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15001 [lbo-talk] Syd, RIP -- rank: 1000

[saw a kid on the street the other day with a Pink Floyd t-shirt and wondered at their appeal to Today's Youth] <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5169344.stm> Pink Floyd's Barrett dies aged 60 Barrett became a recluse in the 1970s after leaving Pink Floyd Syd Barrett, one of the original members of legendary rock group Pink Floyd, has died at the age of 60, the band's spokeswoman has confirmed. He was born Roger Barrett in Cambridge and met future bandmates Roger Waters and Davi ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 11 06:53:14 PDT 2006

15002 [lbo-talk] money & depression -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 11, 2006 Financial Ties to Industry Cloud Major Depression Study At Issue: Whether It's Safe For Pregnant Women To Stay on Medication JAMA Asks Authors to Explain By DAVID ARMSTRONG For pregnant women considering whether to continue taking antidepressant drugs, a study in a February issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, contained a sobering warning: Stopping the medication greatly increases the risk of relapsing into depression. The stu ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 11 06:38:46 PDT 2006

15003 [lbo-talk] BHL overwrites on Zidane -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 11, 2006 Zidane By BERNARD-HENRI LEVY PARIS -- Here is one of the greatest players of all time, a legend, a myth for the entire planet, and universally acclaimed. Here is a champion who, in front of two billion people, was putting the final touches on one of the most extraordinary sagas in soccer's history. Here is a man of providence, a savior, who was sought out, like Achilles in his tent of grudge and rage, because he was believed to be the only one who could a ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 11 06:40:21 PDT 2006

15004 [lbo-talk] "There Currently Is No Active Policy of Prosecution of Charges of Homosexuality in Iran" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 10, 2006, at 3:10 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Now, I'm signing off again. Ah, dialogue. <http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/11/21/iran12072.htm> Iran: Two More Executions for Homosexual Conduct (New York, November 22, 2005) Iran s execution of two men last week for homosexual conduct highlights a pattern of persecution of gay men that stands in stark violation of the rights to life and privacy, Human Rights Watch said today. On Sunday, November 13, the semi-official Tehran d ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 10 14:09:30 PDT 2006

15005 [lbo-talk] Re: WSJ editpage: "fair share" a flop -- rank: 1000

On Jul 10, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > He said that a new system should have multiple > payers, not a single payer. "Single-payer is a stalking horse for I'm > not sure what," he said. Well fuck him then. A few people signed off this list - including one or two with SEIU addresses - because I was too friendly to Bob Fitch's critique of SEIU. It's looking like Bob has a point. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 10 11:41:51 PDT 2006

15006 [lbo-talk] Bush joke -- rank: 1000

[a self-described "bashful" member of the list asked me to forward this] George Bush Jr. died, and of course went to hell. The devil, who looked suspiciously like Karl Rove, admitted him with pleasure, but a bit of consternation: Dubya, he explained, was certainly on the list, and had to be let in, but as the inferno was severely overcrowded, he would have to let someone go to make space. The devil considered for a moment, and announced his decison: in recognition of his status as ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 10 11:39:13 PDT 2006

15007 [lbo-talk] Benny Morris on Hamas -- rank: 1000

[Sara - in case you haven't seen this - I should do something good with my TNR sub! - Doug] The New Republic - July 10, 2006 THE FUTURE OF HAMAS. Alms and Arms by Benny Morris Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad By Matthew Levitt (Yale University Press, 324 pp., $26) In a way, the world's Islamist movements are frank and honest. They wish, and they say that they wish, to install theocratic rule and promote the dominance of Muslim religious mores, ridding their worl ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 10 09:05:35 PDT 2006

15008 [lbo-talk] Bono: black ops VC -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - July 10, 2006 BONO, the Irish rock star touted for a Nobel Peace Prize because of his advocacy for Third World debt relief, is being blasted by lefties for investing in a video game that depicts Venezuela as a banana republic led by a "power-hungry tyrant." The president of Venezuela is, in fact, Hugo Chavez, a darling of the left not only for his Marxist domestic policies, but his virulent anti-American diatribes. Bono is in the hot seat because a priva ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 10 09:08:56 PDT 2006

15009 [lbo-talk] forget those crimes - look at the big picture -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Tony Cordesman, an ABC News consultant, writes: "We need to be careful not to focus too much on possible US crimes in Iraq and ignore what seems to be the failure of the operation to take back control of Baghdad and bring the militias back under control. The weekend indicates that this operation has accomplished nothing that really help reestablish order in a city where even the most conservative counts indicate close to 6 ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 10 07:02:49 PDT 2006

15010 [lbo-talk] language -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Incidentally, I vaguely remember reading someplace lately that > there is > a rationale (which I forget now) for using baby-talk to infants. Well, they do seem to respond to it. I read of some research showing that adults generally raise their voice an octave when talking to an infant, and than infants prefer higher-pitched voices. It doesn't come easily to me, I tell ya. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 9 11:53:54 PDT 2006

15011 [lbo-talk] language -- rank: 1000

Sooo...what do you call a boy infant's genital package, assuming that's the word/phrase he will probably pick up? "Penis" sounds too clinical; "cock," too sexual; "wee-wee," too goofy.

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Date:	Sun Jul 9 10:30:22 PDT 2006

15012 [lbo-talk] real estate bubble in Manhattan too? -- rank: 1000

[html coding pushed this to 31k, more than twice the 15k length limit - PLAIN TEXT PLEASE!] From: "Auguste Blanqui" <blanquist at gmail.com> Date: July 8, 2006 9:38:08 AM EDT To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Real Estate Bubble in Manhattan too? Or is Manhattan an exception? I forget where I read it, but another piece somewhere else concluded there was far more supply than demand and yet developers maintain prices and keep building. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/reale ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 8 06:46:39 PDT 2006

15013 [lbo-talk] Liza on coffee -- rank: 1000

On Jul 7, 2006, at 5:55 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Is Jordan right about the drop-off in coffee > consumption? <http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/foodconsumption/spreadsheets/beverage.xls> per capita consumption, gallons/year carbonated coffee soft drinks 1970 33.4 1971 32.2 1972 33.6 1973 33.3 1974 33.2 1975 31.4 1976 32.5 1977 24.5 1978 27.3 1979 29.3 1980 26.7 33.6 1981 26.0 34.6 1982 25.9 35.4 198 ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 7 15:22:27 PDT 2006

15014 [lbo-talk] Liza on coffee -- rank: 1000

On Jul 7, 2006, at 5:55 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Is Jordan right about the drop-off in coffee > consumption? <http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EUY/is_6_10/ai_113524726> U.S. coffee consumption shows impressive growth Food & Drink Weekly, Feb 16, 2004 Americans drank a record amount of coffee at home, in the office and at trendy cafes last year, lifting green coffee roastings to a 30- year high, industry research found last week. "The specialty coffee in ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 7 15:06:25 PDT 2006

15015 [lbo-talk] why "we" don't care about big, structural, issues -- rank: 1000

On Jul 7, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Jim Devine wrote: > If only gay sex caused global warming > Why we're more scared of gay marriage and terrorism than a much > deadlier threat. > By Daniel Gilbert Hmm, not a word about the fact that we don't want to give up cars & suburbs? Doug

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