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11476 [lbo-talk] Growth -- rank: 1000

On Jul 8, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > Does this mean that we can hope that the movie staring the editor and > creator of the Left Business Observer will star Angelina Jolie? Tempting, tempting. She might look cool in drag. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 8 06:40:57 PDT 2007

11477 [lbo-talk] 300 Pounds of Joy (Was Re: 4 July - Help me Think) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 8, 2007, at 8:50 AM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > According to Gina Kolata's latest book -- Rethinking Thin: The New > Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting -- Not > even exercise and reduced calories will help in the long run. So why, if corpulence is so baked in the cake, are Americans now so much fatter than they used to be, and so much fatter than most other people in the world? Doug

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11478 [lbo-talk] Liberalism (Was Re: Nietzsche) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 5, 2007, at 12:13 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > I am out of patience with people who say that > liberalism is a Bad Thing because of Ted Sorenson, Uh, that's not what I said at all. I said you were giving too much credit to the likes of him. Radicals pushed for a lot of the stuff you cherish as "liberal," while actual liberals have given us much worse. E.g., Palmer raids and loyalty oaths. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 7 19:39:51 PDT 2007

11479 [lbo-talk] Brit lit goes to hell -- rank: 1000

On Jul 7, 2007, at 10:17 PM, Andy F wrote: > What do you think of Walter Mosely? Self-identified socialist, no? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 7 19:36:00 PDT 2007

11480 [lbo-talk] Israel's Economy -- rank: 1000

On Jul 7, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > If readers on this forum aren't familiar with Jonathan Nitzan and > Shimson Bichler, here's an example of their work, in this case on > Israel's economy. Their earlier work, The Global Political Economy > of Israel, makes a strong argument for big oil's role in shaping US > middle east policy. > > http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/ > 236/02/20070706_bn_israel_roaring_economy_gr.htm I've interviewed Jonathan Nitzan twice: < ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 7 12:35:14 PDT 2007

11481 [lbo-talk] US govt surveillance protected by Catch 22 -- rank: 1000

On Jul 7, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > What's not clear is why there isn't anyone around with good standing. You have to know you're being tapped. Who does? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 7 12:19:05 PDT 2007

11482 [lbo-talk] Brit lit goes to hell -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - July 7, 2007 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2120934,00.html> Only Pinter remains British literature's long and rich tradition of politically engaged writers has come to an end Terry Eagleton For almost the first time in two centuries, there is no eminent British poet, playwright or novelist prepared to question the foundations of the western way of life. One might make an honourable exception of Harold Pinter, who has wisely decided that being a ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 7 11:25:42 PDT 2007

11483 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Chicago Tribune notice on "Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist's Travelogue" -- rank: 1000

[I interviewed Michael about the book; it's at <http:// www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#070322>.] Chicago Tribune - July 8, 2007 <http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/ chi-0708resourcefuljul08,1,7005601.story> The Resourceful Traveler By June Sawyers "Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist's Travelogue" (Monthly Review Press, $15.95) It isn't often that you come across a travel guide whose main theme is inequality. But, then again, it isn't too often that trave ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 7 11:12:29 PDT 2007

11484 [lbo-talk] US govt surveillance protected by Catch 22 -- rank: 1000

The judges might have liked this standing excuse just fine. From the NYT's account: > Cass R. Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago, > said courts often relied on doctrines like standing to avoid > entering into politically hot controversies. > > This, for at least two of the judges, was a very sensitive, > substantive issue, Professor Sunstein added, referring to the > legality of the N.S.A. program, which, once they get into it, is > an uphill figh ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 7 11:09:26 PDT 2007

11485 [lbo-talk] Hard working Americans -- rank: 1000

On Jul 7, 2007, at 1:35 AM, uvj at vsnl.com quoted: Hard working Americans http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=59224&videoChannel=2 Jul. 5 - Study says Americans get about half as much time off as Europeans. [from today's Page Six] Office Addiction WORKING for Donald Trump is no vacation - literally. The tireless developer says he's heartened by a survey that reveals one in five people brings a laptop and does some work during holidays, while 80 percent have cellphones to stay in t ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 7 06:21:11 PDT 2007

11486 [lbo-talk] queer Muslims -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - July 7, 2007 Gay Old Time In Sharia Land THE ayatollahs may not slap him with a fatwah as they did Salman Rushdie, but fundamentalist clerics are bound to be enraged at Michael Luongo over "Gay Travels in the Muslim World" (Harrington Park Press), his book celebrating homosexuality in the Middle East. Luongo who compiled chapters by 17 writers covering Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Bangladesh, Turkey and Saudi Arabia had the foreword written by Afdhere Jam ...

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11487 [lbo-talk] economics of testosterone -- rank: 1000

<http://jezebel.com/gossip/hormonomics/men-who-shop-are-just-really- really-manly-275784.php> hormonomics Men Who Shop Are Just Really Really Manly Clearance season is here! And.. "Phil has somehow managed to come home with bag after bag of perfect items found at deep discount in the men's section from Lodan Dager navy pants to Paul Smith corduroy." So writes fashion blogger Julie Frederickson of her boyfriend. Who is totally gay right? Perhaps nein! A new study conducted on m ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 6 14:38:31 PDT 2007

11488 [lbo-talk] The Impeachment movement gets a second wind -- rank: 1000

On Jul 6, 2007, at 4:02 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > I got the impression that the general sense of the list (and > certainly of > the list-Mom) was that the earlier movement was a quixotic drain of > energy. So I was curious -- is there more enthusiasm for this second > wave? Not me. Why bother? They'll be gone soon enough, to be almost certainly replaced by bourgeois tools. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 6 13:22:24 PDT 2007

11489 [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>: July 5, 2007 AUDACIA RAY, author of Naked on the Internet, on women, the net, and sex * LEN RODBERG rebuts the attacks on Michae ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 6 13:18:56 PDT 2007

11490 [lbo-talk] jihospital -- rank: 1000

Headline on Michael Moore's site: "Fox News tries to put universal health care in the jihospital." <http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/>

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