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11791 [lbo-talk] Chinese deb -- rank: 1000

I know that the nature of the Chinese system is controversial - capitalist? socialist? socialist with Chinese characteristics? - but here's some strong evidence that it's capitalist: a Chinese girl "came out" at the Debutante Ball the other night, named Chloe Amanda Ho (!): <http://www.socialiterank.com/?p=752>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 2 20:01:27 PST 2007

11792 [lbo-talk] Mass same-sex marriage news -- rank: 1000

From: "Ken Sherrill" <ken at kensherrill.com> Date: January 2, 2007 7:02:42 PM EST To: "Kenslist" <kenslist at groups.queernet.org> -----Original Message----- From: Martha Ackelsberg [mailto:mackelsb at email.smith.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 6:43 PM Subject: Up-date from Mass Legislator Stan Rosenberg on today's Mass.vote Please forward to those interested. Martha'-------- I am writing to provide a report on today's meeting of the Constitutional Conven ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 2 16:07:37 PST 2007

11793 [lbo-talk] Happy Birthday, Ivan! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 2, 2007, at 4:07 PM, tfast wrote: > Time to move up to the editors chair and farm out the rest. Become an > institution. Petty proprietorship is taxing:) Man, do you ever speak truth, comrade. Hmmm.

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Date:	Tue Jan 2 13:18:18 PST 2007

11794 [lbo-talk] Happy Birthday, Ivan! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 2, 2007, at 1:31 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > And Happy Birthday to Left Business Observer! I just opened my > copy of #114, with the headline "LBO at 20." > > Thanks to Doug for 20 years of a great paper. Thank you. I must admit that, after 20 years, the energy sags somewhat. I need a shot of inspiration, or adrenalin, or B12, or something. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 2 12:27:03 PST 2007

11795 [lbo-talk] Bono -- rank: 1000

Great story, but apparently not true: <http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/bono.asp>. On Jan 2, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > Bono, the lead singer of the band U2 is famous throughout the > entertainment industry for being more than just a little > self-righteous. > > He was playing a U2 concert in Glasgow, Scotland when he asked the > audience for total quiet. > > Then in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands ... once > every few second ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 2 07:56:50 PST 2007

11796 [lbo-talk] bid on Whitney! -- rank: 1000

How the mighty fall - Whitney Houston's musical equipment, furniture, and wardrobe on auction: <http://ajwauctions.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=home.auctionDetails&AuctionID=321>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 2 07:50:57 PST 2007

11797 [lbo-talk] Wall Street Journal is free today -- rank: 1000

On Jan 2, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > to promote their new layout. Pick up a copy at any newstand. It looks and feels very weird. Maybe it's just the novelty, but it just doesn't seem as serious. The old 19th century quasi-narrative headline style on the front page is severely diluted, and the new typeface looks like it aspires to whimsy. The old front page was so beautiful. Sniff. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 2 05:30:40 PST 2007

11798 [lbo-talk] Kirk on Tel Aviv -- rank: 1000

[from further down that American Conservative article on how today's campus right has turned away from the ideas of the likes of Russell Kirk - which include...] Are both readings equally valid? Students who delve deeper into Kirk s life and work will find an answer. While he never openly dissented from the Cold War, Kirk left little doubt about his feelings toward more recent foreign-policy developments, saying at the time of the first Gulf War, Not seldom has it seemed as if some emine ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 1 19:37:00 PST 2007

11799 [lbo-talk] Re: Fidel -- rank: 1000

On Jan 1, 2007, at 6:39 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > Primitivist Luddite, post-leftist paleo-conservative Kirkpatrick > Sale, in Pat Buchanan's magazine Speaking of which, interesting piece on the intellectual death of campus conservatism: <http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_11_06/cover.html> GOP and Man at Yale The intellectual dexterity that once distinguished campus conservatives has given way to mindless Republican boosterism. by Daniel McCarthy James R. Lawrence III doesn t l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 1 19:30:35 PST 2007

11800 [lbo-talk] Re: Fidel -- rank: 1000

On Jan 1, 2007, at 6:20 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > Stalin the Mass Murderer Personally? Didn't he have assistants? Millions of people were involved in creating Soviet society of the 1930s. This sort of thing makes it sound like the deed of one extraordinary criminal. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 1 19:26:54 PST 2007

11801 [lbo-talk] Happy Birthday, Ivan! -- rank: 1000

Thank you, Jordan! I missed this last year, or if I saw it I've forgotten, for the obvious reasons. Here's the birthgays from Tom Heald's daily Pridelets: > BIRTHGAYS (and the occasional straights) > * 1632 - Anglo-Welsh poet Katherine Philips > * 1879 - novelist, short story writer, and essayist E.M. Forster > * 1883 - Western poet Charles "Badger" Clark > * 1895 - Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover > * 1909 - eventual straight ally Arizona Sen ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 1 18:49:49 PST 2007

11802 [lbo-talk] Just how bad has it gotten? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 28, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Michael McIntyre wrote: > Margaret Kimberley published ten questions in today's Black Agenda > Report (www.blackagendareport.com) that I think should define a > minimal progressive platform: > 1. Will you end the occupation of Iraq? > 2. Will Jose Padilla still be in prison? Will you close Guantanamo? > 3. Will you enact a plan for universal health care? > 4. Will your administration demand that Israel cease committing > human rights abuses an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 28 12:03:43 PST 2007

11803 [lbo-talk] Peretz no longer an owner of TNR -- rank: 1000

<http://themediamob.observer.com/2007/02/canwest-buys-out-the-new- republic.html> CanWest Buys out the New Republic Just days after purchasing the shares from money men Roger Hertog and Michael Steinhardt, Canadian media giant Can West has completely bought out the New Republic. The Observer first reported in Dec. 2006 (2nd item) that CanWest was taking a majority stake in the company. That was confirmed on Feb 23. Instead of just majority interest, CanWest now owns 100% of the company ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 28 10:51:36 PST 2007

11804 [lbo-talk] christian podcasting -- rank: 1000

On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > These were the ads at the lbotalk archives when I opened them just > now: Click through! Click through! More money for Jordan!!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 28 10:44:25 PST 2007

11805 [lbo-talk] no Fox -- rank: 1000

Just heard from the producer that my Fox moment has been postponed, possibly to Friday (and possibly to forever). Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 28 10:31:13 PST 2007