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1486 [lbo-talk] American Idiocracy redux -- rank: 1000

On May 1, 2011, at 1:09 PM, // ravi wrote: > That s the thing isn t it? The swing is not from some milquetoast corporatist credentialist like Obama to a militarist nationalist corporatist like McCain. It s from fairly progressive/leftist people like Wellstone/Feingold to a Tea Party union-busting-at-any-cost er like Walker. Joel Rogers explains Wisconsin politics as a struggle between an urban, social democratic base in Milwaukee and Madison allied with "progressive" capital-intensi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 1 10:14:45 PDT 2011

1487 [lbo-talk] triskaidekaphilia -- rank: 1000

Happy 13th birthday to lbo-talk (and to Lou Proyect's Marxmail too)!

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Date:	Sun May 1 07:24:06 PDT 2011

1488 [lbo-talk] me & Susie at the Strand -- rank: 1000

http://lbo-news.com/2011/03/31/susie-bright-me-tonight/ Susie Bright & me, tonight I ll be interviewing Susie Bright about sex, politics, and memory, to celebrate the publication of her book, Big Sex, Little Death. Tonight at 7, at the Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway (at 12th St.), Manhattan.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 31 09:57:55 PDT 2011

1489 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Obama s Libya Speech and the Tasks of Anti-Imperialists -- rank: 1000

[Just in from Gilbert Achcar] Dear Friends, FYI, my latest piece on Libya. http://www.zcommunications.org/barack-obama-s-libya-speech-and-the-tasks-of-anti-imperialists-by-gilbert-achcar Best, G. -- Gilbert Achcar Professor of Development Studies & International Relations University of London - School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Webpage: http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff30529.php Latest book: http://us.macmillan.com/thearabsandtheholocaust http://www.saqibooks.com/saqi/display.asp ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 31 09:42:53 PDT 2011

1490 [lbo-talk] Rhythm, dance, and music -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2011, at 9:27 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Just for the record, I never said that music lost its vitality when you could no longer dance to it. What I said was that jazz did. Nor did I say that vitality is the main or only virtue of jazz > > It seems to me that rhythm is the trace of the social in music and that once it's gone, music is no longer about something that everybody can join in and do. It has lost its vernacular if you will. This is not to say that the select ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 18:38:58 PDT 2011

1491 [lbo-talk] CBO on TARP -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >>> if you read it as "the cost of the bailout is $12T" you're way off. >> >> Over $14 trillion, if you want to pump it up: >> >> http://nomiprins.squarespace.com/storage/bailouttallyoct2010.pdf >> >> To do that, you include guarantees. > > Which, um, "cost" exactly how much? Hey, don't blame me! I don't buy it. I'm just pointing to a place where numbers like that come from.

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 14:02:00 PDT 2011

1492 [lbo-talk] CBO on TARP -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> Also, why would the Financial Times >> give a figure like $12 trillion for the bailout ? > > Beats me. You screwed up the difference between asset purchases and expenses; you'll have to find an exact quotation for me to respond to. But if you read it as "the cost of the bailout is $12T" you're way off. Over $14 trillion, if you want to pump it up: http://nomiprins.squarespace.com/storage/bailouttallyoct2010.pdf To d ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 13:42:11 PDT 2011

1493 [lbo-talk] Just wondering... -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > etal Machine Music has this undeserved reputation of being such an unlistenable horrific noise recording, but in reality it's a mellow, electronic drone Wikipedia: > Probably the most sympathetic appraisal of Metal Machine Music was given by rock critic Lester Bangs, who wrote that "as classical music it adds nothing to a genre that may well be depleted. As rock 'n' roll it's interesting garage electronic rock 'n' roll. As a statemen ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 12:51:13 PDT 2011

1494 [lbo-talk] 70's "structural crisis" created America's finance economy? -- rank: 1000

Hmm, well, I recall making similar arguments five and fifteen years ago. But I'll stop, since it would be unattractive to harp on that.

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 12:41:12 PDT 2011

1495 [lbo-talk] Just wondering... -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Metal Machine Music has this undeserved reputation of being such an unlistenable horrific noise recording, but in reality it's a mellow, electronic drone record. There is nothing freaky about MMM for people whose musical diet consists of the likes of David Tudor, Kevin Drumm, Stockhausen, Toshimaru Nakamura, Keith Rowe, etc. It's a lot harsher than Stockhausen. I got a big dose of Tudor at the Merce Cunningham show the other night, and I li ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 12:40:17 PDT 2011

1496 [lbo-talk] Just wondering... -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:55 PM, c b wrote: > Actually , u can dance to _Kind of Blue_, With the right drugs, I probably could dance to Metal Machine Music.

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 11:06:32 PDT 2011

1497 [lbo-talk] Just wondering... -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:45 PM, c b wrote: > I thought you said Hadyn was better than Beethoven. Never!

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 11:06:06 PDT 2011

1498 [lbo-talk] conservative states: poorer, less educated, more religious -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Michael Smith wrote: >> "The current economic crisis only appears >> to have deepened conservatism's hold on America's states." > > Well, that makes sense, doesn't it? When things are getting > worse for you, the old days look pretty good, no? Exactly. Crisis is often the opposite of radicalizing. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 09:49:19 PDT 2011

1499 [lbo-talk] Just wondering... -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Joanna wrote: > >> he (Balanchine) foundered in the states where none were the wiser. > > > Yeah. Those New Yorkers, what a bunch of rubes. My first wife took me to lots of NYCB performances during the Balanchine years. The audience was full of the cultural elite. I even talked with some of them. I wouldn't want them setting social policy, but they were the furthest thing from rubes. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 09:48:47 PDT 2011

1500 [lbo-talk] American Thought Police -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Mon, 8 Mar 2011, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Also: my friend Corey Robin says that Cronon was deeply opposed to the >> attempts of the grad students to organize a union at Yale. He's changed >> his tune apparently, now that his ox is being gored. > > Does this ox gored idea really work here? In the sense of solidarity, yes. He wasn't there for them then, but he wants us there for him now. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 09:28:15 PDT 2011