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Subject: [Leica] The Economist (WAS: the prime minister of where?)
From: nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed Feb 14 20:57:43 2007
References: <021320070348.1432.45D1351A000890EA00000598219791332903010CD2079C080C03BF970A9D9F9A0B9D09@mchsi.com> <200702130541.l1D5ffOv030530@server1.waverley.reid.org> <45D29CB7.9040907@nathanfoto.com> <45D3BAB7.9080105@san.rr.com>

The Daily Worker (newspaper of the USCP) has mutated into People's 
Weekly World:
http://www.pww.org/

Comrade Nathan (who once voted for the Socialist Workers Party in an 
election for the NJ State Legislature, when both mainstream candidates 
fielded fat guys with mafia connections)

Jerry Lehrer wrote:
> Hey Nat,
>
> Ya gotta remember that Marc is to the right of Attila the Hun.  He 
> probably thinks that the  Jonhn Birch Society
> are a bunch of flaming liberals/
>
> To him, The Economist is a twin to the Daily Worker.  ( How many of 
> you know what the Daily Worker was)
>
> Jerry
>
> Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>> Hey Marc,
>>
>> Do you get some special Virginia edition of The Economist or 
>> something? I subscribe too, have been a subscriber since my college 
>> days in the 1980s. I read it despite its consistent right-wing tilt, 
>> and I have even forgiven them for endorsing GWB in 2000--because of 
>> the consistently high editorial quality.
>>
>> But I would like to see the version you read, it must be very 
>> different from mine. Are you sure you are not confusing it with 
>> Mother Jones or something?
> And Marc, since you don't run this list, we can discuss politics all 
> we want,. until the LUG administrator stops us.
>
> Jerry
>
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>> Marc James Small wrote:
>>>
>>> Let us let the politics alone.  Yes, a bunch of us know the names of 
>>> the Prime Ministers of the various shards of the British Empre -- 
>>> for heavens' sakes, I do subscribe to THE ECONOMIST, a dangerously 
>>> left-wing journal in my estimation but I read it for the same reason 
>>> I read the WASHINGTON POST:  a "dangerous right-winger" is, in 
>>> reality, a mushy moderate, and a "strong voice for liberty" is 
>>> Robert Mugabe or Fidel Castro or the like.  I understand their cant 
>>> and I can interpret and I do appreciate their book reviews and death 
>>> notice. 
>>
>
>
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