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15871 [lbo-talk] Prose Style, was Time to Get Religion -- rank: 1000

On Dec 7, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Most arguments about "obscurantism" have the hidden premise that > people > write obscurely ON PURPOSE. That they _could_ write clearly but do not > because of improper motives. > > But no one has provided one iota of EVIDENCE for this. Wow, Carrol, you've been terrific on this topic. What a refreshing, holiday-themed feeling it is to agree with you! Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 7 08:43:05 PST 2006

15872 Re: [lbo-talk] Ségolène Royal Embraces Israel, Its Wall and All -- rank: 1000

On Dec 7, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Wow, Ségolène Royal is really on the Right, (as well as clueless), on > foreign policy, though of course not right-wing enough for Tel Aviv. > Can't leftists elevate _left-wing women_ to leadership positions? -- Well maybe they're not so left. Seems like the French Socialists are going the Clinton/Blair route, 15 years later. She sounds more awful every day. Still looks great, though! Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 7 08:40:33 PST 2006

15873 [lbo-talk] Hitch: women aren't funny -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2006, at 8:30 PM, joanna wrote: > --Humor in a man means that he is capable of surprising you and > this has sexual implications that are welcomed by women -- given > that men can be so, hmmm, machine-like. Note the joke he quotes: "premature for whom?" Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 17:34:19 PST 2006

15874 [lbo-talk] Putin: Russians love him! -- rank: 1000

Ok, so what's behind the Putin Miracle? It's not the strength of his personality that turned Russia around, is it? What's his base, his milieu? And what would Russia be like if oil were $25? Doug

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15875 [lbo-talk] ISG, PS -- rank: 1000

My god, what a throwback to the 1980s: IRAQ STUDY GROUP James A. Baker, III, and Lee H. Hamilton, Co-Chairs Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Edwin Meese III, Sandra Day O Connor, Leon E. Panetta, William J. Perry, Charles S. Robb, Alan K. Simpson

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 16:49:54 PST 2006

15876 [lbo-talk] ISG -- rank: 1000

For those who care about such things (I'm not sure if I'm one of those), the Iraq Study Group's final report is at: <http://www.usip.org/isg/iraq_study_group_report/report/1206/ iraq_study_group_report.pdf>. Doug

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15877 [lbo-talk] Women, Religion, and Secular Leftists (was Rabbi Lerner's address on TV!) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2006, at 6:38 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > On the secular Left, too, it is mainly men who do the talking. I feel like I've stepped into a time tunnel. That people live in dimensions other than their class position, that religion counts for a lot, the men dis women constantly, that male political intellectuals have not taken feminism seriously, that consciousness is often at odds with material position, all in ways that Marxists have insufficiently appreciated - well, people (s ...

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15878 [lbo-talk] Women, Religion, and Secular Leftists (was Rabbi Lerner's address on TV!) -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Certainly, lack of time goes some way toward explaining the absence of > women here and other discussion forums like this one. But lack of > time must affect the religious as well, and getting actively involved > in the affairs of one's church, etc. surely takes more time than > taking part in an online forum. Ever notice who does most of the talking in churches, synagogues, mosques? Men. Women fill the pews, men the pulpits. ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 15:07:49 PST 2006

15879 [lbo-talk] Putin: Russians love him! -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2006, at 4:39 PM, Peter Lavelle wrote: > My very short reply to this is the following. The Republicans > expected Putin to be like Yeltsin - cave in to Western geopolitical > interests. For the Democracts, which had to take a different > approach, Putin has not live upped to Yeltsin's "democratic > values" (whatever that means). So we are left with a very American > agenda to assess Russia - neither makes any sense. I'm talking about people who are to the le ...

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15880 [lbo-talk] Putin: Russians love him! -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > I would say's it's not almost outrage -- it IS > outrage. All those dumbass editorials in the > Washington Post and the Economist get translated into > Russian and widely disseminated over the Internet and > in print. I can't count the number of times I've been hanging with a group of lefties and say that Putin's pretty good, all things considered. They look at me like I'm a vicious nut.

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 13:21:03 PST 2006

15881 [lbo-talk] Hitch: women aren't funny -- rank: 1000

<http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/01/hitchens200701? printable=true&currentPage=all> Why Women Aren't Funny What makes the female so much deadlier than the male? With assists from Fran Lebowitz, Nora Ephron, and a recent Stanford-medical-school study, the author investigates the reasons for the humor gap. by Christopher Hitchens January 2007 Be your gender what it may, you will certainly have heard the following from a female friend who is enumerating the charms of a ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 13:04:33 PST 2006

15882 [lbo-talk] American optimism slipping away... -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/obdeck/?ObDeckID=94> [...] Ladder of Life For a more stable barometer of trends in national optimism, it's worth examining the "ladder of life" series of questions that have been asked by Pew and Gallup since 1964. These questions are not posed on Election Day, nor are they asked of respondents who have been cued to think about politics or partisanship. As a result, the historic trend lines from this question are less volatile than those drawn from t ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 12:19:03 PST 2006

15883 [lbo-talk] Putin: Russians love him! -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/obdeck/?ObDeckID=103> The Putin Popularity Score Increasingly Reviled in the West, Russia's Leader Enjoys Broad Support at Home by Richard Morin, Pew Global Attitudes Project and Nilanthi Samaranayake, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Pew Global Attitudes Project December 6, 2006 Is Vladimir Putin a new breed of postmodern, post-communist populist or an old-style dictator in democratic clothing? It's a question currently being debated with even ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 6 12:14:08 PST 2006

15884 [lbo-talk] Prose Style, was Time to Get Religion -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > It is perhaps useful on lbo-talk, where everyone is rabidly > "anti-stalinist," Hmmm. Rabidly?

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15885 [lbo-talk] how political reporters would run thing -- rank: 1000

[This reminds me of Adolph Reed's characterization of elite liberals' solution: get all the smart people together on the Vineyard, and they can work things out. From Romenesko.] Harris imagines how political reporters would run government PressThink "Their ideal would be to have a blue ribbon commission go into seclusion at Andrews Air Force base for a week and solve all problems," departing Washington Post political editor John Harris tells Jay Rosen. "It would be chaired by ...

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