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1156 [lbo-talk] McLemee talks to some pundits about OWS -- rank: 1000

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee_on_occupy_wall_street

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Date:	Thu Oct 13 14:18:07 PDT 2011

1157 [lbo-talk] Jobs: done in by quackery? -- rank: 1000

http://gawker.com/5849543/harvard-cancer-expert-steve-jobs-probably-doomed-himself-with-alternative-medicine Harvard Cancer Expert: Steve Jobs Probably Doomed Himself With Alternative Medicine Steve Jobs had a mild form of cancer that is not usually fatal, but seems to have ushered along his own death by delaying conventional treatment in favor of alternative remedies, a Harvard Medical School researcher and faculty member says....

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Date:	Thu Oct 13 14:12:11 PDT 2011

1158 [lbo-talk] The guy who 'blocked' John Lewis -- rank: 1000

On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > . . . is actually pretty damn impressive. (and Joan Walsh is a twit, but > you knew that) > > "Those who are put off by the human mic chanting are similar to those who > go out for a nature walk with head-phones on " > > http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/13/the_man_who_blocked_john_lewis_speaks/singleton/ Well, damn, how about that? And I was just reading a rant in Colorlines about how the white kids don't get ho ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 13 13:31:04 PDT 2011

1159 [lbo-talk] Is this LBO-Talk's Peter Lavelle -- rank: 1000

On Oct 13, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Ferenc Molnar wrote: > RT can get pretty nutty. They're into shouting matches. I did one once - total waste of time. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 13 12:32:29 PDT 2011

1160 [lbo-talk] Blake's "London" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2011, at 1:25 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I took a copy of PL along, and read it through between 9pm and 6am. I did that in college - up all night reading almost all of it. I wonder if I'd have the stamina now. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 12 06:31:34 PDT 2011

1161 [lbo-talk] Blake's "London" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2011, at 10:52 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > I do understand intellectually that Paradise Lost is GREAT. > > But I've never had a moment's pleasure reading it. You like Blake, right? If you sit back the declamatory tone in PL is like a drug.

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Date:	Tue Oct 11 20:09:07 PDT 2011

1162 [lbo-talk] Blake's "London" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2011, at 11:42 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> On Oct 11, 2011, at 4:46 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: >>> Overall, I think it is the most perfect poem in the English language. I mean if there has to be one such. >> Keats's "To Autumn"? Byron's "So We'll Go No More A-Roving"? Lots of competition! > > I have to say that Paradise Lost pisses all over this shit. really. I wouldn't put it that way. Different scales, di ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 11 20:08:20 PDT 2011

1163 [lbo-talk] Income cutoffs -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2011, at 8:47 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > isn't it based on household income Doug? Which means that it could > well be that the $100,000 and up incomes are the product of two income > earners? Yup, household income. And you can't beat two earners for boosting it, unless you're Lloyd Blankfein.

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Date:	Tue Oct 11 17:52:03 PDT 2011

1164 [lbo-talk] Income cutoffs -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2011, at 8:21 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Maybe they should start calling themselves the 96%'ers ... seems like 1% isn't a big enough target! It's not mathematically correct, but I think it's basically good politics: http://lbo-news.com/2011/10/01/maybe-99-is-a-bit-much-but / Draw the target perhaps to narrowly to keep the merely affluent from freaking out. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 11 17:29:49 PDT 2011

1165 [lbo-talk] Income cutoffs -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2011, at 6:58 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> 20th percentile: $20,000 >> 80th percentile: $100,000 > > What's the total number of data points? You mean the size of the sample? For the Census figures, probably around 300,000. For the Piketty-Saez, the entire universe of tax returns. Doug

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Date:	Tue Oct 11 17:14:26 PDT 2011

1166 [lbo-talk] Income cutoffs -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Doug, I'm sure you listed this somewhere, but I can't find it: what are the most recent income cutoffs for the top > > 20% > 10% > 1% > 0.1% > 0.01% Mixing sources here - 20th and 80th from the Census Bureau, rest from Piketty-Saez, all for 2008 and rounded (note that the Census 80 isn't much below P-S's 90): 20th percentile: $20,000 80th percentile: $100,000 90th: $110,000 95th: $153,000 99th: $368,000 99.9th: $1,695,000 ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 11 14:59:34 PDT 2011

1167 [lbo-talk] Blake's "London" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2011, at 4:46 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Overall, I think it is the most perfect poem in the English language. I mean if there has to be one such. Keats's "To Autumn"? Byron's "So We'll Go No More A-Roving"? Lots of competition!

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Date:	Tue Oct 11 14:02:21 PDT 2011

1168 [lbo-talk] Poland re-elects PM Donald Tusk -- rank: 1000

On Oct 10, 2011, at 12:49 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > Poland has a rather large manufacturing sector, courtesy of 40 years > of communism and central planning, and an "underdeveloped" financial > sector - which has been a frequent complaint of neo liberals there. Isn't it also Germany's Mexico? Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 10 14:03:07 PDT 2011

1169 [lbo-talk] Debt: first 5000 years -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > When I picked up Corey Robin's book after Doug's interview, the Amazon > 'others who bought this also bought...' list was a string of other > Behind the News interviewees. I wonder just how much book moving > muscle BtN has... Doug, you ought to set up one of those deals where > people buy through your site and you get a cut! All the book links are coded to my Amazon account - but maybe I should be more explicit about it. I get abou ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 10 05:30:38 PDT 2011

1170 [lbo-talk] The opposite of twinkles -- rank: 1000

On Oct 8, 2011, at 7:52 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Lynx 2.8.6rel.4 (15 Nov 2006) (latest release) What is this, a time capsule? Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 8 05:19:14 PDT 2011