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11776 [lbo-talk] Tower Records -- rank: 1000
On Jan 4, 2007, at 4:20 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > It seems that entertainment can be just as good opium for the > masses as > religion. Forget about the traffic, forget about the lack of > efficient > transportation, affordable health care or being one paycheck from > homelessness, forget about the war, corruption, crime or lack of > prospects - > just put your earphones on and tune in. I not only think about those things all the time, I spend a lot of my life writ ...
Document Size: 5159
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jan 4 15:34:03 PST 2007
11777 [lbo-talk] Tower Records -- rank: 1000
On Jan 4, 2007, at 3:45 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > the ipod generation, so-called, So-called indeed. I'm 54. Speaking of my aging generation, what the fuck is up with Mike Males? He had a piece in the NYT the other day saying that our drug problem is the baby boomers' problem, not the "kids'." Isn't he getting kind of old to be the spokesman for the young? Doug
Document Size: 4788
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jan 4 12:52:07 PST 2007
11778 [lbo-talk] Tower Records -- rank: 1000
On Jan 4, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > I have little sympathy for megastores of any kind too, but his larger > point still stands. He argues that easy access to what one wants > seem to > inhibit the exposure to things that one does not even know exist. > And that > seems to make a lot sense. Solipsism - that of the i-pod > generation and in > general - seems to be nothing more than escapism from the real > world whose > understanding often poses a ...
Document Size: 5866
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jan 4 12:33:03 PST 2007
11779 [lbo-talk] more Goldner on imperialism -- rank: 1000
From: Loren Goldner <lrgoldner at yahoo.com> Date: January 4, 2007 1:07:41 PM EST To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: Yet another one Dear Doug, The debate on imperialism continues to percolate on our list. If you think the following intervention of mine is worth circulating on yours, I'd appreciate feedback. Thanks Loren Thanks to Mike, Rakesh and Paul for re-igniting our imperialism debate to kick off 2007, which promises to be quite a year. Before I get started, I would just like to s ...
Document Size: 20657
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jan 4 11:26:27 PST 2007
11780 [lbo-talk] Tower Records -- rank: 1000
On Jan 4, 2007, at 8:27 AM, Colin Brace wrote: > [any of you New Yorkers lament the loss of Tower Records?] In the abstract, maybe, but I'm one of those bad people who don't buy CDs very often - I download stuff, lots of it legal even. And when I do want a CD, I get it from Amazon. I'm what killed Tower, and I don't feel too bad about it. Doug
Document Size: 4755
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jan 4 07:41:44 PST 2007
11781 [lbo-talk] Al-Sadr Bloc and Sunni Leaders in Consensus over Withdrawal of Foreign Troops -- rank: 1000
On Jan 3, 2007, at 9:01 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Shi'is and Sunnis need the kind of leaders who are capable of letting > bygones be bygones and unite with enemies who killed their own mothers > and fathers. That's the precondition for any strategic or even > tactical unity between the Sadr bloc and former Ba'athists. Yup, for sure, but isn't this the sort of wishful thinking you're always accusing Western leftists of? Doug
Document Size: 5502
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 3 18:10:03 PST 2007
11782 [lbo-talk] Al-Sadr Bloc and Sunni Leaders in Consensus over Withdrawal of Foreign Troops -- rank: 1000
On Jan 3, 2007, at 8:43 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > the Shi'i-Sunni bloc that Sadr's trying to build What are the prospects for that after Saddam's hangmen were chanting "Moktada!" Doug
Document Size: 5225
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 3 17:46:37 PST 2007
11783 [lbo-talk] Al-Sadr Bloc and Sunni Leaders in Consensus over Withdrawal of Foreign Troops -- rank: 1000
On Jan 3, 2007, at 7:36 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Ayatollah Sistani urged all Iraqi political and religious groups to > maintain unity during his meeting with the UIA officials. Haven't we been through this like 20 times already? Doug
Document Size: 5278
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 3 16:43:55 PST 2007
11784 [lbo-talk] Amiri Baraka -- rank: 1000
I'm going to be recording an interview with Amiri Baraka on Friday, based on his new collection of short stories, Tales of the Out and the Gone (Akashic Books). What I've read so far is pretty compelling - so much so that I missed my subway stop this morning. Given all the orchestrated national mourning for Gerald Ford, one of the stories describes him as "the big-headed, empty-faced moron who fronted off for the corporate dictatorship that ran America...." Too bad Baraka wasn't ...
Document Size: 5134
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 3 15:58:31 PST 2007
11785 [lbo-talk] Possible conference on "Guaranteed Income" - April 2007 -- rank: 1000
[which is why, of course, the bourgeoisie hates the idea - via aut-op- sy] From: "Ed Emery" <ed.emery at britishlibrary.net> Date: December 31, 2006 8:49:03 AM EST To: <ed.emery at britishlibrary.net> Subject: [AUT] Possible conference on "Guaranteed Income" - April 2007 List-Archive: <https://lists.resist.ca/pipermail/aut-op-sy> Dear Colleagues, Those of you who attended the April 2006 conference on Immaterial Labour may recall that I suggested that there ...
Document Size: 7121
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 3 15:31:45 PST 2007
11786 [lbo-talk] war: it's hardwired -- rank: 1000
Contact: Jeff Marn, Media Relations Manager / ph: (202) 939-2242 / e- mail: jmarn at CarnegieEndowment.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, January 3, 2007; Washington, D.C. Foreign Policy January/February 2007 On Newsstands Now Why Hawks Win Brain Hard-Wired to Favor Hawkish Beliefs, Says Nobel Prize Winner Also, Was Castro Good for Cuba? Why Rupert Murdoch Isn't as Evil as You Think; Marching Orders for the New U.N. Boss; Why "Third World" Companies Will Rule; and more When it co ...
Document Size: 7285
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 3 08:28:08 PST 2007
11787 [lbo-talk] The Hitch and Cooper on the Lynching -- rank: 1000
On Jan 3, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > http://www.slate.com/id/2156776/ > http://marccooper.com/lynching-and-wincing/ > -- > Michael Pugliese > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk What the fuck did Hitch expect out of his war? Moral uplift? Lying down together of lion and lamb?
Document Size: 5223
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 3 06:37:57 PST 2007
11788 [lbo-talk] maybe men aren't funny either -- rank: 1000
[the normally unremarkable Alessandra Stanley may be onto something here] <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/arts/television/03stan.html? _r=2&ref=arts&oref=slogin&oref=slogin> Male Misery Just Loves Female Company By ALESSANDRA STANLEY Time magazine shocked America by asking Is God Dead? on its cover in 1966. Vanity Fair is now needling the nation with Christopher Hitchens s essay Why Women Aren t Funny. It could also be that most men are not so funny, either, and women ...
Document Size: 5236
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 3 06:35:07 PST 2007
11789 [lbo-talk] women bosses more likely to discriminate against women -- rank: 1000
Sunday Times (London) - December 31, 2006 Office queen bees hold back women's careers Roger Dobson and Will Iredale FORGET "jobs for the boys". Women bosses are significantly more likely than men to discriminate against female employees, research has suggested. The study found that when presented with applications for promotion, women were more likely than men to assess the female candidate as less qualified than the male one. They were also prone to mark down women's prospects fo ...
Document Size: 8700
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 3 05:48:09 PST 2007
11790 [lbo-talk] Bono, Whitney and other Miscellaneous Musings and Mutterings -- rank: 1000
On Jan 2, 2007, at 11:01 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Just for the record: bare-fist boxing is _much_ safer for the boxers. > Boxing gloves do NOT soften the blow, but they do protect the fist, > thus > allowing stronger blows, and increasing the damage done to fighters. Don't the gloves add weight too, multiplying the damage? Doug
Document Size: 5244
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 2 20:15:54 PST 2007
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