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17221 [lbo-talk] About the joke "The Aristocrats" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >But I could take a paragraph from a WSJ editorial and find as >much depth in it as in _Hamlet_, _Mansfield Park_, & _War and Peace_ >combined. :-) I'd really love to see that. I was going to say there's not much complexity or ambiguity in a WSJ edit, which is what the New Critics thrived on. But there are many deep layers of lunacy. So it'd be fun to subject something from the studio of Paul Gigot to a close reading. Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 1 08:24:42 PDT 2005

17222 [lbo-talk] Bartels -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >fine interview doug, nice to hear you mention stonecash book I learned about it from you, and really appreciate the tip. It deserves much wider attention. >(although bartels didn't really address question you posed to him >about it), are you familiar with bartels' study of negative >electoral impact on people in office, he essentially gave you >opportunity to query him about it when he mentioned hurricane >and its possible effect on remainder of bush's se ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 1 07:51:13 PDT 2005

17223 [lbo-talk] duplicate posts -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >so am i the only one being driven up the wall by these duplicate posts? >is nobody else seeing them? am i turning into a cranky old geezer? I'd be annoyed too, but I'm only getting a couple of dupes. Carrol didn't have "nodupes" selected in his membership profile (I just changed that), but you, Ravi, do. So I'm mystified. Jordan? Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 1 07:42:45 PDT 2005

17224 [lbo-talk] Bush Adimin Procurement Policy Chief Arrested -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: > >This story happened on Sept 19... >Did I miss this, or did they bury it until yesterday? It's been in the news all along. Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 1 07:38:50 PDT 2005

17225 [lbo-talk] Kos on Marches -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Kos had more coverage of the fight >over the bankruptcy bill by far than any comparable mainstream media source That's nice, but what was the real-world effect of this? The bankruptcy bill passed, and with a lot of Democratic votes. Since you're all about influencing politicians rather than making gestures, did it change a single vote? Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 1 07:38:26 PDT 2005

17226 [lbo-talk] Churchill the charmer -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>] THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW THAT CHURCHILL SAID [From the Idler, UK <http://www.idler.co.uk/archives/?page_id=44>] 1909: As president of the Board of Trade, he nails his colors to the mast with the following statement. "There is no reason at all why people should wander about in a loafing and Idle manner; if they are not earning their living they ought to be put under some sort of control." 1910: Churchill's time as Home ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 30 17:12:33 PST 2005

17227 [lbo-talk] The Working-Poor Draft -- rank: 1000

Dick Lodge wrote: >well, as a datapoint, my other son joined the service after the way. > >1. he wouldn't fit doug's stereotype of cold-blooded killer Every individual doesn't have to match the central tendency; they're trained to kill (and as someone observed in the early days of the Iraq war, the US military is very good at killing people); they may suffer severe regret and trauma after the war is over. People do all kinds of things in war they'd never do before or after it. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 30 16:57:37 PST 2005

17228 [lbo-talk] WMT slogan -- rank: 1000

The Campaign for America's Future is taking votes on the slogan to go on a billboard near Wal-Mart HQ in Arkansas. Can't say they're terribly inspired - and, a matter dear to my household, nothing about sex discrimination. In any case: <http://www.ourfuture.org/fixwalmart/vote.cfm>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 30 16:19:29 PST 2005

17229 [lbo-talk] Battle of Seattle - Six years ago today! -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >In case you are feeling down about the world, we rocked the world >six years ago. Let's do it again! > >Don't forget November 30, 1999-We shut the WTO down! >http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20051130095359648 To relive the experience, visit <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Seattle.html>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 30 12:05:22 PST 2005

17230 [lbo-talk] Citigroup acquires China's bad assets worth 36.4 billion yuan -- rank: 1000

Ylle wrote: >May I tug someone's sleeve with an Financial Issues 101 question? >Why would a company want to acquire bad loans like this? How do >they make money off it? Because you hope you can buy them at a price below what you might actually recover. From the POV of the bank holding the bad loans, it's a way to get some mistakes behind you, and from the POV of the buyer, it's a speculative gamble. As Alan Abelson used to say in an old Barron's ad, you buy a stock because you think it ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 30 10:41:46 PST 2005

17231 [lbo-talk] alas, no campus commies at harvard -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >. Is it that easy to get >> into Harvard these days >> with logic skills like Hastrup's? > >If you're a "legacy" -- an alumni kid. Especially if >your dad (these days, your mom, too, I guess) is a big >donor. At Princeton, my alma, legacies have about a >33% chance of admission as opposed to less than 10% >for the general population. It's probably the same at Harvard. I recently learned from my sister-in-law, a Harvard seni ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 30 09:55:25 PST 2005

17232 [lbo-talk] Hillary's "recalibration" -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> Best Sign (This Week) that the AP Under-Appreciates Sen. Hillary Clinton's (D-NY) Iraq Recalibration from Lieberman's Hard-Line Camp to the Middle-of-the-Road Camp: LINK "I do not believe that we should allow this to be an open-ended commitment without limits or end. Nor do I believe that we can or should pull out of Iraq immediately," Clinton wrote in a letter to supporters yesterday. (Note to the AP: Her eagerness to sign ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 30 08:24:52 PST 2005

17233 [lbo-talk] alas, no campus commies at harvard -- rank: 1000

Liza Featherstone quoted the Harvard Crimson: >John W. Hastrup '06 is a government concentrator in Dunster House. Ah Harvard. Anywhere else, he'd be a political science major, and no one would care where he lived. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 30 08:17:16 PST 2005

17234 [lbo-talk] Wall Street ethics -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - November 30, 2005 WALL ST. DAD'S CHEAP WAY OUT 'TIS the season to be generous - unless, of course, you are Merrill Lynch's Chief Administrative Officer Amass Fakahany. Despite being paid a whopping $10 million in 2003, a salary that's increased in the past two years, Fakahany is trying to whittle down a meager amount of child support for a son he had with an Australian model. Fakahany, who has "recently" married another woman, according to a Merrill source, m ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 30 06:35:46 PST 2005

17235 [lbo-talk] Cheney: war criminal -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - November 30, 2005 Julian Borger in Washington Vice-president Dick Cheney's burden on the Bush administration grew heavier yesterday after a former senior US state department official said he could be guilty of a war crime over the abuse of prisoners. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff to secretary of state Colin Powell from 2 002 to 2005, singled out Mr Cheney in a wide-ranging political assault on the BBC's Today programme. Mr Wilkerson said that in an internal ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 30 06:28:26 PST 2005