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   Martha Bridegam to Joe Fineman   
   Re: These things called lattes   
   25 Feb 06 07:10:47   
   
   From: bridegam@pacbell.net   
      
   Joe Fineman wrote:   
   > "P.S.Burton"  writes:   
   >   
   >> even that is probably reading too much into it. Latte Marxist is,   
   >> along with Moet Menshevik, ipod socialist etc etc etc etc another of   
   >> Robbie's inventive updates on 'champagne socialist'.   
   >   
   > Did that come before "limousine liberal"?   
      
   There's a joke lurking somewhere in the fact that an   
   "Americano" is an espresso thinned with hot water. Makes   
   sense in the current context: what yr basic American thinks   
   is radical leftism is really only Marx-and-water.   
      
   /M   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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