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14131 [lbo-talk] genderqueer Campari ad -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 08:26:33 PDT 2006

14132 [lbo-talk] NYT: Dan v Barney -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gawker.com/news/public-editor/public-editor-1-beats-public-editor-no-2-170654.php> 'Public Editor #1' Beats Public Editor No. 2 READ MORE: NEW YORK MAGAZINE, BARNEY CALAME, DAN OKRENT, PUBLIC EDITOR As we weren't reading Times public editor Barney Calame yesterday - does anyone read insufferably boring and continually irrelevant Times public editor Barney Calame anymore? - we happened across Carl Swanson's Q&A with former pubic editor Dan Okrent in the new New York mag (whi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 08:20:14 PDT 2006

14133 [lbo-talk] another brick in that neolib wall -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: >Carrol wrote: > > >>What's your point? >> >>That universalizing propositions about individual responses are apt >>to be empty.\ > > >Oh, the usual. Isn't that odd coming from someone who just denounced the libertarian conception of the individual as "ahistorical"? I don't get it - on the one hand, we're all a bunch of disaparate, incommensurate individuals about whom no generalizations are possible, and on the other we're ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 1 07:28:36 PDT 2006

14134 [lbo-talk] for those of you who still have a crush on Obama -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Sen. Obama (D-IL) joined Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) at the annual Jefferson Jackson Bailey Dinner in Connecticut last night and praised Lieberman's efforts in Congress. LINK "The fact of the matter is, I know some in the party have differences with Joe. I'm going to go ahead and say it," Obama said, "I am absolutely certain Connecticut is going to have the good sense to send Joe Lieberman back to the U.S. Senate so he c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 31 07:54:05 PST 2006

14135 [lbo-talk] who needs immigrants? - we got plenty of prisoners! -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Under a "Hill conservatives warn Bush of amnesty anger" header, the Washington Times' Charles Hurt has Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) saying that "they will remember in November," Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) saying that Sen. McCain and others will find "their own career is short term," and Rep. Steve King (R-IA) saying that anyone who supports a guest-worker proposal should be "branded with a scarlet le ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 31 07:50:26 PST 2006

14136 [lbo-talk] V for Vendetta Roundtable -- rank: 1000

Guest wrote: >So this movie included some gay people but they were >not the center of the story and that got you all >worked up so you stomped off to some hipster record >store to get clean of the taint of white bourgeois >hypocrisy. You poor dear I hope nothing was broken. That's not very nice. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 31 07:34:56 PST 2006

14137 [lbo-talk] Postpunk 1978-1984 -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >Sha-Na-Na in the 70s Two interesting things about them: they used K-Y to slick back their hair, and a former member eventually became DSA's organizing director. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 31 07:15:21 PST 2006

14138 [lbo-talk] Fitch interview -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates interviews Bob Fitch: <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/yates300306.html>. Haven't read it yet but I'm sure it's great. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 30 18:13:02 PST 2006

14139 [lbo-talk] Chomsky: Israel Lobby ? -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >I never understood the link between oil prices and oil corp profits. >(I've seen N & B's charts.) Aren't the companies mostly involved in >marketing and refining now? Why should their profits go up along >with crude prices? They do, as an empirical fact. It must be a markup thing - 5% on $60 oil is a lot more than 5% on $20 oil. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 30 16:22:06 PST 2006

14140 [lbo-talk] Chomsky: Israel Lobby ? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Nope. Israel was useful to the US when the USSR was the >destabilizing presence in the Mideast. Now that nuclear-tipped >Israel itself is the destablizing presence there, its value to the >US is zilch. You're not thinking like the American elite. Israel is a stabilizing influence in a rough neighborhood. They're like the cop on the beat, trying to keep order among the uncivilized hordes. They're white people amidst a storm-tossed sea of browns. Etc. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 30 15:40:36 PST 2006

14141 [lbo-talk] Chomsky: Israel Lobby ? -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >Julio asks: > >>Didn't the share of revenues from international transactions increase >>substantially for U.S. firms in the 1990s -- particularly for U.S. >>firms other than oil companies, military contractors, or companies >>that deal with Israel? Isn't this the bulk of U.S. capital? As the >>interest of U.S. capital -- other than the listed "special interests" >>-- in global business increases, wouldn't they benefit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 30 15:33:09 PST 2006

14142 [lbo-talk] Chomsky: Israel Lobby ? -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >The organized pro-Israel lobby >is like the pro-gun and anti-abortion lobbies, >espousing positions that are opposed by a diffuse and >comparatively unorganized majority (in the case of >Israel, even a majority of American Jews) and whose >positions are either neutral with respect to ruling >class interest (guns) or actively opposed to them >(anti-abortion). But Jews are 2% of the pop; the other positions are 30-60% of the pop.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 30 12:18:28 PST 2006

14143 [lbo-talk] Chomsky: Israel Lobby ? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >You're focusing on a point that is marginal at best to Alam's >central argument, which is that present-day Israel subverts the US's >obvious material interests, i.e.: > >"The obvious American path [to world domination], if we started >carte blanche, would be to actually get 300 of the 306 million >people in an oil-rich region on your side as much as possible; to >get the side that actually has the oil to tolerate you - you know, >the dozens of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 30 10:24:03 PST 2006

14144 [lbo-talk] partisanship -- rank: 1000

Daddy Bush, 1992, vs Junior, 2006. Jim Devine wrote: >is it really 1992? or is it 2002? > >On 3/30/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> [an observation by Kathleen Frankovic, head pollster for CBS] >> >> In June 1992 GHW Bush had a 34% approval rating in the CBS News Poll. >> 55% of Republicans approved, 18% of Democrats did, a difference of 37 >> points. >> >> In March 2006 GW Bush has a 34% approval rating in the same ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 30 10:05:35 PST 2006

14145 [lbo-talk] partisanship -- rank: 1000

[an observation by Kathleen Frankovic, head pollster for CBS] In June 1992 GHW Bush had a 34% approval rating in the CBS News Poll. 55% of Republicans approved, 18% of Democrats did, a difference of 37 points. In March 2006 GW Bush has a 34% approval rating in the same poll. 74% of Republicans approved, 6% of Democrats did, a difference of 68 points.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 30 09:15:27 PST 2006