The left: still dying (was Re: European Unions)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Candidly, I'm not prepared to handle *any* additional challenge 
>right now, Yoshie.  My wife and I were just getting ready to move to 
>a new house when I got word I was being fired.  Right now -- in the 
>midst of dumping 20 years' accumulation of household items into 
>boxes for the move -- I have energy only to stop by this list 
>occasionally to create and demolish straw men.  Pretty soon now, I'm 
>going to have to disassemble my PC also; it will be a miracle if I 
>can remember which wire goes where post-move, and I'm not highly 
>confident the cable company is going to get me back online as 
>quickly as promised.  Who knows, by the time I'm back on the list, 
>any taint of scholasticism may well have been expunged from the 
>left.  Should such occur, my querulous criticisms would be, er, 
>academic.
>
>Carl

Hey, all my sympathies for your unemployment, hassles due to the move 
to a new house, etc.  I will be most likely unemployed in summer & am 
not sure if I'll have a teaching job in the next academic year 
either.  In that event, folks who disagree with me will have one less 
straw man ("academic Marxist" -- whatever it means) to attack.  :-)

Yoshie