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16786 [lbo-talk] Jerry Lewis as worst-case scenario -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Auden, if I remember correctly, in one of >his early political poems wrote something like "New styles of >archictecture lead to new kinds of people" -- but then he did not show >where those new styles would come from. Le Courbusier, no? Wasn't that the fantasy of the time? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 12 09:17:51 PDT 2005

16787 [lbo-talk] public transportation [was: Private Hate Mail Gang Up] -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >As a matter of fact, Greyhound and affiliated companies buses do smell of >urine when their toilets are not maintained properly. Been there, smelled >that. They also run a very lousy and unreliable service - again, based on >my personal observation. And then there's a story from a friend of my sister-in-law, who, finding the Boston-NY Chinatown bus sold out, went over to South Station to hop a 'hound. Along the way, the bus driver pulled over and announced ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 12 09:12:28 PDT 2005

16788 [lbo-talk] Police made misery worse -- rank: 1000

Andy F wrote: >All this shooting over heads reminds me of the reports > of shots being heard in the days after the storm. >Guess who was doing the shooting, and at whom? Christian Parenti says that in the 5 days he was in NO, he heard one gunshot. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 12 08:47:20 PDT 2005

16789 [lbo-talk] Koizumi's victory -- rank: 1000

So it looks like Koizumi kicked ass in the Japanese election. If, as John Mage wrote <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/mage140805.html> a month ago, "his noxious blend of neoliberalism and nationalist jingoism will be put to a test," the noxious blend has passed with flying colors. What happened? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 12 06:17:42 PDT 2005

16790 [lbo-talk] black vote -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I could go on and on, but let's stick to the arguments and refrain >from the personal criticism and attacks. Couldn't agree more.

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Date:	Sun Sep 11 14:33:21 PDT 2005

16791 [lbo-talk] black vote -- rank: 1000

Lionel Mandrake wrote: >How different do folks think this crisis would have >been under Kerry and why? As with many other things, I suspect the response would have been somewhat better. FEMA would not have been as eviscerated, infrastructure spending not so tightly squeezed, and senior officials not so out of it. But it'd probably still be a mess; this is the USA, after all. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 11 11:05:30 PDT 2005

16792 [lbo-talk] how much looting and mayhem really happened? -- rank: 1000

Boston Globe - September 11, 2005 UP FOR GRABS Sociologists question how much looting and mayhem really took place in New Orleans BY NOW THE IMAGES and stories of looting and mayhem in New Orleans--the residents "shopping" for nonessentials in an abandoned Wal-Mart, alleged rapes in the Superdome, a shot fired at a rescue helicopter--have been burned into the brain of every television watcher and newspaper reader in America. But do they give us an accurate picture of the aftermath of t ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 11 10:19:33 PDT 2005

16793 [lbo-talk] the US as role model: ain't what it used to be -- rank: 1000

<http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2005/Sept%2011%202005%20US%20As%20Role%20Model.htm> 53% See USA As Good Role Model for World Survey of 1,000 Adults September 8-9, 2005 Would the world be better or worse if other countries became more like the United States? September 11, 2005--Fifty-three percent (53%) of Americans say the world would be a better place if other countries were more like the United States. A Rasmussen Reports survey found that just 20% disagree. Those numbers reflect a shar ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 11 10:12:02 PDT 2005

16794 [lbo-talk] Charges? We Don't Need No Stinking Charges -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Without evidence of intent, we begin to enter murkiness where the >State exercises a right to detain or otherwise interfere with people >who [m] it doesn't really have a case against!

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Date:	Sun Sep 11 10:02:49 PDT 2005

16795 [lbo-talk] Jerry Lewis as worst-case scenario -- rank: 1000

Lionel Mandrake wrote: >My point was simply that the kind of individualism >associated with Emerson and the kind that fuels >capitalism are very different and that genuine >individualism - the kind that resists the mob in >deference to principle and fellow-feeling - is not >necessarily incompatible with more communal types of >social arrangements. Very different? I don't think so. There was a lot of the "imperial self" in Emerson - a voracious ego driven by an empt ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 11 09:17:39 PDT 2005

16796 [lbo-talk] liberals & fear -- rank: 1000

[this is an interesting piece, though I'm not sure I'm convinced - comments welcome] The Nation - September 26, 2005 <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050926/robin> The Fear of the Liberals by COREY ROBIN [from the issue] It's the fourth anniversary of September 11, and Americans are getting restless about the war in Iraq. Republicans are challenging the President, activists and bloggers are pressing the Democrats and liberal hawks are reconsidering their support for the war. Everyone, it se ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 16:20:28 PDT 2005

16797 [lbo-talk] Private Hate Mail Gang Up -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >Confess, Doug, you really created this list just to have more cause for >procrastination when you should be writing, didn't you? It's not merely an excuse, it can even serve as a substitute sometimes! Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 16:11:38 PDT 2005

16798 [lbo-talk] Jerry Lewis as worst-case scenario[wasRe:PrivateHateMail Gang Up] -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >I, too, have fond memories of hanging with Doug, who could party >till the wee hours (that still true, D?). Well, I'm a little older now than I was then, but yeah, I can keep going til 2 or 3. Dawn, though, is beyond me. So as a student of comedy - how many comics are dark, twisted people? Most? Many? Significant minority? Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 15:54:08 PDT 2005

16799 [lbo-talk] black metal etc -- rank: 1000

Michael Pug pointed me to an interesting piece by Kevin Coogan on Norwegian black metal and the broader youth subculture of fascism at <http://oraclesyndicate.twoday.net/stories/605560/>. Doug

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 15:11:38 PDT 2005

16800 [lbo-talk] perfect cure for Katrina: vouchers! -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Actually, vouchers seem to make more sense in this case. >If you want N.O. people to be able to return to something, >you want to devote resources to reconstruction in N.O. In >the meantime, you don't want to build permanent facilities -- >schools, housing, etc. -- elsewhere. The logical remedy >is vouchers for schools and housing and the ultimate >voucher -- cash -- for food, clothing, and other stuff. But 1) a lot of powerful people, from Karl Rove ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 10 14:52:06 PDT 2005