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11941 [lbo-talk] Sam Smith on Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Luther's indecision, his fear of the movement, assumed serious > proportions; his cowardly servility towards the princes corresponded > closely to the hesitating, vacillating policy of the middle-classes. > The revolutionary energy and decisiveness of Muenzer, on the other > hand, was seen in the most advanced faction of the plebeians and > peasants. But there are Lutheran churches all over the place today, and who remember ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 9 16:41:22 PST 2007

11942 [lbo-talk] Sam Smith on Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2007, at 5:12 PM, B. wrote: > Doug (regarding the statement Colin Brace quoted > below), > > So then how do we even begin to battle this > deeply-entrenched cultural foundation? Chip away, > generation by generation, at what would seem like a > snail's pace? Consciousness-raising and agitating may > make some leeway but the overall progress against what > you mention is pretty disheartening. Sometimes I think it's more or less hopeless. Fortunately, today is ...

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11943 [lbo-talk] Sam Smith on Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > The difference between Europe and US is social structure not ideology. I have no problem with that, but as the Old Man said, when an ideology grips the mind of the masses it becomes a material force. Competitive individualism is a material force in American life, both because of the institutional reality and the fact that most people can neither see nor imagine any alternative. Doug

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11944 [lbo-talk] Sam Smith on Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Auguste Blanqui wrote: > a small but quite influential group of Protestant clergymen Or, to quote Lenin, better fewer but better? Yes, of course, there's never one unitary thing. Reality is always complex and contradictory. But Protestant notions of individualism, hard work, and self-reliance have long been very influential in American politics and culture. You can see it all over today, and I don't think the political culture of today just dropped out of the ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 9 13:47:22 PST 2007

11945 [lbo-talk] crises are bullish! (or moral hazard can be your friend) -- rank: 1000

Wall Street's favorite economist, Ed Hyman, writes in today's missive: > Financial Crisis Can Be Positive > For Financial Assets > > When Mexico blew up in 1995, stocks and bonds > surged. Stocks and bonds rallied in 1997 as the > Thailand crisis spread. It s too early and impossible to > tell if yesterday s weakness in the housing sector was > the start of a crisis, but it bears watching.

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11946 [lbo-talk] Sam Smith on Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2007, at 3:27 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > I think I told the story from last year. There was an author on > WMNF. He'd > once been an evangelical christian, broke away and then went on to > write a > book critical of evangelicism. A woman phoned in and told him that > everything he said about Christianity was worthless to her b/c he > was just > talking from his head. it was all book learning. To be real and > worthy, he > had to be talking from ...

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11947 [lbo-talk] religious left all bummed and stuff -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0207/2693.html> Edwards Blogger Flap Discomforts Religious Left By: Ben Smith February 9, 2007 03:28 PM EST As the flap over alleged anti-Catholic writings by two John Edwards campaign bloggers devolves into a shouting match between conservative religious voices and liberal bloggers, some members of the "religious left" say they feel again shoved to the margins of the Democratic Party. "We're completely invisible to this debate,& ...

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11948 [lbo-talk] Sam Smith on Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2007, at 11:31 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > ut Henwood shoots two well-aimed holes in the argument: > > - "[Richard Hofstadter] made the now largely forgotten point that > American Protestants have long had a deep sympathy for The Market. > Since they see humans as fallen, corrupt creatures always in need of a > good kick in the ass, they revere it as a wonderful mechanism of > social discipline, punishing the lazy and rewarding the hard-working. > If peo ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 9 12:15:09 PST 2007

11949 [lbo-talk] Cavuto: Fox Biz will be the people's channel! -- rank: 1000

First Roger Ailes says that CNBC is too hostile to business and profits. Then Neil Cavuto, who's overseeing the new Fox Business Channel's content says: <http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/foxs-neil-cavuto-key-new/ story.aspx?guid=%7B19217263%2D9523%2D48F3%2DB30F%2DC81CB07ED0EB%7D> "We're going to be a channel for America -- not for old white men with money," Cavuto told me. "We want to reach women, minorities, young people."

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11950 [lbo-talk] news from Harvard -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Michael Perelman wrote: > Herbert Pug Winokur was a member of the Harvard Corporation while > serving as Enron's > Finance Chairman. I'm shocked you would suggest that! Chinese walls and all that. > Even if that is too conspiratorial, wouldn't Harvard have access > to inside information? You might think. Someone from one of Yale's unions told me once that they suspected that alums threw them sweet deals (both Harvard & Yale have lots of private ...

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11951 [lbo-talk] news from Harvard -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2007, at 9:50 AM, John Costello wrote: > On 2/9/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> [University endowments are weird things - they accumulate, >> accumulate, to god knows exactly what end. Love the math at the end >> of this.] > >> That's >> enough money to pay the yearly tuition for 858,794 students more than >> 500 years of freshmen. (And, apparently, freshwomen!) > > Which means that if they would 0.8% ROI, undergr ...

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11952 [lbo-talk] news from Harvard -- rank: 1000

[University endowments are weird things - they accumulate, accumulate, to god knows exactly what end. Love the math at the end of this.] <http://gawker.com/news/harvard/lady-to-run-harvard-235256.php> Lady To Run Harvard! In a shocking rejection of a centuries-old Masonic agreement, a woman is expected to be named president of Harvard this weekend, according to the Harvard Crimson. Drew Gilpin Faust will likely be the first woman to run Harvard, which is now surely sending shock waves ...

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11953 [lbo-talk] The Fall, Buzzcocks promote Mitsubishi SUVs -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2007, at 6:32 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > When Joe Strummer was my age, he > was already dead. When Franz Schubert was my age, he'd been dead for 23 years! Doug

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11954 [lbo-talk] edwards: loser -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2007, at 5:59 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > A statement > by the Catholic League's Bill Donohue His press guy's a Party of the Right alum. Donohue is a marginal weirdo - how's he have this kind of clout? Doug

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11955 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart and SEIU Unite -- rank: 1000

On Feb 7, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > Well, we -have- organized some divisions (not sure what you mean by > that word) You know, as in how many divisions has the pope?

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