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10261 [lbo-talk] gloom -- rank: 1000

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, shortly after the economy fell into a recession. Confidence in current economic conditions, meanwhile, has slipped to a point away from its 2007 low, an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 14:47:03 PST 2007

10262 [lbo-talk] on a student evaluation -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2007, at 5:17 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > BTW, I have come to hate the word "globalization." What does it mean? Excellent question, and one I've been asking for more than 10 years. Quoting myself from After the New Economy: "Globalization" has been on so many lips over the last few years that it's easy to forget how recently it entered daily speech. Shown on page 146 is a graph of the word's appearances in the New York Times and Washington Post since 1980. W ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 14:42:25 PST 2007

10263 [lbo-talk] Web 2.0: why blog when you can twitter? -- rank: 1000

Poynteronline E-Media Tidbits Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Posted by Amy Gahran 5:59:45 AM I'm Twittering the Spanish Digital Journalism Seminar I'm attending this online journalism seminar in Spain today. Follow me on Twitter. Following on Steve Outing's post about using Twitter to cover breaking news... Right now I'm attending the second day of the Seminari Internacional de Periodisme Digital, held at the chic modern Neapolis center at Vilanova i la Geltru, on the Spanish coast of the Medite ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 14:09:42 PST 2007

10264 [lbo-talk] The Discussion of Black IQs Considered as a DownhillAuto Race -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > I share Doug's disgust for this shit; however, one link of his > "chain of > illogic" is in fact well supported by research: the heritability of IQ > performance. 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. If true - and as I recall there are plenty of problems with ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 12:30:33 PST 2007

10265 [lbo-talk] Plame revisited: McClellan says it's Bush, Cheney, Rove -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6994.html> McClellan points finger at Bush, Rove By: Mike Allen Nov 20, 2007 01:05 PM EST Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan names names in a caustic passage from a forthcoming memoir that accuses President Bush, Karl Rove and Vice President Cheney of being "involved" in his giving the press false information about the CIA leak case. McClellan's publisher released three paragraphs from the book "WHAT HAPPENED: In ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 12:12:47 PST 2007

10266 [lbo-talk] The Discussion of Black IQs Considered as a DownhillAuto Race -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > I really do not understand why you are so attached to the concept > of IQ? I'm not. What distresses me is the way this is playing out. IQ is assumed to be a proxy for some general intelligence, g (which it isn't); IQ/g are presumed to be heritable (which they aren't); and the heritability is supposed to be meaningful across populations (meaning blacks are inevitably dumber, on average, than whites, which is crap). Every part of t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 10:35:01 PST 2007

10267 [lbo-talk] The Discussion of Black IQs Considered as a Downhill Auto Race -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > This confused cry from the heart, which, echoing and technically > refining earlier European maladies, combines supremacism, > humanitarianism and a genetic engineering version of the White Man's > Burden all into one, terrible package offers a glimpse of the sorts of > horrors the 21st century may have in store. Yeah. Just when I was experiencing a glimmer of political optimism, this shit surfaced. Now I'm back in the slough o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 09:27:54 PST 2007

10268 [lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt' -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > On Nov 20, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > >> To sum it up, the quoted blog argues that Watson's >> position is to affirm cognitive diffrences among races >> without asserting superiority or inferiority of these >> differences. > > But doesn't it also leap from showing differences in populations to > assuming heritability? And I should say too that it assumes that "race" is a meaning ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 20 07:22:49 PST 2007

10269 [lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt' -- rank: 1000

On Nov 20, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > To sum it up, the quoted blog argues that Watson's > position is to affirm cognitive diffrences among races > without asserting superiority or inferiority of these > differences. But doesn't it also leap from showing differences in populations to assuming heritability?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 20 07:14:27 PST 2007

10270 [lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt' -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > While looking for something else, I came across this pretty well (I > say > that as someone without a dog in this, uh, race) researched and > articulated blog entry at what looks like a pretty decent place where > genetics folks hang out. > > http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/10/james-watson-tells-inconvenient- > truth_296.php Huh? You think a place that says Africans are retarded is decent in any sense? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 19 19:41:12 PST 2007

10271 [lbo-talk] Southern culture vs African-American Music (was other things) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2007, at 9:56 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > The distinctive feature of the blues (musicologists > tell us) is the "blue" note, the flatted 5ths and > 7ths. Also the repetition of the first line of the verse, no?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 19 19:27:14 PST 2007

10272 [lbo-talk] criminal acts upon themselves -- rank: 1000

[from Tom Heald's Pridelets] "Pridelets: Now & Then" for November 20 THEN: On this day in 1990, over a dozen gay men are sentenced to prison for engaging in sexual acts of sadomasochism by a London judge on charges of "committing criminal assaults upon themselves."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 19 18:28:47 PST 2007

10273 [lbo-talk] Roger Ailes explains Lou Dobbs's populist turn -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/business/media/19cable.html> Mr. Dobbs, meanwhile, has reinvented himself as an outspoken advocate for what he calls middle American causes, highlighted by his campaign against illegal immigration. Mr. Ailes, who said he admires Mr. Dobbs, compared the CNN anchor s approach with Fox s leading opinion- dealer, Bill O Reilly. I think Lou got a peek at O Reilly s contract and saw what you can make doing opinion particularly if you re cranky.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 19 18:24:01 PST 2007

10274 [lbo-talk] Life terms for juveniles -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2007, at 7:52 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > California has sentenced more juveniles to life in prison without > possibility of parole than any state in the nation except > Pennsylvania, according to a new study by the University of San > Francisco's Center for Law and Global Justice. California currently > has 227 inmates serving such sentences for crimes committed before > they turned 18; Pennsylvania has 433. But Penna has 1/3 the pop of Calif! That means that Penna ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 19 17:56:14 PST 2007

10275 [lbo-talk] Wish I Was In Dixie (Re: The North's burdenof enlightening the South (was Re: The "NA -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Alex Hogan wrote: > Baltimore which is a lot more Philly "Philadelphia is like three Baltimores." - Adolph Reed

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 12:15:26 PST 2007