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15121 [lbo-talk] Roman real-estate orgy -- rank: 1000
<http://bizbash.com/content/editorial/e5686.asp> Corcoran Group Acts Out at Roman Theme Party Corcoran Group's holiday party Cipriani Wall Street Tuesday, 01.10.06, 7 PM to 11 PM New York has been called the Empire City, and real estate firm the Corcoran Group is usually associated with high-end property in Manhattan. But for its annual post-holidays holiday party, the firm immersed itself in another empire: that of Rome. Jason Riggs, director of special events at Corcoran, hired Bryan Jac ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 25 09:20:58 PST 2006
15122 [lbo-talk] Walt Disney presents Devo 2.0 -- rank: 1000
B. wrote: >Now this is really bizarre. Walt Disney has bought >Devo's back catalogue and has assembled 5 kids to be >"Devo 2.0." Bizarre indeed. Does anyone still listen to Devo 1.0? Doug
Document Size: 4779
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 25 08:44:35 PST 2006
15123 [lbo-talk] Liberalism vs socialism -- rank: 1000
Charles Brown wrote: >Liberalism and socialism are not >consistent. Carrol's right - you're fighting over a word, not the underlying concepts. You & Justin mean different things by "liberalism." Doug
Document Size: 4700
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 25 08:42:26 PST 2006
15124 [lbo-talk] Lumpen -- rank: 1000
Michael Pugliese wrote: > McWhorter quoting Rose on pg. 318, "Rappers are constantly taking >dominant discursive fragments and throwing them into relief, >destabilizing hegemonic discourses and attempting to legitimate >counter-hegemonic interpretrations. Rap's contestations are part of a >polyvocal black cultural discourse engaged in in discursive 'wars of >position' within and against dominant discourses." (whew!) 'sez >McWhorter. Dunno about all that, but a ...
Document Size: 4972
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 25 08:31:57 PST 2006
15125 [lbo-talk] The New, Nihilistic America -- rank: 1000
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >My point was to question the need for abstract concepts, like capitalism, I didn't invoke it as an abstract comment, but as shorthand, which is often how words are used, no? In this case, I meant that there are few institutions in the US that act to counter the prevailing structures of competitive individualism - unions, a welfare state, etc. - and few viable anticapitalist ideologies for people to draw on. Consequently, the "common sense" of many Americans ...
Document Size: 5243
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 25 08:26:26 PST 2006
15126 [lbo-talk] college men harassed too! -- rank: 1000
[dunno why CHSommers deserves all this space] <http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/01/25/harass> New Form of Gender Equity A new report by the American Association of University Women finds some surprising commonalities among men and women when it comes to sexual harassment. According to the authors of "Drawing the Line," <http://www.aauw.org/research/dtl.cfm> nearly two-thirds of all college students experience some form of sexual harassment - with male (61 percent) and fe ...
Document Size: 9559
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 25 07:49:56 PST 2006
15127 [lbo-talk] death counter -- rank: 1000
[from today's VersionTracker email announcement of new Mac software] Iraq War: US Wounded 1.1 (Freeware - 01/24/2006) lists current number of soldiers wounded http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28963 Iraq War: US Casualties 1.1 (Freeware - 01/24/2006) widget reports current number of US fatalities in Iraq war http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28961
Document Size: 4917
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 25 07:41:30 PST 2006
15128 [lbo-talk] Boston Globe: "Pornification of America" -- rank: 1000
B. wrote: >Even cooking shows on the Food Network -- the Food >Network! -- contain distinct parallels with the >cinematography, dialogue, and body language of >pornography, according to an article wryly headlined >''Debbie Does Salad" in the October issue of Harper's >magazine. Some 20 years ago Alexander Cockburn wrote about "gastro-porn." Doug
Document Size: 5159
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 25 07:37:29 PST 2006
15129 [lbo-talk] The New, Nihilistic America -- rank: 1000
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug: > >> This is a very interesting piece. It seems that while one >> part of classical Marixst politics - the material interests >> of the proletariat in expropriating the expropriators - has >> lost its salience, another - the alienating, atomizing >> effects of life under capitalism - has greatly increased. > > >I think it has less to do with capitalism in general and more to do with the >nature of the US society ...
Document Size: 5529
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 24 14:55:27 PST 2006
15130 [lbo-talk] The New, Nihilistic America -- rank: 1000
mike larkin wrote: >"...Looking at the data from 1992 to 2004, >Shellenberger and Nordhaus found a country whose >citizens are increasingly authoritarian while at the >same time feeling evermore adrift, isolated, and >nihilistic. They found a society at once more >libertine and more puritanical than in the past, a >society where solidarity among citizens was >deteriorating, and, most worrisomely to them, a >progressive clock that seemed to be unwinding backward &g ...
Document Size: 8108
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 24 14:21:48 PST 2006
15131 [lbo-talk] Marc Cooper » Blog Archive » The S quandering of Pacifica Radio -- rank: 1000
Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://marccooper.com/the-squandering-of-pacifica-radio/ > Start throwing the counter invectives back ;-) Hmm, I'd be interested in reading a non-invective-filled refuation of that. Doug
Document Size: 5319
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 24 13:53:52 PST 2006
15132 [lbo-talk] Joey & Amy & Mary Jo reunited!!! -- rank: 1000
At 11:26 AM -0500 1/24/06, <newsfeed at mediabistro.com> wrote: >BUTTAFUOCOS, AMY FISHER TO REUNITE ON TV SPECIAL (AP VIA MSNBC) >More than a decade after 16-year-old Amy Fisher had a sexual >relationship with a much-older car mechanic and shot his wife in the >face, the one-time "Long Island Lolita" and Joey and Mary Jo >Buttafuoco have agreed to appear together in a televised reunion. >http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10990471/
Document Size: 5324
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 24 13:05:44 PST 2006
15133 [lbo-talk] college teaching in NYC: the pay sucks -- rank: 1000
<http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/demographics/20060124/5/1732> Teachers In NYC's Institutions Of Higher Learning by Andrew Beveridge January, 2006 Although few people would see New York City as a college town, the truth is that the city has the most institutions of higher learning in the entire nation, as well as the most students -- and the most teachers as well. At least 25,000 academics teach about 425,000 students in the city's 57 colleges and universities. These teachers do much ...
Document Size: 5508
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 24 12:35:51 PST 2006
15134 [lbo-talk] Mises gang: The Union Conspiracy Against Wal-Mart Workers -- rank: 1000
The Union Conspiracy Against Wal-Mart Workers by Thomas DiLorenzo [Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006] <http://www.mises.org/story/2016> Most of the commentary on the ongoing propaganda campaign against Wal-Mart ignores what is probably the most important aspect of it: It is primarily a labor union-inspired campaign against Wal-Mart employees, as well as the company in general. This is the essential truth of all union organizing campaigns. Historically, all of the violence, libel, and inti ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jan 24 12:22:53 PST 2006
15135 [lbo-talk] Naomi Wolf finds Jesus -- rank: 1000
Wendy Lyon wrote: >I can't speak for other American feminists but I never thought she was >too "embracing", whatever that means. I assumed it meant too quick to embrace Clinton & Gore, but it is oddly phrased. Doug
Document Size: 4764
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jan 23 08:17:36 PST 2006
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