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Subject: fresh blood! ; or, notes towards a metaphysics of politics-l
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:11:16 GMT
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hello all, nice to be back with you on this freezing minnesota evening.
being here at the terminal beats reading ricoeur over in the colossal wilson
humanities library, and so i post, in my foolhardy manner, responses and
queries to various and sundry.

tim g.:  hello, nice to see you're having a good time.  i'm anneliese, your
cruise director.  there will be shuffleboard on the lido deck at 9:30 (cdt);
corey hart is playing in the pirate's cove tonight, and there's a lobster
buffet on the fiesta deck, with entertainment by jack jones and kathie lee
gifford.  there really aren't many rules to playing this little cybergame,
but if you want the really serious ones, they should have been sent to you
when you signed on the list.  if you are getting this through a university
b-board, you can request this file by writing to the listserv@ohstvma.
i would say to "pick it up as you go", but lately there appears to have
been some breakdown in communications as to what is an acceptable level of
discourse. try to avoid name-calling and ad hominem argument.  we hassle each
other a lot about "hah! you are constructing an argument from analogy and
therefore you are a specious geek!" and that sort of thing, mostly due to the
benevolent influence of philosophy-heads on the list.  also, since people
seem to be forgetting...this is list politics, not a religion list.  we
talk about religion, but theological argumentation belongs elsewhere (unless
you plan to use aquinas.  i'm a fool for aquinas.).  the comment from a
certain individual addressing another listmember as quote a dick unquote
qualifies as an unacceptable post, although we are not way hot on censorship
on this list.  you get points for using latin.  don't forward stuff without
crediting the person from whom you got it.  don't thoughtfully forward
lots of mail from the other nets you're on to us.  beware of the people
who dump "junkmail" onto the list.  and...a little-known rule...you need
to dance around your terminal three times at the end of the day, face the
north, and say "hail to thee, anneliese, benevolent goddess of the north-
country."  as a new list member, i will inform you that you also need to
buy a "glinda the good witch" outfit.  it will arrive at your doorstep
sometime next week, $39.95 ppd, c.o.d.
i myself am, for better or for worse (mostly worse), a graduate student
at the university of minnesota.  i don't know much, but i like to watch.  ;-)

the president may be thinking of introducing a new by-law concerning height.
hope you're tall.  oh, well...there's always impeachment.

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anneliese's barometer of what's hot and what's not in the coming 4 years

what's hot                                     what's not

"the new south"                                "new england"
elvis                                          billy ray cyrus
cornbread                                      white bread
the jaclyn smith collection                    big faux pearls
k-tel compilations                             windham hill samplers
monster trucks                                 lexus sedans
joni mitchell's "chelsea morning"              joni mitchell's "big yellow taxi"
   headbands                                      roux (tm) fanci-full
                                               silver peroxide rinse
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clinton hasn'
t (oops) even announced his cabinet yet.  wait, you jackals.  it looks as
though the ramsey county d.a. is going to get a spot, though, as well as
louisville mayor jerry ("...and my lovely wife madeline miller!")
abramson.  go figure.  i hope that whatever jerry's position is, it's
kinda national in scope, so that i can petition to him to get some
krispy kreme (tm) franchises up here in this godforsaken wasteland.

as regards term limits, well....most of them passed.  they are already the
subject of enormous debate, though, and i think the one in florida already
has a brief written for it and a court date scheduled to question its
constitutionality.  those lawyer-boys 'r' sharp down inna south.
i heard that the oregon question about anti-gay/lesbian protection was
defeated, but the one in colorado passed.  apparently the associated press
is reporting that monumental numbers of gays and lesbians are planning an
exodus from boulder, aspen, and telluride.  maybe someone knows something
more about this?

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anneliese's top ten reasons not to be all bummed out about a clinton
                          presidency

10.  you gotta know that somewhere, somehow, jay steven sultan is mightily
     peeved
 9.  get to watch little chelsea grow up right in front of our eyes
 8.  possibility of appointment of hal holbrook to office with national
     responsibility
 7.  good to have a president who understands the whole vegas odds system
 6.  maybe they'll put up wood-grain paneling in the west wing
 5.  plans to put "see rock city" bumper stickers on air force one
 4.  pink flamingos on the grass, alas.  'nuff said.
 3.  all day, all night, all tipper gore...coming soon to a record-burning
     near you
 2.  majority of hookers will now move up pennsylvania avenue, away from
     the chinese restaurants, in order to be closer to the action (so to speak)

and anneliese's number-one reason not to be all bummed out about a clinton
presidency...

 1.  better than average odds that our next national anthem will be
     "burning love"

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i like bill clinton:  i just did that to make robert and mike and jayce
feel better.
oh, shoot...i left out hillary's cookie recipe.  tsch.  it's always
something.

okay, i've wasted enough bandwidth for one day.  you all have a nice night,
now, y'hear?

anneliese.