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13771 [lbo-talk] The Black Agenda Report -- rank: 1000

The excellent Glen Ford and several of his colleagues have left The Black Commentator to form The Black Agenda Report. Not much there yet, but if it's anything like The Black Commentator, it should be excellent: <http://www.blackagendareport.com>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 3 14:19:02 PST 2006

13772 [lbo-talk] Unpopular President -- rank: 1000

On Nov 3, 2006, at 1:18 PM, John Thornton wrote: > His hotel is also heavily fortified with heavy military vehicles > from the National Guard station along with dozens of large dump > trucks forming a ring around the block where he is staying. This > too is new. They didn't do this during his last visit nor during > the VP's visit a few months ago. Has he become more worried about > being attacked than he was only 2 years ago? Security paranoia is off the charts. I visited some ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 3 12:40:27 PST 2006

13773 [lbo-talk] My interview w/ World Burns to Death -- rank: 1000

On Nov 3, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Wow, does my mileage vary. Whatever model car I'm in, my > automotive experience is the same: boredom, interspersed on long > trips and congested Interstates with moments of claustrophobic > terror. In fact, I credit the humongous traffic tie-ups of the NYC- > Baltimore run with turning my lifelong dislike of confined spaces > into a full-blown case of panic disorder. Way to go, Rt. 95! Oh yeah. This is fantasy driving we're ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 3 10:59:51 PST 2006

13774 [lbo-talk] Aren't There Any Hets Left? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 3, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Doug: > >> http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/03/haggard.allegations/index.html >> > > I've said this before, and it seems to get truer all the time: it's > as if it's a condition of possibility for being a high-profile fundie > that you have a secret life. > > > [WS:] Is it not what the Freudians called "reaction formation?" > Your id > desires something but your super ego says it is morall ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 3 10:01:02 PST 2006

13775 [lbo-talk] Aren't There Any Hets Left? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 3, 2006, at 12:08 PM, BklynMagus wrote: > http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/03/haggard.allegations/index.html > I've said this before, and it seems to get truer all the time: it's as if it's a condition of possibility for being a high-profile fundie that you have a secret life. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 3 09:24:46 PST 2006

13776 [lbo-talk] My interview w/ World Burns to Death -- rank: 1000

On Nov 3, 2006, at 8:51 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > What are the fantastic sensations in driving these various cars ? Power, eros, risk.

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Date:	Fri Nov 3 09:07:10 PST 2006

13777 [lbo-talk] Iraq a 'work of art in progress' says US general -- rank: 1000

On Nov 3, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > Iraq a 'work of art in progress' says US general after 49 die Didn't Stockhausen say that about 9/11? Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 3 08:59:46 PST 2006

13778 [lbo-talk] Re: My interview w/ World Burns to Death -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2006, at 10:15 PM, B. wrote: > Foucault drove a Jaguar while a prof. in Sweden, and > lectured to Swedish girls about the Marquis de Sade. > At the age of 30. My god, that couldn't be improved upon, except maybe if you threw some Swedish boys in too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 2 19:22:12 PST 2006

13779 [lbo-talk] Re: My interview w/ World Burns to Death -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2006, at 10:10 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Where would you park it? In a garage. In the fantasy I have a lot of money, like hedge fund bucketsful. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 2 19:20:44 PST 2006

13780 [lbo-talk] Re: My interview w/ World Burns to Death -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2006, at 9:21 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > The neo-marxist scholar Martin Jay drives a Porsche I might too, if I had the money. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 2 18:49:06 PST 2006

13781 [lbo-talk] My interview w/ World Burns to Death -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2006, at 5:17 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > Overlooked in this discussion - industry research proves that this is > prevalent, not a defining characteristic. Not all SUV drivers are > anti-social and paranoid. Of course there are going to be variations. I'm talking central tendency, which seems to be something Carrol doesn't like to do. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 2 17:35:06 PST 2006

13782 [lbo-talk] the new socialite -- rank: 1000

[so the New School is now full of socialites, like it used to be full of socialists? - the pix are a delight] <http://www.socialiterank.com/?p=540> Olivia Palermo is one of most fascinating young and up-and-coming NY personalities. She grew up in New York, Greenwich, CT and Paris, played on the girls' national hockey team and just recently appeared on the pages of Vogue. Still young, she is attending New School University (which seems to be the designer and socialite central lately) ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 2 17:31:49 PST 2006

13783 [lbo-talk] AWOL soldier who fled to Canada surrenders at Fort Knox -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2006, at 7:41 PM, B. wrote: > Having grown up in an age of security, we all had a > nostalgia for the unusual great perils. The war thus > seized hold of us like strong liquor. It was under a > hail of flowers that we left, drunk on roses and > blood. Without a doubt, the war offered us grandeur, > strength and gravity. It seemed to us like a virile > exploit: the joyous combats of infantrymen in the > meadows where blood fell like dew on the flowers. " &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 2 17:23:47 PST 2006

13784 [lbo-talk] Crouch on Obama: not black enough -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - November 2, 2006 What Obama isn't: black like me [by Stanley Crouch] If Barack Obama makes it all the way to becoming the Democratic nominee for President in 2008, a feat he says he may attempt, a much more complex understanding of the difference between color and ethnic identity will be upon us for the very first time. Back in 2004, Alan Keyes made this point quite often. Keyes was the black Republican carpetbagger chosen by the elephants to run against Obama for the ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 2 17:20:47 PST 2006

13785 [lbo-talk] Moroccan wins Iran's Holocaust cartoon contest -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2006, at 2:19 PM, joanna wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Lovely. Questioning the reality of millions of death is the >> equivalent of (stupid) cartoons about a prophet? > > > Well, it's not quite like that. There is a symbolic equivalence: > > --In the west, arabs are portrayed as terrorists hiding behind > Muhammad's robes. > > --In the arab middle east, zionists are portrayed as terrorists > hiding behind the Holocaust's robes. The Holoc ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 2 13:01:47 PST 2006