What have you heard about his sickness? <div>On 2/7/07, <a href="mailto:bitch@pulpculture.org">bitch@pulpculture.org</a> <<a href="mailto:bitch@pulpculture.org">bitch@pulpculture.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">At 05:35 AM 2/7/2007, you wrote: >Give the old man a break, for fuck's sake. We are >lucky he is even alive. Murray Bookchin passed >recently, and he was much younger than Chomsky. >Chomsky is a living national treasure. Seriously. He's >America's living Bertrand Russell. If he gets winded >or feels "lazy" at a conference, so be it. He's still >alive, at least, for God's sake. His death will be a >huge loss for humanity. Let him have his >less-than-stellar moments in his old age at certain >appearances, for Christ's sake. >-B. didn't i hear somewhere that he is sick, too? And, uh, excuse me, but I don't know what Chomsky gets paid but $2500 is hardly raking in the big bucks as a speaker. You don't know what he actually gets since Columbia may have only had a fee to cover nominal expenses, paying C far more (or even less, I have no clue). But really now, begrudge someone a lousy $2500 given all the work he does do that goes unpaid -- like the answering of email all day, keeping up with events, etc. Daily kos makes that much for two top level ads for 1 week ferchrisakes. <a href="http://blog.pulpculture.org">http://blog.pulpculture.org</a> ___________________________________ <a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> </blockquote></div>