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2386 Springer -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.1.32.19990125174628.0075fec4 at pop.mindspring.com>, pms <laflame at mindspring.com> writes >Since you mentioned these true crime shows, I'd like to jump in and agree >on that front. I have some loose web of thinking that puts these shows, >and those wild animals killing each other shows, and even Jerry Springer, >into a catagory I think of as, hmm, I've never named it, but it's the, See, >humans are worthless, life is cheap, what's more, it's only nat ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jan 25 17:55:48 PST 1999

2387 Danny Yee reviews FASHIOnABLE NONSENSE -- rank: 1000

In message <XFMail.990125134004.cgrimes at tsoft.com>, Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at tsoft.com> writes >Doctrine, dogma, prejudice, racism, sexism, homophobia, conceit, >egotism, arrogance, power, and absolutist commitments--all of these >and more interpenetrate everything we do, say, think and feel and >certainly the sciences are not exempt. Certainly the sciences will >never overcome any of these, but in fact reproduce them just as any >other field does through the peo ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 25 17:49:27 PST 1999

2388 [Fwd: The Politics of Cancer] -- rank: 1000

In message <36AB795B.4B1A at gte.net>, Paul Henry Rosenberg <rad at gte.net> writes >The statistics she cites are uncontroversial. Her view that corporate >chemical pollution is a major cause *is* controversial. Her book is >pretty darn compelling, though. Not in my view. For sure the chemicals that we are exposed to will have an effect, but most of it is positive, like disinfectants and antibiotics. You would have to gas America to put a dent in the increased life expecta ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 24 15:56:13 PST 1999

2389 Dick Armey -- rank: 1000

In message <36AB691C.35EB at gte.net>, Paul Henry Rosenberg <rad at gte.net> writes >BTW, The Freikorps had their crucial period as PRIVATE militias, just >the kind that wouldn't have the neceassary firepower under decent gun >laws. And which trustworthy police force do you expect to enforce this monopoly of violence? -- Jim heartfield

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Date:	Sun Jan 24 14:21:06 PST 1999

2390 [Fwd: The Politics of Cancer] -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.GSO.4.02.9901231545000.11742-100000 at chuma.cas.usf.edu>, Frances Bolton (PHI) <fbolton at chuma.cas.usf.edu> writes >On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >> >some point in their lives, not necessarily in the calendar year 1999. And >> >the figures are correct, and will almost certainly continue to rise in the >> >foreseeable future -- they have been rising steadily in the postwar period. >> >> Has the figure be ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 24 08:21:07 PST 1999

2391 Danny Yee reviews FASHIOnABLE NONSENSE -- rank: 1000

In message <XFMail.990123204100.cgrimes at tsoft.com>, Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at tsoft.com> writes >I haven't read Sokal, & I'm not sure I'm going to, but Doug is >developing tunnel vision here. I have read Sokal, and I think Doug is developing Tunnel Vision. I can only say that Alan Sokal shows a far greater understanding of the writers he tackles than they do of themselves. The only basis on which to denounce Sokal's ignorance is his own modesty, which, by comparison to bo ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 24 08:40:11 PST 1999

2392 Dick Armey -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.1.32.19990123163020.0074beb0 at pop.mindspring.com>, pms <laflame at mindspring.com> writes >>> A friend from Georgia just last night told me that at some point Cobb >>> County passed an ordinance requiring all county residents to own a >>> firearm. She didn't know if it held up/was challenged in court. >>> >>> frances >>> > >No. This is true. But it wasn't Cobb Co. It was the city of Kennesaw. Where >I sp ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 24 08:28:54 PST 1999

2393 gossip -- rank: 1000

In message <000601be45bb$5f78b660$2c91fea9 at pavilion>, Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> writes > >> Word is that Bill Bradley is having monthly meetings with Richard >> Rorty and >> Cornel West to brainstorm. > >Sounds more like a drizzle to me. Forgive me for being an ignorant limey, I know who Rorty and West are, but who's Bill Bradley? -- Jim heartfield

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Date:	Fri Jan 22 05:00:32 PST 1999

2394 homophobia -- rank: 1000

In message <36A6CE4D.E2B5B550 at netlink.com.au>, rc&am <rcollins at netlink.com.au> writes > (this last theory of >the existence - rise? -of homosexuality in the article would be funny >if it were not so obviously wrong, an echo (mirror) of those who want >to 'return to the past' where there were no poofters.) mode of >production explanations i would like to see, but this does not work in >the slightest; and nor does affirming urbanisation for making it >po ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 21 02:28:03 PST 1999

2395 Hitchens + rule by lawyers -- rank: 1000

In message <36A45890.49123BCD at seiu.org>, H H Leland <lelandh at seiu.org> writes >How about "litigarchy?" > >Hank Leland >Research Department >Service Employees International Union 'Litigarchy', that's priceless. I'm passing it on. -- Jim heartfield

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Date:	Wed Jan 20 01:36:19 PST 1999

2396 homophobia -- rank: 1000

>While I nod in deep agreement that master race fantasies include >homophobia, I think that fear of becoming swallowed by the fecund dark >masses has a bit more oblique connection to homophobia than Chuck's post >suggests. > >Isn't homophobia related to a fear of "race suicide," that is, a fear of >not being fecund enough? If so, within master race fantasies, queers may >not be so squarely located at the heart of the great dark continent of >the (re)producers ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 19 02:55:22 PST 1999

2397 Paul Mattick, Jr. on Ernest Gellner - "Blaming Wittgenstein" (NYT Book Review) -- rank: 1000

In message <36A2C8CC.112C1B09 at ecst.csuchico.edu>, Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> writes >Lingua Franca recently reviewed a book that blamed Wittgenstein for Hitler, >who attended the same school. Unfortunately, the book apparently had >virtually no evidence to back it up. In fact Wittgenstein, having served in the Austrian army in the first world war, did war work as a research chemist in the British Health Service during the Second World War, which give ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 18 00:52:09 PST 1999

2398 Paul Mattick and Otto Strasser -- rank: 1000

I'm glad that Ken has posted his full account of the evidence, since to my mind it is less than conclusive as regards Mattick, let alone demonstrating that Rakesh is a fascist. First the documentation is less than perfect. But taking Ken on his word, as of course I am happy to do, there are still a lot of questions. It does not quite add up in this version to 'Mattick organising Strasser's speaking tour' as we were originally promised. First the tour is not attributed to Mattick, but to 'the org ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 13 13:40:48 PST 1999

2399 Judith Butler -- rank: 1000

Nobody wants to kick off so, here goes. Sorry if this is more hostile, but if Butler fans want to give her a better press, they should get typing. Judith Butler the Psychic Life of Power Introduction 1. Subject - a terminological confusion. The word subject has two meanings in English that are more or less opposite. The first is 'thinking agent', as in the subject of the sentence, 'Judy wrote PLOP', is Judy because she decided to do it. The second is something upon which one acts, as in 'the sub ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 12 15:50:12 PST 1999

2400 Theories of power (Butler seminar) -- rank: 1000

In message <19990111.231403.3390.0.farmelantj at juno.com>, James Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> writes >As far as I know, Schoenman is still around and is still I think >active in Trotskyist politics. I think his last major political >intervention >was the organizing of demos in support of Poland's Solidarity >during the 1980s. I heard of him as late as the first Gulf War against Iraq, when he wrote a document called something like 'the secret diplomatic history ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 12 00:08:07 PST 1999