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1711 [lbo-talk] David McNally's video on socialism and popular power -- rank: 1000

On Jun 13, 2011, at 11:05 AM, lbo83235 wrote: > A meta-level question about the list: Several of the most frequent posters clearly have a long history, and I have no wish to interfere with whatever that means in terms of the purpose and function of the list for them, but is this sort of project - collectively and concretely trying to advance both theory and practice, constructively and in a spirit of solidarity - not the sort of thing a list like this can / should be used for? The list feels ...

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1712 [lbo-talk] David McNally's video on socialism and popular power -- rank: 1000

On Jun 13, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > Having said that, as > insinuated by ravi (I think), hating the enemy (including the enemy in > us) may not be the ultimate solution, but it can certainly be one of > those transitional Hegelian passions (as per his lessons on the > history of philosophy) that move people to realize the Idea even if > unaware of their doing so. I think there's a lot to Ian Bone's argument: http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#070315 t ...

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1713 [lbo-talk] CNN blogs: Daniel Ellsberg: All the crimes Richard Nixon committed against me are now legal -- rank: 1000

On Jun 13, 2011, at 9:38 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Fortunately the Drake case fell apart before then -- the only chink of light in this dismal accounting. And today we read in the NYT that Obama's unleashing the FBI. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/us/13fbi.html He's worse on civil liberties than Bush was. Doug

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1714 [lbo-talk] David McNally's video on socialism and popular power -- rank: 1000

On Jun 13, 2011, at 3:35 AM, Joel Schalit wrote: > David McNally was on my thesis committee at York. I can't say enough things about him, or his work. He's great. I don't know him as well as that, but I've always liked and admired him. That whole York gang is pretty terrific. Doug

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1715 [lbo-talk] She is one ugly cunt.... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 12, 2011, at 11:00 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 22:42:18 -0400 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >>> Scarsdale, or Scarysdale as we used to call it >> >> Someone I used to know long ago called it the Dale >> of Scars. Which is apparently the origin of the name. > > Naah, that's gotta be a folk etymology. Can't > possibly be right. Sounds like it must have been > named after someplace back in the Mother C ...

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1716 [lbo-talk] She is one ugly cunt.... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:25 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Scarsdale, or Scarysdale as we used to call it Someone I used to know long ago called it the Dale of Scars. Which is apparently the origin of the name. Doug

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1717 [lbo-talk] She is one ugly cunt.... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 12, 2011, at 4:44 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > I declined. Once I got out of that town, I've never been back. Too bad I can't consistently find, on this list, something more clever than Susan H's priorities as to what counted in life. So sorry to disappoint you. Consistently, no less.

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1718 [lbo-talk] She is one ugly cunt.... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 12, 2011, at 4:10 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > loser = someone who has given up on politics. He certainly is being rhetorically sly by drawing on the rhetorical power of the word, but I'm gonna guess that it's his point. Rhee's politics, policies, actions could have been called ugly using the same rhetorical tactic. I wouldn't have used the word, as obscene as I often am, because it could be a distraction. But it was a bit of invective among virtual friends, not a piece of considered ...

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1719 [lbo-talk] She is one ugly cunt.... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 12, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The word choice was the expression of a loser, of someone who has totally given up on politics, a loser, and is reduced to the childish practice of calling the victorious enemy names. But of course, "loser" is not a name. Doug

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1720 [lbo-talk] She is one ugly cunt.... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 12, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Dissenting Wren wrote: > Yeah, I had to do a double-take on that picture because, for the most part, Rhee is conventionally attractive. Except that her face looks like it's fixed in a permanent sneer. I think that was Joanna's point, though people have fixated on her word choice. Doug

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1721 [lbo-talk] clear article on "recovery" -- rank: 1000

On Jun 12, 2011, at 1:56 AM, SA wrote: > On 6/12/2011 1:20 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > >> http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/06/steve-keen-dude-where%E2%80%99s-my-recovery.html > > I'm glad you found this clear. I couldn't make heads or tails of it. All these post-Keynesians just reverse the real sector guys. To the PK, it's *all* money & credit; to the real sector guys, finance doesn't matter.

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1722 [lbo-talk] She is one ugly cunt.... -- rank: 1000

For certeyn, olde dotard, by your leave You shall have queynte right enough at eve What aileth you to grouche thus and groan? Is it for ye would have my queynte alone?

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1723 [lbo-talk] In the are you fucking kidding me? department -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2011, at 11:36 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > > On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:33 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > >> So did Princeton shitcan her? I sorta got that impression. > > Yes - she wasn't granted tenure. Sorry, she wasn't promoted full professor. She had tenure.

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1724 [lbo-talk] In the are you fucking kidding me? department -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:33 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > So did Princeton shitcan her? I sorta got that impression. Yes - she wasn't granted tenure. She's had problems in her academic past - she's reportedly rather arrogant, and neither colleagues nor students like her much. Poli sci wanted to give her tenure at Princeton, but Af-Am said no. Doug

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1725 [lbo-talk] In the are you fucking kidding me? department -- rank: 1000

On Jun 10, 2011, at 10:09 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > I wouldn't ask you either. It's a question for the likes > of Melissa Huffle-Puffle, or whatever her shotgunned > name is. Speaking of which, not only did she move to Louisiana for the low taxes, not only did she celebrate the military as a cornerstone of citizenship, not only did she smear MLK to boost Obama, and not only did she want to sic the Justice Department on the Tea Party for committing "sedition" - she wants her n ...

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