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The World Socialist Web Site has just finished a four-part article on the 1938 general driver’s strike in Minneapolis.  It’s quite good.  It can be found here.

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It seems to me that many LWPs when discussing AR with POCs and other LWPS (not to mention RSs) sound as they’ve gotten so LiA that they are CI.  Is it necessary to be OttPoA in order to discuss AR?  Does it really help to become LiA to the point where you sound like a [...]

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It started with reading the sidebar of Making Light–a habit I encourage.  On “PNH’s Sidelights”, I came across this.  It’s brief, take a moment to read it.
Now, here is my problem.  A certain Walter Williams says “Thirty, 40 or 50 years ago, no one in their right mind would have believed the Merv Grazinski urban [...]

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I have set out to write in defense of tobacco.  I do it for the challenge.  There are other things that would be almost equally challenging, but I don’t know enough about them: I’ve never committed  pedophilia or sent out spam emails or run for congress, so  tobacco seems the only remaining choice.
I know very [...]

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Apparently a number of my friends are hurt, puzzled, angered, offended, or some combination because known gay-bashing Reverend Richard Warren was asked by Obama to give the inuagural invocation.
I don’t know whether to be hurt, puzzled, angered, offended, or some combination by how they’re reacting.
Some of Obama’s appointments include: Ken Salazar for Secretary of the [...]

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Damn, they sure do sound noble, don’t they? “We can’t bail out the auto makers unless they gave us a plan.” Lovely. “They shouldn’t ask the tax payers to pay for their mistakes.” Uh huh. “Look at those executives flying to meet with us in private jets.” Ducky.
Am I [...]

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Many years ago at Fourth Street, a bunch of us sat around for too many hours and came up with the following theory: From the perspective of society, the function of art* and the function of science are identical; the difference is that the final product of science is a theory, the final product of [...]

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I put this on the sidebar, but I thought I’d link to it here, as well, in case anyone felt inclined to talk about it.
Leon Trotsky on Culture and socialism.

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And here we go.  I think this election expresses, above all, the hatred, the astonishing hatred, we all feel for George W. Bush.  And, to be sure, he’s earned it.
So now the question becomes: what happens with Obama in office and Democratic control of both houses when they continue to carry on the same policies [...]

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Now they’ve arrested a 13-year-old boy because a 13-year-old girl sent him a nude pic of herself. The charge? Child Pornography. Does the phrase GMAFB seem appropriate? Here’s the link.
I don’t think a 13-year-old girl exploring her sexuality by taking a picture of herself and sending it to her boyfriend is worth so much as [...]

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