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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:
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  I discovered this page, written by a librarian:

  http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/tyrants.htm
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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

  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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  Re: Bummer of the Week: LEGO Made in China
 
(...) 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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(...) 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. best LFB (23 years ago, 7-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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