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10366 [lbo-talk] baa baa...sheep? -- rank: 1000

Ivan came home from his daycare singing "baa baa sheep" (as well as a 22-month-old can). It made wonder if "black" had been excised as racist. A quick Google search suggests that it may have been. Has anyone encountered them? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 10 08:19:15 PST 2007

10367 [lbo-talk] book review -- rank: 1000

[What a great opening paragraph.] <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=6230> Volume 30, Number 7 · April 28, 1983 Review Norman in Egypt By Harold Bloom Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer Little, Brown, 704 pp., $19.95 'Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state.' With this artful sentence, Norman Mailer begins his Book of the Dead. Our most conspicuous literary energy has generated its weirdest text, a book that defies usual aesthetic standards, even as it is b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 10 07:00:29 PST 2007

10368 [lbo-talk] RIP Norman Mailer -- rank: 1000

["Outspoken novelist." Sometimes I wish that Rupert Murdoch does succeed in killing the NYT.] <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/books/11mailer.html? _r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1194703701-PL/SMDbh6JpzFnEx9DvKkQ> Gore Vidal, with whom he frequently wrangled, once wrote: Mailer is forever shouting at us that he is about to tell us something we must know or has just told us something revelatory and we failed to hear him or that he will, God grant his ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 10 06:11:19 PST 2007

10369 [lbo-talk] CP runs a Ron Paul endorsement... -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2007, at 8:10 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>> But don't you think Ron Paul is like the perfect name for a >>> libertarian? >> >> Well, according to Paul Fussell, two first names = very downscale. >> Two >> last names = very upscale. > > Yes, but wasn't he refering two actual first names, like Mary Anne or > Bobby Ray, that were followed by a last name? No, it was having a surname that's ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 9 17:56:12 PST 2007

10370 [lbo-talk] CP runs a Ron Paul endorsement... -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2007, at 6:10 PM, joanna wrote: > But don't you think Ron Paul is like the perfect name for a > libertarian? Well, according to Paul Fussell, two first names = very downscale. Two last names = very upscale. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 9 16:28:51 PST 2007

10371 [lbo-talk] CP runs a Ron Paul endorsement... -- rank: 1000

...from the heavy-breathing Mike Whitney: <http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney11092007.html> > Paul's "purely" grassroots movement is energized by working class > Americans who see his candidacy as a last-ditch effort to end the > war in Iraq, reestablish fiscal sanity, and restore civil liberties. "Fiscal sanity"? Yeah, he's good on the war, but the guy is a pro- life goldbug. <http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst082007.htm> > The truth is that b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 9 11:56:37 PST 2007

10372 [lbo-talk] Petrocracy in Venezuela? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Sean Andrews wrote: >> Hey, Mike Davis got one of those. They're not all awarded to >> apologists. >> >> Doug > > I didn't know that. Is that how he's been able to put out so many > densely researched works in so short a period of time? Now I don't > feel like such a laggard. He got it years ago. Bought a house in Hawaii with part of the proceeds, I think. If ever anyone deserved one, it's Mike Davis. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 9 11:49:01 PST 2007

10373 [lbo-talk] Check out my Favorites on StumbleUpon -- rank: 1000

What is this spam? On Nov 9, 2007, at 2:26 PM, bkdelong at pobox.com wrote: > > StumbleUpon > > Discover new web sites > Connect now & > http://www.stumbleupon.com/redirect.php?t=j&u=1575746&d=http%3A%2F% > 2Fwww.stumbleupon.com%2Fjoin.php%3Ffriend%3D2573062%26emailcode% > 3Dgzzp5ra3lshf3brb&l=1&c=gzzp5ra3lshf3brb > > B.K. wants to Share his Favorites with you > > > He likes44 pages > He has2 fans > > Share Favorites with your f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 9 11:47:32 PST 2007

10374 [lbo-talk] Sexies update -- rank: 1000

[You may remember that Liza & I are judges in The Sexies, the sex- positive journalism awards. This just in from the organizer...] 10 Ways to Support Sex-Positive Journalism: 1. Give money! The Sexies are a labor of love. But love doesn't pay the bills. If you can give $100, $50, or $25, it will help us promote the awards, cover our expenses, and honor our winners properly. www.sexies.org/support.html. 2. Submit entries. Yes, readers as well as writers can submit. Articles have to have b ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 9 09:45:16 PST 2007

10375 [lbo-talk] counting to 200 -- how about 500 -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2007, at 8:24 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Which brings me back to my point that people are changed (a) by > conditions which cause them to look for something to change to and (b) > personal conversation, not books or radio broadcasts or journals. That > is why an organizer/agitator talks only to people who already _on some > one point_, agree with him/her. That one point can be something like > individual criminality. I am talking about talking to people who are more or l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 9 07:08:43 PST 2007

10376 [lbo-talk] life @ WBAI -- rank: 1000

[I have no idea if any of this is true. A guy who snorts once a week is hardly a cokehead, and no one around the station that I know has seen him drunk. But you rarely see this guy around the station - he does little visible work and is frequently out of the office. And we just had another failed fundraiser - it came in 10% short of its goal despite being extended from an already-long 21 days to something like 25. It seems that the Post headline writers don't know how to spell "haras ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 9 05:13:56 PST 2007

10377 [lbo-talk] counting to 200 -- how about 500 -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2007, at 6:50 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Joanna is probably correct here, but still I think it best for > political > reasons always to emphasize systemic elements rather than individual > criminality. On some level I agree with you, but most people don't get this systemic stuff. They only get individual criminality. I say that from more than 20 years of experience in trying to talk systemically. People get bored. They want to hear about thugs and scumbags. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 8 21:04:40 PST 2007

10378 [lbo-talk] Hillary, tip stiffer -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2007, at 4:19 PM, J Cullen wrote: > So the campaign paid the bill and left a sizeable tip but it > apparently never got to the waitress. Ha. Just goes to show that you can't trust the petite bourgeoisie.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 8 15:36:28 PST 2007

10379 [lbo-talk] LBO subscription crisis -- rank: 1000

I generally keep LBO (the newsletter) business off here, but I'm desperate. The guy who handles my subscriptions has had some health problems, and has been unable to deliver me email addresses and the printer postal addresses for #116 for three weeks. I've been patient, given his health problems, but I spoke to his wife, who's been helping out two weeks ago, and she promised something in a couple of days. Nothing. In a voicemail more than a week ago he promised something in a couple of da ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 8 10:21:25 PST 2007

10380 [lbo-talk] Windows question -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > And earlier, Doug wrote: > > My god this - > > <http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html> > > is deeply insane. > > .... > > > Well yes it is, but actually? Yours truly wrote about this > (referencing > the good Dr. Gutmann, several times) right here: > > <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of- > Mon-20070129/002241.html> > > How soon we for ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 8 10:16:16 PST 2007