Wish I had advice for Jack.  I can muster a pile of empathy.  Mixing it
up with this group may lift his spirits, but lifting soap and polishing
resume is what he'll need to focus on.

Now least anyone think I have had my "lost cause gland" surgically
removed, I should point out that this recommendation is for Jack.  Jack
with five kids.  Not for me.  I'd just keep pounding my face against
the fists of the political appointees until they were exhausted.  Then
I'd walk out!  Yeah!  That'll fix 'em!

-jc



On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 12:27 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Mike how timely;
>
> I just had dinner with one of the top archeologists for the state of
> Mississippi who
> is standing up for values and integrity for his profession and craft;
> yet is
> getting iced by the appointed suits from the capital for not window
> dressing
> and bending over for the soap when they want him too....This is not a
> crank
> refusing to be a team player.   its a bad situation and he could use
> the
> friendship of PTN; and any outside  advice he can get.
>
> Its the usual story; state hires sleazy fundraisers to head your
> department;
> and they try and get rid of you... not because of your work; which is
> stellar;
> ....but because your principals and ethics are  a threat to their old
> boy
> network and  payola politics of the State dept of Archives and History.
>
> I desperately would like to help my friend (he has 5 kids) he needs to
> link
> up outside this cesspool .....For him Archeology was always an
> untouchable
> discipline;
> our system of politics  has allowed suits without portfolio to
> infiltrate and
> make hollow these disaplines..
> .My friend Jack might need 3 weeks on 42 street with hustlers and con
> artists
>  of the real world but we need to ultimately  throw the rascals out.
> Seeking advise and link ups for Jack
> .Pyrate
>
> .Ps .see wb site ...radical archeology
>
> --
> To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the
> uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to:
> <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>
>

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