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33886 dumbing down -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: > Criticisms of the educational system (in the sense of assigning to it the >*cause* of any social phenomenon) are unavoidably grounded in an >individualistic >metaphysic. Why's that? Why can't you criticize the U.S., or any other, educational citizen for socializing people into conformity and choking any remnants of intellectual curiousy? Why can't you draw connections between that educational system and the whole apparatus of capitalist culture that continues the ...
Document Size: 4999
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 16 09:06:39 PDT 2000
33887 guns & crime -- rank: 1000
Jordan Hayes wrote: >Everyone I know who carries So do you all have a secret handshake? A handkerchief code? Doug
Document Size: 4437
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 16 09:04:00 PDT 2000
33888 Gus, RIP -- rank: 1000
STATEMENT OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY-USA NEW YORK -- Gus Hall, long time Communist Party leader, died Friday Oct. 13 in New York City. He was 90. Hall was one of the most famous American communists. He led an extraordinary life of working class activism and was a participant in nearly all of the most important social struggles that transformed America in the twentieth century. He came from, and was typical of, an outstanding generation of activists on issues of workers' rights, peace, equality, inte ...
Document Size: 8016
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 16 09:01:33 PDT 2000
33889 dumbing down -- rank: 1000
Michael Yates wrote: >But doesn't Hemingway's prose test out at a pretty low grade level too? Yeah, but I don't think you could confuse a heavily briefed W improvising with The Sun Also Rises. Doug
Document Size: 4486
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 16 09:00:41 PDT 2000
33890 Fwd: <nettime> Funeral -- rank: 1000
[via nettime] DEATH NOTICE It's time... Please join us in person or in spirit as we mourn the passing of San Francisco Culture. At two o'clock on Saturday October 21th we will convene at Union Square and proceed up Market Street bearing a coffin to the Steps of City Hall. The procession will include a marching band and police escort ending with speakers, performances, and celebration. Maybe you've watched this unique city's culture, built on diversity and a thriving art community, being strang ...
Document Size: 7761
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 16 07:14:24 PDT 2000
33891 guns & crime -- rank: 1000
Daniel Davies wrote: >In unrelated news, I still dislike the phenomenon of >the blurring of the distinction between econometrics >and criminology. Hey since every sociologist seems to be rebranding him/herself as a criminologist these days, and economics is imperially taking over the other social sciences, that distinction hasn't merely blurred, it's largely disappeared! Doug
Document Size: 4731
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 16 07:08:09 PDT 2000
33892 Fwd: [fc.network] FC Sporadic for Monday, October 16, 2000 -- rank: 1000
Date: 16 Oct 2000 07:55:40 -0000 From: "The FC Network" <fc.network-owner at listbot.com> The FC Network - http://www.fuckedcompany.com Hi, I'm sitting here drinking "Mike's Hard Lemonade" out of a fuckedcompany mug. I'm drunk. Life couldn't get more pathetic. But I did get my George Foreman Grill in the mail a couple of days ago and tonight made dinner for my friends Stacey and Amanda. We watched the season finale of Sex and the City -- which is really the only way ...
Document Size: 8145
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 16 07:10:59 PDT 2000
33893 dumbing down -- rank: 1000
[Since over 80% of U.S. adults are h.s. grads, and almost half have at least some college, why is the discourse pitched so low?] New York Times - October 16, 2000 Why the Mind Shrivels for the Body Politic By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Does the dialogue of the presidential debates seem more juvenile than eloquent? American political discourse has grown more simplistic for decades, at least according to the Flesch-Kincaid reading-level formula, a gauge widely used by publishers and educators for evalua ...
Document Size: 7801
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Oct 16 06:53:41 PDT 2000
33894 After the Autumn of the Patriarch (was Re: New Economy, Mid East) -- rank: 1000
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >As for Arafat, we are not in a position to elect a new leader for >Palestinians; nor are we for any other people, for that matter. But hasn't he now been annoited leader by Israel and the U.S., much to the irritation of many Palestinians? >BTW, I still think that you & Lou (& many other big-city leftists) >should move to Columbus, Ohio; Bloomington, Illinois; or Orlando, >Florida. You guys will get along very well, because there aren't >many le ...
Document Size: 5891
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 15 16:23:49 PDT 2000
33895 After the Autumn of the Patriarch (was Re: New Economy, Mid East) -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >Marxist identitarian Sorry, anti-i.d.tarian. Doug
Document Size: 4895
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 15 15:50:42 PDT 2000
33896 Bear market? -- rank: 1000
Jordan Hayes wrote: >For even better perspective, look at the 5 year one. > >http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=^DJI&d=5y Looks kind of flat and toppy since 99Q2, doesn't it? Doug
Document Size: 4548
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 15 14:42:14 PDT 2000
33897 After the Autumn of the Patriarch (was Re: New Economy, Mid East) -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >I think Yoshie's point can be underlined. The question is not what is the >proper solution for the Paletinians to pursue -- that is their decision. You say this often, but are the directly involved the only ones who have anything interesting or useful to say about a situation? This sounds like the standpoint thinking that most Marxists identitarians usually rail against. What about solidarity? What about our own implication in the situation of Palestines and the imperial ...
Document Size: 5631
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 15 14:19:53 PDT 2000
33898 Bear market? -- rank: 1000
Rob Schaap wrote: > >Look, I know I'm over budget here, but both my morning paper and my Sony >are blabbing at me about how Ozzie markets are gonna be taking great heart >from Wall St's Friday bounce. And then I have to wear a lot of bollocks >about ten unbroken years of running bulls. Er, what am I missing? > >Ain't the NASDAQ 50 whole per cent down on year-highs? Ain't the NYSE 25% >down? Ain't more stocks showing lows than highs? Haven't the DJI been >languisji ...
Document Size: 5350
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 15 14:02:29 PDT 2000
33899 After the Autumn of the Patriarch -- rank: 1000
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >There have been few Left critiques of this unholy synthesis, aside >from the libertarian duos of Henwood (critique of the idea of "new >economy") & Heartfield (critique of post-modern "leftists" glosses >on the idea of "new economy"). Libertarian? I'll accept that to some extent, but what did you have in mind? Doug
Document Size: 4995
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 15 11:13:35 PDT 2000
33900 The murderous, sexually sadistic basis of the Federal Reserve -- rank: 1000
[Thanks to Michael Pugliese for pointing out this bit of lunacy. For more, see <http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/money.html>.] THE MURDEROUS, SEXUALLY SADISTIC BASIS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE Crime, Punishment and Monetary Authority The US Federal Government, by basing its monetary authority on punishment protection with the treasons of 1913, has degenerated into an irredeemably murderous and sexually sadistic regime operating without lawful authority. When Pennsylvania Quakers established ...
Document Size: 11890
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Oct 15 11:09:43 PDT 2000
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