After relating a rather sketchy history of consensus-based democratic struggles, wending their way through the u.s. and beyond, from SNCC to OWS, making the point that even when there seemed to be no movement, all of it nonetheless converged, I was given this line, “Well dug, old mole,” something Marx supposedly wrote about how a […]
god. i read amber’s blog, only to learn about some ridiculous blow out in sexworker bloglandia. i really don’t feel like reading everything so as to have an informed position, let alone so I can distill it all for you, but you can learn more by blogging on “alexa di carlo,” fauxho, etc. etc.
and i’m […]
when i asked lbo-talk members what their criticisms of Weather Underground were about, Dennis Perrin chose not to actually elaborate his ideas but, instead, pointed to the Web site of Mark Rudd. Perrin didn’t explain if he agreed with everything Rudd said or just part of it. So, it was a little irritating, that response. […]
last week, i had to work an early morning release: get up at 3 a.m. to be to work by 4 a.m. to help make sure a big software release goes out correctly during our maintenance hours. I was doing this twice a week, to help out an understaffed QA department. After months, they cut […]
because i have been irritated with otherwise intelligent, well read, keep-up-with-the-news, read -the-Economist-type people lately, i have been surfing around the archives looking for when our lbo discussions of the coming real estate bubble burst started happening.
they can be traced back to the first signs of a bubble in hot real estate markets in california […]
Seeing as how Chuckie’s back from vaca, it reminded me to share something I’d already shared at LBO. In my latest trip to the library, I stumbled over a book that caught my eye, Sara Maza’s The Myth of the French Bourgeoisie: An Essay on the Social Imaginary, 1750-1850. I’m getting desperately, desperately bored […]
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