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35311 Fwd: A personal and political letter -- rank: 1000

X-From_: DavidMcR at aol.com Mon Jan 31 23:47:48 2000 From: DavidMcR at aol.com Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 23:47:35 EST Subject: A personal and political letter MIME-Version: 1.0 To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Dear friend, pacifist, socialist, relative, cat lover, joke teller, or bromeliad fancier, This post begins with an explanation and apology. Over the years I've stored some 30 pages of email addresses so I could write to people. This post goes to those of you on those 30 pages - from Moscow to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 31 22:33:02 PST 2000

35312 like father, like son -- rank: 1000

"What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However, they delineate, quotas, I think, vulcanise [sic] society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position." - George W. Bush, quoted in Slate, as quoted by The Economist, January 29, 2000 "When I was coming up it was a dangerous world and we knew exactly who the they were. It was us versus them and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 31 22:20:24 PST 2000

35313 one more PoMO and I dumpo in your homme-oh -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >From what to what? How did you change it, and was it worth it? Tell us Doug. >Inquiring minds want to know. --jks Used to be one of those old fart Marxies who thought it was all a bourgeois plot to seduce the youth and divert attention from the real business of class struggle. Thought it was all a unitary lump, too. Now I don't. But it would be tedious & vain of me to go into the details. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 31 19:33:51 PST 2000

35314 one more PoMO and I dumpo in your homme-oh -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >As "deadhorse palerider" astutely noted earlier: "Aint nobody ever >changed their mind bout pomo." Hey, I did, whatever "pomo" is. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 31 18:56:24 PST 2000

35315 Posner does lit-crit -- rank: 1000

[all you Posner fans out there...] "Orwell versus Huxley: Economics, Technology, Privacy, and Satire" BY: RICHARD A. POSNER University of Chicago Law School Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=194572 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Publications/Working/ Paper ID: University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 89 Date: November 1999 Contact: ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 31 18:10:13 PST 2000

35316 The Daily Davos -- rank: 1000

t byfield wrote: >any theories about this? > ><http://www.dailydavos.com/nw-srv/printed/special/davos/sa_ns02.htm> > ><http://www.dailydavos.com/nw-srv/printed/special/davos/sa_ns04.htm>, >the 'Gluehwein: Ahluwalia' link, is pretty strange. About what? The publication, or its contents? The daily papers at the WB/IMF meetings I've been to - I've been to 3 - were pretty quirky, it's tempting to say self-consciously so, even though they were produced by corporate journ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 31 18:04:51 PST 2000

35317 one more PoMO and I dumpo in your homme-oh -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Oh, I suppose this subject can go a few furlongs yet. The following >is an excerpt from Martha Nussbaum’s review of several of Judith >Butler’s works in the current New Republic: Current? Didn't she do this a year or two ago? I think she's jealous nobody's done a Martha! fanzine. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 31 18:07:08 PST 2000

35318 The Case for Dubya -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote, responding to Nathan: >Second, if the numbers are listed in terms of inflation-adjusted growth, >rather than percentage of GNP, what do the numbers look like? > >>>> > >]mbs]: I haven't done that calculation. >If I do I'll post it. The % of GDP number seems more relevant, since you avoid all the complications of a price index (do the poor face a different inflation environment than the middle-income and the rich? do you deflate Medicaid by a medi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 31 17:44:43 PST 2000

35319 Sweeney in Davos -- rank: 1000

[the subject head sounds like the title of a T.S. Eliot poem] <http://www.aflcio.org/publ/speech2000/sp0128.htm> Remarks by John J. Sweeney Can We Take Open Markets for Granted? World Economic Forum- Davos, Switerland January 28, 2000 Thank you, Chairman Barnevik. I am delighted to join the distinguished members of this panel to express the views of working families in the United States - including 40 million people who live in union households - about the future of open markets and free t ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 31 17:55:39 PST 2000

35320 U.S.: Un Paraiso de Locos -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >I am speechless. I don't follow the Spanish financial press much, >but from what >I have seen is a mixture of buy-whatever-went-up-yesterday financial advice, >let's-do-whatever-the-yanks-are-doing economic opinion, and >the-internet-is-the-future-man economic pseudo-predictions. How did you get in >there? So what'd Max say? My Spanish is almost nonexistent. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 31 13:23:26 PST 2000

35321 Conventional and Historical -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Isn't this a bit of a onesided picture of things ? Bashing >communists as Stanlinists ,essentialists , dogmatists , vulgar >materialists and conservative lefts , etc., is the postmods' fun in >this intramural badminton match. As Mom said, just because the other kids are doing it doesn't make it right. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 31 12:36:50 PST 2000

35322 The Case for Dubya -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >It may be noted, Nathan, that the interest savings >under Clinton were not accompanied w/spending growth, >but the contrary. (The increase under Bush was >accompanied by spending increases as well.) This >casts some doubt on the theory that we will spend >more by spending less (i.e., paying down debt). So what's going to happen to the domestic spending caps? Will they break 'em, or are we on the "glide path" (wasn't all that long ago that was the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 31 09:52:48 PST 2000

35323 U.S.: Un Paraiso de Locos -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Hola, dudes. > ><http://www.cincodias.es/scripts/cincodias/noticias/articulo.asp?ntc= >113964&ap=2> A not-irrelevant detail: Andy Robinson, author of that piece, is the brother of Verso's editorial director, Colin Robinson. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 31 12:42:24 PST 2000

35324 Fwd: UAW Find Slow Go at Mercedes -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - January 31, 2000 Alabama Mercedes Plant Workers Have Sour Greeting for Organizers By JEFF BALL Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL VANCE, Ala. -- The United Auto Workers union is finding that organizing in the South is an uphill fight -- even on what was supposed to be a level playing field. This past fall, in contract talks with DaimlerChrysler AG in Detroit, the union won what was hailed as a major victory when the auto maker promised to remain "neutral" a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 31 08:05:54 PST 2000

35325 Fwd: We Need to Revise the List of Chairs. -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >But at least he is the most liberal of them! How is Bradley more "liberal" than Gore? They seem virtually indidinguishable to me. And what does it mean to be "liberal" today? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 31 08:12:08 PST 2000