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451 IMF/WB overhaul; US tax breaks violate trade rules; post-N30middle class anarchists -- rank: 166

Hey ChuckO, Thanks for a patient, courteous, and thoughtful reply to what was admittedly a bit of a polemical post on my part. (My disposition reminded me of what Henwood once asked Wotjek on this list -- "get enough coffee this morning ?" -- except last night I lacked my dose of anti-asthma ...

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Author:	John Gulick
Date:	Sat Feb 26 14:02:16 PST 2000

452 stox -- rank: 166

... to $3, $4 a gallon! And the extinction of the SUV. > >Doug How much does the 70 mpg dual electric/internal ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Sat Feb 19 11:21:14 PST 2000

453 stox -- rank: 166

... to $3, $4 a gallon! And the extinction of the SUV. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 19 09:01:45 PST 2000

454 Jello for Prez -- rank: 166

forwarded by Michael Hoover > > For Immediate Release > > January 24, 2000 /Alternative Tentacles/ -- Much to his > > surprise, Jello Biafra was nominated for the Green Party Presidential > > Primary in New York State. Biafra, former lead singer/songwriter of the > > seminal political punk band Dead Kennedys, accomplished spoken word > > performer, and renowned social commentator ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Tue Feb 1 04:29:02 PST 2000

455 Hard work -- rank: 166

The soul needs to have sex with animals. The deep, hard, sweating, and crushing kind of animal sex that connects every fiber and bone of the body to the goat. (dd) The controversy is over whether intellectual labor is a lesser form of work, somehow less authentic, less useful, less moral ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Mon Dec 18 20:37:31 PST 2000

456 Max Weber's Genteel Racism (was Re: weber) -- rank: 166

Doug says: >Carrol Cox wrote: > >>And incidentally, I fail to see any remote connection between a >>proposition on the source of the destructive rationality of >>capitalism and one's view, one way or the other, of the impact >>of prevailing winds on history. > >It's been a few years since I ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Dec 6 23:57:09 PST 2000

457 recipe for a crisis (???) -- rank: 166

So, whad'll it be -- an endless summer of bigger SUV's and freakier cell phones, or bankruptcy court for the ...

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Author:	John Gulick
Date:	Mon Aug 28 17:09:30 PDT 2000

458 Globalization as grantmaking cause du jour -- rank: 166

... wife's--have to double park since their Volvo and SUV fill up the > only spaces, beat down the front door ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Wed Apr 19 07:27:31 PDT 2000

459 Globalization as grantmaking cause du jour -- rank: 166

Rethinking Global Giving Trade protests are prompting a review of grant-making policies By STEPHEN G. GREENE blah, blah, blah .....(fill in civil society slime of choice.) ------------------------------ They are all deeply concerned, no doubt, but about what is the question. (Do I smell funding?) Before I get started on that, thanks ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Tue Apr 18 21:44:38 PDT 2000

460 God's country -- rank: 166

At 02:59 PM 4/4/00 -0400, Carl wrote: >>[from Gallup's weekly update] >> >>Two of Three Americans Feel Religion Can Answer Most of Today's Problems > >Here I was, feeling pretty good about the market's nosedive. Now I'm >depressed all over again. > No need to worry, Carl ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Tue Apr 4 13:52:51 PDT 2000

461 cars and racism/sexism -- rank: 166

At 02:26 PM 9/23/99 +0000, jordan wrote: > From sokol at jhu.edu Wed Sep 22 10:15:32 1999 > > Car insurance rates in predminantly "black" zip code areas > can be several times higher than in the burbs, for example > $3-4 thousand a year versus $800-$900 a ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Sep 23 10:03:58 PDT 1999

462 why cars suck (was: car-free Europe) -- rank: 166

At 10:05 AM 9/21/99 -0400, Carl Remick wrote: > > Hostility to car use is merely >> sublimated hostility to car users. & One prime area to focus on, >IMO, is automated navigation. Once cars could largely drive themselves, >there would be no need to produce oversized, fuel-wasting vehicles for >reasons ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Tue Sep 21 10:08:32 PDT 1999

463 Prince of Peace/Pain -- rank: 166

... henchmen. btw, has anyone seen a commercial in which an SUV is compared to med

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Sep 2 09:18:45 PDT 1999

464 Experts say "Your on your own." -- rank: 166

> NEWS FLASH!! > > "FROM NOW ON, YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN," Say Experts. > > WASHINGTON, DC--Citing years of frustration over their advice being > misunderstood, misrepresented or simply ignored, America's foremost > experts > in every field collectively tendered their resignation Monday. > > "Despite all our efforts to advise this nation, America still throws ...

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Author:	Nurev Ind Research
Date:	Mon Oct 18 13:10:48 PDT 1999

465 FW: in defense of opportunism/hating the white working class -- rank: 166

Don't laugh. What happens to those millions/billions of gallons of jet fuel that is burned up each year? Comes out as exhaust in the atmosphere doesn't it? Tom Michael Pugliese wrote: > Gordon wrote: > >I met Bo Gritz long ago, and my personal > > experience of the breed and its ...

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Author:	Tom Lehman
Date:	Sun Nov 28 15:15:04 PST 1999