Where does the bizarro Assyrian theme come from? "The Rubber of Marduk!" (OK, so maybe that's Babylon.)
My two uncles in Germany work as blue-collar factory employees for Porsche. Every few years, the company gives them... a Porsche. I totally have to move to Germany. ;)
--- Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/16/06, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > I remember that Assyrian-themed building -- I
> never
> > knew what was inside it though.
>
> it used to be a rubber factory. Now it's an outlet
> mall.
>
> My friend Fernando Guerra (of LMU's poly sci and
> Chicano studies
> departments and the Center for the Study of L.A.)
> once calculated the
> most amazing gee-whiz statistic:
>
> the workers at the rubber factory could afford to
> buy the median house
> in Los Angeles, but those at the outlet mall can
> just barely afford to
> rent the median apartment in L.A.
>
> --
> Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual
> freedom in the presence
> of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles
>
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