> How does that song go? Please allow me to introduce myself....
>Following the lead of Djordje Vidanovic, and having litle else to write
>about, I might as well let a few of you know that there are others on this
>group that have a different, perhaps less academic, background. My
>education since American public high school has been almost entirely
>self-inflicted.
> My childhood was spent in Poitiers, France, my father was an
>American civilian employed at the Air Force base there. When De Gaul
>politely asked NATO Forces to quit the sacred soil of France, we moved to
>the suburbs of Washington DC just as the anti-war movement was getting
>rolling. Anti-war demos were my main form of socializing. I started a
>Student Mobilization Committee chapter in my junior high school.
> When my father offered to send me to college, I graciously declined.
>(Oops) With DC in flames after the assasination of Martin Luther King and
>the FBI-supported death squads at Wounded Knee, not to mention the social
>upheaval spawned by the criminal attack on Vietnam, I was confidant that
>that society as we knew it would be radically changed.
> Wrong again. I spent the next few years working menial jobs,
>frequenting seedy bars, smoking pot and generally behaving irresponsibly.
>After 4 or 5 years of this I woke up one morning and decided become
>politically active again. Just like that. I had moved to the small towns
>of Massachusetts just South of Nashua, NH.
> It was 15 years ago in the used book store in the prep-school town
>of Groton, Mass. that I discovered Noam Chomsky. The book was _The
>Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, The Political Economy of
>Human Rights, Vol 2_. I had never heard of him. The book was exactly what
>I was looking for. I had always read non-fiction; Colin Turnbull, William
>Manchester, Jack Henry Abbot. I've read probably 15 or so Chomsky books
>since then. Sometimes his books seem repetitive, with only minor changes in
>cant, or updates to acount for recent political changes. I've seen him
>speak, mostly at MIT, about 10 times. Sometimes he seems distracted, like
>he's thinking 2 sentences ahead, plowing through the words by rote. Other
>times he is lucid and funny, holding the audience's attention with natural
>ease.
> I am now a CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machinist. I get a
>sense of satisfaction making three-dimensional objects that have actual use.
>I keep my intellectual life seperate from my work life - unlike many of you.
>I love riding my bicycle over the rolling hills of Southern New Hampshire.
>I find the science of linguistics interesting and am happy to read what ever
>is written for this group.
> Sorry this took so long, I had no idea.... Gotta go mow the lawn
>and then climb aboard the 2-wheeled steed. Summer is way too short around
>here.
> -Larry Libby
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> Liberte Egalite Fratenite
Noam chomsky is one cool dude . i dated him several times , he gives one hell of
a good headjob and boy can that golden tongue work miracles.and when he comes
it's like mount st helens erupting . and another interesting fact is that old
Noamy baby , believe or not ! is bisexual and his perverted ways will shock
are really incredible, you name it bestiality and is a mega necrophiliac .
man that man should stay clear of morgues.
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