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12781 [lbo-talk] Mandingo parties -- rank: 1000

<http://men.style.com/details/blogs/details/2007/03/ the_provocateur.html> Meet the Mandingos They're gentlemen in the street, thugs in the bedroom, and your wife's steamiest fantasy. Read the article and then post your comments below. By Sanjiv Bhattacharya Jeff didn't always like black guys. He was prejudiced he admits it. As one of the few white kids at his school in the southeast of Washington, D.C., he fought a lot with black kids and was occasionally beaten up. When he later ran ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 6 10:50:34 PDT 2007

12782 [lbo-talk] how many Americans go to church, and why? -- rank: 1000

[tables omitted here too - note that the "sociability" reason for attending church, frequently cited on this list, is given by just 1 in 8 respondents - it's mostly about faith & spirituality] <http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=27124> April 06, 2007 Just Why Do Americans Attend Church? Those who don't attend have variety of reasons for their behavior by Frank Newport GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- More than 40% of Americans claim to attend church or synagogue reg ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 6 10:21:32 PDT 2007

12783 [lbo-talk] Americans favor emissions limits & R&D, oppose drilling in ANWR -- rank: 1000

[detailed tables omitted because they format badly; see <http:// www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=27100> if you want 'em] April 05, 2007 Most Americans Back Curbs on Auto Emissions, Other Environmental Proposals Solid majority opposes drilling for oil in Alaskan wilderness by Lydia Saad GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's annual Environment survey, updated Mar. 11-14, 2007, finds the overwhelming majority of Americans supporting environmental proposals that would strengthen gove ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 6 10:13:13 PDT 2007

12784 [lbo-talk] You Can't Make Me Talk -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Ted Winslow wrote: > In so far as it's a question about the organization of instrumental > activity in Marx's imagined ideal republic, it's a question of how > "universally developed individuals," in Marx's sense, would do this. Well we're a long way from those, aren't we? Capitalism doesn't create anything like those individuals, and I'm not sure it even creates such individuals in chrysalis. So, answering questions about economic arrangements ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 6 10:06:46 PDT 2007

12785 [lbo-talk] You Can't Make Me Talk -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Bill Bartlett wrote: >> I really don't want to set off another market vs. plan >> debate though. > > You make it sound as if such a debate is bad thing. I can't fathom > what the danger might be. Because it's decades old, is a hardy perennial on this list, and almost always goes nowhere, with people shouting the same assertions back and forth. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 6 10:03:08 PDT 2007

12786 [lbo-talk] You Can't Make Me Talk -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Bill Bartlett wrote: > What people really mean when they argue that markets are necessary, > or more efficient, is that such an incentive system is necessary, or > more efficient, as part of a social economy. Not exactly. Soviet planners used wage levels as incentives, though I suppose some state cap type would say "I told you so" on that news. A lot of people who argue that markets are necessary do so because planners can't know everything abou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 6 07:52:32 PDT 2007

12787 [lbo-talk] dire words from IPCC -- rank: 1000

[too bad James H is on holiday or he'd be telling this is fearful crap and we should take even more plane flights!] Bleakest warning issued on climate By Jeff Mason 27 minutes ago BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Top climate experts issued their bleakest forecasts yet about global warming on Friday, ranging from hunger in Africa to a thaw of Himalayan glaciers in a study that may add pressure on governments to act. More than 100 nations in the U.N. climate panel agreed a final text after all-night disp ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 6 04:54:30 PDT 2007

12788 [lbo-talk] nice man -- rank: 1000

On Apr 5, 2007, at 8:51 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > andie nachgeborenen > > As I said, I'm not going to discuss this issue. The > answer is yes, but that is all I will say now. > > ^^^^^ > CB: You always say you are not going to discuss this issue, but > then you > always discuss it some. Charles has a point. This exchange seems beyond the productive phase.

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Date:	Fri Apr 6 04:48:09 PDT 2007

12789 [lbo-talk] French set new rail speed record -- rank: 1000

On Apr 5, 2007, at 9:01 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Did you read this when I posted it? > > I know, it's a lot to read, but here's a choice bit: > >>> The report found that in 2001, heavy-duty diesel trucks, >>> buses and cars burned more than a billion metric tons of >>> fuel, and emitted 2.2 million metric tons of sulfur oxide. >>> The same year, ocean-going vessels burned 280 million tons >>> of fuel, far less, but emitted 3.4 million met ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 5 20:31:38 PDT 2007

12790 [lbo-talk] French set new rail speed record -- rank: 1000

On Apr 5, 2007, at 7:30 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: >> >>> I think that's true but sometimes I wonder how much more >>> expensive it >>> would have to get. >> >> Oh, $6/gal? >> >> Doug > > I hate West Los Angeles: Yeah, but it's kinda fun, too, no? > >> Filling up his BMW with super unleaded at $3.39 a gallon, West Los >> Angeles lawyer Michael Machat said, ''I don't think about gas prices >> at all,'' adding, ''I ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 5 16:45:49 PDT 2007

12791 [lbo-talk] French set new rail speed record -- rank: 1000

On Apr 5, 2007, at 4:44 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Miami to Atlanta is over 600 miles as the crow flies. 600 miles is > longer than *any* fast train route in the world, if you don't include > connections through Tokyo. We are going to kill ourselves if we keep flying as much as we do. There's just no two ways about it. So we have to find substitutes, and high-speed trains are an excellent candidate. You can try as hard as you like to find reasons to argue against them, but it's not g ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 5 16:13:09 PDT 2007

12792 [lbo-talk] the band "Battles" in the New York Times -- rank: 1000

On Apr 5, 2007, at 4:24 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > The band is a proponent of math rock. Can anyone help me > understand this? It means they use funny time signatures instead of the standard 4/4. I.e., the beat is not the regular 1-2-3-4/1-2-3-4 that dominates rock, but uses odder, often rapidly changing rhythmic structures that group into 5s or 7s or 11s, and with the accents in unexpected places. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 5 15:42:36 PDT 2007

12793 [lbo-talk] Tracy Quan: Easter Sunday 6 PM with PONY, $pread & Transmission: join me at this free event in Manhattan -- rank: 1000

From: Tracy Quan Date: April 5, 2007 3:00:31 PM EDT Subject: Easter Sunday 6 PM with PONY, $pread & Transmission: join me at this free event in Manhattan Hi everybody, Please feel free to forward this to anyone who's interested! I will speak very briefly at this experimental Easter service... about the long, strange career of Mary Magdalen. PONY will be there, with $pread. All proceeds from my book sales will be donated to Transmission to help them recover the cost of this event. We got ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 5 12:17:30 PDT 2007

12794 [lbo-talk] French set new rail speed record -- rank: 1000

On Apr 5, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > I think that's true but sometimes I wonder how much more expensive it > would have to get. Oh, $6/gal? Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 5 11:45:00 PDT 2007

12795 [lbo-talk] French set new rail speed record -- rank: 1000

On Apr 5, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > It seems to me Jordan is arguing that it's geography that makes the > U.S. a plane and car/truck country. If you're travelling from one end to the other, sure, but there's lots of travel like Miami-Atlanta, NY-DC, Boston-Portland (ME, not OR), SF-Seattle, Milwaukee-Chicago, Houston-Dallas, etc., that would be perfect for high-speed trains. If carbon were priced properly, plane travel would not be so cheap (esp with a surcharge for the ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 5 11:10:54 PDT 2007