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15241 [lbo-talk] the Brownie of mine safety -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - January 9, 2005 Mine Disaster's Terrible Irony: A Failure to Look Deeper By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer It was the most heart-rending and humiliating botch of a life-and-death story in modern memory, yet most journalists, naturally, aren't blaming themselves. It was everyone else's fault, they say. We just published and broadcast what we were told, and it turned out to be wrong. Tragically wrong, as in the Washington Post headline in Wednesday's late editions: &qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 9 09:14:05 PST 2006

15242 [lbo-talk] Dangerous Work Done Dirt Cheap -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >The 'old man' didn't DO ANYTHING either. >He was too busy thinkng and writing and >letting his family live in abject poverty. We should all do so little. >Mudslinging won't do, where did I say that anyone HAD TO DO >anything. Unless you mean to say 'suggesting' is moralising? >(which would be pretty moralistic) What's moralizing is your focus on individual choice and behavior and not on the structural things that make us do the things we do, and shape the w ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 9 09:07:59 PST 2006

15243 [lbo-talk] JT Leroy unmasked! -- rank: 1000

[we are the proud owners of a penis bone distributed by JT Leroy] New York Times - January 9, 2005 The Unmasking of JT Leroy: In Public, He's a She By WARREN ST. JOHN It has been one of the most bizarre literary mysteries in recent memory: Who, exactly, is the novelist JT Leroy? An answer, at long last, is taking shape. Mr. Leroy's tale was harrowing in its details and uplifting in its arc. He was a young truck-stop prostitute who had escaped rural West Virginia for the dismal life of a homeless ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 9 08:59:15 PST 2006

15244 [lbo-talk] O'Reilly: gay marriage will lead to interspecies marriage -- rank: 1000

<http://mediamatters.org/items/printable/200601050008> Thu, Jan 5, 2006 6:26pm EST The porpoise-driven wife: O'Reilly links same-sex marriage to UK woman who "married" dolphin Summary: Bill O'Reilly once again repeated his argument that same-sex marriage will lead to interspecies marriage. On the January 4 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host <http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/billoreilly>Bill O'Reilly once again repeated his argument that legalizing sa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 9 08:56:15 PST 2006

15245 [lbo-talk] Novak: Medicare drug plan a disaster, and it's Rove's fault -- rank: 1000

<http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak09.html> Medicare Rx blunder may hurt GOP January 9, 2006 BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST It is said only in hushed tones and not by anybody of prominence, but a few brave souls in the Bush administration admit it. President Bush's Medicare drug benefit that went into effect Jan. 1 looks like a political blunder of far-reaching consequences. Furthermore, these critics assign major responsibility to Karl Rove. The hideous complexity of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 9 08:36:58 PST 2006

15246 [lbo-talk] India: 10 million missing girls -- rank: 1000

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4592890.stm> India 'loses 10m female births' More than 10m female births in India may have been lost to abortion and sex selection in the past 20 years, according to medical research. Researchers in India and Canada for the Lancet journal said prenatal selection and selective abortion was causing the loss of 500,000 girls a year. Their research was based on a national survey of 1.1m households in 1998. The researchers said the "girl deficit" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 9 08:21:18 PST 2006

15247 [lbo-talk] For Doug & Liza: Shake Asses, Not Babies -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Detail and DL page @ archive.org: >http://www.archive.org/details/TheFabricationsShakeAssesNotBabies Yikes. We had to watch a video about the evils of baby shaking before leaving the hospital and sign a form saying that we'd taken it in. The video was on The Newborn Channel. You have to pay $5/day at Roosevelt to get regular cable TV, but The Newborn Channel is free. Some useful info (how to install the car seat [you have to have one to leave the hospital], how to brea ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 9 08:09:42 PST 2006

15248 [lbo-talk] Dangerous Work Done Dirt Cheap -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: > >If you don't want to take responsiblitity for the business/social framework >>of modern day America, that's fine, but puuleease don't try to rationalize >it away >>with an "economic model in a vacuum". > >So where does that guilt about consumption take you, then, politically? Into hippie moralism, which is where we've seen Leigh lead us before. I was always skeptical of Marx's refusal to argue morally, preferring "scienc ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 9 08:01:32 PST 2006

15249 [lbo-talk] a coup in Iraq? -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - January 9, 2006 Just a coup away: Washington may have wanted to establish a free and democratic Iraq, but the return of a strongman is probably inevitable. by Aaron Belkin THE PROVISIONAL results of the December elections in Iraq are already in dispute, but that doesn't stop Washington from pointing to the vote as a success in its quest to create a peaceful, stable and free Middle East. But the mere fact of an election cannot change a fundamental truth about Iraq: Saddam Huss ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 9 07:41:25 PST 2006

15250 [lbo-talk] Nobel Prize in Economics Gary Becker advocating free market trading of transplant organs -- rank: 1000

ulisse mangialaio wrote: >recently posted on the Becker-Posner blog, >www.becker-posner-blog.com: > >"Another set of critics agree with me that the effect >on the total supply of organs from allowing them to be >purchased and sold would be large and positive, but >they object to markets because of a belief that the >commercially-motivated part of the organ supply would >mainly come from the poor. In effect, they believe the >poor would be induced to sell their ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 8 11:08:40 PST 2006

15251 [lbo-talk] Ross knew -- rank: 1000

New York Post - January 5, 2005 N.Y. EXEC KNEW OF PROBLEMS: EX-HONCHOS By RODDY BOYD New York billionaire Wilbur Ross had been intimately involved with the company that owned the West Virginia mine where 12 miners perished - and he knew all about its safety problems, former executives charged yesterday. Ross' colleagues at W.L. Ross & Co. have said that they just had gotten involved with Anker Coal's troubled Sago mine last April, when Ross' International Coal Group purchased Anker outright. ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 5 17:00:36 PST 2006

15252 [lbo-talk] Dems recuiting pro-gun anti-abortion candidates -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aBm.tUF5aEjk&refer=us> Democrats, Stung in 2004, Tap Anti-Abortion, Pro-Gun Candidates Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Brad Ellsworth likes to hunt, opposes abortion and says he'll put his ``family values up against anybody.'' He may be the Democrats' new dream candidate. The 47-year-old Ellsworth, a county sheriff in Indiana, is one of a number of Democrats running for the U.S. Congress next year whose positions on social issues deviate f ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 5 12:56:47 PST 2006

15253 [lbo-talk] Murtha: I wouldn't join today's military -- rank: 1000

US Rep. Murtha says he wouldn't join military now 03 Jan 2006 01:00:32 GMT WASHINGTON, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Rep. John Murtha, a key Democratic voice who favors pulling U.S. troops from Iraq, said in remarks airing on Monday that he would not join the U.S. military today. A decorated Vietnam combat veteran who retired as a colonel after 37 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, Murtha told ABC News' "Nightline" program that Iraq "absolutely" was a wrong war for President George W. Bush ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 3 07:07:37 PST 2006

15254 [lbo-talk] Liza & Doug have a kid -- rank: 1000

Mike Ballard wrote: >Welcome to the world, T.K.! TK is now Joseph, Ivan Joseph Henwood. Official forms filed today. On the NYC birth cert info form, there are all kinds of subcategories like Guamanian and Samoan, but just one white. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 2 22:52:29 PST 2006

15255 [lbo-talk] Sleeping with the kids -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >Of course, one has to get more creative about where to have sex. But >that's ok. Nothing wrong with creative sex. But Susie Bright said that every grownup couple with children needs a door that locks, and I find that kind of persuasive. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 2 18:25:58 PST 2006