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17026 working class? (was Re: [lbo-talk] Farrakhan invites gay speaker to MMM) -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >An $150k >software engineer lives by selling his work - but he does not have the >attributes of the American blue collar vernacular and may be even >foreign-born, so he "aint' one of us" hence he is a yuppie not a working >class. Ok, so I haven't gotten to the gym yet. Why do you accept the definition of US working class as "blue collar" and native-born (and, reading between the lines, white)? Why not Latino janitors or Chinese-born wa ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 17 07:49:19 PDT 2005

17027 [lbo-talk] Miers: a good bowler -- rank: 1000

[later in the story <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/politics/politicsspecial1/16miers.html>, we learn she's really good at punctuation too] New York Times - October 16, 2005 Plenty of Praise for a Nominee, but Few Details By TODD S. PURDUM WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 - Ask any of Harriet E. Miers's typically press-shy White House colleagues what she has been like in her years as a top Bush administration staff member, and the praise pours out. She is intelligent. Meticulous. Selfless. Insightfu ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 17 07:40:41 PDT 2005

17028 [lbo-talk] Re: working class? -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >I know this comes up every now and then, but I still am not satisifed >with any attempted answers. So, I ask: What is the working class? Does >it include white collar workers? How about $150,000/month senior >engineers? Is wealth an issue? A recent immigrant software engineer >might make $80,000/year but (s)he may be building his/her life in the US >from nothing, while a $40,000/year worker might have a family home and >future inheritance (of parental savings) t ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 17 07:29:01 PDT 2005

17029 [lbo-talk] sacred object -- rank: 1000

They say god is everywhere, why not here? <http://www.divine-interventions.com/baby.php>

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Date:	Mon Oct 17 07:23:17 PDT 2005

17030 [lbo-talk] Prospect/FP top 100 -- rank: 1000

results <http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3260>: Top 20 1 Noam Chomsky 2 Umberto Eco 3 Richard Dawkins 4 Václav Havel 5 Christopher Hitchens 6 Paul Krugman 7 Jürgen Habermas 8 Amartya Sen 9 Jared Diamond 10 Salman Rushdie 11 Naomi Klein 12 Shirin Ebadi 13 Hernando de Soto 14 Bjørn Lomborg 15 Abdolkarim Soroush 16 Thomas Friedman 17 Pope Benedict XVI 18 Eric Hobsbawm 19 Paul Wolfowitz 20 Camille Paglia

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Date:	Mon Oct 17 06:52:33 PDT 2005

17031 [lbo-talk] Harvey panel at CUNY -- rank: 1000

Please join us in a panel discussion of David Harvey's new book, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (OUP 2005), followed by a reception to celebrate his 70th birthday. Monday, October 31, 2005, 7:00 p.m. Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center Introduction: Bill Kelly, President, Graduate Center The panelists: Leo Panitch, Political Science, York University Katherine Verdery, Anthropology, Graduate Center, CUNY Giovanni Arrighi, Sociology, Johns Hopkins University Doug Henwood, The Left Busin ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 17 06:34:24 PDT 2005

17032 [lbo-talk] Pat B [hearts] drag queens -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - October 17, 2005 A DRAG ON PAT THE cover photo on the latest issue of Patrick Buchanan's American Conservative magazine, bearing the cover line "After the Storm," is not that much different from many of the pictures coming out of the hurricane-stricken areas of the South. It shows a family of four children slogging through knee-deep water with two adult women. However, the "woman" on the far right is none other than well-known New Orleans drag queen ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 17 06:29:08 PDT 2005

17033 [lbo-talk] Half Life of the Dems -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >The stated goal is to keep violent games out of the >hands of impressionable youngsters so the minds >guiding those hands won't be warped. Sorry to make a banal point, but why do we posture so much about protecting children, while half the movies Hollywood produces are sanguinary orgies, as is U.S. foreign policy? Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 17 06:27:02 PDT 2005

17034 [lbo-talk] Hitch: Nobel committee filled with commies who reward hacks -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - October 17, 2005 The Sinister Mediocrity of Harold Pinter By CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Harold Pinter's early writing for the stage was correctly described -- with no objection from him -- as "the theater of the absurd." But it has been left to the selectors of the Nobel in literature to make that definition postmodern and thus to drain it of all irony. Their choice of Mr. Pinter is a selection of absurdity quite detached from drama: a straight and philistine preference ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 17 06:23:34 PDT 2005

17035 [lbo-talk] Katrina benefit by poets -- rank: 1000

An Emdashes Feast: The Katrina Relief Benefit Boston/New York bonanza! Poetry, music, New Orleans reportage (first look at the forthcoming Harper's essay by contributing editor Matthew Power), and/or spontaneous collaborations by Oni Buchanan, Jon Woodward, Susan Brennan, Jeffrey Paris, Adam Golaski, Brandon Patton, Steve Roberts, and John Cotter; optional eats by oft-applauded naked chef Abby Hitchcock. Every dime of the pay-what-you-want admission, book and CD sales, and bribes goes straight t ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 17 06:21:10 PDT 2005

17036 [lbo-talk] more Judy scandal -- rank: 1000

<http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=10495> Topic: Letters Sent to Romenesko Date/Time: 10/16/2005 3:34:37 PM Title: There's a scandal hidden in Miller's report Posted By: Jim Romenesko From BILL LYNCH, retired CBS News correspondent: There is one enormous journalism scandal hidden in Judith Miller's Oct. 16th first person article about the (perhaps lesser) CIA leak scandal. And that is Ms. Miller's revelation that she was granted a DoD security clearance while embedded with the WMD ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 16 19:06:09 PDT 2005

17037 [lbo-talk] More Reasons to Hate the Dems -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: >Poor people can't really afford to be vicious to one another. If you >don't cooperate when you're poor, you die. A point that Beverly Wright made in her interview with me <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#051013> - it's the only way that people in New Orleans got through the disaster (and managed the survive the social disaster that pre-storm NO was for them as well). Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 16 08:36:07 PDT 2005

17038 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

JC Helary wrote: >Safari. I can listen to the streams but not download the files. Ah, Safari starts playing an MP3 file while downloading. To download without listening, instead of clicking on the link, control-click to get the contextual menu and choose "Download linked file." When the file is finished downloading, either drag it onto the iTunes icon in the dock, or drag it into a playlist window in iTunes. You can then play it or copy it to an iPod. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 16 08:31:38 PDT 2005

17039 [lbo-talk] Drop the Debt -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >We need a Drop the Debt campaign for Americans. I wrote a speculative passage in Wall Street that involved millions of Americans suddenly writing "non serviam" on their Visa bill, conceding that was unlikely, but that stranger things have happened. John Mage said that the only stranger thing he could think of was Aleister Crowley's sex life. It seems slightly less strange now. Seems like it would have great potential for an organizing campaign, esp if things start get ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 16 08:28:49 PDT 2005

17040 [lbo-talk] One optimist's view of the economy -- rank: 1000

Mark S wrote: >Nevertheless, many economists think that the Fed is tightening the >benchmark interest rate in response to the strengthening labor >market and rising wages. Employment growth may be weak but it is >apparently enough to provoke the Fed. Yeah, unemployment is low, but I suspect - and we probably won't know the truth for years - that the Fed is trying to burst the housing bubble and get US foreign accounts into better shape. And they're probably genuinely worried about t ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 16 08:19:27 PDT 2005