The generalization about male leftists was a response to the trivializing
put downs that followed my message which, as I said before, was not about
words and numbers but about setting the record straight.
Apologies to the membership for the generalization - but I hope those who
triggered it
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Louis Proyect wrote:
As it turns out, there were ZERO occurrences of the word "fuck" on PEN-L,
while there were 26 occurrences on the Progressive Sociology archives. So
when Don Roper said that PEN-L had more occurrences than any other
mailing-list, clearly he was lying.
As I said before, the issue is not about how many f's but about Don's
integrity. Somebody called him a liar and questioned his integrity and
I find it amazing we continue to pretend that this is about words and
numbers.
I feel like Diogenes, at this point.
Martha
I would like to thank Ted Goertzel for pointing out a mistake in the
following statement: I meant to say that "...very little of value remains
in PUBLIC hands..."
Talking with friends and reading the newspapers, I got the impression that
there is very little that remains to be privatized, that
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TALKING UNION, by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin. Urbana and
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996. xiii. 277 pp. [A work of oral
history]
"Anybody wanting
On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, Thomas Schumacher wrote:
Why do we assume that "the creator is the _original_ creator of the
intellectual property"? Where does this sense of "original" come from? What
kinds of creation fall outside of this definition? How might we rethink
creation outside of the
In my social stratification class the topic of inheritance laws came up. I
have some information about it but it is dated. Does anyone know what
the current laws do (e.g., what is the amount not taxed and what
percent is taxed above that amount), and what changes, if any, have been
