[lbo-talk] Sticking it to The Man

[B.]

Wow, truly as Mencken said, one reaches a point where
one must hoist the black flag and start slitting
throats. Good thing the writer brought in that Yale
anthropologist to comment on these profiles of unsung
heroism.

-B.

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Carl wrote: 

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.

Meg Daniel presses zero whenever she hears a
computerized operator on the telephone so that she can
talk to a real person. "Just because they want a 
computer to handle me doesn't mean I have to play
along," she said.

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.

"I'm not too worried by hegemony / I know the cadre will look after me" - Magazine, "Model Worker," 1978