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1591 [lbo-talk] Trump's beauty -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] t might be hard to picture New York real estate mogul Donald Trump, who has flirted with a presidential campaign twice before but opted not to run, sitting down in Iowa and New Hampshire living rooms and, as one of Trump's aides put it, having "a little apple pie" with voters. But as Trump told ABC News' Ashleigh Banfield in an interview on "Good Morning America," today: "I have never been so serious as I am now." And he's willing to put his money wh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 17 08:38:59 PDT 2011

1592 [lbo-talk] my Bob Fitch tribute -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2011, at 7:29 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > The first of the variably ecoapocalyptic books - 2000's Ecology of Fear: Los > Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster - received high marks from critical > sociology and geography grad students I knew and I read some quite positive > reviews, but I'd put that fourth. Mike is a little too susceptible to the pornography of doom for my taste. Remember the Bird Flu book?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 16 17:07:45 PDT 2011

1593 [lbo-talk] my Bob Fitch tribute -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Andy wrote: > Can anybody suggest a good Davis book to start with? His Victorian > Holocausts gets an admiring summary in The Winds of Change -- about > climate as a stressor to civilizations, an unusual shoutout to > somebody so political in a popular science book -- but I'm more > curious about Davis's work on urban life. Prisoners of the American Dream & City of Quartz are terrific.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 16 13:06:41 PDT 2011

1594 [lbo-talk] catastrophy -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Gar's technological fixes, assuming them to be accurate, are still in the > world of fantasy. They assume that the evils of capitalism are grounded in > the actions of evil capitalists, and that simply isn't true. C'mon, Carrol. If things can be arranged so that money could be made on alternative energy, it will happen without a social revolution. All you need are some regulations and subsidies. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 16 12:26:37 PDT 2011

1595 [lbo-talk] my Bob Fitch tribute -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2011, at 4:12 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > This part sounds a lot like what happened to Mike Davis, except Davis was fortunate enough to get the genius grant I think Davis is great, but Fitch was his equal. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 16 12:10:57 PDT 2011

1596 [lbo-talk] my Bob Fitch tribute -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > <http://www.amazon.com/Fiscal-Crisis-American-Cities-Political/dp/0394721934> > I would imagine that the whole volume is dated and Bob developed these > points more throughly in The Assassination of New York, which I need to read > anyway. No doubt it is, but 1) history is never dated, and 2) his piece is mostly about the 1929 plan, so another 35 years don't make that much difference.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 16 12:09:11 PDT 2011

1597 [lbo-talk] my Bob Fitch tribute -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Up at The Nation site: http://www.thenation.com/article/159252/remembering-robert-fitch > > Very nice piece. BTW, I'd love to read that essay you mention, "Planning New York." Any chance you or someone else could post it? It's in a, you know, book of essays. Posting it would be an enormous effort of scanning. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 16 11:37:53 PDT 2011

1598 [lbo-talk] Class Warfare -- rank: 1000

On Mar 16, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >>> http://www.flickr.com:80/photos/walkering/5082373605/ >> >> I am having trouble parsing that. > > I guess if you're from the Twitter generation, it's kind of a mad-lib. > > <GoodThing> the poor; <CreepyBadThing> the rich. But upskirts are fun!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 16 04:37:23 PDT 2011

1599 [lbo-talk] Class Warfare -- rank: 1000

On Mar 15, 2011, at 8:45 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > http://www.flickr.com:80/photos/walkering/5082373605/ I am having trouble parsing that. I know what all the words mean, but...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 15 18:50:39 PDT 2011

1600 [lbo-talk] my Bob Fitch tribute -- rank: 1000

Up at The Nation site: http://www.thenation.com/article/159252/remembering-robert-fitch

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 15 15:29:09 PDT 2011

1601 [lbo-talk] Tom Waits -- rank: 1000

Why I love Tom Waits (cont.): http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/arts/music/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-honors-musicians.html Neil Young praised Mr. Waits who growls poetic, picaresque songs full of lowlife characters and deep romance as a performer, singer, actor, magician, spirit guide and changeling. They say that I have no hits and I m difficult to work with, Mr. Waits said as he accepted the award, and they say that like it s a bad thing. He added, Songs are really just interesting t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 15 14:47:29 PDT 2011

1602 [lbo-talk] An Orgy of Speculation? -- rank: 1000

On Mar 14, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The problem is that exploitation is _not_ the major objection to capitalism. It's not? What is?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 14 12:04:30 PDT 2011

1603 [lbo-talk] solidarity with Zimbabwean political prisoners -- rank: 1000

[Scott McLemee asked me to circulate this.] Six people in Zimbabwe are now imprisoned on charges of treason for organizing a meeting to discuss the mass movements in Tunisia and Egypt. For this crime they face a possible death sentence. They have been tortured and are now in solitary confinement. An international day of action to demand their release will be held on Monday, March 21, when they are scheduled for a court hearing. Our message is simple and urgent: We demand that the government of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 14 11:50:18 PDT 2011

1604 [lbo-talk] drill baby drill! -- rank: 1000

[People who think that peak oil talk is going to push policy in a saner direction really need to rethink that proposition.] http://www.gallup.com/poll/146615/Oil-Drilling-Gains-Favor-Americans.aspx A solid majority of Americans -- 60% -- favor expanding offshore oil drilling in U.S. coastal areas, up from 50% last May. At the same time, a record-high 49% favor opening the Alaskan wilderness to oil exploration.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 14 10:40:59 PDT 2011

1605 [lbo-talk] Kudlow grateful for Japanese death toll -- rank: 1000

What an odious human: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/03/larry-kudlow-devalues-human-life-with-japan-earthquake-freudian-slip.html In these tough economic times, isn t it nice to know that calamitous natural disasters needn't have an adverse affect on your investment portfolio? After the 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan failed to induce a market nosedive, CNBC s Larry Kudlow expressed his relief in terms that seemed to appall even his fellow cheerleaders for capitalism: The human t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 13 07:48:57 PDT 2011