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@DougHenwood UAW got me a raise last year (while our local has had freezes for their staff for three years) so they're cool with me!

@RichBeck @xlorentzen What was there in 1988?

The drain cleaner I am using to cure my olives:

so crazy that the Japanese and the Jews independently discovered that horseradish goes with fish

If the Internet says it's safe to cure olives in drain cleaner, I guess I'll go for it. Wish me luck! honest-food.net/2012/10/15/cur…

@text_publishing Does Tristram Shandy count? #booktails

When businesses hire people they are job creators, but when they fire them it is Obama's fault. #gopmath

Great response to @doughenwood on @StrikeDebt MT @rortybomb On the strengths and criticism of the Rolling Jubilee: nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/keep… …

I forget who linked to this @parisreview interview with Robbe-Grillet, but thanks, good stuff. theparisreview.org/interviews/281…

That paywall is sadistic! MT @indiaknight Alain Robbe-Grillet's wife had a contract for "marital prostitution... thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world… … (£)

"It’s really difficult to see how the buyback scheme leads to a larger conversation about debt." <= conversation about debt @DougHenwood

It's just not true that #ows didn't engage political power. They directly engaged mayor, NYC city council. @jacobinmag

To read: "Future Philology," by Sheldon Pollock: "columbia.edu/cu/mesaas/facu…

@DougHenwood This is apparently up for debate: blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2…

The @lrb renewal envelope says "Free Gift Enclosed." Do they mean the bookmark? @xlorentzen

"Derrida’s postcolonialist admirers will be disappointed... to learn that he opposed the FLN" Maybe some will. But is it surprising?

all scavengers are honorable/ I love them all/ will scribble hard as I can for them

@AuerbachKeller Overloaded, yes. "Multiculturalism" maybe a practical form of an ideal that has never really been credible.

Is there such a thing as a "junior aide"?

@AuerbachKeller Also: when/why did humanism start being called "multiculturalism"?