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11761 [lbo-talk] Privelege (Was Re: Maoist cleanup drive hits Nepal) -- rank: 1000

On Jan 8, 2007, at 7:21 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Actually, Stalin was a sadist. You mean all those people volunteered for the Gulag? Doug

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11762 [lbo-talk] Privelege (Was Re: Maoist cleanup drive hits Nepal) -- rank: 1000

I'm reminded of Ernest Mandel saying once, with disapproval: "The Stalinists, with their petit bourgeois morality...."

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11763 Privelege Was Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Maoist cleanup drive hits -- rank: 1000

> CB: Ignore the fact that to non-BDSM people, that some BDSM seems to > simulate violent acts toward women, and therefore may feed into the > misogynist mentality of men who beat/rape women. It doesn't. The burden of proof is on you to substantiate such an assertion. Dominant male/submissive female is not the, um, dominant form of BDSM; I don't see how a minority discourse within a minority discourse (and one that's reached the public consciousness only in the last decade or two) c ...

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11764 [lbo-talk] you want W up there? -- rank: 1000

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11765 (Privelege Was Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Maoist cleanup drive hits -- rank: 1000

On Jan 8, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > My own experience is that leftists hate on kinky BDSM sex ALL the > time, maybe even more than honkie america. I've gotten in so many > arguments about this with radicals over the years. It's so > strange. Why do so many leftos have mean things to say about > BDSM? Can someone on this list make whatever argument there is to > make, about BDSM being bad or fundamentally oppressive or > whatever? I just can't imagine what i ...

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11766 (Privelege Was Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Maoist cleanup drive hits Nepal gays) -- rank: 1000

On Jan 8, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > The biggest privilege we all have, queer or non-queer, is the > privilege of being born in a rich and peaceful country, having access > to tap water, flush toilets, and things like that. Till last spring, > few in America or anywhere else in the OECD nations -- even leftists > or queer leftists -- took any interest in the Nepalese, GLBT or > straight, except such outfits as MR, RCP, AI, and HRW, which have > political a ...

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11767 [lbo-talk] not a failure, just not a success yet -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] AL KAMEN, WASHINGTON POST - And now, the Monty Python Dead Parrot Award for 2006. It's always best to wait till the very end of the year before declaring the winner of this prestigious spinmeister award -- given in honor of the iconic scene in which Michael Palin, as a pet-shop owner, insists that the obviously dead parrot he just sold John Cleese's character is merely napping. And, sure enough, the winning entry came in on Dec. 28, when CNN's Ed Henry interv ...

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11768 [lbo-talk] Planning behind non-democratic parts of US govt's structure? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 7, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Tayssir John Gabbour wrote: > Does anyone know a resource on how parts of the US gov't were > intentionally structured in a non-democratic way by the constitutional > framers? (So for example, it might explain why they believed that the > Senate would turn out to be more accountable to wealthy property > owners than to the people.) For a recent version of this, check out Dan Lazare's The Frozen Republic. Used on Amazon for $2.87. Doug

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11769 [lbo-talk] Tower Records -- rank: 1000

On Jan 7, 2007, at 11:56 AM, John Adams wrote: > By the way, am I a bad person for liking Shakira? No, esp if you have a video iPod!

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11770 [lbo-talk] E F-G, RIP -- rank: 1000

New York Times - January 7, 2007 Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Historian, Is Dead at 65 By MARGALIT FOX Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, a noted historian and women's studies scholar who roiled both disciplines with her transition from Marxist-inclined feminist to conservative public intellectual, died on Tuesday in Atlanta. She was 65 and had lived in Atlanta for many years. Ms. Fox-Genovese's husband, the historian Eugene D. Genovese, confirmed the death, citing no specific cause. He said that his wife ...

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11771 [lbo-talk] Re: I worship Thee, O Python -- rank: 1000

On Jan 5, 2007, at 5:42 PM, BklynMagus wrote: > Easily offended and sexually prudish members of lbo should > forbear from clicking on the following link: > > http://www.extremerestraints.com/the-python-x-large-double- > dong_487.html Wow that's big. Doug

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11772 [lbo-talk] On Bush's motives -- rank: 1000

On Jan 5, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Toyota Motors was founded in the late 1930s by Toyoda > Kiichiro. The Toyoda family was already well > established as textile merchants when Kiichiro decided > to add auto manufacturing to their portfolio. And if I remember correctly he changed the spelling because the numerology worked out better.

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11773 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Dinesh D'Souza on the Value of Traditional Religious Values -- rank: 1000

On Jan 5, 2007, at 1:00 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Doug posted: > > [a press release on D'Souza's latest - Billy Moyers?] > > > [WS:] I am over the limit for today (apologies), but I am curious what > purpose is being served by reposting this drivel. Because it's so damned crazy that I thought it was entertaining.

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11774 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Dinesh D'Souza on the Value of Traditional Religious Values -- rank: 1000

On Jan 5, 2007, at 12:14 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Doug, invite "Dineshy" onto your show and ask him I toyed with the idea for about 3 mins, then decided it'd be a waste of time. He's a hack propagandist, and it'd be about as productive as beating my head against a wall. Doug

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11775 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Dinesh D'Souza on the Value of Traditional Religious Values -- rank: 1000

[a press release on D'Souza's latest - Billy Moyers?] Just checking in on one of our January titles that is sure to spark debate in the New Year. Dinesh D Souza takes on the most talked about, dissected topic of our day and gives us a startling, controversial reading on the causes and possible cures for the war on terror in THE ENEMY AT HOME: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11 (Doubleday; On-sale: January 16, 2007). D Souza reveals that the war on terror is not, as many have ...

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