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15631 [lbo-talk] "progressive" press -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine 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. > >How about their advertising revenues (what really counts)? Not sure why that really counts, but The Nation is slightly profitable now, and TNR and TWS both require subsidies from their owners ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 3 11:58:07 PST 2006

15632 [lbo-talk] Link to Muhammed cartoons -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I disagree with this assessment. I do not think that there is any >system-wide censorship in the US, albeit of course individuals outlets may >be selective in what they print. That holds for The Nations as well as for >the WSJ. The fact remains that virtually anything - no matter how >outrageous - can be published in this country (albeit not by every outlet), >or for that matter televised via community access TV. If cretin types of >messages seem ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 3 10:23:51 PST 2006

15633 [lbo-talk] OK, Nathan -- rank: 1000

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! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 3 09:49:07 PST 2006

15634 [lbo-talk] Link to Muhammed cartoons -- rank: 1000

www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: >On a separate note, I hate to be an old Leninist authoritarian, but >isn't "freedom of speech" an interesting phrase? It's a logocentric >fallacy, since what we're talking about is an entirely different >mode of expression. It sort of occludes the fact that we're talking >about a kind of action which has ramifications beyond who hears >what. At any rate, no freedom is absolute and actions which harm >others are generally proh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 2 11:58:18 PST 2006

15635 [lbo-talk] Nicky Hilton's phone number! -- rank: 1000

Gawker reports that Nicky Hilton's phone number was leaked on the web. The mailbox is full, but you can still hear her say "Nicky Hilton": 917-929-0223.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 2 11:46:31 PST 2006

15636 [lbo-talk] Fedster warns on risky housing loans -- rank: 1000

Fed's Bies warns on mortgage, real estate lending Thu Feb 2, 10:16 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Regulators are concerned about heavy commercial real estate exposures and risky mortgage lending practices at U.S. banks, Federal Reserve Board Governor Susan Bies said on Thursday. "There are certain rapidly growing business lines in banking operations that are placing pressures on risk-management systems," Bies told a financial services industry conference as she outlined guidance regulato ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 2 11:42:42 PST 2006

15637 [lbo-talk] IP -- rank: 1000

Anyone hear anything about Verizon DSL blocking filesharing (Gnutella, LimeWire, Acquisition, etc.)? A quick google turns up nothing.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 2 11:16:49 PST 2006

15638 [lbo-talk] bad language -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >I hate to seem naive but what is an Alaska Pipeline or >a Felch? And I thought I knew my perversions. They're pretty strong stuff, so to avoid shocking the shockable I'll just provide URLs: Alaska Pipeline <http://www.encyclopedia-of-sex.com/displayarticle180.html> Felch <http://www.encyclopedia-of-sex.com/displayarticle115.html>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 2 10:16:29 PST 2006

15639 [lbo-talk] sexism -- rank: 1000

<http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2006/02/narcotics_anony.html> [Q] The butch in your story, "Karla," is the steadfast good soldier; the femme is a dangerous minx. What is it about the masculine character who's a mensch, yet who is lied to every step of the way? [A] A few months ago I started performing as a drag king after being high femme for several years. And all of the sudden I was getting these femmes who wanted me to carry their bags, or do their dirty w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 2 10:11:51 PST 2006

15640 [lbo-talk] Brit political gossip -- rank: 1000

At 1:01 PM +0000 2/2/06, popbitch wrote: > >> Up shit creek << > Oaten story leaves bad taste in mouth > > Mark Oaten has made his first appearance since > the rent-boy story broke, and is vowing to > save his marriage. Mrs Oaten is likely to > poo-poo that idea however, when she find out > the "utterly degrading act" alluded to in the > papers was coprophilia. It seems that Mark, > unlike most polit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 2 09:55:53 PST 2006

15641 [lbo-talk] Fwd: CEPR Study Finds Labor Dept. Overstates Share of Working Americans -- rank: 1000

A new study by Center for Economic and Policy Research economists John Schmitt and Dean Baker found that the Current Population Survey, the source of the government's most important statistics on the labor market, may be overstating the share of working Americans by 1.4 percentage points (roughly 3 million people). The study found that the CPS overstates employment rates for blacks by about 2 percentage points, with the gap for younger black men as high as 8 percentage points. The CPS also appea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 2 09:44:43 PST 2006

15642 [lbo-talk] bad language -- rank: 1000

[links to searches at FCC site in original] <http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/01/fcc.html> JANUARY 13, 2006 The FCC's Website: Alaska Pipelines and Rim Jobs Smutty Friday continues. The FCC publishes words and phrases on its website which it doesn't allow to be published on the airwaves of the radio and TV stations which it regulates. Inspired by this article, I decided to find out for myself exactly how the FCC titillates and panders to the masses, while forbidding broadcast outlets fro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 2 09:07:51 PST 2006

15643 [lbo-talk] Link to Muhammed cartoons -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > >http://www.di2.nu/files/Muhammed_Cartoons_Jyllands_Posten.html > I believe in freedom of speech and all, but these cartoons are rather racist and stupid. And, at the bottom of the page cited there appears: >I am Proud of Britain and even more Proud of Britain and I despise >l'Escroc and Vile Pin i.e., Chirac ("escroc" = crook or swindler) and Villepin. The links to "Proud of Britain" don't work, but they sound rather National Frontis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 2 08:51:55 PST 2006

15644 [lbo-talk] Media Concentration database--where's it at? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >How then were 1000 or 10,000 capitalist owners (almost all a monopoly in >their localities) any better than 50. Upton Sinclair in The Brass Check >notes that no paper in one large city would print a news story on a rape >of a woman by the son of a large department store owner. Exactly. Local papers (and TV & radio stations) in the US almost universally suck. There's a lot more diversity on cable TV now than there was on broadcast TV a generation ago. It's far b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 2 08:17:04 PST 2006

15645 [lbo-talk] top brass not amused -- rank: 1000

[the cartoon is at <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinions/cartoonsandvideos/toles_main.html?name=Toles&date=01292006>] Washington Post - February 2, 2006 Joint Chiefs Fire At Toles Cartoon On Strained Army By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer In a protest with an unusual number of high-level signatures, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and each of its five members have fired off a letter assailing a Washington Post cartoon as "beyond tasteless." The T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 2 07:45:50 PST 2006