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11191 [lbo-talk] netroots v Facebook! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0607/ The_limits_of_the_netroots.html> June 15, 2007 The limits of the netroots Patrick Ruffini, newly liberated from Giulianiland, has a provocative post asking whether the Netroots haven't "stalled out." <quote> Lo and behold, they aren t the largest constituency in the Democratic Party. They aren t even the largest constituency online. [snip] The core reason for Jerome s alienation is that the netroots are losing a battle for re ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 16 14:59:25 PDT 2007

11192 [lbo-talk] Sir Salman -- rank: 1000

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6756149.stm> Rushdie knighted in honours list Sir Salman was able to return to public life in 1999 Salman Rushdie, who went into hiding under threat of death after an Iranian fatwa, has been knighted by the Queen. His book The Satanic Verses offended Muslims worldwide and a bounty was placed on his head in 1989. But since the Indian-born author returned to public life in 1999, he has not shied away from controversy. A devout secularist, he backed Comm ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 16 14:50:04 PDT 2007

11193 [lbo-talk] A question regarding list member identities... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Blackmail wrote: > also because sports [at least football, soccer, college basketball and > baseball imo] are really fun to watch! i'm going to a phils game > tonight. i > hope the left doesn't totally backslide while moyer's on the mound. > > i was often amazed at how clueless a lot of my classmates at the > new school > were about sports [and more depressingly, music.] if it's the > lingua franca > of the working class, it might help t ...

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11194 [lbo-talk] Cockburn's ur-expert on peer review -- rank: 1000

<http://www.counterpunch.com/cockburn06162007.html> Apropos peer review Martin Hertzberg, sent me an amusing note last week: When people ask me how can I possibly disagree with all the Nobel Prize winners who have signed on to the theory of the human causation of global warming, I tell them the Einstein story of the Anti- Relativity Society . After Einstein left Berlin and after Hitler took over, the Nazis were not happy with Relativity Theory, which of course they didn't understan ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 16 14:27:39 PDT 2007

11195 [lbo-talk] Solidarity and Class (Was Re: Taibbi ) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2007, at 1:17 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > I hope people have read Doug's > brilliant preliminary essay on the ruling class in the > new LBO, Thank you! > but it makes utter nonsense of the behavior > of the working class. The fact is that whatever the > defects of the finer points of Thomas Franks' What's > The Matter With Kansas?, he's got a crucial point that > American workers do not conceive themselves as narrow > economic maximizers and don't act i ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 16 10:49:09 PDT 2007

11196 [lbo-talk] it *is* a celebrity unit! -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - June 16, 2007 Laying On Luxe For Paris PARIS Hilton had better hope she stays sick. The celebu-con is getting the princess treatment in the medical wing of the Century Regional Detention Center. Her fellow pokeymates say most inmates "have to be bleeding from their eyes" to get into the eight-bed ward, but Hilton was whisked straight into a private room where she sleeps on a comfortable hospital bed and sups on roast beef, spaghetti and meatballs, chick ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 16 10:41:07 PDT 2007

11197 [lbo-talk] Taibbi (was Re: Fwd: Antioch College Closing!) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2007, at 1:10 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > Should > they call themselves feminist and risk alienating lots of women who > couldn't identify with that silly white women's movement -- for > that was > the dominant view at the time, peddled in Ebony and Jet and peddled > a great > deal by black nationalist men. A view still popular with the male black nationalists around WBAI, judging by their behavior. Doug

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11198 [lbo-talk] Taibbi (was Re: Fwd: Antioch College Closing!) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2007, at 11:37 AM, ravi wrote: > A [genuine] question: what is the basis of solidarity? Surely it is > more than back-scratching? With class, in part, a common role in production, broadly conceived. But that's not necessarily visible to the naked eye - it takes a lot of organizing and educating to make it clear. On nonclass things, common humanity. It was touching to read the story in the NYT yesterday about the Massachusetts legislators who switched their vote on same-sex ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 16 09:33:46 PDT 2007

11199 [lbo-talk] A question regarding list member identities... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2007, at 10:44 AM, joyce brothers wrote: > But I'm pissed. They complain. Or not. But they > don't vote. They won't. They are obsessed with > sports. Why? Clear outcomes. Simple rules. Stages conflicts with no real consequences or casualties. Doug

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11200 [lbo-talk] A question regarding list member identities... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 15, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > I am amazed at how shocked you are that antioch types are > scoffed at! Perhaps a little unfairly, but, here we are- its the > world we > live in. You gotta get with it to get with it. I'm not shocked. I've lived in this world a pretty long time. But you seem to think there's some wisdom in the position. I don't. It's a right-wing impulse - to focus class resentment on liberals and intellectuals. (And this impulse isn't even fact- ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 16 07:32:49 PDT 2007

11201 [lbo-talk] Taibbi (was Re: Fwd: Antioch College Closing!) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2007, at 2:19 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: > identity politics war far superior, for their purposes, to class > struggle. Damn, I thought this opposition of "class vs. identity" had gone the way of the dodo, or at least the 90s. Why are these things in opposition? Race, sex, sexual preference are all tied up with the distribution of property and the division of labor. They intersect with class in all kinds of ways: jobs, promotions, pay, access to inheritance. And it' ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 16 07:13:05 PDT 2007

11202 [lbo-talk] key to the Sopranos! -- rank: 1000

In all the analysis of the last Sopranos episode, I haven't seen any mention of this passage from Journey's "Don't Stop Believing," though maybe I've missed it: > Oh, the movie never ends > It goes on and on and on and on "It's all there," said Chase. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 16 07:06:49 PDT 2007

11203 [lbo-talk] Taibbi (was Re: Fwd: Antioch College Closing!) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 16, 2007, at 2:15 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Shut up, Carl. Fuck off. Now, now. Doug

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11204 [lbo-talk] A question regarding list member identities... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 15, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > I am amazed at how shocked you are that antioch types are > scoffed at! Years ago I remember driving around New Hampshire as some cranky right-wing talk show host ranted about "those creepy Goddard College types." I'm no hippie but I thought that was bigoted crap. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 15 20:54:42 PDT 2007

11205 [lbo-talk] more Americans believe in God than devil, heaven than hell -- rank: 1000

[detailed tables in original omitted because they format crappily] <http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=27877> June 13, 2007 Americans More Likely to Believe in God Than the Devil, Heaven More Than Hell Belief in the Devil has increased since 2000 by Frank Newport GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Roughly 9 in 10 Americans believe in God or a universal spirit, while fewer than 10% are firm in their belief that there is no God. Eighty-one percent of Americans believe in heaven. At ...

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