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15436 [lbo-talk] Willie's latest -- rank: 1000

Someone's made a video of that great new Willie Nelson bisexual androgynous cowboy song: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHT7fsxJ_T8>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 17 10:31:06 PST 2006

15437 [lbo-talk] Larry Summers on the academic hiearchy -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >this attitude is very common among economists. very common. It's >amazing that old Larry expressed it publicly. > >My attitude is that the problem is that the topics covered by >sociology are just _more difficult_ than those covered by economics, >and economists are clever enough to try to answer the easier >questions. Interpersonal relations, culture, tradition, etc. are much >more complex than markets. Markets are pretty complex, since they're about c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 17 09:20:08 PST 2006

15438 [lbo-talk] animal farm -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >Political scientists, I am told, often deplore the fact that in the >US, the job of being head of government is unified with that of head >of state, unlike in (say) England, where the prime minister's job is >quite different from that of the Queen, or France and many other >countries where the premier is different from the president. > >Though I've giggled about the "Cheney/Rove administration," I've >missed the fact that to an extent never se ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 17 09:02:38 PST 2006

15439 [lbo-talk] Gallup on the cartoons -- rank: 1000

[The tables in the original are a formatting nightmare, so I've deleted them.] February 14, 2006 Public Critical of European Newspapers Showing Mohammed Cartoon But says controversy reflects Muslims' intolerance by David W. Moore GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- A solid majority of Americans believe the European newspapers that printed the cartoon of Mohammed acted "irresponsibly," according to the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll. But an equally large majority also believes that t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 17 08:52:52 PST 2006

15440 [lbo-talk] Lee's Garage -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> one manager asked him why "the largest company >> on the planet cannot offer some type of medical retirement benefits?" >> >> Mr. Scott first argues that the cost of such benefits would leave >> Wal-Mart at a competitive disadvantage but then, clearly annoyed, he >> suggests that the store manager is disloyal and should consider >> quitting. > >A Manager. That is, a member of tha ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 17 08:32:32 PST 2006

15441 [lbo-talk] What is you know what ? -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >Thanks for your help. Distracted by Leigh's tirade, I forgot about the >fact that fascism wouldn't charge its prisoners with any >legally-defined crime. It would be _official_ that the ruling party >and its Leader would be above the law. There's a review of a movie in today's NYT about a woman who was executed for handing out anti-government leaflets early in the Nazi era. That's a lot different from, say, the NYPD videotaping protesters and seizing their bicycles. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 17 08:10:54 PST 2006

15442 [lbo-talk] Vice King Dick -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - February 17, 2006 Veep's new can of worms Says he's allowed to clear gov't secrets BY KENNETH R. BAZINET DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON - Vice President Cheney may be getting over one political headache to find he has got another, this time for asserting he has the authority to declassify government secrets. Critics suspect he may be relying on that power to protect himself from legal trouble. Cheney stated he can declassify secret intelligence during an interview ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 17 08:01:49 PST 2006

15443 [lbo-talk] Hagel you bitch! -- rank: 1000

[from The Note, quoting the man the FT likes to call the "thoughtful" Chuck Hagel] The Omaha World Herald has Sen. Hagel saying: "If he'd been in the military, he would have learned gun safety."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 17 07:59:29 PST 2006

15444 [lbo-talk] Larry Summers on the academic hiearchy -- rank: 1000

[Someone just posted this quote from Harvard president and uber-smart-boy economist Larry Summers to the feminist econ list. It's from a Feb 16 article in the Boston Globe.] "'President Summers asked me, didn't I agree that, in general, economists are smarter than political scientists, and political scientists are smarter than sociologists?' [former Dean] Ellison said. 'To which I laughed nervously and didn't reply.'"

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 17 07:54:00 PST 2006

15445 [lbo-talk] Re: further adventures in political surrealism -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >>>>I still think Frank is essentially right when he says that the >>>>Democrats could do a lot better among the U.S. working class if >>>>they weren't Republicans light on economic issues. >>> >>>The funny thing is, nobody argues with that. >> >>BUt in the 2004 National Election Study, voters placed themselves >>closer to the Reps on econ policy, and to the Dems on social policy. > >Yes, but that ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 17 07:41:01 PST 2006

15446 [lbo-talk] Lee's Garage -- rank: 1000

[Samples of Scott's work at <http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/Walmart2004.pdf>, <http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/Walmart2005.pdf>, <http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/Walmart2006.pdf>.] New York Times - February 17, 2006 On Private Web Site, Wal-Mart Chief Talks Tough By STEVEN GREENHOUSE and MICHAEL BARBARO In a confidential, internal Web site for Wal-Mart's managers, the company's chief executive, H. Lee Scott Jr., seemed to have a rare, uns ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 17 07:25:33 PST 2006

15447 [lbo-talk] Re: further adventures in political surrealism -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > >On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>>The less educated group -- not to be confused with the lower >>>income group, with whom it very imperfectly correlates >> >>Very imperfectly indeed. Among voters, 40% of white >>non-college-grads had incomes of $60,000 or more. > >Out of curiosity, is that individual incomes or family incomes? Household.

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Date:	Thu Feb 16 19:21:36 PST 2006

15448 [lbo-talk] Re: further adventures in political surrealism -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >>I still think Frank is essentially right when he says that the >>Democrats could do a lot better among the U.S. working class if >>they weren't Republicans light on economic issues. > >The funny thing is, nobody argues with that. BUt in the 2004 National Election Study, voters placed themselves closer to the Reps on econ policy, and to the Dems on social policy. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 16 19:14:21 PST 2006

15449 [lbo-talk] Re: further adventures in political surrealism -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The alternative view is that the union corruption issue has been >historically blown out of proportion to serve the ideological needs of the >rightwing (and occasionally leftwing) critics of the union movement. So that means you'll have a detailed critique of Fitch's book sometime? Or do you just know it's crap without even reading it? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 16 12:23:41 PST 2006

15450 [lbo-talk] Re: further adventures in political surrealism -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And the history of the drop in support for unions in the public mind was not >some gradual process. It was tied to the rightwing attack on unions by the >McClellan Committee in 57 and 58, with pro-union sentiment dropping from 76% >before the hearings to just 50% afterwards. The destruction of union >support with the rhetoric of "corruption" was a deliberate and successful >campaign by the rightwing to destroy the union movement. You can arg ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 16 11:51:27 PST 2006