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39901 Hoskins on CM -- rank: 1000
elena wrote: >Why did they ban evolutionism? Not quite. Doug ---- New York Times - August 12, 1999 KANSAS VOTES TO DELETE EVOLUTION FROM STATE'S SCIENCE CURRICULUM By Pam Belluck CHICAGO -- The Kansas Board of Education voted on Wednesday to delete virtually any mention of evolution from the state's science curriculum, in one of the most far-reaching efforts by creationists in recent years to challenge the teaching of evolution in schools. While the move does not prevent the teaching of evolu ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 12 07:31:56 PDT 1999
39902 ANSWER: Name this socialist -- rank: 1000
Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Say what? Pruritogenic = causing itchiness. > > > > > >I keep blathering on about Albert and Hahnel's *Unorthodox Marxism* >(1979) > >- do these blokes not address this head-on in a congenially practical >way? > >Is Butler scratching where it needn't itch - or am I missing >something > >Dunno, I ain't read it. I was referring to the pruritogenic Max. > >Doug
Document Size: 5018
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 12 05:26:20 PDT 1999
39903 economics of organic farming -- rank: 1000
Apropos recent chatter, there's an interesting review of the literature on the economics of organic farming (funded by those busy folks at the Pew Charitable Trust) at <http://www.hawiaa.org/pspr13.htm>. Bottom line seems to be that price premiums of some 20-100% for organic foods help, but aren't necessary. Not much on labor (except the benefits of nonexposure to toxic chemicals), and heavy emphasis on profitability and present value calculations, but what else would you expect from a Pew ...
Document Size: 5099
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 12 05:16:16 PDT 1999
39904 Hoskins on CM -- rank: 1000
The paper reports that Buford Furrow Jr, the LA shooter, had a copy of a book by Richard Kelly Hoskins, War Cycles/Peace Cycles <http://www.artisanpublishers.com/bk_war_cycles_peace_cycles.html>, in his van. Hoskins' website has an exotic reading of the Communist Manifesto's famous 10-point plan as a blueprint for a Jewish neofeudalism <http://mx7.xoom.com/vapublishing/2_charl3.htm>. Hoskins' site <http://mx7.xoom.com/vapublishing/1_vpcb.html> describes War Cycles/Peace Cycles ...
Document Size: 5296
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 12 04:10:11 PDT 1999
39905 ANSWER: Name this socialist -- rank: 1000
Rob Schaap wrote: >G'day Doug et al, > >You quote JB: > > >"And how does the new orthodoxy on the Left work in tandem > >with a social and sexual conservativism that seeks to make questions > >of race and sexuality secondary to the 'real' business of > >politics...." > >I keep blathering on about Albert and Hahnel's *Unorthodox Marxism* (1979) >- do these blokes not address this head-on in a congenially practical way? >Is Butler scratchin ...
Document Size: 5172
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 12 03:48:26 PDT 1999
39906 Open Letter to Oppose "Day of 6 Billion" -- rank: 1000
[From the excellent Betsy Hartmann, enemy of Green Malthusianism.] From: Elizabeth Hartmann <ehSS at hampshire.edu> Join us in opposing the "DAY OF 6 BILLION"! Stop Demographic Alarmism !!! Support Women's Rights, Not Population Control !!! The Committee on Women, Population and the Environment (CWPE), an alliance of feminist activists and scholars, supports women's rights to safe, voluntary birth control and abortion, while strongly opposing demographically driven population pol ...
Document Size: 11772
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 11 20:20:56 PDT 1999
39907 Max on seriousnessness -- rank: 1000
[This bounced because it was posted from a non-sub'd address.] From: "Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:27:11 -0700 . . . >>So they didn't, giving rise to some controversy in the ranks. >>I took it as a sign of seriousness. > >Or a sign that a woman's right to an abortion just isn't that >important? Is that what you mean by serious? And people thought >Judith Butler was delusional when she said: > >"This res ...
Document Size: 6424
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 11 17:27:07 PDT 1999
39908 Eclipse -- rank: 1000
[This bounced for the only remaining taboo word, uns*bscribe. For info on how to subscribe to these LM commentaries, visit their website at <http://www.informinc.co.uk/>.] Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:25:47 +0100 From: Jim heartfield <jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk> Johannes asked whether LM was proposing to dispense with the sun glasses. (I did) But this is what LM said: Eclipsing the experience Emily Winterburn, assistant astronomy officer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, peers b ...
Document Size: 9710
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 11 16:58:25 PDT 1999
39909 ANSWER: Name this socialist -- rank: 1000
Carl Remick wrote: >Speaking of Jesuits, I'm surprised no one's mentioned yesterday's >page-one Wall Street Journal article on Jerry Brown Meant to post it actually. Here 'tis. Makes me feel vindicated for savaging Jerry in '92 <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Jerry-Brown.html>. After all, this is the guy who once touted the virtues of interracial boot camps for juveniles by saying "The black kids can teach the white kids how to fight and the white kids can teach the black kids h ...
Document Size: 19081
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 11 16:21:53 PDT 1999
39910 NYT whitewashes Russian scandal -- rank: 1000
[From Johnson's Russia List. Maybe a Led Zep fan could explain the Physical Graffiti joke.] the eXile Timed Exposure Press Review by Matt Taibbi I got a letter a few weeks ago, all in lower-case: Hey! the new york times finally wrote a massive article about fimaco, i'm pretty sure their first ever. they skedded publication of this article for at least a week, but kept eliminating it from the sked. the DAY AFTER the imf money is approved, they publish it. what's up with that?? Well, shit...I don' ...
Document Size: 17783
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 11 16:08:15 PDT 1999
39911 San Mateo County Welfare Experiment Axed by Judge -- rank: 1000
{this bounced bec it had an attachment} Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:53:49 -0700 From: Kirsten Neilsen <kirsten at infothecary.org> [listers might be interested in this article about welfare "reform" in san mateo county. san mateo county is home to (smallish) parts of "silicon valley."] San Mateo County Welfare Experiment Axed by Judge Provisions ruled stricter than state minimums Carolyne Zinko, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, August 11, 1999 ©1999 San Francisco Chronic ...
Document Size: 9643
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 11 15:59:32 PDT 1999
39912 ANSWER: Name this socialist -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >So for all those who see the Catholic Church as so fundamentally >anti-socialist, does that mean that Leftists should not build coalitions >with institutionally-based Catholic organizations? Not me. I was objecting to your characterization of the pope's thinking as "socialist," when the Church's teaching has long been emphatically anti-socialist. But even a hardbitten anticlericalist like me has to admit that there are Catholics and other religious people ...
Document Size: 5407
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 11 15:50:17 PDT 1999
39913 food (in)security in the US -- rank: 1000
Household Food Security in the United States. Mark Nord is a co-author on the advance report for the Food and Nutrition Service study "Household Food Security in the United States, 1995-1998." The Current Population Survey data used by the study were funded by the Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program (FANRP). The study's preliminary estimates indicate that during the 12 months ending in August 1998, nearly 93 million U.S. households (89.8 percent of all households) were fo ...
Document Size: 6014
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 11 15:46:08 PDT 1999
39914 ANSWER: Name this socialist -- rank: 1000
Max Sawicky wrote: >On a slightly different note, the question you raise >about the Catholic social teaching >was faced in real terms by the fledgling Labor Party. >We had gained the endorsement of a farmworkers >organization, in Ohio I believe, of mostly religiously >devout Hispanics. Some other endorsing union locals >had a similar religious composition. If the LP took >the standard, industrial strength position on abortion, >it was expected that these folks would ...
Document Size: 6043
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 11 14:53:09 PDT 1999
39915 they're watching -- rank: 1000
[This is from the trade paper of the Direct Marketing industry.] DM News - August 8, 1999 ADKNOWLEDGE TRACKS CYBERSHOPPERS TO TEST BRANDING EFFECTIVENESS By Ted Kemp AdKnowledge Inc. is expected to announce this week that it can serve up what its executives say is the beginning of something online marketers have wanted for years: hard data on how effectively businesses carry out online brand advertising. Going beyond tracking how many people click through ads on the Web, AdKnowledge will install ...
Document Size: 7951
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 11 14:29:42 PDT 1999
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