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15511 [lbo-talk] the blogger heap -- rank: 1000

<http://newyorkmetro.com/news/media/15967/index.html> Blogs to Riches The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom. By Clive Thompson Two years ago, David Hauslaib was a junior at Syracuse University who was, as he confesses, "totally obsessed with who Paris Hilton was sleeping with." So he did what any college student would do these days: He blogged about it. Hauslaib began scouring the Web for paparazzi photos of Hilton and news items about her, then posting them on his Website ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 13 13:14:13 PST 2006

15512 [lbo-talk] more on Deadeye Dick -- rank: 1000

<http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001995719> More Questions Raised About Delay in Reporting Cheney Misfire By Greg Mitchell Published: February 12, 2006 10:20 PM ET updated Monday NEW YORK The more than 18-hour delay in news emerging that the vice president of the United States had shot a man, sending him to an intensive care unit with his wounds, grew even more curious Monday with word from the White House that President Bush had been inform ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 13 12:52:57 PST 2006

15513 [lbo-talk] Illinois as model for Democratic agenda -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >What is clear is that the legislation passed in Illinois would not be passed >by a GOP-run state. So why isn't that enough to justify strong preference >by unions and other progressives for electing Dems? It is, up to a point. But the unions etc. are often way to sluttish about handing out the cash. $40 million in a federal election cycle, and what to show for it? That's one reason it could well make more sense to support issue campaigns rather than candidates. Do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 13 12:04:40 PST 2006

15514 [lbo-talk] Che film in the works, right enraged -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>New York Post [Page Six] - February 13, 2006 >> >>CHE-FING OVER DEL TORO FLICK >> >>CONSERVATIVE film buffs are disgusted that director Steven >>Soderbergh has Benicio del Toro playing Communist revolutionary >>Ernesto "Che" Guevara as a hero in a movie shooting all over New >>York. > >Hate to be so trivial but that's going to be fucking hot. That's not trivial - it'd be great to make com ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 13 11:57:59 PST 2006

15515 [lbo-talk] Re: Faustian bargains -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >Doug writes: > >> Sorry, I only know what I read in books. > >Better check on the books you read: > >http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/2001/8/30-2_1.html >Grunfeld also uses Bell's statement that "slavery was not unknown in >the Chumbi valley" to imply that slavery was a standard institution >throughout Tibet. Once again Grunfeld does not include Bell's >subsequent remarks that the institution was then on the wane and >that &qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 13 11:56:06 PST 2006

15516 [lbo-talk] Illinois as model for Democratic agenda -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Nothing Governor B has to say has much to do with any reality -- past, >present, future -- in Illinois. It would be utopia if the world >resembled even remotely the verbal fantasies of DP politicians and >apologists. Could you put some flesh on that? Are NN's great triumphs merely clever rhetoric? Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 13 09:20:28 PST 2006

15517 [lbo-talk] Che film in the works, right enraged -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - February 13, 2006 CHE-FING OVER DEL TORO FLICK CONSERVATIVE film buffs are disgusted that director Steven Soderbergh has Benicio del Toro playing Communist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara as a hero in a movie shooting all over New York. They fear that the untitled flick, co-starring Benjamin Bratt and Ryan Gosling, will glorify the rabble-rouser whose face graces millions of T-shirts sold to young people unaware of his history. "Most Hollywood films ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 13 09:09:38 PST 2006

15518 [lbo-talk] Faustian Bargains -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >Certainly, by the mid-20th century, Tibet had become, relatively to >modern capitalist societies, socially and economically backward. But >it is nonsense to claim that "an impoverished >mass paid tribute to an idle caste of priests," >and not merely because *bonzes* are monks, not >priests >or even mullahs, nor even because Buddhist monastic practice is >notoriously based on austerity, not luxury. The obvious point is that >the huge porti ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 13 09:02:03 PST 2006

15519 [lbo-talk] essential distinctions -- rank: 1000

[from this morning's Note] Time Magazine's Mike Allen reports that White House aides can be expected to say that the Vice President "did not shoot Whittington, which suggests a bullet, but rather sprayed him with birdshot, a type of ammunition made up of tiny pieces of lead or steel."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 13 08:46:47 PST 2006

15520 [lbo-talk] union money -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >although union members are more likely to identify themselves as >dems than reps and labor unions are more likely to support dem >candidates, reps have captured at least 40% of votes from union >households in 8 of last 13 prez elections... It looks like union housholds vote Dem by 10 percentage points more than the overall popular vote. 10 points ain't nothing, but it's not overwhelming, either. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 13 08:42:52 PST 2006

15521 [lbo-talk] Illinois as model for Democratic agenda -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >How many people on this list, for example, many of them aging >professionals - myself included - have an immediate need for government >support for pre-school education, children's health care, a ban on >compulsory overtime, leave to recover from household violence, unsafe day >labour, union lockout rights and wage rates, etc. Some do, but most don't. Yeah, and it'd be nice if the Democrats actually had such an agenda. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 13 08:34:34 PST 2006

15522 [lbo-talk] Short-Term Tactics at Odds with Medium-Term Needs -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >gompers railed against variety of turn-of-20th century/so-called >progressive era state-based 'reform' programs, including national >health insurance, on grounds that they would hurt labor organizing Fitch has some excellent stuff in his book about this - Gompers and his AFL colleagues thought that national health insurance and even legislation restricting the length of the workday were forms of paternalism that would weaken the "virility" of American wo ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 12 11:53:47 PST 2006

15523 [lbo-talk] Faustian Bargains -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Brian wrote: > >>>. . . but the more likely reason today -- when China is clearly >>>capitalist and in some ways more capitalistic than many >>>longer-standing capitalist countries -- is that the revolt of >>>Tibetans against China began with the support of the CIA >> >>Who cares how it started? > > >When the leaders of a group -- the Tibetans, the Miskitos, the >Hmongs, the Iraqi Kurds, etc. -- make a Fa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 12 10:51:53 PST 2006

15524 [lbo-talk] union money -- rank: 1000

I don't see how it's ultraleftist to ask if labor is getting a good return on the hundreds of millions it gives Dems. It's a very hardheaded question, I think. Politics doesn't come any more practical than this. Who else who's vaguely on the right side has that much money & that many people to throw around? Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 11 15:55:38 PST 2006

15525 [lbo-talk] money -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Doug Henwood: > >> Nathan asks where the money's going to come from. Eight >> of the top ten political givers since 1989 are unions, >> who've given a total of $200 million, most of it to Dems. > >I'm guessing that you already know that direct political contributions come >only from PAC funds. PAC money -- which is precious and difficult to collect >in large amounts -- is appropriate to use for that purpose. Your argument on >these gro ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 11 15:24:58 PST 2006