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14041 [lbo-talk] Doing the math -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >A more reasonable version, which one of those dear friends put into >a non-unreadable novel, is for each couple to have only one child. That's fine with me, but having one has made me a lot fonder of the young of our species. Like you, I couldn't handle two or more, but just having some distant collective claim to 1/10 of a child would depress me, and I think I'm very far from alone on that. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 6 17:52:59 PDT 2006

14042 [lbo-talk] Doing the math -- rank: 1000

10 adults for one child? I think I would not want to live in that world. Humanity would wither and die. By the way, in the US we've now got about 2.6 adults per child; the Census Bureau projects 2.9 in 2100. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 6 15:46:47 PDT 2006

14043 [lbo-talk] Bulletin of Atomic Scientists -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Oh man, who said anything about "doing away with a few billion >people" by "euthanizing" them..? I am really disappointed in this >cheap shot. Here we go again - the typical LBO shit. No it's a serious point. The population of the earth is 6 billion, and there's nothing we can do more quickly than a decade to get that down even a bit. If you believe climate change is urgent, then something must be done right now - which means cutting emissions ...

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Date:	Sat May 6 15:43:07 PDT 2006

14044 [lbo-talk] Bulletin of Atomic Scientists -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >If one cannot see the need for population control after reading >this, well its hopeless LBOsters. I'd say emissions control is more urgent, unless we want to do away with a few billion people. I thought you opposed euthanasia. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 6 11:43:31 PDT 2006

14045 [lbo-talk] Chechnya, Darfur, and Jewish Activism -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >You knew about Jeff Weintraub democratic socialist politics from >Marc Cooper and if you visited Weintraub's blog from Cooper's link. Yeah I visited it. Seems like the usual Dissentoid crap. > If >you followed the UK controversy over the AUT boycott of Israeli >academics you'd have known that Engage is a Labour Party aligned org. > Any comment on this illustration of Robert Fisk article? >http://www.engageonline.org.uk/blog/article.php?id=392 Seen ...

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Date:	Sat May 6 09:35:38 PDT 2006

14046 [lbo-talk] AJC: "it does not help American Jews to appear to be stimulators of any action against Iran" -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Moreover, it's about time that we recognize this country's electoral >process as plutocratic and oligarchic, rather than democratic. Yes and no - it's neither one nor the other, but full of contradictions. Christian Parenti writes from Colombia, where he's researching a piece for The Nation, quoting a local left politico: "To run for office from the left in colombia, you have to be willing to die." Now that's a real plutocracy. In the US, to run for offic ...

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Date:	Sat May 6 09:19:49 PDT 2006

14047 [lbo-talk] how The Decider decides -- rank: 1000

[from Robert Dreyfuss' alarming article in the May issue of The American Prospect on how Dick Cheney is running everything <http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=11401>] [O]fficials who have opposed Cheney believe that President Bush has "views" only about basic principles, and that in making dozens of complex decisions he relies on pre-determined staff papers. Says one insider deeply involved in U.S. policy toward North Korea: "Th ...

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Date:	Sat May 6 06:39:51 PDT 2006

14048 [lbo-talk] BNP: WE'RE ON OUR WAY -- rank: 1000

Michael Givel wrote: >Away from east London, the BNP's gains were less spectacular. What is it about east London? Doug

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Date:	Sat May 6 06:26:14 PDT 2006

14049 [lbo-talk] a Bob Herbert bot -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Well, remember the NY Times is the paper where the insufferable >Abe Rosenthal's column appeared for a good many years. >He must have been one of the worst columnists to have ever >graced the pages of a major American newspaper. Oh, I don't mean to say that Herbert's the worst thing in the NYT. Friedman is ludicrous. Tierney and Brooks regularly flirt with self-parody. Going back, no one could hold a candle to the awfulness of Anthony Lewis - or, heaven forbid, ...

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Date:	Fri May 5 19:22:31 PDT 2006

14050 [lbo-talk] Direland: Straw fired over Iran? -- rank: 1000

New from DIRELAND, May 5 DID TONY BLAIR FIRE JACK STRAW OVER IRAN? In the wake of this week's disastrous British local elections -- which saw "New Labour" get creamed and the extreme right on the rise -- Tony Blair reshuffled his cabinet. But was Foreign Minister Jack Straw made to walk the plank for his public opposition to a military attack on Iran, which he called "completely nuts? Smart Brits think so. And a new report by a prominent Blairite think-tank refutes Blair's positio ...

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Date:	Fri May 5 15:58:48 PDT 2006

14051 [lbo-talk] What is genocide? -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >So. Why exactly is it important to have this category? > >Why is it more wrong to kill someone because they are Iraqi, >Cherokee,....or just plain in your way? > >I never got it about hate crimes either. Because they enable liberals to be tough? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 5 13:28:32 PDT 2006

14052 [lbo-talk] Thomas Franks on Joe Klein and Harry Truman -- rank: 1000

Colin Brace quoted: >Harry Truman was no centrist, and neither was he a radical. Still, >listening to his ferocious ad-libs back in 1948 (which was, >incidentally, not during the Great Depression), his audience could >have had few doubts about what the Democratic Party stood for. The CIA, the Bretton Woods Institutions, NATO, the Red Purge...

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Date:	Fri May 5 13:15:00 PDT 2006

14053 [lbo-talk] Zizek, "Against the Populist Temptation" -- rank: 1000

Jerry Monaco wrote: > I agree with you completely. Unless you want to work through an >obsession with Lacan, Hegel, Lenin, and the Roman Catholic church, >Zizek is close to unreadable. As obsessions go, that's not a bad list. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 5 12:23:07 PDT 2006

14054 [lbo-talk] Radical Society - Review of Culture & Politics Timothy Don talks with George Packer about Iraq -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.radicalsociety.com/article_32_01_02.html In which George Packer says: >First of all, I never took a stand on the war in public, so that I >could have actually faked it in my book and said, "In fact, I >actually decided on that night of March 19 that I was against the >war." No one would have known the difference because I hadn't come >out in favor of it. I'm somehow being punished for having told >readers, long after it became a ...

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Date:	Fri May 5 12:29:20 PDT 2006

14055 Pioneer Wojtek, was: RE: [lbo-talk] it's inevitable -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >There are actually two pretty clear sociological reasons why women >have done so badly in chess which the career of the Polgars did a >lot to expose. One is that top flight chess players are, on >average, the most antediluvianally sexist bastards you've ever seen. >Marines are better. This was something I never expected, and I have >no idea where it comes from, but it's undeniable. Because it's all about killing the king, no? Or is that too obvious? Dou ...

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Date:	Fri May 5 12:11:57 PDT 2006