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15076 [lbo-talk] the Bush message -- rank: 1000
<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Gina Glantz, a Democratic consultant who advised Howard Dean in 2004, believes "much of the criticism that Democrats direct toward Bush doesn't touch the daily lives of most Americans. 'People are not worried about spying or corruption' or the nomination of Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court, she says. 'They are worried about being in debt, paying the mortgage, health care and good schools for their kids. Bush will sa ...
Document Size: 5177
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jan 30 07:36:03 PST 2006
15077 [lbo-talk] Too Old for Rap (was Lumpen) -- rank: 1000
Charles Brown wrote: >Actually, the Canterbury Tales, Knight's Tale, rhymes like a white sword >rap. And it's full of obscenity too! I wonder how the Trad Vals types deal with the fact that so much canonical literature is full of sex and sexuality, and not always of the plain vanilla kind. Doug
Document Size: 4868
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jan 30 07:32:41 PST 2006
15078 [lbo-talk] Kinky... Why the hell not? -- rank: 1000
Max B. Sawicky wrote: >The concession I'd make is guns. We've lost that >battle anyway, never mind the text of the Constitution >and Miller v. US (holding that the right to bear arms >is not individual) Dan Lazare had a piece in Harper's some years ago arguing that consensus of legal scholars now is the the gun crowd is right on the constitutional issue. But why not argue from principle, instead of from the ancient sacred text? I'm willing to concede on guns, even though I'm not a po ...
Document Size: 5357
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jan 30 06:48:18 PST 2006
15079 [lbo-talk] pre-school rock -- rank: 1000
B. wrote: >I guess everyone has their own passions -- obsessions >-- they want to pass onto their kids, though something >about the article gave me the creeps. I remember >hating a lot of the music some of my relatives -- like >my mom, bless her soul -- played (and still DOES >play), but other relatives, like my aunt, had better >taste that I seemed gravitate to (Alice Cooper, Black >Sabbath, KISS, AC/DC, Devo, early Pretenders, >Bloodrock's "DOA,"etc.) . No ...
Document Size: 5576
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Jan 29 11:19:21 PST 2006
15080 [lbo-talk] Ready for $262/barrel oil? -- rank: 1000
Leigh Meyers wrote: >The other, billionaire investor George Soros, wouldn't make any >specific predictions about prices. But as a legendary commodities >player, it's worth paying heed to the words of the man who once took >on the Bank of England -- and won. "I'm very worried about the >supply-demand balance, which is very tight," Soros says. Be suspicious of any market-sensitive thing that this man says. He's famous for taking a position and then using his considerable p ...
Document Size: 5197
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Jan 29 10:57:57 PST 2006
15081 [lbo-talk] pre-school rock -- rank: 1000
[a topic now at the front of my mind - Dan Zanes fills me with terror] New York Times Magazine -January 29, 2006 Preschool of Rock By NEAL POLLACK Elijah's first birthday party was on Halloween. Regina prepared a bowl of green punch that contained a translucent glove filled with red Jell-O. For the grown-ups, we stocked the larder with Shiner bock beer, a deli tray and good-quality fruits and cheeses. The kids grazed off their parents' plates. There was a lot of crawling, grasping and drooling. ...
Document Size: 10204
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Jan 29 09:59:38 PST 2006
15082 [lbo-talk] Kinky... Why the hell not? -- rank: 1000
Max B. Sawicky wrote: >I'm inclined to be supportive for various reasons, but the talk about >"closing the border" and the alleged cost of providing public services to >illegals is a big problem. It's common for populists to make some kind of >concession to conservatism. This one is not a good choice. Concessions? Or is that "conservatism" part of the populist territory? Has there ever been a populist movement that wasn't nationalist? It seems inseparable from t ...
Document Size: 5129
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Jan 29 09:03:19 PST 2006
15083 [lbo-talk] Bush in the 6th year: worst approval since Nixon -- rank: 1000
ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: BEFORE THE SOTU - 1/26/06 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 7 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 29, 2006 Weak Ratings Confront Bush Ahead of State of the Union A weakened George W. Bush faces the nation in his 5th State of the Union address, beset by war fatigue, persistent discontent on the economy and other domestic issues, ethics concerns and rising interest in Democratic alternatives in this midterm election year. Bush's bottom-line job rating - 42 percent of Americans approve of hi ...
Document Size: 5780
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Jan 29 08:20:44 PST 2006
15084 [lbo-talk] Political Economy of Non-Profits -- rank: 1000
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >--- Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote: > >> >> You can hardly read this list without reading you. > > >Are you too dumb to set up message filters? > >Besides, what is it that you contributed to this list >besides snide comments in response to my postings? Now boys...
Document Size: 5090
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Jan 28 13:10:09 PST 2006
15085 [lbo-talk] Lumpen -- rank: 1000
Michael Hoover wrote: >by your own admisson, you spent at - at least part of - what should >have been a misbegotten youth - in the party of the right, Yeah, drinking port and debating the merits of John Caldwell Calhoun. > thus >you're obviously living out adolescent fantasies, the equivalent >of john mayall or some other 40-50/something guy 30 years ago >with thining hair in a ponytail and a serape beguiling nubile hippy >'chicks' (place smiley face here)... mh Actually, ...
Document Size: 5216
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Jan 28 13:09:48 PST 2006
15086 [lbo-talk] Too Old for Rap (was Lumpen) -- rank: 1000
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>This hostility towards rap - what artists you all talking about? >>There's some really great stuff around - why get all cranky about the crap? >> >>Doug > > >It's simple: the average age of regular posters is too high for any >informed discussion on rap. Contrast an absence of concrete >references to rap songs and groups to elaborate, well-referenced >discussion on Mozart, Dylan, etc. Hey, I'm 53 and I could quote 'em - what's ...
Document Size: 5177
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Jan 28 11:05:28 PST 2006
15087 [lbo-talk] Lumpen -- rank: 1000
This hostility towards rap - what artists you all talking about? There's some really great stuff around - why get all cranky about the crap? Doug
Document Size: 4452
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Jan 28 08:17:59 PST 2006
15088 [lbo-talk] Harvey Hamilton, er, Mansfield on Executive Power -- rank: 1000
Michael Hoover wrote: >The Law and the President >In a national emergency, who you gonna call? >by Harvey Mansfield >Weekly Standard 01/16/2006 I picked up a copy of the Weekly Standard the other day and read a bunch of it, which I hadn't done much of before. I was really struck by how different its conservatism is from the conservatism of my Party of the Right adolescence - much more unambivalently in love with state and imperial power. No trace of the libertarian skepticism or even ...
Document Size: 5444
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Jan 28 08:16:23 PST 2006
15089 [lbo-talk] 57% back hit on Iran -- rank: 1000
John Lacny wrote: >To be honest, I'm having a hard time believing that there will be an actual >war against Iran; even the Bushites are not that stupid or crazy. Or am I >just out of touch? Fox is beating the war drums, but I think you've got a point - they only want to pick a fight with what they think are easy targets. They underestimated Iraq, but surely they realize that Iran is a much tougher nut to crack. I just saw a AFP headline saying that Britain thinks that diplomacy, not for ...
Document Size: 5072
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Jan 28 08:05:17 PST 2006
15090 [lbo-talk] terrorist busters, as seen by the CIA -- rank: 1000
Wow: <http://www.cia.gov/terrorism/buster.html>. Doug
Document Size: 4694
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Jan 27 17:51:04 PST 2006
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