3 August 2004

From The Academic Peanut Section

A few of the weeks better comments and, er, contributions to the class. Context: graduate level course in the law department of a major NZ university, subject: economic dislocations in the former Soviet Union:

" I mean just look at Russia, things are just so much worse there since McDonald's came in."

Only Christian forbearance saved this stupid cow from being unmasked as a cretin. Seventy years of a Communist police state has nothing to with it of course, nor today's corrupt rule by the KGB hardman Putin and his gang of former apparatchiks. Nor the fact that at any given moment a substantial portion of Russia's working age population are either drunk, working as hookers in Japan or standing in line for a visa to the Republic of Anywherebuthere.

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