----- Original Message ----- From: Carl Remick To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 8:23 AM Subject: [lbo-talk] Sticking it to The Man
[It seems that the US is not the land of the pusillanimous after all. Sure, Americans are willing to put up with illegal wars, gutted social programs, a rotting economy and regressive taxation, but there *is* a limit to the amount of shit they will eat! Get a load of the bold, subversive action described here.]
March 15, 2005 A Few Tips to Cope With Life's Annoyances By IAN URBINA
When Seth Shepsle goes to Starbucks, he orders a "medium" because "grande" - as the coffee company calls the size, the one between big and small - annoys him.
<...> When subscription cards fall from magazines Andrew Kirk is reading, he stacks them in a pile at the corner of his desk. At the end of each month, he puts them in the mail but leaves them blank so that the advertiser is forced to pay the business reply postage without gaining a new subscriber. <...>
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People ued to paste them to paper-wrapped bricks, ...then the postal regulations changed.
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