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16516 [lbo-talk] Kos on Marches -- rank: 1000

Michael Hirsch wrote: >Does that sound like accusing Kos of "a betrayal that marks [him] as >an enemy of the movement, a 'liberal imperialist" or whatever.' Nathan's a propagandist, and a master of the tendentious paraphrase. And I say this with some admiration for his skill. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 29 15:32:26 PDT 2005

16517 [lbo-talk] Kos on Marches -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: ><http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/28/124717/957> Bloggers need to get out more. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 29 13:21:13 PDT 2005

16518 [lbo-talk] "War on porn" felt at Suicide Girls -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>I know you're exaggerating for effect, but it's not even close. >> >>U.S. government revenues, 2005: $2.2 trillion >>Wal-Mart revenues, last 12 months: $298 billion >>porn industry, recent year: well under $10 billion >> >>Forbes ran the numbers on porn a few years ago >><http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/25/0524porn.html>. Quoting the >>article: "Skepticism is in order, though, because as D ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 29 13:20:21 PDT 2005

16519 [lbo-talk] corps & single-payer -- rank: 1000

Michael Hirsch wrote: >I'm not persuaded--his places too much emphasis on consciousness and >not enough on real history and real class struggles I'd say that fear of creating a new "entitlement" is all about class struggle: universal health insurance would increase the power of the working class - to paraphrase Kalecki, fear of the sack would lose some of its sting, since workers wouldn't be dependent on employers for health insurance. And it might embolden the working class to a ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 29 13:12:09 PDT 2005

16520 [lbo-talk] "War on porn" felt at Suicide Girls -- rank: 1000

Tommy Kelly wrote: >Like Wal-Mart, the porn industry has more cash >lying around than Uncle Sam could ever dream of having. I know you're exaggerating for effect, but it's not even close. U.S. government revenues, 2005: $2.2 trillion Wal-Mart revenues, last 12 months: $298 billion porn industry, recent year: well under $10 billion Forbes ran the numbers on porn a few years ago <http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/25/0524porn.html>. Quoting the article: "Skepticism is in order, though, ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 29 12:48:17 PDT 2005

16521 [lbo-talk] corps & single-payer -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >If GM, for example, is making money >on insurance with one tentacle, it's unlikely to advocate its abolition even >if it's costly to another tentacle. Except I don't think they are. Their finance arm mainly finances the purchase of GM vehicles, last time I looked. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 29 12:08:04 PDT 2005

16522 [lbo-talk] blogging: so easy it can be done by Wonkette's cat -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >In "The Real Reasons You're Working So Hard..." >http://biz.yahoo.com/special/workhard05_article1.html Michael Mandel >and colleagues at BusinessWeek Online propose blogging -- blogging! >-- as one potential cure for they call "this epidemic of long hours >at the office".You don't believe me? Of course not, it would be a >silly thing to say: > >"Blogs, collaborative online databases (called wikis) and >open-source software de ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 29 12:06:29 PDT 2005

16523 [lbo-talk] Re: losers [ was: Lyndie England -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: >I am serious as a heart attack. You're arguing about personal >responsibility and accepting without question that people in prison >are there only because they committed crimes. This ignores 30 years >of relentless increases in severity of penalties, prosecutorial >power, and the number of acts that can land you in prison for a long >time. Don't forget Charles Murray's argument: while crime may be down, criminality is up. We know that, because the priso ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 29 12:01:35 PDT 2005

16524 [lbo-talk] losers [ was: Lyndie England -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >Ah yes, I remember well that day when Capital came to me with a contract and >said, look, either you can live under socialism OR sign on the dotted line >here and I can exploit you for the rest of your life. Why, why did I sign? I don't know but it's damn well time you took responsibility for signing! Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 29 12:00:28 PDT 2005

16525 [lbo-talk] what's the matter with What's the Matter With Kansas? -- rank: 1000

[I'm editing an interview with Bartels that I'll be running on the radio show this afternoon. In the archive tomorrow. Here's the abstract of Bartels' recent paper; the full text is at <http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/kansas.pdf>.] What's the Matter with What's the Matter with Kansas? Larry M. Bartels Department of Politics and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University * Has the white working class abandoned the Democratic Party? No. White voters in ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 29 11:31:52 PDT 2005

16526 [lbo-talk] blogging: so easy it can be done by Wonkette's cat -- rank: 1000

<http://www.wwd.com/issue/article/101632> September 29, 2005 BLOGGED OUT: It's hard to make fun of bloggers when they're so quick to make fun of themselves. Ana Marie Cox, who edits the political gossip Web site Wonkette, got quite a few laughs by disparaging her chosen profession at a Wednesday morning panel discussion on blogging sponsored by Condé Nast (parent of WWD) and Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. "Blogging is ridiculously easy to do," ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 29 10:45:59 PDT 2005

16527 [lbo-talk] corps & single-payer -- rank: 1000

Michael Hirsch wrote: >This absense of cheap and accessible quality health is something >that puzzles me, too. I've always assumed we'd get national >healthcare when unions had the cloat to either demand it or win real >private health insurance back, so business would look to shift the >cost and get on board, too. It's never happened. Okay. But why at >least some US corporations don't use a cost-benefit analysis in >supporting national health is a puzzler. From the early 80 ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 29 10:28:43 PDT 2005

16528 [lbo-talk] Lyndie England -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >Me, I don't think we should bother getting het up and excited about >any of them. We have a job to do and goals to strive for. Getting >all het up and excited denouncing Lyndie or the Car bombers seems >like the kind of thing people do so they won't be embarrassed and >prove their worthiness to the rightwing and right leaning elements >on the left. Didn't you have some good things to say about that on >another thread recently Carrol? Problem ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 29 10:23:25 PDT 2005

16529 [lbo-talk] losers [ was: Lyndie England -- rank: 1000

Dick Grippon wrote: >You can't have a socially stratified society without the same >mechanism at work, one which limits rewards to the deserving and >punishes the losers. Rewards -- the good life -- must be scarce to >have any value. Stratified societies produce scarcity. And positional goods. Half the pleasure of owning a Patek Philippe is that all those other losers are wearing Timexes. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 29 10:12:40 PDT 2005

16530 [lbo-talk] Lyndie England -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >What are the car bombers doing that the French Resistance did not do? >The Justification of _any_ sort of attack against an illegal occupation >_or_ quislings to that occupation is a no-brainer. Yeah, if it were limited to those. No less than George Galloway, in my interview with him, denounces car bombings of marketplaces and such as ethically odious and politically counterproductive (though he allows that some of them might be the work of US and/or British intellige ...

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