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The Family World System (A Bit Weird)
2005-05-16
Posted by:tipper

#5  The inevitable result of dumbing down public education. This is the sort of drivel that freshmen used to write to show how worldly they were.
Posted by: RWV   2005-05-16 16:44  

#4  by Sully boy you mean Andrew Sullivan? He doesnt go near the ex-stalinists at The Nation, and he doesnt like poseur type prose, either.
Posted by: Liberalhawk   2005-05-16 16:40  

#3  Did Sully Boy write this one? Sounds like what he has in mind when he uses his pet term, "the money graf."
Posted by: thibaud (aka lex)   2005-05-16 16:21  

#2  Well, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-05-16 16:18  

#1  Stupid metaphor alert!

"Over this landscape, Göran Therborn's 'Between Sex and Power' rises like a majestic volcano. Throwing up a billowing column of the boldest ideas and arguments, while an awesome lava of evidence flows down its slopes, this is a great work of historical intellect and imagination."
Posted by: mojo   2005-05-16 13:16  

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