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12136 [lbo-talk] IQ & race, again -- rank: 1000

I never thought I'd say this, but Malcolm Gladwell has a good piece on the IQ/race controversy, touching on Flynn, Murray, Saletan, and the rest, at: <http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/ 2007/12/17/071217crbo_books_gladwell>

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Date:	Tue Dec 11 06:45:47 PST 2007

12137 [lbo-talk] Shakespeare -- rank: 1000

On Dec 10, 2007, at 10:31 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > But forward movement does require > getting rid of both the homonunculus and the cartesian 'soul.' I don't think I disagree, but why? What's gained? Doesn't it make us all seem like bots? Not that we aren't, but still. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 10 19:53:31 PST 2007

12138 [lbo-talk] Shakespeare -- rank: 1000

On Dec 10, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The material C.G.E. quotes may contribute to explaining both the power > of much in Shakespeare _and_ this sort of response (which is fairly > common, just not often voiced so vocifereoulsy). "His comforts thrive" > _does_ force a fairly concscious shifting of mental gears. > "Comfort" is > not usually plural, and comforts are not the sort of thing that, > usually, "thrive" (with its marginal sexu ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 10 18:52:45 PST 2007

12139 [lbo-talk] Shakespeare -- rank: 1000

On Dec 10, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Your sense of you fingers on the cup handle _is_ a movement of > neurotransmitters. Yeah, but is that the end of the line? Have you reached some sort of foundation by saying this, or is it just a tautology? Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 10 18:51:02 PST 2007

12140 [lbo-talk] BBC's Sub-Prime Top Ten -- rank: 1000

On Dec 10, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Colin Brace wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7135872.stm > > SUB-PRIME LOSSES SO FAR > > UBS: $13.5bn > Citigroup: $11bn > Merrill Lynch: $8bn > Morgan Stanley $3.7bn > HSBC: $3.4bn > Bear Stearns: $3.2bn > Deutsche Bank: $3.2bn > Bank of America: $3bn > Barclays: $2.6bn > Royal Bank of Scotland: $2.6bn > Freddie Mac: $2bn > Credit Suisse: $1bn > Wachovia: $1.1bn > IKB: $1bn Which sums to $59.3 billion ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 10 15:39:35 PST 2007

12141 [lbo-talk] downtown NYC music of the 1970s-1980s -- rank: 1000

[from the cultstud list] > The final version of my research guide to downtown music of the > '70s & '80s is now online at the NYU libraries website: > > http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/DowntownMusic/ > cherches0.html > > I've also set up a blog for reader-suggested additional resources > and comments: > > http://downtownmusicguide.blogspot.com/ >

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Date:	Mon Dec 10 11:52:19 PST 2007

12142 [lbo-talk] AP: "Suburban sex parties draw complaints" -- rank: 1000

On Dec 10, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Amerika is anything but civilised Woj, Amerika with a "k"! I didn't know you were a hippie, or a MIMster! Funny old world. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 10 11:48:55 PST 2007

12143 [lbo-talk] AP: "Suburban sex parties draw complaints" -- rank: 1000

I really doubt the law and the city council would have gotten involved if they were running a church out of their basement room.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 10 10:24:54 PST 2007

12144 [lbo-talk] Run for the border -- rank: 1000

On Dec 9, 2007, at 10:41 AM, JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: > The > pressure on women to marry is already enormous, health insurance > simply adds > to that suffocating weight. But the share of the U.S. population that's never been married has been rising. In 1990, 18.9% of women had never been married; in 2005, 21.6%. And the health insurance environment has never been harsher. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 9 08:45:34 PST 2007

12145 [lbo-talk] Stockhausen, and useless eaters -- rank: 1000

I meant the term in the original German, not the original Nazi conception, which is pretty clear. On Dec 8, 2007, at 1:56 PM, Marta Russell wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by "origin" but it arose out of the Nazi's > hatred and disgust for disabled people -- not the supermen they > thought they were. They were committing eugenicide after birth. > Marta > > > On Dec 8, 2007, at 6:54 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> RIP Karlheinz Stockhausen. Listening to ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 8 11:28:45 PST 2007

12146 [lbo-talk] Nation roundtable on Venezuela -- rank: 1000

The Nation has a web only - apparently it's not important enough for the mag - roundtable on Venezuela. Greg Grandin's contribution is, of course, the best: <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071224/grandin>. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 8 09:49:41 PST 2007

12147 [lbo-talk] Stockhausen, and useless eaters -- rank: 1000

On Dec 8, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Charles Turner wrote: > On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:54:22 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: >> Listening to Klavierstuck XIII > > Wow! When'd he write the other II? Dunno. That's what the, um, file says.

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Date:	Sat Dec 8 09:43:54 PST 2007

12148 [lbo-talk] Stockhausen, and useless eaters -- rank: 1000

RIP Karlheinz Stockhausen. Listening to Klavierstuck XIII as a memorial. Poor guy will probably be most remembered for that 9/11 remark. I just read in his Wikipedia bio that his mother, who'd suffered a psychotic breakdown, was killed by the Nazis as a "useless eater." Anyone know the original German for this appalling term? Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 8 06:54:22 PST 2007

12149 [lbo-talk] AP: "Suburban sex parties draw complaints" -- rank: 1000

On Dec 7, 2007, at 6:34 PM, Chuck wrote: > B. wrote: >> [Anyone seen the documentary "Sex with Strangers"? >> -B.] > >> http://ap.google.com/article/ >> ALeqM5hEQNrfDaS2MW4r3QHPfODNPk9iGwD8TCPK800 >> >> >> Suburban Sex Parties Draw Complaints >> >> By PAUL J. WEBER 3 hours ago > > We're dealing with a related problem here in Kansas City. In fact, I > broke the story on my blog: > > http://chuck.mahost.org/webl ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 7 16:00:22 PST 2007

12150 [lbo-talk] it's ok to say the nastiest things about feminists -- rank: 1000

<http://jezebel.com/gossip/see.s-candies/wapo-book-reviewer- criticizes-bella-abzug-for-her-terrible-lippy-mouth-331462.php> See's Candies WaPo Book Reviewer Criticizes Bella Abzug For Her "Terrible Lippy Mouth" I was all set to write a post about feminist icon and former congresswoman Bella Abzug because a new biography of her just hit stores, but then I read Carolyn See's infuriating and weirdly name- droppy review of the book and realized I had to write about what a jerk Se ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 7 15:18:42 PST 2007