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13696 [lbo-talk] Ellen Willis dies -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Liza Featherstone wrote: > Here's my short post on Ellen W, on the Nation website today. > > http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=138811 I know I'm not an objective source, but that's lovely. Doug

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13697 [lbo-talk] Pew on the net & politics -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2006, at 7:19 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > How reliable is Pew, anyway? I see them contradict Gallup and Harris > on a lot issues. Someone told me that Pew is the "gold standard" of > polls - that when they conflict with other pollsters, I should believe > them. True? False? How do they contradict Gallup & Harris? (Harris does a lot of web polls, so I'm not sure how reliable they are.) Pew is a serious outfit, and they often do interesting analyses. Don't know abo ...

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13698 [lbo-talk] Lou Reed to Web 2.0 Conference: Do you want me to make it hurt? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2006, at 4:43 PM, John Adams wrote: > Between songs Lou looks pissed, but I think that s normal. He tells > the crowd, You > can keep on talking, I ve only got 20 minutes. Or I can turn up the > music. I can > turn it up so loud it will hurt. Do you want me to turn it up? Do > you want me to > make it hurt? (rough paraphrase). How awkward. I love Lou Reed. I saw him at Columbia around 1980. Someone in the audience shouted, "turn it up!" Lou replied &qu ...

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13699 [lbo-talk] Paulson activates market-meltdown containment team -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2006, at 4:20 PM, tfast wrote: > Not to mention the fact that if they are too ardent about the whole > stabilization project they will encourage excessive moral hazzard. What's excessive? Moral hazard is public policy to some degree; remember the Greenspan put? Doug

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13700 [lbo-talk] Pew on the net & politics -- rank: 1000

Pew fact-checks the claims about the Internet & politics: <http:// pewresearch.org/obdeck/?ObDeckID=85>. Summary: claims of a revolution are a little exaggerated. Doug

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13701 [lbo-talk] Ellen Willis dies -- rank: 1000

As the sampled voice at the beginning of some WFMU show says, "Calm down, take a stress pill, relax..." On Nov 9, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > More male rage. > > Jesse Lemisch > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com> > To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> > Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 3:18 PM > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Ellen Willis dies > > >>> From: "Jesse Lemisc ...

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13702 [lbo-talk] Paulson activates market-meltdown containment team -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2006, at 3:29 PM, tfast wrote: > Was there not an orchestrated stabilization during the Asian Financial > Crisis? Do the treasury and fed ever intervene directly to stabilize > markets? In some sense, yes, and it'd be nuts of them not to, wouldn't it? But the conspiracy version really has the PPT setting up traders in safe houses to prevent bear markets from developing. Didn't work too good from 2000-2002. Doug

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13703 [lbo-talk] Ellen Willis dies -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2006, at 3:09 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > I have no doubt that this is true. But what I sense here, with the > body only > a few hours cold, is vast disrespect, fairly customary on this > list, for > feminism and for this major feminist figure. Shameful beyond belief. Oh please Jesse. If other listmembers and I were really disrespectful of feminism, we'd have paid Willis no mind, in life or in death. Doug

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13704 [lbo-talk] Paulson activates market-meltdown containment team -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2006, at 2:38 PM, tfast wrote: > The yeild curve does seem to have some predictive value no? Oh yes. That's different from arguing that Hank Paulson has a team of traders in a safe house somewhere buying stock futures when the market looks saggy (which is the line the conspiracioids tout). Doug

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13705 [lbo-talk] Ellen Willis dies -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote: > What a kvetchy announcement, Doug! Can we locate the url for her > magnificent > debunking of Tom Frank in Stanley's new journal, Situations(?). Is > that > article what's eating you, Doug? Kvetchy? I thought it was honest. I don't like obits that overlook the unpleasant bits. But when she was good, she was really good. And that piece on Tom Frank was Willis at her best, I thought. (The URL is <http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.p ...

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13706 [lbo-talk] Paulson activates market-meltdown containment team -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Gary Mongiovi wrote: > This interesting item seems not to have turned up on US radar screens: > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/10/30/ > ccview30.xml > This is a staple of the conspiracy community. Google "plunge protection team" and you'll get something like 750,000 hits. Note that the first hit is a 1997 Washington Post article by Brett Fromson <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/black ...

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13707 [lbo-talk] Ellen Willis dies -- rank: 1000

Ellen Willis, the writer on feminism, politics, and pop culture, died. She was a cranky, difficult person with an unfortunate Zionist streak, but she was very talented and smart. It's sad to see her go. I interviewed her, along with several other contributors to Implicating Empire, back in March 2003; it's at <http:// www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio_1.html#030327>. Doug

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13708 [lbo-talk] corporate folk-rock -- rank: 1000

I had to stop it about 2 mins in: <http:// theshermanfoundation.blogspot.com/2006/11/one-bank.html>.

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13709 [lbo-talk] vapid corporate culture -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2006, at 9:31 AM, B. wrote: > Yes, even terms like "Just making sure we're on the > same page here" or "just touching base with you" > originate in corpo-speak. Lucy Kellaway does a wonderful parody of this style in her weekly Martin Lukes column in the Financial Times <http://www.ft.com/comment/ columnists/martinlukes> - the only serial epistolary fiction I know of, in email form. The protagonist, Lukes, is chief great leader of a- b global UK, a c ...

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13710 [lbo-talk] Blue Dog victory? No says Nathan -- rank: 1000

On Nov 9, 2006, at 9:09 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Our dear, departed Nathan: > >> Let's be clear -- it wasn't just a good night for Democrats. It was a >> good night for progressives, and no media spin that these new elected >> officials are "conservatives" changes who they are. > > It must be nice to live in Nathan's head -- the warm breeze alone > makes it tantalizing. Sure beats thinking about Gazan morgues > filling up daily, among other imperia ...

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