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29026 another list -- rank: 1000

At 10:18 AM -0400 6/6/02, editor at thesmokinggun.com wrote: >When half the senior class at Newton South High School in >Massachusetts took part in a recent raunchy scavenger hunt, they >were armed with a remarkable 10-page list of items to be obtained. >Since stuff like this is probably happening nationwide, perhaps you >should consider home-schooling the kids: > >http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/scavengerlist1.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 8 10:14:56 PDT 2002

29027 Stanley for Gov? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Hey, c'mon. Stanley's better than *grandpa.* This sounds like the the choice between hanging & a firing squad. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 7 21:46:22 PDT 2002

29028 Stanley for Gov? -- rank: 1000

First Minnesota, now this. The Greens seem to have rounded a bend... >From: "aronowitz for governor" <nygov2002 at hotmail.com> >To: nygov2002 at hotmail.com >Subject: Aronowitz Green Choice for NY Governor >Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 17:08:22 +0000 >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Jun 2002 17:08:22.0775 (UTC) >FILETIME=[EDF78870:01C20E45] >Status: >For further information: (917) 543-1032 nygov2002 at hotmail.com >http://www.stanleyaronowitz.org > >GREEN ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 7 17:48:41 PDT 2002

29029 is the `New Economy' a fad? -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >No, it's a disease and needs to be exterminated. Here's what I mean: > >``...Some technological innovations change our lives but have no >lasting effect on the economy as a whole. The revolution in >illumination is a good example. In 1800, an American household spent >4 per cent of its income on candles, lamps, oil, and matches. It now >spends less than 1 per cent on lighting and consumes more than a >hundred times as much artificial illumination. T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 6 05:28:30 PDT 2002

29030 Male-female wage gap, managers -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >They should do a study of salaries between Alpha Male and Beta Male. And how would you code this? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 18:16:37 PDT 2002

29031 fast/slow thinkers -- rank: 1000

jean-christophe helary wrote: >would tv work for chomsky eventually ? It'd be hard. Either TV would have to change or he would. His style is too cool and unmodulated for TV - most people would flip the channel. How could he compete with Behind the Music? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 17:30:57 PDT 2002

29032 Male-female wage gap, managers -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Thus a prospective employee may perceive herself as "less qualified" >(according to social stereotypes) and scale her job expectations >accordingly (e.g. by applying for positions for which she thinks she >has a greater chance of success). How would you call that behavior >- "self discrimination?" Sounds too damn close to "false >consciousness." Sounds like someone who's internalized disparaging notions of women's compet ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 17:28:18 PDT 2002

29033 i have a passport therefore i am a citizen -- rank: 1000

jean-christophe helary wrote: >i understand the metonimy. if nation states work like this, how do >you resist them ? by being a migrant, by declaring you give up your >nationality (not to take another one instead) etc. how many >stateless people do you think can the un handle before it becomes an >real international political issue ? fighting for 'global' >citizenship starts by formaly declare that you give up your own >localized citizenship. I'm all for this, but I doubt it ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 17:24:19 PDT 2002

29034 How Great We Are -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >it is a great advance that >some people who aren't ethnic Germans got German citizenship by virtue of >being born there. That's a first in recent history. Some years ago, Chronicles of Culture praised Pete Wilson for moving toward a blood notion rather than a place notion of U.S. citizenship. He took a pretty big hit for that, didn't he? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 17:11:41 PDT 2002

29035 How Great We Are -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >One of the most heartening things about >the nascent Euroleft is its uncompromising support for open borders Who you tawkin' about exactly? The soc dem parties are uncomfortably nationalist, no? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 17:09:59 PDT 2002

29036 Summers dictates -- rank: 1000

Michael McIntyre wrote: >Then we can put all of the left sectarians in a big room, lock the >door, and tell them they can't come out until they've discovered >(and agreed on) the correct line.... And while we're at it, can we lock the value theorists in another room and tell them they can't come out until they've solved the transformation problem? Since they never will - as soon as one comes up with an answer, the rest would tear it apart, accusing the proposer of innumeracy and heresy ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 16:02:51 PDT 2002

29037 Male-female wage gap, managers -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >At 05:27 PM 6/5/2002 -0400, Doug wrote: > >>Right. Women choose to have babies, and men choose to let them take >>care of them. Is it too identarian to wonder about this notion of >>"choice"? > > >This is one of the possible reasons of the wage gap I cited. Its >purpose was to demonstrate that wage gap does not have to be a >result of discrimination by employer. It can result from a wide of >factors, such as societal ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 14:57:58 PDT 2002

29038 Male-female wage gap, managers -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >It could be societal gender roles and expectations, or simply the >career vs. family choice. Right. Women choose to have babies, and men choose to let them take care of them. Is it too identarian to wonder about this notion of "choice"? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 14:27:27 PDT 2002

29039 Patriotism, Hendrix -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > > > > > > How can you understand American culture or politics without a TV? > > > >Think about it -- this isn't just on a slippery slope; it's plunged into >the abyss in which knowledge is equivalent to knowing all the facts >there are to know, and being able on one's own to make sense of that >infinity of fact. Human knowledge becomes simply impossible. Oh come on. I didn't say you had to watch every dumb sit ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 5 14:25:59 PDT 2002

29040 new UAW pres -- rank: 1000

[anyone know anything about this guy? With the unpaid WBAI staff about to sign up with a UAW local, I'll be twice a member of this organization (the other being the National Writers Union, UAW local 1981, supplier of the new s-t!).] Gettelfinger Elected Head of UAW Wed Jun 5, 2:31 PM ET By ED GARSTEN, AP Auto Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) - Ron Gettelfinger was elected Wednesday to succeed Stephen Yokich as president of the United Auto Workers (news - web sites) at the union's constitutional convention. ...

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