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12151 [lbo-talk] AP: "Suburban sex parties draw complaints" -- rank: 1000

Wow, looks like quite an establlishment! <http://www.cherrypit.org/>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 7 14:55:52 PST 2007

12152 [lbo-talk] Shakespeare -- rank: 1000

On Dec 7, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Alfred Landman wrote: > Dough, why did you drop it ("...into my early 30s")? AL Got immersed in all this dismal science stuff, so I didn't have lots of spare time to read poetry, and I kind of lost the jones for it. I can almost feel it coming back though. There's something a lot more appealing about "Auroras of Autumn" than the monetary transmission mechanism. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 7 14:02:46 PST 2007

12153 [lbo-talk] HB DH! -- rank: 1000

On Dec 7, 2007, at 3:05 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > In case no one has yet mentioned it, today is our convivial host's > birthday!A Happy Merry Natal Thing to you, Doug! Thanks! HB to Noam Chomsk, Chasey Lain, and Willa Cather too. And Pietro Mascagni, but who ever listens to him?

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Date:	Fri Dec 7 12:20:17 PST 2007

12154 [lbo-talk] MILFs of a different sort -- rank: 1000

[from Popbitch] Militants I'd Like To... Islamic terrorists have a sense of humour Filipino separatist fighters the Moro Islamic Liberation Front generally invoke giggles rather than fear in the West. How scared can one be of a group called MILF? Recently we managed to talk to MILF's spokesman Eid Kabalu about it, expecting to embarrass him. Instead his reaction was a laugh and the answer, "See - our group has international acceptance and good recall!" Turns out Islamic terrorists have ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 6 18:15:32 PST 2007

12155 [lbo-talk] Shakespeare -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2007, at 6:02 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Like I say, Shakespeare is weird. These two lines reflect his > difference > from other poets in English: even when his words aren't saying much > they > somehow stick together so perfectly. Back when I read a lot of poetry, from my teens into my early thirties, I always felt I was too young really to get Shakespeare - he was just too complex and profound. This sort of thing makes me think it's time to take another look. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 6 17:59:10 PST 2007

12156 [lbo-talk] Ron Paul, ideological cipher -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2007, at 6:02 PM, Shane Taylor wrote: > Ron Paul's Roots > by Christopher Hayes > > http://www.chrishayes.org/articles/ron-pauls-roots/ > > [....] > > This gets to the paradox at the heart of the Paul > campaign: he's the candidate least likely to hedge or > obfuscate, the most apt to spell out in sharp detail > his underlying principles--and yet he's also something > of an ideological cipher, attracting the support of > everyone from hipstertaria ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 6 17:55:28 PST 2007

12157 [lbo-talk] forgot to mention... -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Which is the > exact opposite of ornate, flower arrangement theorizing. Not, of course, that there's anything wrong with that! Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 6 12:04:48 PST 2007

12158 [lbo-talk] no glitter for grunts -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Dennis Claxton quoted: > Despite being portrayed as hip gunslingers, the > unskilled workers who toil for traffickers are an > expendable lot who often die in obscurity. As Laura Agustin pointed out in my interview with her, while you hear lots about "trafficking" in sex workers, few of whom meet such a grisly end, you hear almost nothing about these doomed folks. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 6 10:19:42 PST 2007

12159 [lbo-talk] advances in psychotherapy -- rank: 1000

A chartered bus packed with Dr. Phil fans crashed in Hollywood today, after the driver says the brakes failed on the runaway vehicle. For more on what happened, go to http://www.tmz.com/2007/12/05/worst- trip-to-a-tv-taping-ever/.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 5 16:08:11 PST 2007

12160 [lbo-talk] Doug thanks for the interview! -- rank: 1000

> I really enjoyed it and I hope your listeners will learn something > about what really is happening in Russia. Pls tell me when it will > be aired. Assuming there were no technical glitches, I'll run it tomorrow evening - along with Patrick Cockburn on The Surge, etc. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 5 12:48:43 PST 2007

12161 [lbo-talk] Dobbs on Democracy Now -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > This is what DN pays her. No way from telling from this document alone > if she does or does not have other sources of income Her books sell well, and she earns speaking fees. But I seriously doubt she's living large. She works all the time, and looks like she's desperately in need of sleep. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 5 11:20:35 PST 2007

12162 [lbo-talk] Dobbs on Democracy Now -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > For years I've felt there was a streak of envy in many of the > references > to her on this list. Oh yeah, I thought you were the guy who always favored discussing positions on their merits and not on the speakers' motives. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 5 10:07:38 PST 2007

12163 [lbo-talk] Dobbs on Democracy Now -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > For years I've felt there was a streak of envy in many of the > references > to her on this list. Would I like to be on several hundred radio stations? Yeah. Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 5 09:41:47 PST 2007

12164 [lbo-talk] Dobbs on Democracy Now -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Michael McIntyre wrote: > But > think of the stories she follows like the Maher Arar story (when no > one else does), throw in having been beaten half to death in East > Timor, and the grueling round of doing the show day after day while > simultaneously logging untold travel miles etc. - it all makes the > woman pretty much a national treasure in my book. There's no doubting her tenacity, courage, and dedication. But she's really not all that fam ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 5 09:40:58 PST 2007

12165 [lbo-talk] Dobbs on Democracy Now -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > On the other hand, she's usually good with sympathetic guests -- > like Ralph Nader, Seymour Hersh, Lt Watada, etc. But these are > always within acceptable parameters of "progressive" politics. > ANyone know who's the major funder of DN? Pacifica pays her a big chunk of money - several hundred thousand a year, not sure exactly how much. She also gets foundation money. Someone should go over to the firehouse sometime a ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 5 08:31:32 PST 2007