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Ithaca is Gorges In Rear-View Mirror:tribute to the most God-forsaken hell-hole in America
Cornell Review ^
| 5/1/2003
| G. Quentin Mull
Posted on 05/08/2003 10:26:34 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
I'd like a sticker that says:
Ithaca Taxes
Gorge Us.
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posted on
05/08/2003 3:48:24 PM PDT
by
jigsaw
(God Bless Our Troops!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
One of he funniest pieces in ages.
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posted on
05/08/2003 3:58:10 PM PDT
by
friendly
To: yankeedame
The Ithaca Hour is fixed at 10 Federal Reserve dollars. Not sure about the specifics of businesses, but there's a web page - Google for "Ithaca Hours" and you should find it.
I think most of the rest of your questions are addressed by the fixed exchange rate between US Dollars and Ithaca Hours.
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posted on
05/08/2003 4:09:02 PM PDT
by
mvpel
(Michael Pelletier)
To: jigsaw; Fixit
I'd like a sticker that says: Ithaca Taxes Gorge Us.Good idea
To: ntnychik
Seriesly, why are there so many suicides in those gorgeous gorges? It seems he's disappeared "Behind Enemy Lines" again...
Here's my theory: 1. reputation for being a real ball grinder. (scuse my french), 2. quick, easy, convenient way to end it all that other schools don't have. It's been years but I remember this one gorge that cuts right thru campus, with a long foot bridge spanning it. And it was a lonnnng way down.
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posted on
05/08/2003 5:20:58 PM PDT
by
lurky
To: Behind Liberal Lines
The exact same moribund culture of disfunction, disease, and death can be found in Rutland VT, Somerville, MA, Boston, MA, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Berkeley, CA, Portland, OR, Madison, WI, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and on and on. THE CULTURE OF ROT THAT IS INSTITUTIONALIZED STATE SOCIALISM IS SPREADING RAPIDLY. Indeed, there are times when walking the streets of the Bronx or Newark or Philadelphia that it FEELS like walking in Leningrad or Rostov at the depth of the great decay that was Soviet socialism.
To: ntnychik
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posted on
05/08/2003 5:29:23 PM PDT
by
lurky
To: yankeedame
the questions are endless.... The first one that comes to my mind is, "Is this an arbitrage goldmine?"
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posted on
05/08/2003 5:59:18 PM PDT
by
StriperSniper
(Frogs are for gigging)
To: Behind Liberal Lines; jigsaw
Had to dig out the original "Waterfall I," but here goes.
Click for sticker.
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posted on
05/08/2003 6:06:23 PM PDT
by
Fixit
(http://comedian.blogspot.com)
To: mvpel
But why would anyone want IH, redeemable at only a few select businesses in Ithaca, when one could be payed in dollars, a currency used throughout the USA and many other places, besides? Local arbitrage or pinning should whittle away most of the difference in value between the two, leaving dollars as the superior currency for just about any use. From the sound of the article, local businesses don't provide all the services and goods that residents need, and a lot of shopping is down out of town. Wouldn't it be embarrassing to be at the head of a long checkout line, open your wallet, and find only Ithaca Hours in there?
To: Under the Radar
Moving from Midland Tx to Northern New Mexico made me realize that I wasn't a "liberal/middle-of-the-roader" anymore----I headed back to Texas less than a year later a rabid conservative and much less naive about the world. :-)
To: Under the Radar
I did get to meet Paul Kurtz however, which was quite pleasant. Lucky. I 'd like to shake MG's hand before he kicks, though. I've been a fan of his since I was a little girl. (He wrote a book of poems that I still own.) I don't always take the skeptical hardline when it comes to religion, but I love it when they go after the fakes (J. Edwards, for one bad example). I chose my screenname in honor of skepticism and scientific thought.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Bump from a FReeper who drove through Ithaca in 1996.
foreverfree
To: lurky
![Cornell Students jumping off of a bridge](http://216.92.151.22/images/weblog/CornellJumpers.jpg)
(From summer of 1989 or 1990)
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posted on
05/08/2003 8:08:37 PM PDT
by
Fixit
(http://comedian.blogspot.com)
To: Fixit
OMG! You're amazing!
These'll make nice gifts to some local politicians.
Thanks!
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posted on
05/08/2003 8:11:23 PM PDT
by
jigsaw
(God Bless Our Troops!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Pretty good rant.
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posted on
05/08/2003 8:22:46 PM PDT
by
Tribune7
To: Caesar Soze
But why would anyone want IH, redeemable at only a few select businesses in Ithaca, when one could be payed in dollars, a currency used throughout the USA and many other places, besides?The online list of businesses at the Ithaca Hours homepage shows 467 different businesses, and they also mention 1,500 businesses are listed in their newsletter.
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posted on
05/09/2003 11:40:38 AM PDT
by
mvpel
(Michael Pelletier)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Great post! During three years of graduate school at Cornell, I rarely saw a black undergraduate student. They were almost completely segregated into their own special fraternites, "Ujamma" houses, etc. The only exception was when they came out in force to demonstrate about some nonsensical grievance or another.
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posted on
05/12/2003 7:17:42 PM PDT
by
Atticus
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