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16261 [lbo-talk] George Allen, Confederate -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Stars and Bars: In an absolute must-read, the New Republic's Ryan Lizza reports in a 5,000-word profile that Sen. George Allen's (R-VA) interest in the Confederate Flag goes back much further than previously thought. "In high school, Allen's 'Hee Haw' persona made him a polarizing figure. 'He rode a little red Mustang around with a Confederate flag plate on the front,' says Patrick Campbell, an old classmate, who now works for t ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 27 11:38:26 PDT 2006

16262 [lbo-talk] Mao, management guru -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >if I had startup capital That's what banks are for! Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 27 11:03:43 PDT 2006

16263 [lbo-talk] Mao, management guru -- rank: 1000

Andrew Ross is going to be on my radio show tonight talking about his new book, Fast Boat to China, the product of the year he spent living in Shanghai, investigating the conditions in the IT industry there. I'm just editing the interview now, which was recorded yesterday. A little gem: the Chinese government has put together a two-volume selection of Mao's writings for business execs, offering them management tips. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 27 09:37:55 PDT 2006

16264 [lbo-talk] Soros: Kremlin-Gazprom "devious and arbitrary" -- rank: 1000

Willy Greenfields wrote: >How can someone who argued for liberalization get >angry when the Ukraine is charged prices for gas that >approach market? By the way, all this Western screaming about evil Russian business practices convinces me that Putin is really putting the country back together after the Soviet collapse. It drives the leftover cold warriors crazy. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 27 08:32:03 PDT 2006

16265 [lbo-talk] Soros: Kremlin-Gazprom "devious and arbitrary" -- rank: 1000

Willy Greenfields wrote: >How can someone who argued for liberalization get >angry when the Ukraine is charged prices for gas that >approach market? the same way a guy who got rich off speculation now condemns the practice

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 27 08:30:17 PDT 2006

16266 [lbo-talk] Renewable Energy: Big is Beautiful -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >I tried to read Kirkpatrick Sale's _Human Scale_ with great >expectations. By the time I gave up on the sodden mess, my thought: >It sure would've been beautiful had that book been small. Sale's wife (ex? dunno if they're still together) is a prominent literary agent, but in this interview with Kevin Kelly, he declares literacy, like civilization, a disaster. <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/saleskelly_pr.html> [...] Kelly: No, the point of technology is ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 27 05:29:11 PDT 2006

16267 [lbo-talk] quotation du jour -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >"He [Porter Goss] has taken no disciplinary >action against CIA personnel identified by his >inspector general as having played a part in the >failure to prevent the attacks of Sept. 11, >2001. He has taken no action against CIA >interrogators known to have participated in the >torture and killing of foreign detainees, or >against those who knowingly violated the Geneva >Conventions in Iraq." -- the Wall Street JOURNAL >editorial page, c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 26 16:22:47 PDT 2006

16268 [lbo-talk] Kos book -- rank: 1000

Ok, a pal looked up the latest Kos numbers on Bookscan: >4,402 sales on bookscan. That's probably 80% of the marketplace. Amazon rankings are semi-meaningless, since they heavily weight recent sales. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 26 15:46:17 PDT 2006

16269 [lbo-talk] Flapdoodle -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: >Carrol wrote: > >>It's not all that new. From the OED: > >I don't think anybody said it was. I figure Doug knows it from his >immersion in 19th century American literature. Actually I picked it up from my late friend Larry Wilkinson, who was a big Mencken fan. He loved to quote Mencken on "all that flapdoodle blowing out of the East" - Eastern religion, that is. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 26 15:35:43 PDT 2006

16270 [lbo-talk] progressive media cratering - Drudge -- rank: 1000

Blackmail wrote: >I just caught this...the comments on that Kos thread are priceless. Wow, what a big circle jerk. I love this: >10,000 is pretty good for some guy that nobody outside the >blogosphere even heard about. I thought Kos got 1m hits a day? Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 26 15:02:49 PDT 2006

16271 [lbo-talk] progressive media cratering - Drudge -- rank: 1000

[Bookscan captures about 2/3-3/4 of all book sales, so the figures are probably a little better. But people who read blogs are generally post-book, no? And if AA has an average quarter hour of 27,900, it's still doing almost four times better than WBAI!] <http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1aa.htm> 'PROGRESSIVE' MEDIA STALLS: 'AIR AMERICA' IN AUDIENCE PLUNGE NYC, 'DAILY KOS' BOOK SELLS ONLY 3,600 COPIES Wed Apr 26 2006 11:39:51 ET Left-leaning new media has hit turbulence at the marketplace, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 26 13:54:38 PDT 2006

16272 [lbo-talk] LA vs. NY -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: >>Xenii is the kind of thing we have to live down when trying to >>convince people that there is more to Los Angeles than this kind of >>flapdoodle. God, I love the word flapdoodle. On the last point, I haven't posted this in a couple of years, but damn, it's good. Doug ---- Daily Telegraph (London) - February 3, 2001 The smart set entertains thoughts of revolution By Zoe Heller ONE of the more curious aspects of LA life is the way in which a certain secto ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 26 13:23:35 PDT 2006

16273 [lbo-talk] Nepal -- rank: 1000

Joel Wendland wrote: >Another approach to this issue in a general way might be to ask what >kind of state is created by any kind of armed insurgency. C'mon, admit it - wouldn't it be fun to take power and shoot all your enemies? I've been working on a little list here....

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 26 09:58:28 PDT 2006

16274 [lbo-talk] silence is golden? -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >good idea, but I have a question: does that mean that all my students >who are silent today are gay or lesbian? >;-) If you told a straight guy that, he'd almost certainly end his silence!

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Date:	Wed Apr 26 08:13:34 PDT 2006

16275 [lbo-talk] religion & immigration -- rank: 1000

People who attend church often are friendlier to immigrants than those who do; white evangelical Protestants most anti-immigrant; mainline Protestants less so; and Catholics even less so: <http://pewresearch.org/obdeck/?ObDeckID=20>.

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Date:	Wed Apr 26 07:52:34 PDT 2006