>On Aug 31, 2007, at 12:27 PM, joanna wrote:
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>>Not just smarts. Columbo uses inference, deduction, ....science.
>>Columbo
>>is what class warfare looks like when the working class aligns itself
>>with reason rather than religion.
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>It didn't hurt he was part of the LAPD either. Is class warfare with
>a badge really class warfare?
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Very true, but notice the absence of uniform, guns, Mission Impossible
type gadgets, etc.
It's all very Miss Marplish -- he's not an "expert" of any kind, and the state apparatus is hugely absent, except for the necessary but invisible crime lab.
Joanna