Hello All,
Due to a computer problem I have been unable to get to the list for a few
days. This is a bit old, but I would like to give my two cents.
Hari Kumar wrote to Doyle (not Doug as his note says)
Question: Hi Doug: I would not disagree with most of your premises. But
please
explain the
Where everything is going so swimmingly. It's long, but quite good:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1055766,00.html
Michael
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/triwimp.html
Michael Perelman wrote:
Welcome to America! You might also add that the people popping off about
overrated quarterbacks were not athletes themselves.
indeed! btw, is it not true that the quarterback has some sort of
wireless communication with the coach at all times? does the coach feed
him
ravi writes:
btw, is it not true that the quarterback has some sort of
wireless communication with the coach at all times? does the
coach feed
him instructions at all times?
I don't know if they're in wireless contact or not, but it sure looks that way. I
remember reading a short story
The wireless is only to give instructions between plays. Before that they
used hand signals.
As for basketball, the NBA evolved out of traveling Jewish teams. In the
20's, basketball was supposed to be a naturally Jewish sport because it
put a premium on sneakiness and stealth.
On Mon, Oct 06,
Yes, they are in contact. If one team's wireless does not work, the other team has
to shut its system down.
Devine, James wrote:
ravi writes:
btw, is it not true that the quarterback has some sort of
wireless communication with the coach at all times? does the
coach feed
him
- Original Message -
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Allen Barra defends Limbaugh's football comments
Yes, they are in contact. If one team's wireless does not work, the other team has
to shut
Michael,
I would love to learn more about the notion that basketball was a
jewish sport. Any reading recommendations?
Marty
--On Monday, October 06, 2003 8:39 AM -0700 Michael Perelman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As for basketball, the NBA evolved out of traveling Jewish teams. In
the 20's,
I don't have a source. The Celtics and the 76ers were originally Jewish
teams, that eventually took on some Irish and Black players. Even after
the Jewish influence on the court subsided, the coaches were still Jewish.
Red Auerbach, Red Holtzman, Dolf Shays.
When I was young, the head of the
Racial stereotypes and how these connect with sports are hillarious. The
last time I watched football was during my first marriage (25 years
ago). This was partly to keep hubby company and partly because he liked
sex at half-time, but not much at any other time. Back then, there were
no black
Hey, boxing was a Jewish sport in the '30s and '40s, maybe before.
Baseball seems to be revealing a genetic advantage in the Dominican
Republic.
Gene
Martin Hart-Landsberg wrote:
Michael,
I would love to learn more about the notion that basketball was a
jewish sport. Any reading
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/02/03 06:42PM
Quoting from my interview with Slavoj Zizek in LBO #105 (audio version
at http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#zizek:
In an article in the London Review
of Books, Perry Anderson wondered why the Bush war on Iraq had given
rise to such a large anti-war
I don't find this difference as mysterious as it may seem.
There's a
shift in legitimation, a real break here. First, there is, to use
the old Stalinist dialectical term, a clear jump of quantity into
quality.
Michael H writes:
'quantity into quality' has bit more history than above comment
http://slate.msn.com/id/2089329/
--
The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org
The Southbeach Diet Online commercial in the middle of the article is more
interesting than what Chrissie Hitchens says.
Listen to this guy: my own recent visit to Baghdad, Karbala, and Najaf, as
well as to Basra and then Kurdistan, I would say that I saw persuasive
evidence of the unleashing of
* Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 18:35:57 +
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Losing the war: I'm going to shoot myself in the foot
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The United States is losing the war in Iraq.
The US has something like 150,000 or 200,000 troops in the theatre.
This means there are
This is from CBC news. Outside of Canada there seems little coverage of this
particularly nasty case of just snatching someone who was changing planes
and then no doubt farming him out to Syria to see if they could extract
useful info from him by torture. It is ironic that the US authorities
Dear Colleague:
Below is the call for papers for the upcoming Association For
Institutional
Thought (AFIT) conference. As you may know, AFIT is an institutionalist
group that also claims as members a number of radical, Marxist,
ecological,
and feminist economists. We welcome proposals from
[cue to the Sandwichman]
[New York Times]
October 7, 2003
Lumps of Labor
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Economists call it the lump of labor fallacy. It's the idea that there is
a fixed amount of work to be done in the world, so any increase in the
amount each worker can produce reduces the number of
Hello All,
I think this article on the developmental potential of geometric content for
computing is interesting. I think geometric computing, making information
with spatial meaning, hasn't been well developed by capitalism. Maps,
street signs, cultural information based upon location suggest
Oh, God, can't stop laughing
http://www.theonion.com/3938/history.html
Joanna
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