X-Message-Number: 16166 Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 18:01:33 +0900 (JST) From: "Matthew S. Malek" <> Subject: Ouch! > > From: "Matthew S. Malek" <> > > Subject: Please spare me the "patriotic" rallying against China. > > > > --Albert Einstein (quote taken from a "Nation" article > > discussing how the "Time" magazine biography neglected > > to mention that Einstein was a socialist) > > If you respect someone,you tend to politely omit mention of such > flaws. I understand... It is analogous to the way people sometimes omit the fact that I want to spend over $100,000 in some weird attempt to live forever. Of course one shouldn't mention such things! Socialism? How absurd... It's _good_ to live in a country where 90% of the wealth is in the hands of only 1% of the population... ---------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Matthew S. Malek | "Judging by his outlandish attire, he's | some sort of free-thinking anarchist!" ---------------------------+------------------------------------------------- QUOTE OF THE WEEK: "An oligarchy of private capital...cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society [because] under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information." --Albert Einstein (quote taken from a "Nation" article discussing how the "Time" magazine biography neglected to mention that Einstein was a socialist) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16166