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Re: Bummer of the Week: LEGO Made in China
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Fri, 7 Sep 2001 03:03:57 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Low writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > > snip snip snip
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> > > I discovered this page, written by a librarian:
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> > > http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/tyrants.htm
> > > <snipped>
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> > I really enjoyed the scope of this guy's work: lots of comparison and
> > synthesis, mostly from a global perspective. His fun stuff is neat too -- I
> > particularly liked the alternative history of Moslem Australia.
> > http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/index.htm
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> I hadn't read that yet! Yeah, it's pretty good--do you have
> any better an idea than I do who he is? Not having real contact
> info forces me to double check a lot of his sources as litmus
> tests, but he's really done a very good job of documentation.
I couldn't find any more informative references to or by him either -- his
comments on Ayn Rand's propagandists were sufficient guarantee of
reliability for me as a layperson:
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/overrate.htm (#18)
--DaveL
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| (...) He's a twit. Quoting: The Berlin Wall (1961-89) Berlin: the grim and lonely front line in the Cold War. What exactly happens on the front lines of a non-event? Border guards glare at one another; they patrol the barbed wire perimeter, and (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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