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At 3:08am on June 21, 2008, Suzy said…: nihilix: I so appreciated your comment on The Field @10:52, I was trying to find you as a member here as "John Slade' - fun to know you are 'nihilix' too. Went to the website link on Narcosphere - sounds like a good conference in 2006. Is that the group Bill Moyers has been working with? Do you know John Stauber at Center for Media & Democracy. I really respect their work.
cheers.

At 8:19am on June 20, 2008, Midaged said…: Interesting stuff. If there was a concerted effort to silence journalists who were writing about labor in a certain way, I think that would lend credence to the theory. And, if there was some way to show a corresponding concerted effort to exalt the entrepreneur, that too would lend credence to the theory. I think there is some historic reality going on, beyond mere creation of narrative unconnected to underlying cultural themes. Rugged individualism, settler mentality, etc. - - I think there is a basis in American history to support the view of valuing entrepreneurship and individualism separate from pushing it down people's throats in an effort to alter American opinion (let's ignore the last 20 years).

I think I have a different view of some of these issues -- or maybe, to be honest, I do not really know what the term "labor" means -- perhaps we do not have a shared definition of that term. It seems sort of old-fashioned to me. What am I? I work for a living, earn my money based on my time and talent so I ought to be a laborer -- but I think I am excluded from the classic definition. The confluence of the "flattening" or the world with technology and the classic view of labor and management as embodied, say in the NLRB is quite fascinating. Do you buy the construct of skilled and unskilled labor? And valuing skilled labor more? In the lexicon of the academic left, are these considered rude terms?

At 7:46am on June 17, 2008, Midaged said…: Hello Nihilix -- I sort of presume from your commentary that you believe there is an inherent and inevitable conflict between labor and management. FWIW, I do not share this view (the inevitable part), but I am interested if there is any research out there that links these classic labor issues to work similar to Stauber and Rampton? Maybe I am really comparing apples to oranges here .... but do you know if there has been some research into the "framing" of labor/wages/unions/employee equity/entrepreneurship? Thanks in advance, and thanks for sharing your ideas.

At 6:48am on June 16, 2008, Debra said…: Cottage Grove - protected prairie along the Mississippi at Grey Cloud Dunes, and unfortunately just over the river from Flint Hills Resources (formerly Koch Refinery).

It's beautiful - try to time your visit with sunset.

Directions:
Hwy 61 to Cottage Grove.
Exit at Jamaica south
Turn west (right) at 100th St.
Turn south (left) at Ideal Ave.
Turn west (right) again at 110th St.
Park at the west end of 110th St.

At 12:29pm on June 8, 2008, nihilix said…: I always wonder what to use for a forum ID - what do I have on this harddrive?

The Bastille, before it was freed. The first major bastion of the ancien regime to fall.

How appropos!