From: steve_brookS_TIRED_LEFTY@HOTMAIL.COM   
      
   "selene1022"  wrote in message   
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   > Chapter 2:   
   >   
   > Let's say you're a tenured professor sitting in your office at the   
   > University of  Upper Chiponham on a drizzly September day in 2001.   
   > You've escaped the Wal-Marts and SUV's of your native land to work and   
   > live in a civilized place where the Kyoto accords have been passed and   
   > will, maybe someday in the near, or not so near distant future be   
   > implemented. As a bonus, even the lowliest wage earner gets universal   
   > health care-usually on demand...sometimes, when they really really   
   > need it.   
   >   
   > You've gone with the flow since you earned your PhD in '91.   Your   
   > advisor, who in the last decade has become a mover and shaker in   
   > post-literary literary theory, is your guiding star. He is now serving   
   > on the board of  The Revised American Historians Organization.  He   
   > even helped you find a book deal with Uranus Press for your   
   > dissertation  "Not Yet Beyond: The  CPUSA and the Organization of   
   > Transgender Sharecroppers in Yalobusha County Mississippi, 1932-1969,"   
   >  It had moderate commercial success, but a rave review in "Revision,   
   > the Journal of the Revised American Historians Organization."  Theo   
   > Cornucopia,   author of "VENONA, the CIA and American Cold War   
   > Deception"  called  "Transgender Sharecroppers,"  quote "an important   
   > work in  understanding the crucial role played by the CPUSA in giving   
   > a voice to transgender sharecroppers, not only in Yalobusha County,   
   > but throughout the South."  "Labour" liked it too.   
   >   
   > You're very happy with your position: good funding and intelligent   
   > colleagues who share your views on the McDisneyfication of developing   
   > countries, the result of the America-centric exploitive globalized   
   > mass media market and IMF loans. You are blessed with bright students   
   > who have never been indoctrinated into the damaging, arrogant "myth"   
   > of American exceptionalism. It's such a lie. No messy chalk marks to   
   > wipe off these eager blank slates-thankfully. It shows. You've gotten   
   > great feedback from them on your work-shop covering covert funded '50s   
   > sit-coms. Your students are never too shocked when you reveal on the   
   > first day that Lucy and Ricky in twin beds was really Langley's idea   
   > to promote sexual hygiene and ideal American gender roles. The   
   > "Honeymooners"  too. A book is in the works. Your publisher, Uranus   
   > Press is excited by the prospect.  How green are your pastures.   
   >   
   > And then it happens...the bully gets a bloody nose. But what next?   
   >   
   > JV   
      
   LOL. V. good. The Doonesbury detail in the other one was masterly.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)