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10756 [lbo-talk] boy toys -- rank: 1000

[Ivan, now age 16 months, kind of likes his doll, likes his toy motor vehicles, and likes playing with cookware not by merely banging it but also by making pretend cooking moves. Wonder if the Post would approve.] New York Post [Page Six] - May 7, 2007 Boy Toys DOES the New York Times brainwash its editors into being so politically correct it affects the way they raise their kids? In his upcoming book, "Father Knows Less," the Gray Lady's city editor Wendell Jamieson writes how h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 7 04:50:00 PDT 2007

10757 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

On May 7, 2007, at 12:46 AM, tfast wrote: > No I mean how it was sold to the public. I quick troll of right > wing blogs > and this is still very much treated as an affair about honour. And while I don't share Carl's view of the South as hopelessly and irredeemably backward, the military and these wars are more popular in the South than in other regions. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 7 04:42:06 PDT 2007

10758 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

On May 6, 2007, at 11:34 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > There is no great cultural gulf fixed between the "upper stratum" and > everybody else -- no matter what the "upper stratum" likes to tell > you. > Sartorises are just Snopeses who know which fork to use. Too bad Bourdieu didn't know this before wasting all that time on habitus. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 7 04:40:25 PDT 2007

10759 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

On May 6, 2007, at 11:04 PM, tfast wrote: > What was the invasion of Afgahnistan and Iraq premised on but the > restoration western honour. Imperialism - it's an honor thing? That's a novel explanation. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 6 20:15:14 PDT 2007

10760 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

On May 6, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Sunday 06 May 2007 20:46, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Is that culture of honor thing more common in previously colonized >> regions than non-colonized? > > Like, say, 18th-century England and France? Places where, if you > belonged to a > certain social stratum, you had to go out at the crack of dawn and > kill or be > killed if you had an argument over the card-table the night before. That was: 1) the upper ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 6 19:30:49 PDT 2007

10761 [lbo-talk] Last overpost of the day: Happy Birthday, Chuck! -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2007, at 9:02 PM, andie nachgeborenen quoted: A verse is missing! No more deluded by reaction, On tyrants only we'll make war! The soldiers too will take strike action, They'll break ranks and fight no more! And if those cannibals keep trying, To sacrifice us to their pride, They soon shall hear the bullets flying, We'll shoot the generals on our own side. So comrades, come rally, And the last fight let us face. The Internationale, Unites the human race. So comrades, come rally, And th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 6 19:24:16 PDT 2007

10762 [lbo-talk] Southern vs. Northern violence -- rank: 1000

On May 6, 2007, at 7:04 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > The general pattern is consistent with Nisbett and Cohen's culture of > honor hypothesis. --Interesting aside, I know Carl will love this: in > one study, N & C exposed college students to an abusive insult (a > person > bumped the student in a hallway and called him "asshole"). > Immediately > afterwards, students who grew up in the South were more > physiologically > aroused, had higher cortisol and tes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 6 17:46:21 PDT 2007

10763 [lbo-talk] Wacko/Sherman (was Re: Brit general says . . . .) -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > I'm trying to figure out the closest thing to "fuck you" > that won't get me thrown off the list. A matter of policy clarification: a mere "fuck you" won't get you thrown off. Repeated "fuck you's" might, especially if they're not accompanied by anything else intelligent or amusing. But that doesn't apply in your case, so a "fuck you" would have been entirely acceptable. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 5 12:40:33 PDT 2007

10764 [lbo-talk] Iran before Ahmadinejad (was capital punishment in Iran) -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2007, at 1:58 PM, ravi wrote: > Even if that's what Yoshie is suggesting, it's not disingenuous: > "third world" nationalism is indeed preferable over colonialist (etc) > nationalism because of the same reason that affirmative action (not a > principle but a tactic) for black people is preferable to affirmative > action for white people. I'd certainly agree that the nationalism of the powerful is a lot different from the nationalism of the powerless; one is an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 5 12:32:50 PDT 2007

10765 [lbo-talk] price of climate action: 3% of GDP -- rank: 1000

Price of climate action 3% of GDP By Fiona Harvey and Gernot Wagner in London The world has until 2020 to reverse the trend of rising greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the most dangerous effects of climate change, the world s top climate scientists warned on Friday. Achieving this would reduce the world s annual gross domestic product by 3 per cent in 2030, the UN expert panel concluded. Emissions have been rising for the past 150 years. Charles Kolstad, professor of environmental economics ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 5 09:31:31 PDT 2007

10766 [lbo-talk] Iran before Ahmadinejad (was capital punishment in Iran) -- rank: 1000

On May 4, 2007, at 10:07 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The criticism of Iran currently being expressed on this list has no > relevance to Iran; in fact it is not about Iran but about what fine > people the critics themselves are. And you, modest Sir, don't think yourself superior for holding this bold and unpopular view? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 21:47:37 PDT 2007

10767 [lbo-talk] Hedge Fund/Bankrupt nations question -- rank: 1000

On May 4, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Auguste Blanqui wrote: > In Harvey's Late Imperialism, the other DH writes: "... just as the > hedge > funds, armed with trillions of dollars of leveraged money, could force > Indonesia and even Korea into bankruptcy, no matter what the > strength of > their underlying economies." > > How might this occur? By pumping a lot of money into Korean or Indonesian assets for a long while, feeding a domestic credit boom, and then suddenly pu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 18:54:38 PDT 2007

10768 [lbo-talk] Brit general says US/UK should "admit defeat" in Iraq -- rank: 1000

On May 4, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > I didn't think such a thing was possible -- a military man with a > brain! Zinni seems not stupid, as does that guy who wrote the "the army is broken" story I posted here last week.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 13:47:28 PDT 2007

10769 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ viewPodcast?id=73801817> "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: May 3, 2007 JOEL SCHALIT on Israeli politics and the (weakening?) hold of the Zionists in the U.S. * FIONA HARVEY, environment c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 13:07:36 PDT 2007

10770 [lbo-talk] Facebook is a CIA plot! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/ t34949.html> Big Brothers, Big Facebook: Your Orwellian Community A few days ago I stumbled across a couple articles mentioning TheFacebook, and a little start-up capital they happened to get in the sum of $13 million. The number intrigued me, so I did a little more research, a little more stumbling, and found something that even I still have a hard time accepting. So, here's what I came up with: (p.s. - I'm hoping t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 11:33:34 PDT 2007