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39001 That Obscure Object of Discipline (was lingua franca on "stars" in academia) -- rank: 1000

d-m-c at worldnet.att.net wrote: >I think that workers >ought to be given just a little more credit than that and, afterall, isn't >a worthwhile goal one in which work is understood for everyone as a source >of joy (in the variety of ways one might experience such joy) Sn-wording >at their delusions and implying some sort of hierarchy of real work/not >real work that those philistine uncultcha'd folks just don't get is hardly >the point is it? I was just reading the Pew Cen ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 25 14:39:20 PST 1999

39002 Henwood's anti-social security article, a query -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >Your very good article in the latest LBO left me >perplexed on one issue. I hope I am not too >punctilious. Never. >But, you say that it is *true* that the >*average* 30-year "look back" return on the stock >market is 6%, with wide variations. But then you later >on question how anyone could expect that stock market >(as a whole) to exceed in its returns the growth of the >economy, i.e., if economic growth is 3%, so too ought >to be t ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 25 14:19:03 PST 1999

39003 Cramer: shun stox -- rank: 1000

[From hyperbull James Cramer, of TheStreet.com, of all places.] WASHINGTON POST - Sunday, January 24, 1999; Page B01 On Social Security A Good Way To Blow It By James J. Cramer NEW YORK - You will have to search far and wide to find someone who believes in stocks--and the stock market--as much as I do. I live and breathe stocks. I have made my living buying and selling them for two decades. I have proselytized the value of equities to millions of people both in print and on television. I have to ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 25 13:58:23 PST 1999

39004 Fwd: Re: lingua franca on "stars" in academia -- rank: 1000

[This bounced because it was addressed to the listowner and not the list.] X-Authentication-Warning: tigger.cc.uic.edu: jdaniel owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:12:05 -0600 (CST) From: Jamie Owen Daniel <jdaniel at uic.edu> X-Sender: jdaniel at tigger.cc.uic.edu To: lbo-talk-digest <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> Subject: Re: lingua franca on "stars" in academia MIME-Version: 1.0 Dear folks: I am perplexed by Michael Yates' response to Wahneema L ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 25 09:17:40 PST 1999

39005 Butler and bad writing -- rank: 1000

[Bill Lear posted this to PEN-L, but it seems relevant to the stumbling Judy seminar.] From: "William S. Lear" <rael at zopyra.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:10:02 -0600 (CST) To: pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu Subject: [PEN-L:2542] Re: Butler and bad writing Reply-To: pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu Sender: owner-pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu On Sun, January 24, 1999 at 15:30:53 (-0800) MLAFFEY at KENTVM.KENT.EDU writes: >... >Initially articulated as a critiqu ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 25 08:48:32 PST 1999

39006 More on race -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >> >> I will have to quote Henry Louis Gates, Jr: >> >> "Farrakhan is a man of unhealthy fixations, but the reciprocal fixation on >> Farrakhan that you find in the so called mainstream is a sign of our >> impoverished political culture. Thirteen decades have passed since >> Emancipation, and half of our black men between twenty four and >> thirty five >> are without full time employment. One black man graduates for ev ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 25 08:42:39 PST 1999

39007 article in lingua franca -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: >I don't think Wahneema's psot answers my question about pomo and >stardom. And as a college teacher for 30 years I surely know what >teachers earn. Pomo stars don't make as much as medical school stars or mainstream economics stars, do they? Factor in all the adjuncts and TAs, and I'll bet your average pomoista makes less than a truck driver. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 24 21:31:20 PST 1999

39008 homophobia -- rank: 1000

Alec Ramsdell wrote: >Some posts ago on this thread it was noted that homosexuality was no >longer framed with a pathologized model in the DSM. Following this >de-pathologization, however, what was called "Gender Identity Disorder >in Childhood" was added--I think it was in the 1980 DSM. Does anyone >know if this is still in the DSM? 302.0 may be gone, but 302.6 and 302.85 live on. Doesn't everyone have a DSM-IV at home? Doug ---- from the American Psychiatric Associat ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 24 21:11:49 PST 1999

39009 Reproductive Technology and 'Sex Change' (was Re: homophobia) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Partly so, but why did they come up with 'sex change' and Deidre McCloskey >at the mention of reproductive technology? I came up with D McC because someone else mentioned a prominent academic who'd undergone a sex change and speculated that this was the most prominent person to have undergone the great switch. I offered D McC as a counter-example. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 24 20:52:27 PST 1999

39010 Greenspan Opposes Investing Social Security In Stocks -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I'd say chances are pretty good. Better if there's >a long impeachment trial. Yeah, I was glad to read in this morning's paper that the "bipartisan" consensus on the trial was fraying. That word almost always accompanies some sort of fraud or violence. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 24 12:18:18 PST 1999

39011 surplus and other stuff -- rank: 1000

d-m-c at worldnet.att.net wrote: >A correction: I never *really* wanted to unsub from LBO. I was pushing >everyone's foot about the childishness of it all. And geewhiz douggiebaby >went and thought I was serious. <sniff> criminy, doughoney, I thought ya >knew me much better than that. It was the trauma of being denounced as "superficial" by the very deep Lou Proyect, and as an "apologist for imperialism," by the very non-apologetic Mark Jones that made ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 24 11:45:17 PST 1999

39012 Danny Yee reviews FASHIOnABLE NONSENSE -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >You imply that Sokal "did harm" by exposing the fatuous b.s. he did? >Are pomos in such pathetic intellectual shape that they should be so >damaged? Are you saying Sokal's piece wasn't original? I'd never >seen anything like it ... Katha Pollitt thought it was a gas... Katha & I have had some disagreements on this; if any journalist could actually engage the writers Sokal was mocking it's her, but she won't do it. And yes I think it's damaging, ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 24 11:33:35 PST 1999

39013 structural adjustment -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Interesting critical discussion of how structural adjustment programs are >defended in terms of undermining Mancur Olsonian "distributional >coalitions" that impede growth. Mancur Olson's ideas about rent seeking >are seen to be the basis of the new political economy. Underlines that >organized labor is considered a key member of such growth undermining >distributional coalitions > >BD also calls attention to the functionality of crisis ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 24 11:03:25 PST 1999

39014 Ban Viagra -- rank: 1000

d-m-c at worldnet.att.net wrote: >I read in Jane that grrRls can take it too. Oh boy Susie Bright did a Salon column about her experience with Viagra <http://www.salonmagazine.com/col/brig/1998/05/nc_08brig.html>. It made her horny, tight, and giggly. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 24 09:53:57 PST 1999

39015 imperialist profits & Cowboys -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones? Lou Proyect? Who are they? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 24 09:48:49 PST 1999