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10276 [lbo-talk] The North's burden of enlightening the South (was Re:The "NAFTA Superhighway" Urban Myth) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: >> (I don't hate the South, I don't, I don't, I don't.) > > A very great book -- and definitely in the same 'league' as Tolstoi. I couldn't agree more. But it was a strange experience to read it in an undergrad Faulkner course taught by Cleanth Brooks, who never missed an opportunity to talk up the Fugitive line. E.g., the South wasn't fighting to defend slavery, but an anti-market way of life. Who knew Eugene Genovese would follow i ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 11:29:21 PST 2007

10277 [lbo-talk] Chavez: dollar's weakness a sign of the fall of the U.S. empire -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 19, 2007 Dollar rifts deepen at Opec By Ed Crooks and Javier Blas in Riyadh Opec agreed yesterday to keep talking about the effects of the weak US dollar in an effort to bridge deep divisions exposed at the oil cartel's summit in Riyadh. Ministers from Opec countries are expected to meet in the next few weeks to study further the effect of the falling dollar on their economies. Iran and Venezuela, the two Opec countries most hostile to the US, have pushed for the ...

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10278 [lbo-talk] The North's burden of enlightening the South (was Re: T he "NAFTA Superhighway" Urban Myth) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2007, at 5:30 PM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote: > In antebellum days wasn't the South basically an economic colony of > Great Britain, whose textile mills were dependent upon Southern > cotton? Via New York City. Most of the South's cotton was exported by New York merchants, and the imported fabrics and garments were shipped back through New York. The city's elite was very sympathetic to the South until the moment the Civil War broke out, when they made the necessary patr ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 09:59:14 PST 2007

10279 [lbo-talk] more on the denial of an unspecified charge that had never been made -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Chuck wrote: > Hell, I just found out last night that Amy > Goodman has been having problems with facial paralysis. Bell's Palsy, an affliction she shares with Ralph Nader and George Clooney. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 09:54:25 PST 2007

10280 [lbo-talk] Wish I Was In Dixie (Re: The North's burden ofenlightening the South (was Re: The "NAFTA Superhighway" Urban Myth) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2007, at 10:42 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: >>> What, exactly, has the cultural dung heap of Long Island produced to >>> compare with William Faulkner, or even Tennessee Williams? >> >> Amy Fisher! > > Howard Stern. Public Enemy. Don't forget The Good Rats and Twisted Sister. And Elliott Murphy.

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10281 [lbo-talk] Wish I Was In Dixie (Re: The North's burden of enlightening the South (was Re: The "NAFTA Superhighway" Urban Myth) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 19, 2007, at 10:20 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > And Southern black people aren't Southern? And hey, you South-bashers - why are so many black people moving from the promised land of the North to the allegedly benighted land of Dixie?

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 07:30:52 PST 2007

10282 [lbo-talk] Americans swear off reading -- rank: 1000

[NEA original: <http://www.arts.gov/research/ToRead.pdf>] <http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/> NEA Report on Reading and a Common Objection to Digital Media Research Clancy Ratliff November 19th, 2007 The Chronicle reports today on the results of a National Endowment for the Arts study on how much reading people do (download the report). The Chronicle article is for subscribers only, but I ve quoted the most significant parts: Just how reading-averse have Americans become? ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 07:16:51 PST 2007

10283 [lbo-talk] Kucinich picks up a big endorsement -- rank: 1000

<http://www.examiner.com/blogs/Yeas_and_Nays/2007/11/19/Flynt-gets- behind-Dennis-Kucinich?cid=email-blog> Flynt gets behind Dennis Kucinich November 19, 1:17 AM La-La Land While porn mogul Larry Flynt says he's still about to blow the lid off a couple of more sex scandals involving Republicans, he's lining up behind his horse in the Democratic field. Flynt was one of the co-hosts of a fundraiser for liberal candidate Dennis Kucinich at the headquarters of his company, Hustler-LFP, in ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 06:56:09 PST 2007

10284 [lbo-talk] more on the denial of an unspecified charge that had never been made -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] All it took was a few sentences in a Robert Novak posting to roil the Democratic field in the wake of the Las Vegas debate. Novak offers this shadowy mini-nugget of (presumed) reportage: "Agents of Sen. Hillary Clinton are spreading the word in Democratic circles that she has scandalous information about her principal opponent for the party's presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, but has decided not to use it." (Agents? The Clinton campaign has "agents& ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 06:45:59 PST 2007

10285 [lbo-talk] blocked in Saudi Arabia... -- rank: 1000

...but not in China, since my radio page often gets quite a lot of hits from there. A friend covering the OPEC Summit in Riyadh writes: > Hey doug: I m in riyadh covering opec summit. You ll be pleased > to know that > you are censored in Saudi Arabia. I just clicked on the lbo link > and this > is what I got .. > Dear User, > . > Sorry, the requested page is unavailable. > > > > > <http://www.internet.gov.sa/resources-ar/ ...

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10286 [lbo-talk] Wish I Was In Dixie (Re: The North's burden of enlightening the South (was Re: The "NAFTA Superhighway" Urban Myth) -- rank: 1000

On Nov 18, 2007, at 11:59 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > What, exactly, has the cultural dung heap of Long Island produced to > compare with William Faulkner, or even Tennessee Williams? Amy Fisher!

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 06:15:29 PST 2007

10287 [lbo-talk] The North's burden of enlightening the South (was Re: The "NAFTA Superhighway" Urban Myth) -- rank: 1000

I don't want to get up on a Yankee high horse - we've got a lot to answer for too - but the South is different somehow, isn't it? Chris Kromm, who was on this list in its early days and is now director of the Institute for Southern Studies, was thinking for a while of doing a book for Verso on the South as an internal colony, with all the associated maldevelopment. There's something to that, no? Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 18 18:03:33 PST 2007

10288 [lbo-talk] The "NAFTA Superhighway" Urban Myth -- rank: 1000

On Nov 18, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > This is why my first revolutionary proposal is to > abolish state boards of education, and make every town > or school district responsible for its own curriculum. So the problem with U.S. education is that the provincials aren't provincial enough? Doug

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10289 [lbo-talk] the wit & wisdom of Padma Lakshmi -- rank: 1000

<http://nymag.com/daily/food/2007/11/what_we_learned_about_padma.html> The Salty Wit and Wisdom of Padma Lakshmi The latest issue of Vanity Fair features a profile of none other than Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi, who's promoting her new cookbook, Tangy Tart Hot & Sweet. Amid all the foodie talk, Padma actually reveals quite a lot about herself. A sampling: On the Top Chef Emmy nomination: "[It] was a big fucking deal. On life without her ex-husband, Salman Rushdie: "I'm rea ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 17 18:50:07 PST 2007

10290 [lbo-talk] Roubini: The Rising Risk of a Systemic Financial Meltdown -- rank: 1000

On Nov 17, 2007, at 9:13 PM, joanna wrote: > Since Bernanke has announced his unwillingness for further cuts, I > wonder whether the crisis mongering is not simply a way of > attempting to > reverse that course, Good question. Fedster Krozner's speech the other days was very tough - he reiterated the "no more cuts unless things really fall apart" line but the market didn't want to hear it. The market may be right, but the Fed's credibiity is going to be shot. Doug

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