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16966 [lbo-talk] did we learn anything? I don't know -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - October 28, 2005 Nomination Was Plagued By Missteps From the Start By Peter Baker and Amy Goldstein For Harriet Miers, the "murder boards" were aptly named. Day after day in a room in the White House complex, colleagues from the Bush administration grilled her on constitutional law, her legal background and her past speeches in practice sessions meant to mimic Senate hearings. Her uncertain, underwhelming responses left her confirmation managers so disturbed they deci ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 28 07:24:49 PDT 2005

16967 [lbo-talk] news -- rank: 1000

Via The Note: Scooter will be indicted. "Information release" at noon; Fitzgerald press conference at 2.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 28 07:07:12 PDT 2005

16968 [lbo-talk] Maradona to lead anti-Bush march -- rank: 1000

Maradona tells Cuba he'll lead anti-Bush march HAVANA (Reuters) - Argentine soccer hero Diego Maradona promised Cuban President Fidel Castro on Thursday he would be at the front of an anti-Bush march in Argentina next week. U.S. President George W. Bush will attend a summit of leaders from all countries from the Americas -- except Cuba -- in Mar del Plata, Argentina, November 4-5. "I think Bush is a murderer. ... I'm going to head the march against him stepping foot on Argentine soil," ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 27 22:16:52 PDT 2005

16969 [lbo-talk] dumb & dumber -- rank: 1000

<http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/10/27/race> Dumb and Dumber By mid-October, the leaves on campus are turning, homecoming games are being celebrated, and - at any number of colleges - bigotry in one form or another hurts some students deeply. The campuses and the incidents vary from year to year, but like clockwork, you can't reach this point in the academic year without flare-ups in which students have said or done things that left minority students (and many others) angry. In recent ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 27 12:29:21 PDT 2005

16970 [lbo-talk] The "Raunch Feminism" floating debate party -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >Just curious: what is the gruesome surgical procedure to make >women's genitalia look like porn stars' genitalia. What does porn >star genitalia look like? If memory serves, it looks pretty normal >-- perhaps the inner labia is on the small side, but otherwise....? They're "supposed" to be small & tight. Women who think theirs are fat & saggy get the surgery. There was an excellent article about this mad procedure in Bitch sometime in 2000. It's weird ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 27 12:20:30 PDT 2005

16971 [lbo-talk] Judy Miller and another Norquist theory -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://ancapistan.typepad.com/unfairwitness/2005/07/judy_miller_and.html > Lots of embedded links. Reading this, I had the same reaction I do to many blogs - fascinating if true. But who the hell knows if it is? Page Six is more solidly sourced. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 27 10:07:33 PDT 2005

16972 [lbo-talk] BC on NO -- rank: 1000

Typically fine piece on the battle for New Orleans by the Black Commentator duo: <http://www.blackcommentator.com/156/156_cover_battle_for_no.html>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 27 08:20:53 PDT 2005

16973 [lbo-talk] CNN Breaking News -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Points well taken. But do you think there is a chance that the >otherwise inexplicable view you saw yesterday -- that there are >elements of the bond market that consider Bernanke inflationary -- >may indeed flow from a memory his 2002 speech? It was indeed >somewhat aggressive and unorthodox. Most in the stocks would say it >was those things in a good way. It doesn't seem far-fetched that >bondholders might think it was those things in a bad way - ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 27 08:10:27 PDT 2005

16974 [lbo-talk] Some Observations on not reading a thread -- rank: 1000

Victor wrote: >Hey PulpCulture >GeWhiz! >You sound: >1. Very angry. >2. Off the issue as usual. >3. Disconnected with your own arguments; also as usual >4. Very busy trying to protect your boxed up skeleton from being fucked #4 is ugly and not welcome here. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 27 08:06:31 PDT 2005

16975 [lbo-talk] exit Judy? -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - October 27, 2005 Times up for Judith Miller BY PAUL D. COLFORD DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER New York Times reporter Judith Miller is in talks to sever her ties with the paper, an ignoble end to a 28-year run that has brought the paper significant prize and peril. According to a lawyer familiar with the matter, the talks were at a standstill late yesterday because of a wide gap between Miller's demands and The Times' offer for her to leave. "I'm afraid that I can't comment o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 27 08:04:32 PDT 2005

16976 [lbo-talk] Rove? who he? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-assess27oct27,0,1051268.story?coll=la-home-headlines> So far, the probe has attracted relatively little attention from the public. One recent poll found that 50% of those surveyed recognized Rove's name; NBC's "Today" show ran a three-minute primer on the case Wednesday morning called "Leak Investigation for Dummies."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 27 07:57:16 PDT 2005

16977 [lbo-talk] Lost Souls -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: >Holy leaping neoliberal zombies! Neil Manke, who is to videogame level >design what Kieslowski was to Eurovideo and Satoshi Kon is to East Asian >anime, is back -- this time, at the helm of a brand new epic for the >wondrous Half Life 2 engine, "Lost Souls", due in a few months: > >http://www.blackwidowgames.com/ > >Intriguingly, Manke & Co. went back to late 1960s Eastern Europe to tell >their tale, taking a page out of Hideo Kojim ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 26 16:11:18 PDT 2005

16978 [lbo-talk] help wanted -- rank: 1000

The NYC comptroller is looking for a speechwriter - someone who knows pensions & investment. Any interest, contact me offlist. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 26 15:46:38 PDT 2005

16979 [lbo-talk] CNN Breaking News -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >You probably saw the article below in today's NYT from your old pal >James "Permabear" Grant. It seems to shed light on how such people >think. It seems to be a combination of: > >(1) Almost incredibly, bond holders don't think deflation is such a >bad thing, and hold against Bernanke a famous speech he made in 2002 >elaborating the many tools the Fed might use to combat it if it ever >arose; > >(2) the background of a debt that ha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 26 15:29:41 PDT 2005

16980 [lbo-talk] blogs threaten productivity miracle! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=46494> October 24, 2005 WHAT BLOGS COST AMERICAN BUSINESS In 2005, Employees Will Waste 551,000 Years Reading Them By Bradley Johnson LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) -- Blog this: U.S. workers in 2005 will waste the equivalent of 551,000 years reading blogs. Currently, the time employees spend reading non-work blogs is the equivalent of 2.3 million jobs. About 35 million workers -- one in four people in the labor force -- visit blogs and on average spend 3.5 h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 26 15:22:30 PDT 2005