had
actually been read, and then announced a change of vote. Senator Brown
of
On 5/2/05, Martin Hart-Landsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder if someone can help me with a citation. I am reading an
interesting little book called We Are Everywhere. Along with the text
that highlights global organizing against neoliberalism there is a running
commentary about
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