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11836 [lbo-talk] Gore -- rank: 1000
[from The Note] Making it tougher still to break in: the media's obsession with the man who would make the Big 6 the Big 7. Basically, the political press wants to tempt Al Gore into the race, and then they will destroy him as a flip-flopping, exaggerating, stiff loser. And Gore knows this.
Document Size: 4794
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 23 07:37:55 PST 2007
11837 [lbo-talk] War Losses Mount for Small Towns -- rank: 1000
On Feb 22, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Another thing to consider is that Manhattan, where many movement > leaders and intellectuals seem determined to to have offices, is not a > hospitable place for growing a Left that can challenge the Democratic > Party. An absence of news about New York activists occupying HRC's > offices, in contrast to occupations of Democratic congresspeople's > offices in Toledo, OH, Denver, CO, Sacramento, CA, etc., is an index > of ...
Document Size: 5622
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 22 12:33:57 PST 2007
11838 [lbo-talk] War Losses Mount for Small Towns -- rank: 1000
On Feb 22, 2007, at 2:12 PM, Chuck wrote: > Look, if ANSWER, UFPJ and the labor unions are such skilled > organizers, > than certainly they can organize a national anti-war mobilization in > Columbus, Ohio. Us Midwesterners always have to get on the bus for > D.C. > protests, so why can't East Coast people get on some buses to the > Midwest? If you really want to stop the war, aren't you going to > have to > step outside your comfort zone? Why all this travel? Save tim ...
Document Size: 5349
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 22 11:26:29 PST 2007
11839 [lbo-talk] The Log Library Project -- rank: 1000
On Feb 22, 2007, at 1:22 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: >> tfast wrote: >>> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:37:52 -0500 >>> From: "tfast" <tfast at yorku.ca> >>> WTF and I did this but really WTF > > At 01:07 PM 2/22/2007, Richard Menec wrote: >> "WTF and I did this but really WTF" means what exactly? >> Could you attempt to be a bit more coherent? >> Or you were just having a bad day? >> thanks, >> Ric ...
Document Size: 5851
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 22 10:55:43 PST 2007
11840 [lbo-talk] fun & Crisco at Princeton -- rank: 1000
[nice pic of the dick-in-a-box at the original] New York Observer - February 26, 2007 <http://observer.com/ 20070226/20070226_Spencer_Morgan_pageone_newsstory2.asp> Undercover at Princeton s Eating Clubs Lingerie, beer and a big tub of Crisco! They re keepin it classy over at the Ivy League s New Jersey outpost. Spencer Morgan On Saturday, Feb. 17, the University Cottage Club, one of Princeton's most exclusive eating clubs, threw its annual lingerie party. Around midnight, the club whi ...
Document Size: 13411
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 22 08:42:10 PST 2007
11841 [lbo-talk] Why no world currency? -- rank: 1000
On Feb 22, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Nicholas Ruiz III wrote: > The Euro is more about the protection of the representative value > of the > nations that adopt it, relative to the diminishing value of their > respective > national currencies, fast becoming worthless relative to questionable > domestic production and profitabiity. It collectivizes economies on a > representative basis, so their respective 'tiny' currencies don't get > hammered by poor numbers and outlooks. I dunn ...
Document Size: 5483
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 22 08:30:00 PST 2007
11842 [lbo-talk] Why no world currency? -- rank: 1000
On Feb 22, 2007, at 9:16 AM, Nicholas Ruiz III wrote: > Perhaps because speculative and hedge currency trading is one of > the most > lucrative and risk managing avenues the market offers? A world > currency is > a catastrophic scenario for those that the current system > benefits...it's > really that simple. There is no incentive to speak of, to change > currency > standards as they exist at present, by those in a position to > suggest such a > change. Currenc ...
Document Size: 5750
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 22 06:34:04 PST 2007
11843 [lbo-talk] globo & culture -- rank: 1000
[Lizardo's paper is at <http://www.nd.edu/~olizardo/papers/ globcultsoc.pdf>.] New York Times - February 22, 2007 <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/22/business/22scene.html> Some Countries Remain Resistant to American Cultural Exports By TYLER COWEN American movies and music have done very well in some countries like Sweden and less well in others like India. This may sound like a simple difference in human tastes, but decisions to consume culture have an economic aspect. Loyalties ...
Document Size: 10778
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 22 05:58:03 PST 2007
11844 [lbo-talk] Monbiot on 9/11 "Truth" Theories -- rank: 1000
On Feb 21, 2007, at 8:16 PM, Chuck wrote: > My guess is that the typical Pacifica listener is a liberal-left > "progressive" over the age of 40. The old anti-war movement from the > 60s. Nader voters. The more radical Democrats. It's also big with the black radicals/nationalists at WBAI. Doug
Document Size: 5004
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Feb 21 18:51:18 PST 2007
11845 [lbo-talk] Monbiot on 9/11 "Truth" Theories -- rank: 1000
On Feb 21, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Chuck wrote: > I think he makes some good points, but I'm unsure if the 9/11 movement > is a real distraction for radicals in the social change movements. The > movement seems to be more rooted in the liberal left. It's huge at WBAI and the rest of Pacifica (staff and audience). I don't know how you want to modify the Pacifica left - radical, marginal, wigged-out. Not liberal though. Doug
Document Size: 5125
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Feb 21 16:57:03 PST 2007
11846 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Re: newbery medal controversy: the power of "scrotum"] -- rank: 1000
On Feb 21, 2007, at 4:53 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: newbery medal controversy: the power of "scrotum" > Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:48:58 -0600 > From: Rhonda Nicol <rmnicol at ilstu.edu> > Reply-To: rmnicol at ilstu.edu > To: ENGDEP-L at LISTSERV.ilstu.edu > References: <45DA3D09.80101 at ilstu.edu> > > I love this passage from the NYT article: > > Ms. Nilsson, reached at Sunnyside Elementary Sch ...
Document Size: 6677
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Feb 21 14:04:14 PST 2007
11847 [lbo-talk] "I Think Where I Am Not; Therefore I Am Where I Do Not Think" -- rank: 1000
On Feb 21, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am," but Lacan said, "I think > where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think." If one regards > the "I" of Lacan's statement as the self of labor, his statement makes > perfect sense in America as well as in the world. This is the first time in my life I've ever been tempted to respond with a "whatever." Doug
Document Size: 5473
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Feb 21 13:48:29 PST 2007
11848 [lbo-talk] War Losses Mount for Small Towns -- rank: 1000
On Feb 21, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > I wish some geographer would make a map or chart contrasting a > state's war losses with the amount that state gets from the > military-industrial complex. My impression is that the sun belt > gets a ton of money per very few casualties; whereas the rust belt > is vastly over-representing in death, with very little military > money anymore and almost none of it in economy-stimulating hi-tech. There's actually almost no correlati ...
Document Size: 9032
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Feb 21 12:03:31 PST 2007
11849 [lbo-talk] War Losses Mount for Small Towns -- rank: 1000
On Feb 21, 2007, at 2:26 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > American recruits who are fighting the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. > come from the America of small towns, in contrast to American leftists > who tend to live in the most urban areas of America (or near college > campuses if they live in small towns at all). I realize this out-of-touchness is a pet theme of yours, Yoshie, but this isn't exactly true. Yes, there are a lot of small towns with one or two deaths, but a lot of t ...
Document Size: 6544
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Feb 21 11:38:48 PST 2007
11850 [lbo-talk] Ana Marie Cox & Bad Subjects, a Marxist journal -- rank: 1000
Of course, AMC left Wonkette long ago, for the indie precincts of Time magazine. - Doug On Feb 21, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > Wonkette has very good insult chops, and nothing else, these days. > With the US lacking a political version of the Onion since the > Onion went corporate and Zack Exley went over to the dark side, I > tolerate the snarky snide anti-left hipsterism at the wonkette long > enough to get some chuckles over the lite brite boston controversy > or ...
Document Size: 5844
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Feb 21 10:37:29 PST 2007
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