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17281 [lbo-talk] celebrity politix -- rank: 1000

[Page Six reported this the same day the WSJ reported that US Trade Rep Ron Portman spent a half hour recently brieing Bono on US trade policy - a story illustrated with a pic of Bono meeting with Bush.] CAPITAL COUPLE? ARE Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie moving to Washington, D.C.? Photographers snapped them looking at houses in the nation's capital the same day it was announced Jolie got her Cambodian citizenship. Jolie, a United Nations goodwill ambassador, may want a house in the area, as she's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 23 06:31:26 PST 2005

17282 [lbo-talk] give Thanks with Hitch -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - November 23, 2005 'The Turkey Has Landed' By CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Concerning Thanksgiving, that most distinctive and unique of all American holidays, there need be no resentment and no recrimination. Likewise, there need be no wearisome present-giving, no order of divine service, and no obligation to the dead. This holiday is like a free gift, or even (profane though the concept may be to some readers) a free lunch -- and a very big and handsome one at that. This is the fes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 23 06:20:43 PST 2005

17283 [lbo-talk] Keep on fucking, partner! -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >So how come you're married to everybody's dream girl -- a beauty >genius ex-sex-columnist? > >There's gotta be something wrong with this test. Everybody should >have your mating problems. Hmmm well <blush> yes. Thank you. I don't know what I owe my good fortune to. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 21:44:26 PST 2005

17284 [lbo-talk] Keep on fucking, partner! -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >The survey doesn't give me any "bad boy" credit for the Italian >stalker who left her husband because of her obsession with me. You left that as googlebait!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 16:21:53 PST 2005

17285 [lbo-talk] Keep on fucking, partner! -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Rotating Bitch wrote: > >>This way, we can map our political leanings against our Cupidity >>(snort) and see what shakes out. >> >>http://blog.pulpculture.org/2005/11/22/random-gentle-love-master/ >> > >My results are too depressing to report. > >This quiz confirms that I need to be more of an asshole to women I had the opposite problem. I"m "last man on earth" material - if I were the last man alive, women still would ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 15:26:42 PST 2005

17286 [lbo-talk] medical prose -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>] <http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/323/7317/875/a> BMJ 2001;323:875 ( 13 October ) Reviews Soundings Deeply moving BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL - One of a doctor's unwritten roles is just to be there, to be a witness, a witness to pain and suffering, to grief and loss, to moments of great joy and great sorrow, but most of all a witness to body fluids. Mrs Keogh arrived in the surgery in what P G Wodehouse would have called ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 15:07:20 PST 2005

17287 [lbo-talk] Instinct -- rank: 1000

martin wrote: >On Nov 22, 2005, at 2:15 PM, boddi satva wrote: > >>Is there any but a biological explaination for the fact that humans >>rarely develop the desire to have sex until their bodies start to >>mature? > >Your premise is false. > >and baby makes three ... That's three posts from you today that make absolutely no sense. Wuzzup? Of course you can't answer that until tomorrow. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 15:02:18 PST 2005

17288 [lbo-talk] Chomsky on Srebrenica & "genocide" -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: 17 posts on Saturday. 10 on Sunday. 7 on Monday. 6 so far today. The limit is 3. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 13:08:29 PST 2005

17289 [lbo-talk] Chomsky on Srebrenica & "genocide" -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: the 45th post on the same subject Ok, Michael, we get the point. Enough. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 12:55:57 PST 2005

17290 [lbo-talk] Chomsky on Srebrenica & "genocide" -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >I am sure there must be a place >somewhere (if only in some Washington think tank) >for a gay neo-con ex-leftist. There is still time to >cash in. I don't think that's what Michael's about, which is why I'm so mystified. But I think the neocons' stock is so low now that there's probably not much to be gained by cashing in right now. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 12:08:58 PST 2005

17291 [lbo-talk] No Business As Usual-National Day of Absence -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I myself have declared tonight a national sleep-in against the war. > >Everyone who opposes the war will go on strike against awakedness by 3am in >the morning. Reminds me of that old joke about Nixon during the anti-Vietnam mobilization. War supporters were supposed to drive around with their headlights on during the day. Nixon, desperate to find support, went out at midnight and counted all the cars with their lights on. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 12:00:26 PST 2005

17292 [lbo-talk] Chomsky on Srebrenica & "genocide" -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >>Your pal Marko is a devious hack [snip] >> >>Doug > >Like I said, bring his sorry ass back here. I'd love another crack at the guy. I think he's too busy channelling Scoop Jackson. You could always take a crack at him and cc: <mah20 at cam.ac.uk>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 11:59:09 PST 2005

17293 [lbo-talk] Chomsky on Srebrenica & "genocide" -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Once again just put up with Marko's excesses with the , "Z magazine >neo-Stalinists, " rhetoric and read his piece, >http://www-hjs.pet.cam.ac.uk/sections/greater_europe/document.2005-11-21.8955930068 Why? What's the fucking point? Your pal Marko is a devious hack who writes sentences like this: "Yet faced with Brockes's exposure of his position, he and his circle of fans retreated from their pro-free-speech position, and organised a campaign ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 11:15:08 PST 2005

17294 [lbo-talk] No Business As Usual-National Day of Absence -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >On 11/22/05, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> Charles Brown wrote: > >> This is Workers World, no? Isn't this rather short notice? >> >> Doug > > Yup. > They have to re-assert their market share vs. the World Can't Wait >RCP initiated direct actions on Nov. 2nd, the spark of a Mass Movement >. Wouldn't want WCW/RCP to prevent TONC/WWP from asserting hegemony >over the Mass Insurrection which wil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 10:43:16 PST 2005

17295 [lbo-talk] Chomsky on Srebrenica & "genocide" -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Dwayne, the Johnstone book is garbage, Noam defends it <http://www.guardian.co.uk/corrections/story/0,,1644017,00.html> >The headline used on the interview, about which Prof Chomsky also >complained, added to the misleading impression given by the >treatment of the word massacre. It read: Q: Do you regret supporting >those who say the Srebrenica massacre was exaggerated? A: My only >regret is that I didn't do it strongly enough. > >No qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 10:22:40 PST 2005