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15616 [lbo-talk] faces & orientation -- rank: 1000

<http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=35977> Face Perception Is Modulated By Sexual Orientation 11 Jan 2006 New research indicates that an area of the brain thought to act in reward circuitry may represent a phase in visual processing during which sexual orientation modulates how we perceive individual faces. The findings are reported by Felicitas Kranz and Alumit Ishai of the University of Zurich. Of all the visual skills possessed by humans, face recognition is arguably ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 4 08:54:54 PST 2006

15617 [lbo-talk] Re: Brokeback Mountain: A review by David McReynolds -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >By leaving the ending ambiguous, it allows people to project on to >the film their own interpretations. Is that the Hollywood way? Zizek has a riff somewhere on the shark in Jaws - people have projected all kinds of meanings onto it. But the point is that none of them are right. If any were "right" then it might alienate a potential ticket-buyers, so best to keep it free-floating. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 4 08:08:27 PST 2006

15618 [lbo-talk] partisan divide -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > >>State of Disunion >>Thomas Miller > ><snip> > >>Overall, 78 percent of Republicans but merely 11 percent of >>Democrats approve of the President's job performance today-again, >>one of the widest gaps ever registered for a President since >>Eisenhower. > >Eisenhower generated polarized polls? Hard to believe - Ike's average approval rating was 65%. Sounds more like that sort of detailed partisan polling began w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 3 17:37:25 PST 2006

15619 [lbo-talk] Re: muslim anger and qualified "freedom" -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: > >> >>frank scott wrote: >> >>>daring to speak critically about the holocaust... >> >>Yeah, you can't have too much critical discourse about the holocaust. >> >>What the fuck are you talking about? >> >>Doug > > >I think he must be speaking (equivocally) about holocaust deniers. Yeah, that was my guess, but that's a pretty funny way to describe them, though not surprising, considering the source. Do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 3 15:01:35 PST 2006

15620 [lbo-talk] Re: muslim anger and qualified "freedom" -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >daring to speak critically about the holocaust... Yeah, you can't have too much critical discourse about the holocaust. What the fuck are you talking about? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 3 14:31:57 PST 2006

15621 [lbo-talk] partisan divide -- rank: 1000

[an "op-ed" from AP/Ipsos] State of Disunion February 3, 2006 Thomas Miller New York, NY - When President Bush delivered his State of the Union address Tuesday night, he was facing an America that has become implacably split along partisan political lines. The rifts between the Republican and Democratic parties, politicians, and voters are now deeper than they have been in many years, certainly since 9/11 and possibly since the 1930's Depression. In an Ipsos survey conducted last week, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 3 13:58:12 PST 2006

15622 [lbo-talk] Merrill Lynch on the Super Bowl indicator -- rank: 1000

Quant Analysis & Strat: The Super Bowl and the Stock Market Analyst: Richard Bernstein The Super Bowl and the Stock Market * It's the time of year for spurious correlations and the stock market. Yes, it is time to dust off the Super Bowl Indicator. * Last year at this time we took an innovative twist, and wrote about the human versus animal mascot indicator as a leading indicator of the Super Bowl Indicator. We proudly took that spurious correlation to a new extreme. * It turns out that ther ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 3 13:56:19 PST 2006

15623 [lbo-talk] Speaking of smoking and Fox News ... -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Not available without a subscription. > >On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:25:31AM -0800, Jordan Hayes wrote: > > https://ssl.tnr.com/p/docsub.mhtml?i=20060206&s=thacker020606 PUNDIT FOR HIRE. Smoked Out by Paul D. Thacker Post date 01.26.06 | Issue date 02.06.06 Discuss this article (6) Printer friendly E-mail this article [Editor's Note: This article has been corrected.] In his final column of the year, FoxNews.com science columnist Steven Milloy listed & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 3 13:46:30 PST 2006

15624 [lbo-talk] "progressive" press -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Doug: >> Low circ of progressive pubs: The Nation's circ is at record levels. >> It recently surpassed National Review to become the most popular >> journal of opinion in the US, and it's way ahead of The New Republic >> and The Weekly Standard. > >Does Mother Jones not count? I thought they had the highest circulation of >all. Damn, I always forget about Mother Jones. It's not really a "journal of opinion," though, is it? ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 3 13:05:59 PST 2006

15625 [lbo-talk] American Values and Ayn Rand -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: 8 posts on Thursday. 7 so far today. The limit, in case you've forgotten, is 3. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 3 12:56:08 PST 2006

15626 [lbo-talk] Brokeback Mountain: A review by David McReynolds -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Michael Pug for passing this along.] Brokeback Mountain: A Review by David McReynolds Being retired, I decided I'd catch the 3 p.m. afternoon showing of Brokeback Mountain, thinking I'd have the theatre almost to myself. I was surprised to find it nearly half full. I'd wondered what possible audience (aside from gay men) there could be for a film about two cowboys and their homosexual affair. It would seem there is a wide audience - and the film merits it. Brokeback Mountain is not, i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 3 12:48:38 PST 2006

15627 [lbo-talk] Link to Muhammed cartoons -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >If I work, say, for the NYT and I have a story >that I know my editor will reject, I can still publish it elsewhere Where? Counterpunch? What else would have the heft or distribution of the NYT? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 3 12:35:16 PST 2006

15628 [lbo-talk] celebrity is the universal solvent -- rank: 1000

[from today's Page Six's "Sightings..."] DAN Rather sitting next to gangsta rapper The Game in first class on an American Airlines flight from New York to L.A., "chatting away like old friends"

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 3 12:22:37 PST 2006

15629 [lbo-talk] why we need Carrol Cox! -- rank: 1000

At 12:06 PM -0500 2/3/06, Poynter Institute wrote: >National Journal >William Powers says the crabby, morose oldster -- think Ted Koppel >-- plays a dual role: 1) repository of genuine worldly wisdom, and >2) foil for the fresh ideas and optimism of those coming up behind >him. Newness isn't worth much unless it has some moldy oldness to >bump up against, he says. "If anyone in TV today deserves to be >called wise, Koppel does." >

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 3 12:12:47 PST 2006

15630 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > > Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > > > > >Once we mentioned "my politics" - the more time I spend on this list > > >the more I think that despite all its faults the Democratic > > party is by > > >far the best and most sensible progressive alternative for this > > >country. There is simply no other alternative that can be > > taken seriously. > > > > Man, that's depressing! > > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 3 11:59:40 PST 2006