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14026 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole whacks Hitch the Snitch -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >In short, what the fuck are you up to? Good question. Michael seems to have crossed a line from questioning leftist cant to embracing ruling class apologetics. The first is a valuable service - I get a lot of pleasure out of doing it myself. The second, though - well, there's a plentiful supply of it and I don't see why we need any more. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 7 14:00:12 PDT 2006

14027 [lbo-talk] High point of Bush's time in office? Catching a 7.5pounder -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >On 5/7/06, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: >>... leftists really do focus too damn much on >>that shithead Bush -- and on the Bush Administration as a whole. ... > >The Bush people do provide comic relief, which is perhaps the only >public service they provide. Isn't it important to decide if they're a departure from business as usual, and if so, by how much? Doug

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Date:	Sun May 7 13:53:41 PDT 2006

14028 [lbo-talk] Bulletin of Atomic Scientists -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: Regardless of global warming, if the rate of increase of the population >were slowed, wouldn't that take some pressure off women who are having and >caring for all the babies and children ? Of course - and even Larry Summers agreed with this when he was chief economist at the World Bank. But the basic anti-Malthusian insight is that distress produces population, not that population produces distress. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 7 13:52:36 PDT 2006

14029 [lbo-talk] The war on contraception -- rank: 1000

[The thumpers are going after contraception now!] <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/magazine/07contraception.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=login> [...] Many Christians who are active in the evolving anti-birth-control arena state frankly that what links their efforts is a religious commitment to altering the moral landscape of the country. In particular, and not to put too fine a point on it, they want to change the way Americans have sex. Dr. Stanford, the F.D.A. adviser on repro ...

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14030 [lbo-talk] how The Decider decides -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >I read this last night. It is a very good article. > >On the other hand the quote gives a somewhat misleading example. Sure >Bush is stupid beyond comprehension, but the real thrust of the piece >goes to Cheney and his use of the OVP. It is alarming and chilling >stuff. It helps explain why there seems to be such a disconnect >between Bush who is incapable of abstract thought, and an executive >branch apparatus run with such Machiavellian acridity. Oh ...

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Date:	Sun May 7 11:30:50 PDT 2006

14031 [lbo-talk] America's Anti-Muslim Prejudice -- rank: 1000

Joel Schalit wrote: >the Passion was a great wake-up call, even though it came from a >Catholic perspective. A weird heretical Catholicism, that is. I don't know why I feel compelled to defend my ancestral faith, but there you go. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 7 11:20:18 PDT 2006

14032 [lbo-talk] Bulletin of Atomic Scientists -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >euthanasia By the way, in any campaign for population reduction, you knwo who would be the first as marked for elimination, right? The sick and disabled. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 7 09:55:23 PDT 2006

14033 [lbo-talk] Bulletin of Atomic Scientists -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >>China's consumption may be increasing 3 times faster than the US, >>maybe more, I'd have to look it up but >>they don't use anywhere near what the US does. The US uses 4 times >>as much as China. >> >>John Thornton >> > > >But isn't the point that they will eventually use as much given >their population? China's population is now 1.3 billion, and growing at 0.6% a year. Getting pop growth down that low has been a pretty ...

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Date:	Sun May 7 09:41:44 PDT 2006

14034 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole whacks Hitch the Snitch -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://jeffweintraub.blogspot.com/2006/05/ps-re-cole-hitchens-ahmadinejad.html Did you find all that blather interesting? What part of it, and why? Defending Hitchens against Cole seems like pretty dishonorable work. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 7 09:29:38 PDT 2006

14035 [lbo-talk] "there is a real class divide in the art world between the art workers and the art thinkers" -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >This was weirdly, depressingly interesting to read: >http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/arts/design/07fine.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print Gossipy point: the speaker of the quoted phrase about the class divide is none other than the companion of Katha Pollitt's ex, Paul "The Last Marxist" Mattick. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 7 09:25:52 PDT 2006

14036 [lbo-talk] UK: Home of DIY dentistry -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >[USers may have earlier mortality than Brits due to greater social >stress, but fortunately we're able to flash great smiles en route to >our premature graves.] > >In a Dentist Shortage, British (Ouch) Do It Themselves When I read that this morning I wondered if they ran it as a counter to the ill-health story from the other day. We need something to restore our American pride! Doug

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Date:	Sun May 7 09:17:36 PDT 2006

14037 [lbo-talk] Minutemen and Church Activists Rally in Irvine -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson wrote: >First Southern Baptist Church Pastor Wiley Drake encouraged participants to >"bring the biggest American flags that you can." The rally started at 10 >a.m. on the corner of Irvine Center Drive and Alton Parkway in Irvine and >will last until 2 p.m. > >Drake said the Minutemen Project was a misunderstood group and was not >anti-immigrant or racist. Ha, he's funny. In his excellent paper on income mobility in the U.S. <http://www.america ...

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Date:	Sun May 7 08:25:41 PDT 2006

14038 [lbo-talk] New Goldner Article -- rank: 1000

Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 20:52:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Loren Goldner <lrgoldner at yahoo.com> Subject: New Article Dear Doug, I've posted a new article "1973 Redux?: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Decline of Dollar-Centered World Accumulation" on the Break Their Haughty Power web site http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner I'd appreciate it if you'd post this announcement on your list. Hope this finds you well. Best Loren

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14039 [lbo-talk] Bulletin of Atomic Scientists -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >Just to emphasize what you are saying; the U.S. with ~5% of the >worlds population consumes about 23% of the world's energy. So if we were to approach this as a population problem, if we got it back to about 65 million (where it was in 1892), we'd be in balance! Doug

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Date:	Sat May 6 20:29:32 PDT 2006

14040 [lbo-talk] Women and Chess: Deep Blue Weighs In -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >Heidegger "Why are you reading that Nazi gasbag?" - Robert Fitch to Michael Lerner, ca. 1968

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Date:	Sat May 6 18:37:12 PDT 2006