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121 [lbo-talk] Cogent commenter on NYT article -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2013, at 4:08 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > Doug: "Spoiled entitlement." > > [WS:] Access to information is a right not an entitlement. The NYT spends something like $300 million a year gathering news. As long as we live in a capitalist society, someone has to pay for it. Why do you think you have a right to it for free? And not, say, food? Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 9 13:19:02 PDT 2013

122 [lbo-talk] Cogent commenter on NYT article -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > I reached the fucking paywall > and as a matter of principle I do not pay for the stuff on the internet. Spoiled entitlement.

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Date:	Wed Oct 9 08:58:22 PDT 2013

123 [lbo-talk] What class is it? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2013, at 9:07 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > So how would you classify this large segment of the US population: > Working class or bourgeoisie - certainly not the lumpenproletariat and > certainly not capitalists. Petty bourgeois, of course.

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Date:	Fri Oct 4 07:12:56 PDT 2013

124 [lbo-talk] Blog Post. The Road Beckons: Excerpt from Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate -- rank: 1000

On Oct 1, 2013, at 9:09 PM, michael yates <mikedjyates at msn.com> wrote: > millions of people who don't live in urban areas can be safely ignored I'm sure you realize that far more of the population lives in urban areas than don't, yet the non-urbans are still considered more authentic, and not just by Sarah Palin. Doug

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125 [lbo-talk] Most Americans, including John Kerry, continue to believe Kennedy was victim of a conspiracy -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: > Not to be a spoilsport or anything, but why does anybody > *care* who killed Kennedy? Sport. He was a total scumbag, I agree.

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Date:	Thu Nov 21 17:20:23 PST 2013

126 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk] Is Paul Krugman cribbing from Monthly Review? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 18, 2013, at 9:47 PM, "JOANNA A." <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > Wasn't the high capital spending you speak of due to the computerization of everything? not in the mid-70s or mid-80s

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Date:	Mon Nov 18 19:10:01 PST 2013

127 [lbo-talk] Is Paul Krugman cribbing from Monthly Review? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 18, 2013, at 5:15 PM, Julio Huato <juliohuato at gmail.com> wrote: > No, no. It is, instead, about rationalizing, supplying excuses to > leave this political establishment here and now off the hook. It is > about naturalizing (turning into a natural juggernaut) a *social*, > human-made and humanly-resolvable crisis, a crisis in the social > relations of production --- because this is how actual people on the > street are increasingly perceiving it. Ask around an ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 18 14:25:56 PST 2013

128 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk] Is Paul Krugman cribbing from Monthly Review? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 18, 2013, at 11:23 AM, michael yates <mikedjyates at msn.com> wrote: > The January 2014 Notes From the Editors in Monthly Review takes up the Krugman/Summers acceptance of the notion of secular stagnation. But it notes that the two economists ignore the problem of insufficient capital spending and its connection to the growth of oligopolistic markets, something that Hansen, Kalecki, Steindl, Baran, and Sweezy made more central to their analyses. Capital spending was high in the m ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 18 08:37:42 PST 2013

129 [lbo-talk] Bruce Bartlett: " I think it is only a matter of time before the Tea Party morphs into unapologetic fascism" -- rank: 1000

On Nov 17, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Andy <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I note Doug rarely contributes to the list anymore, and I have the >> impression he'd just as soon let it expire quietly. Pity. >> > > He posts daily to his FB account with the sort of material he used to share > here, but the format isn't friendly to longer posts and isn't easily > searchable. B ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 17 09:42:55 PST 2013

130 [lbo-talk] urinals and physicists... -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2013, at 11:53 AM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > Given the perponderance of males on this list, I thought this might be interesting... > > http://phys.org/news/2013-11-university-physicists-urine-splash-back-tactics.html I love the insect decals they have in the urinals at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam to encourage men to target that spot for the least splashback.

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Date:	Fri Nov 8 09:14:26 PST 2013

131 [lbo-talk] Got book reviewers? bloggers? -- rank: 1000

Carrol, these characters work as a team. You've got your crazies like McCarthy (and his predecessors - he wasn't the only right-wing anticommunist in American history) and then the Dems can seems like sane, reasonable alternatives to them.

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Date:	Fri Nov 1 17:51:46 PDT 2013

132 [lbo-talk] Mr. Slick -- rank: 1000

On May 29, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 2013 17:16:26 -0400 > Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> So let me ask: >> which comments, in particular, did Michael, Doug, Eric, or others >> find offensive, so we can address those? > > Can't speak for anyone else, but actually, I like Greenwald's > stuff more than not. I do too. My only complaint is that he just goes on & on & on.

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Date:	Wed May 29 17:27:33 PDT 2013

133 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed Reconsidered -- rank: 1000

On May 29, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > "White Skin Privilege" is a weird > road to nowhere. Yes. It locates "race" not in laws and practices but in the moral/psychological realm. Then, white people are supposed to renounce their privilege, as if that can be done in any meaningful sense. And then that gets into the whole discourse around "privilege," which is popular today among younger radicals - again, relocating somethin ...

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Date:	Wed May 29 09:19:57 PDT 2013

134 [lbo-talk] Mr. Slick -- rank: 1000

On May 29, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote: > Anybody else find Greenwald more than a little unctuous? Yes, and verbose. He'll never write a piece of 800 words when he can stretch it out to 2500.

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Date:	Wed May 29 08:54:55 PDT 2013

135 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed Reconsidered -- rank: 1000

On May 28, 2013, at 5:47 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Perhaps I should state again, as I have in the past, the principle at work > in my examples. Racism does not cause Stop & Frisk; Stop and Frisk causes > (generates and regenerates) racist ideology. In the last instance practice > is always prior to and generative of theory as well as the pseudo-theory of > ideology. Miles Jackson has also written on this frequently. Yes. Or, as Barbara Fields says, ra ...

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