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13066 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Middle Eastern studies -- rank: 1000

Micahel Berube writes: > Hi Doug-- > > Just for the record, people other than Alan Wolfe will search in > vain for a sentence in What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts? that > says > >> There is "more than a grain of truth" in the charge that Middle >> Eastern studies departments are generally biased against Israel. > > That's what happens when you get reviewed by Wolfe, you know-- > sometimes he confuses his position with your own. Most of my ei ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 10 08:25:49 PDT 2006

13067 [lbo-talk] Russia and Iran -- rank: 1000

On Sep 10, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Imperialism is an abstraction, not an enemy one can oppose. All > progress > anywhere depends on weakening u.s. power, so the only intelligent > anti-imperialism _in the u.s._ is unflagging opposition to u.s. power, > everywhere, on every issue. You are as silly as a german communist in > the 1930s protesting that his comrades were anti-german instead of > anti-imperialist. Imperialism is a lot more complicated than that. The ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 10 08:13:09 PDT 2006

13068 [lbo-talk] Russia and Iran -- rank: 1000

On Sep 10, 2006, at 6:55 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Such an alliance is within the realm of possibility, > but why this pining for a better imperialist bloc? Because it's anti-American, of course. Sometimes it seems that imperialism - and global hierarchy - aren't the enemy, but only Washington is. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 10 07:22:31 PDT 2006

13069 [lbo-talk] bagels/ethnicity -- rank: 1000

On Sep 9, 2006, at 6:41 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > This seems to me to confirm that pizza, another ethnic food, is in > terrible > decline. Be careful, Jesse. You don't want to sound like one of those old codgers who go on about how things used to be so much better...especially food in the US, which is a million times better today than it was 30-35 years ago. Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 9 19:48:02 PDT 2006

13070 [lbo-talk] Oil Is A Renewable Resource! Take That, You Peaksters! -- rank: 1000

On Sep 9, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Andy F wrote: > A couple sentences before this he dismisses higher CO2 concentrations > as a natural cycle. Would anybody be shocked if he pulled a Hitchens? Cockburn's been saying this for years. I tell you it's because he loves big old Chryslers (back when I used to keep up with him, he had about a dozen stashed all over the US, in part because he had no credit card and couldn't rent a car), and wants to blame corporations for environmental problems. If y ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 9 13:32:19 PDT 2006

13071 [lbo-talk] bagels/ethnicity -- rank: 1000

On Sep 9, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > were there traditional bagels that were salt covered? As long as I've been eating bagels, which is 35 years, yes. > is it wrong for me to be a traditionalist in regard to bagels? Yes. This is America! And one of the best things about us is mixing stuff up, as in French-Asian hybrid cuisine (though the best example of that I ever had was in Montreal, so I should say this is North America!). California bagels, though, are an abomination; ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 9 13:26:10 PDT 2006

13072 [lbo-talk] Oil Is A Renewable Resource! Take That, You Peaksters! -- rank: 1000

On Sep 9, 2006, at 2:51 PM, B. wrote: > So there's a new oil > field. Why do some receive this as a message from God? Yeah, it's god telling us Americans we can continue to be profligate without end! Climate change? Fuck it, just get a stronger air conditioner. Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 9 13:23:06 PDT 2006

13073 [lbo-talk] 9/11 nuttery -- rank: 1000

On Sep 9, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > I think Michael needs therapy. I am not joking. That's really not a concern of the list. Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 9 13:13:59 PDT 2006

13074 [lbo-talk] Alan Wolfe, military groupie -- rank: 1000

On Sep 9, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > ... Since right-wing critics like Horowitz focus so much on left- > wing English departments, it is appropriate that Michael Bérubé, > who teaches literature at Penn State, has become Horowitz's most > engaged critic. In "What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?" Bérubé > comes off as spunky, likable and anything but a left-wing extremist > you won't find him defending the truth-telling courage of Ward > Churchill, ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 9 13:06:49 PDT 2006

13075 [lbo-talk] how fair is Fair Trade coffee? -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - September 8, 2006 'Fair' coffee workers paid below minimum wage By Hal Weitzman in Lima "Ethical" coffee is being produced in Peru, the world's top exporter of Fairtrade coffee, by labourers paid less than the legal minimum wage. Industry insiders have also told the FT of non-certified coffee being marked and exported as Fairtrade, and of certified coffee being illegally planted in protected rainforest. This casts doubt on the certification process used by Fairtra ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 8 21:17:38 PDT 2006

13076 [lbo-talk] advances in nuttery -- rank: 1000

ONLY 9/11 TRUTH WILL SET US FREE! <http://www.ny911truth.org/images/ 9-11-05/LS8E1226.jpg>

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Date:	Fri Sep 8 16:28:35 PDT 2006

13077 [lbo-talk] Oprah does class -- rank: 1000

On Sep 8, 2006, at 6:04 PM, jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: > Oprah more than likely hired a few sociologists who decided for the > sake of > simplicity to break down the three catagories "lower", "middle", > and "upper" by income. Yup, more or less. According to the 2005 Census figures, about 1/3 of US households have incomes under $30,000; 1/3 between $30,000-65,000; and 1/3 above $65,000. Doug

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Date:	Fri Sep 8 15:11:27 PDT 2006

13078 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Fri Sep 8 15:07:48 PDT 2006

13079 [lbo-talk] Oprah does class -- rank: 1000

On Sep 7, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Stephen E Philion wrote: > --The point is pretty simple. Elementary actually. 1) Who is > making 70K? A mother or father of 4 kids? Single parent? Living in > Los Angeles? San Jose? Washington DC? A single person with no > children living in a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama? The Oprah > 'categories' tell us nothing about what it means to be "upper class". No they don't, but just 30% of US households (of any type) have incomes >$70,000. ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 8 14:38:51 PDT 2006

13080 [lbo-talk] great lyric -- rank: 1000

[from The Coup's Pick A Bigger Weapon] I'm here to laugh, love, fuck, and drink liquor And help the damn revolution come quicker.

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Date:	Fri Sep 8 14:29:53 PDT 2006