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12226 [lbo-talk] Abe Foxman, genocide denialist -- rank: 1000

[well, the another genocide, that is] <http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/896916.html> The politics of hypocrisy By Evan R. Goldstein Abraham Foxman has become a menace to his own legacy. That is a shame because it is a good and decent legacy. Over the course of a career spanning 42 years at the Anti-Defamation League, Foxman has been an ardent champion of civil rights, a tireless defender of the separation between church and state against those who insist on tearing it down, and a c ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 10:28:02 PDT 2007

12227 [lbo-talk] off topic: gray rape? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 29, 2007, at 12:40 AM, Blackmail wrote: > jezebel 'coins' a doozy: > http://jezebel.com/gossip/shades-of-gray-rape/cosmo-tells-me-i-was- > gray-raped-feministing-says-it-was-rape-are-we-really-arguing-about- > this-294361.php > > > wow. I'm not sure what I think of this piece, though I'm generally a fan of Jezabel's Moe Tkacik (how about that for a Google-able name?). Not least because she described herself as a "dirty Marxist" a few weeks ago! But I have ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 10:13:59 PDT 2007

12228 [lbo-talk] The USSR in Pictures -- rank: 1000

On Aug 29, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > A heck of a lot of photos of late Soviet-era stuff. > Some of these are pretty cool. A love the Soviet PC: > > http://trinixy.ru/2007/08/01/sssr_v_fotografijakh_100_foto.html Obvious propaganda - those people don't look miserable! Long ago I saw a photo of a bunch of Soviet toddlers being toilet trained in a large group - they were all sitting on potties in a neat row. I think it was in the NYT Mag. Anyone you know remember that so ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 10:11:25 PDT 2007

12229 [lbo-talk] Incommensurability, phooey (Was Re: Michelangelo , . . . .) -- rank: 1000

On Aug 29, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Identity, as I pointed out in a post you apparently haven't read, > belongs to ideology, like "race," "individual," etc. Hence it doesn't > make sense if what you are talking about is the historically existing > human person. > > Class is a different matter. It is a relation and a process. The more you explain this the odder it gets. Ideology has no material aspects? It's not formed by social relations and d ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 09:49:22 PDT 2007

12230 [lbo-talk] Hilly Kristal, RIP -- rank: 1000

<http://idolator.com/tunes/obituaries/hilly-kristal-founder-of-cbgb- rip-294610.php> Hilly Kristal, Founder Of CBGB, R.I.P. Hilly Kristal, the man behind CBGB, died on Tuesday following a battle with lung cancer and perhaps an even more debilitating battle over the last few years to keep the punk rock warhorse open: By now the first 17 years of the CBGB story is so ingrained in pop music's unconscious that it probably only needs to be thumbnailed. Folkie Kristal opened the club, former ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 09:43:38 PDT 2007

12231 [lbo-talk] Bush Cites Nuclear Risk of Leaving Iraq -- rank: 1000

On Aug 29, 2007, at 10:07 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Most leftists in the USA have yet to digest the fact that the White > House is making an argument that it won't withdraw its troops from > Iraq unless and until it succeeds in "regime change" in Iran and > installs a pro-Washington government there, for, otherwise, America > will end up leaving Iraq in the hands of Tehran.* Leftists are as > incapable of coming to terms with Iran's Islamic government as the > ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 07:47:46 PDT 2007

12232 [lbo-talk] Crisis at 40 -- rank: 1000

<http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/08/29/mclemee> 40 Years of The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual By Scott McLemee Polemics seldom age well. But when Harold Cruse published The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual during the fall of 1967, he aimed his verbal artillery in so many directions that it seems as if some of the missiles are still landing four decades later. (At the time of his death in 2005, Cruse was professor emeritus of African-American studies at the University of M ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 07:41:14 PDT 2007

12233 [lbo-talk] Summers on further regulation and mortgage bailouts -- rank: 1000

On Aug 29, 2007, at 8:24 AM, Eubulides wrote: > OFHEO "will keep under active consideration requests for an increase > in the portfolio caps, but we are not authorizing any significant > changes at this time," James B. Lockhart III, the agency's director, > said in a news release. As John Dizard wrote in yesterday's FT: > At a time when America, or at least Wall Street, needs a spineless > hack as the head of a key agency, it is saddled with a credible man > of pri ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 29 06:18:50 PDT 2007

12234 [lbo-talk] Michelangelo , was Re: The sources of suffering (Grow up!) ( Was Re: Harry Potter, Metritocracy, and Reward) -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > "Sodomites" must have been a major category -- Dante > devotes a whole circle of Hell to it. Eurocentrist!

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Date:	Tue Aug 28 13:09:27 PDT 2007

12235 [lbo-talk] U.S. armed to the teeth -- rank: 1000

U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:43 PM ET By Laura MacInnis GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said. U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies. About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 28 12:55:46 PDT 2007

12236 [lbo-talk] how it might have happened -- rank: 1000

sorta - from the cutting edge of tv news: <http://www.breitbart.tv/html/4946.html>

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Date:	Tue Aug 28 12:49:59 PDT 2007

12237 [lbo-talk] IVA -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2007, at 2:30 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Sociobiologically speaking there is a > good argument that men are designed to be Designed by whom?

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Date:	Tue Aug 28 12:01:46 PDT 2007

12238 [lbo-talk] a look back -- rank: 1000

<http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784> Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over' January 17, 2001 | Issue 37 01 WASHINGTON, DC Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that "our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over." "My fellow Americans," Bush said, "at long last, ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 28 11:08:51 PDT 2007

12239 [lbo-talk] Incommensurability, phooey (Was Re: Michelangelo , . . . .) -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > It seems to me the distinction between behaviors and identity (as in > social identity) is anything but tedious -- in fact without that > distinction history becomes an unintelligible blur. Aren't you the one who's always criticizing generalizations about The Left? It seemed that you were always afraid that characterizing central tendencies does violence to all the innumerable particularities. Now you're saying that identity - a gener ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 28 10:05:23 PDT 2007

12240 [lbo-talk] Queer Michelangelo -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > It sounds like the start of a joke, but there's no punch-line: what do > you call a lesbian who hasn't had a date in 15 years? "Senator"?

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