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10246 [lbo-talk] von Mises Inst on WIlde on socialism -- rank: 1000

["The Soul of Man" is at <http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/hist_texts/ wilde_soul.html>.] The Confused Socialism of Oscar Wilde By Matt McCaffrey Posted on 11/23/2007 Like many intellectuals at the turn of the 19th century, Oscar Wilde was both interested in the problems of society and a proponent of socialism. Though Wilde was more concerned with criticizing Victorian society via his satirical works than puzzling over the problems of social organization, he did briefly exami ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 23 06:19:38 PST 2007

10247 [lbo-talk] twin studies & IQ -- rank: 1000

On Nov 23, 2007, at 8:39 AM, ulisse mangialaio wrote: > The great Sacvan Bercovitch Whose first name is a compound of Sacco and Vanzetti, by the way. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 23 06:09:56 PST 2007

10248 [lbo-talk] financial innovation -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2007, at 6:26 PM, Shane Taylor wrote: > <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/business/16norris.html> > > [...] Banks put together collateralized debt > obligations, or C.D.O. s, many of which held subprime > mortgage loans as assets. The C.D.O. s were financed > by issuing their own securities, and the risk of > mortgage defaults seemed to pass to the people who > bought the securities. > > But we now learn that some banks also handed out > liquid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 22 18:09:49 PST 2007

10249 [lbo-talk] twin studies & IQ -- rank: 1000

On Nov 22, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > What an odd reference to a nation constructed through a > "Presbyterian revolt." > > On Nov 22, 2007 8:17 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> This level of determinism seems almost un-American. "I am an endless seeker with no past at my back. I unsettle all things." - Emerson

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Date:	Thu Nov 22 17:51:46 PST 2007

10250 [lbo-talk] twin studies & IQ -- rank: 1000

On Nov 22, 2007, at 1:37 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > I'm not sure if I understand the distinction. If something is > influenced by genetics, then it is heritable by definition. (Genetic > transmission is the basis of heritability.) Of course; I know the basics of genetics. But there is enormous variation between parents and children, and from one sibling to another. It's a big leap from comparing twins to comparing other kinds of relatives, even first-degree ones. > Here's the ch ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 22 17:17:05 PST 2007

10251 [lbo-talk] twin studies & IQ -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2007, at 9:17 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > One typical comparison is between fraternal twins (50% genetic sim) > and > identical twins (100% genetic sim). In each case, we're talking about > same age sibs growing up in the same family environment at the same > time. IQ performance tends to be more similar for the identical twins. Again, that tells us that genetic makeup has an influence on IQ test performance. It doesn't tell us anything about heritability. > In the ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 21 19:34:55 PST 2007

10252 [lbo-talk] twin studies & IQ -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Based on twin and adoption studies, the heritability ratio > for IQ performance is .40 to .60, meaning about half of the > variation in > IQ scores can be attributed to genetic variation. Wait a minute. This says something about genetic composition and performance on IQ tests - specifically, people with identical chromosomes perform similarly, but well short of identically, on IQ tests. But what does it tell us about inheritance? ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 21 10:11:46 PST 2007

10253 [lbo-talk] gloom -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Chuck wrote: > At this point, I want to point out the middle class bias underlying > this > idea that the Left's fortune's rise and fall based on economic > booms and > busts. For most working people out there, there has been nothing > but an > economic bust for many decades. The late 1990s were the only time in the last 35 years that American workers across the income distribution, from women at the 10th percentile to men at the 90th, black a ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 21 09:17:10 PST 2007

10254 [lbo-talk] black class gap -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2007, at 9:05 AM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > god. i'm nipply. carrol called me "bitch". Sorry to have asked - what else is the Urban Dictionary for? <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nipply>

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Date:	Wed Nov 21 06:21:22 PST 2007

10255 [lbo-talk] black class gap -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2007, at 9:05 AM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > god. i'm nipply. That's a new one on me. Is it a milder version of cunty?

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Date:	Wed Nov 21 06:18:44 PST 2007

10256 [lbo-talk] Acting White -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2007, at 9:03 AM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > how come only three people answered this. Doug? Where's the damn poll? Sorry thought you said you were going to do it. I'll set one up later this holiday weekend.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 21 06:16:19 PST 2007

10257 [lbo-talk] on a student evaluation -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2007, at 11:04 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > What is the body that enacted rules of trade that > supercede local labor and environmental regulations if > they are held to be in restraint of trade? 1) they haven't done all that much of that, and 2) politicians love to have some "higher authority" to blame for what they want to do anyway

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 20:41:03 PST 2007

10258 [lbo-talk] launching Working Class studies Association Webiste [sic] -- rank: 1000

PLEASE POST AND FORWARD WIDELY On behalf of the officers, steering committee, and communications committee of the Working Class Studies Association, I am pleased to announce the public debut of the Working Class Studies Association Website http://www.wcstudies.org/ We hope the Website will be a useful and timely resource for anyone interested in working class life and culture, and an instrument for working class studies. We invite you to the site and hope you will use this opportunity to ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 20 20:37:59 PST 2007

10259 [lbo-talk] on a student evaluation -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2007, at 9:52 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > This would inevitably be > accompanied by a shrinking role for national > governments and democratic institutions, and an > increasing role for non-democratic international > bodies like the WTO. The WTO is an instrument of national governments. It operates by consensus and doesn't have all that much authority on its own. As Jagdish Bhagwati noted, the IMF's travel budget is bigger than the WTO's entire budget. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 20 19:17:41 PST 2007

10260 [lbo-talk] gloom -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2007, at 6:05 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST CONSUMER INDEX 11/18/07 >> EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2007 >> >> Pessimism Spikes, Confidence Low >> >> Economic pessimism spiked this week to its worst in 17 years, with 68 >> percent of Americans saying the economy is getting worse up a sharp >> 13 points from last month to its highest since November 1990, sho ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 20 15:19:04 PST 2007