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14671 [lbo-talk] Dems still lack a clue -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> While we wait for the white tufts of smoke, please join us in mastering the following great works of American political journalism: 1. In a Sunday must-read, the Los Angeles Times' Ron Brownstein wrote that this year's low turnout, the results in CA-50, and a recent Stan Greenberg poll which warned that Democrats are at risk of underperforming in November if the party does not provide a more compelling alternative send a clear m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 12 07:37:08 PDT 2006

14672 [lbo-talk] styles of gay -- rank: 1000

On Jun 11, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> [this was on Gawker earlier in the week, but I forgot to post it - >> it's on Page Six today] >> >> "My buzzword has been 'Let's be David Bowie gay rather than Cher >> gay"- Aaron Hicklin, the unflamboyant new editor of Out magazine, >> in WWD > > So by "gay" he means "bi" and "ex?" Maybe he means good music ins ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 11 10:50:03 PDT 2006

14673 [lbo-talk] styles of gay -- rank: 1000

[this was on Gawker earlier in the week, but I forgot to post it - it's on Page Six today] "My buzzword has been 'Let's be David Bowie gay rather than Cher gay"- Aaron Hicklin, the unflamboyant new editor of Out magazine, in WWD

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 11 09:57:54 PDT 2006

14674 [lbo-talk] Paris sings! -- rank: 1000

On Jun 11, 2006, at 12:31 PM, info at pulpculture.org wrote: > sick fucker that I am, I listened to this 8 times friday night. i > am going to listen to it again! I've already listened to it three times - I gotta say it's pretty catchy. Though popbitch is right - it does sound a lot like UB40's Kingston Town. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 11 09:42:07 PDT 2006

14675 [lbo-talk] Paris sings! -- rank: 1000

[from Popbitch] She shops, she shags, she sings! After many years of threatening us with a music career, Paris Hilton's first song has leaked on the internet. Six things about it: 1. It's basically a rip off of UB40s Kingston Town. 2. We still have no idea of what Paris' voice is like as it has the most treated vocals since Patsy Kensit sang I'm Not Scared. 3. It's called Stars Are Blind. 4. Paris's family nickname is Star. 5. The record was produced by Fernando Garabay, best known for his work ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 11 09:18:57 PDT 2006

14676 [lbo-talk] Betty Bowers on Ann Coulter -- rank: 1000

On Jun 11, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > Is there any goddamned thing in this goddamned country that does > not have some goddamned marketing tie-in? I'm thinking not, especially after reading this in today's NYT: <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/fashion/weddings/11fiel.html? _r=1&oref=slogin> New York Times - June 11, 2006 FIELD NOTES This Wedding Is Brought to You by... By HEATHER FLETCHER HERE'S the bride and the bridegroom, and now for the first pitch. After datin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 11 09:02:58 PDT 2006

14677 [lbo-talk] greeting -- rank: 1000

Today's greeting on the WFMU web page <http://wfmu.org/>: > Greetings from WFMU > Long live the indissoluble union of the working class, kolkhoz > peasantry, and national intelligentsia! >

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 10 07:34:25 PDT 2006

14678 [lbo-talk] Greider Deludes Himself -- rank: 1000

On Jun 9, 2006, at 10:50 PM, Colin Brace wrote: >> Is he kidding? Is this what happens when you spend all your time at >> progressive conferences? Most non-lefties I know are totally on board >> with the "reigning economic ideology." I predict GOP gains this >> fall, per >> CA-50 and al-Zarqawi. > > To be fair, he does say: "The breakdown won't necessarily produce an > immediate shift in power." Yeah, but I wonder if he really understand ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 10 07:32:34 PDT 2006

14679 [lbo-talk] Fukuyama, Gramscian -- rank: 1000

[more from Lieven on Fukuyama] In defense against the charge that he himself helped initiate the Bush Administration's revolutionary attitude to spreading democracy, Fukuyama stresses in his latest book that The End of History described a democratic capitalist version of an anti-Leninist Marxian approach--stressing slow cultural, social and economic change, not sudden revolution. He maintains that he is a Gramscian, emphasizing the intellectual and cultural hegemony of capitalist democracy ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 9 18:23:17 PDT 2006

14680 [lbo-talk] Lieven on Fukuyama -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nationalinterest.org/ME2/dirmod.asp? sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications::Article&mid=1ABA92EFCD8348688 A4EBEB3D69D33EF&tier=4&id=FB9DC26066E249D8BF197A5D9AC067EB> The Two Fukuyamas Anatol Lieven Francis Fukuyama, America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006), 226 pp., $25. Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992, 2006), 432 pp., $ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 9 18:11:19 PDT 2006

14681 [lbo-talk] Greider Deludes Himself -- rank: 1000

On Jun 9, 2006, at 6:44 PM, mike larkin wrote: > Is he kidding? Is this what happens when you spend all your time at > progressive conferences? Most non-lefties I know are totally on > board with the "reigning economic ideology." I predict GOP gains > this fall, per CA-50 and al-Zarqawi. Gains? Those don't seem likely; Zarqawi will be forgotten in a week, and despite CA-50, the polls still look awful for the Reps. But Greider's an excitable guy - quick to perceive a crisis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 9 18:07:55 PDT 2006

14682 [lbo-talk] Indian Beatles -- rank: 1000

On Jun 9, 2006, at 1:37 PM, joanna wrote: > ut it touched a sore spot: I eat at a neighborhood Indian > restaurant as often as I can and they have their TV permanently > tuned to some bollywood-type station. And on that station I see > something which, I don't know, seems a silly imitation of Western > pop and dance, and it's heartbreaking when I think of how much > richer the native traditions are. Evidently they don't think so. We have a lot of rich classical traditions in t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 9 11:38:10 PDT 2006

14683 [lbo-talk] AFL-CIO China complaint -- rank: 1000

New York Times - June 8, 2006 Bush Urged to Bring Trade Case Vs. China WASHINGTON (AP) -- The AFL-CIO and two members of Congress asked the Bush administration Thursday to pursue trade sanctions against China, accusing the Chinese of violating international labor standards and costing 1.24 million American jobs. The group alleged that China's labor practices violate U.S. trade law, which makes repression of workers' rights a violation that would be subject to economic sanctions if the U.S. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 9 07:41:33 PDT 2006

14684 [lbo-talk] Hedgestock -- rank: 1000

New York TImes - June 9, 2006 I Saw a Deadhead Sticker on a Bentley By HEATHER TIMMONS This week, on spacious lawns surrounding a turreted, gargoyle- encrusted mansion north of London, thousands of hedge fund managers and the bankers and lawyers who love them gathered for their own alternative festival, called Hedgestock. Billed as a gathering place for the misunderstood, sometimes unloved but highly successful facet of the finance industry, Hedgestock aimed to marry the ideals, music and fa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 9 07:38:35 PDT 2006

14685 [lbo-talk] the Republican mind -- rank: 1000

[check out the press release, "Commitment to Defeatism," from the RNC - I know the Dems really suck, but these guys are truly insanely frightening] <http://www.gop.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=6372> COMMITMENT TO DEFEATISM Some Democrats Call Al-Zarqawi Killing "A Stunt" And Others Question Our Purpose In Iraq

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 9 07:25:53 PDT 2006