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i know so many musicians who play either stoned out or their minds or very high on cocaine why does this not raise the kinds of ethical issues we encounter with sports?

an easy to read article on china/america trade here = http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/fallows-chinese-dollars and also, if you want a theoretical reassessment of comparative advantage, please read the pdf-format article on the thomas palley page entitled “Rethinking Trade and Trade...

first, there are industries of strategic importance that america should remain active in -- like steel production, machine tool parts, computer micro-chips, airplanes -- all of which china does, save for the last second, chinese industry is more sophisticated than you suggest, and many...

YES -- i'm a national socialist -- though not in the hitlerian sense the U.S. has very limited access to Chinese markets -- there are very strict controls on what foreign firms can buy, build and do in China moreover, China manipulates its currency -- i.e., does not allow the value of the RMB...

maybe i should have said "national interest"? granted, the export-led development of china, india and the rest of southeast asia promises to lift millions, if not billions, out of poverty . . . . but if this requires the transformation of the u.s. into a sharecropper economy, then it certainly...

we are now in a situation where the greatest accumulations of capital are occurring at the periphery of the system, whether in the commodity-exporting gulf states or goods-exporting China. China is not a "free market" in anything like the Western sense. The State intervenes to keep the...

i'd be interested in vimothy's take on sovereign wealth funds, and the stake that such funds have recently acquired in distressed wall street banks (the heights of capitalism) could it be that western-style capitalism is being hi-jacked (eclipsed) by the return of the State, in particular the...

you know what i mean, the sounds that inspired t-coy's "carino" i want the real dancefloor-centered stuff from the 60s and 70s so where to begin? eddie palmieri? stand-out records that i should have my eyes and ears open for? what are the classics of the genre?

oh, ive seen these paintings before -- just wasn't familiar with richter's name and of course know the daydream nation cover i rather like "meadowlands"

if zhao's gonna turn us (me) on to gerhard richter, maybe i should turn him on to italo svevo?

and to clarify, yes, i do think that most modern people are depressed to one degree or another and, no, i don't find most people interesting when taken as individual cases -- i.e., the man on the street bores me in real life (though my current plan in my otherwise floundering and...

again, i think you misunderstood my point perhaps you should slow down and not be so eager to rant and rave

i also had in mind houllebecq's latest novel, to be honest i.e., where the post-humans do nothing but rewrite the biographies of their human ancestors (or forget his term for it, i.e., members of a sect get cloned, and then the copies of the humans, x-1, x-2, x-3 and so on, do nothing but...

fucked-up may have been a poor choice of words on my part, in so far as you seem to think that i was referring to, i don't know, some drunken would-be poet in rags -- a bukowski/kerouac/jarry composite figure??? what i was trying to refer to was human beings in general, the general human type...

what about sexual desire? suppose you don't want to be dependent on by the kink that turns you "on." if you eliminate the kinky fantasy, somehow re-route your thoughts so that you don't focus on the "it" that does it for you -- might you not also eliminate sexual desire in total? in which...

capitalism ain't the devil . . . . and if humans weren't sick fucked-up creatures with tangled desires, for status, knowledge, love, amusement, they'd be of no literary interest whatsoever they'd simply be autonomous beings in possession of themselves -- how boring

were the sabresonic nights held in a massive space beneath a YMCA or the like (i.e., are there actually YMCAs in england?) near tottenham court road? with a full-on progressive rock band backed by andrew weatherall or whomever on turntables? i somehow recall lots of leafy plants and torches for...

smoking is a very complicated kind of enjoyment -- it's "bad" for you smoking has made people uncomfortable since the time of its introduction to the west -- it has alway appeared monstrous and perverse, and it has always irritated the eyes of others and so the campaign against smoking is an...

personally i think the smoking ban has gone hand-in-hand with the disney-ification of night life

leaving aside the medical case against second-hand smoking, i.e., is there really that strong a case against it??? there are plenty of jobs that we know involve hazardous work conditions -- coal mining, subway work, etc -- and yet b/c the jobs serve a purpose that we as a society deem NECESSARY...