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17341 [lbo-talk] CNN poll: vote now! -- rank: 1000

Totally unscientific poll at <http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/> with current results: Do you think the United States should: Stay the course in Iraq 3% Withdraw U.S. troops within six months 85% Commit to do whatever it takes to win the war 13%

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 19 08:33:21 PST 2005

17342 [lbo-talk] A sample from Bob Dylan's memoir -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >As Ochs said, "A protest song is a song that's so specific that you >cannot mistake it for bullshit." But protest songs are mostly so tedious. I'd rather listen to Shostakovich preludes & fugues. You can even hear the Stalin in them. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 18 22:46:05 PST 2005

17343 [lbo-talk] Re: butler porn.. -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >heeey...i read it, and it made me come in my pants... Better be multiorgasmic - there's lots more where that came from! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 18 15:29:10 PST 2005

17344 [lbo-talk] SSRIs -- rank: 1000

Rotating Bitch wrote: >I don't have an investment in how this is handled one way or >another, but at least get the freakin' article straight, mmmmkay? > >(this isn't directed at Doug). I think people (hi Carrol!) were too busy responding to my headnote to read the article! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 18 15:20:01 PST 2005

17345 [lbo-talk] Sex, Gender, and Sexuality -- rank: 1000

boddi satva wrote: 12 posts on Wednesday. 25 on Thursday (which may be a list record) 9 so far today. The limit remains 3. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 18 14:30:24 PST 2005

17346 [lbo-talk] Science Marches On -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: >to think a limit is >already to transcend it But sometimes to think a limit is to create it, no? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 18 14:28:54 PST 2005

17347 [lbo-talk] Fitzgerald: back to a grand jury? -- rank: 1000

Fitzgerald sees new grand jury proceedings By Adam Entous 45 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sign he may seek new or revised charges in the CIA leak case, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said on Friday his investigation would be going back before a grand jury. It was the first time Fitzgerald said he would be presenting information to another grand jury since the indictment and resignation three weeks ago of Vice President Lawyers in the case said the investigation into who leaked the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 18 14:15:58 PST 2005

17348 [lbo-talk] Discontinuance of M3 - Hang On -- rank: 1000

boddi satva wrote: >So if part of the Fed's mandate is to concentrate on growing monetary >and credit aggregates, why not keep looking at M3? Because it tells you next to nothing. The best way to predict GDP is with last quarter's GDP; adding M3 (or M1 or M2) to the equation barely improves the accuracy. And the correlations between M growth and GDP growth are strictly nominal - no one could ever tell you how the influence breaks down into volume vs. price effects. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 18 13:09:21 PST 2005

17349 [lbo-talk] Discontinuance of M3 - Hang On -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > They shouldn't have let the home equity bubble get so >> out of hand ... > >How exactly should the Fed have done that? By raising interest rates >earlier? They are still very low, historically. And the tax treatment >of home equity is still very favorable ... seems to me that this isn't >something the Fed could have done something about ... The Fed has lots of power, formal and informal. Greenspan could have put away his pom-poms and starte ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 18 12:20:54 PST 2005

17350 [lbo-talk] O'Reilly strikes again -- rank: 1000

<http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/11/18/brown> Bill O'Reilly Crashes the Party and Students Object It's not his party, but Bill O'Reilly is crying when he wants to. On Monday, as part of his Fox News "O'Reilly Factor" show, O'Reilly aired video of a 750-person party at Brown University that ended with around 20 students being taken to the hospital. O'Reilly lambasted the shindig, calling the Brown administrators a bunch of "liberal pinheads" for allowing such behavio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 18 11:40:59 PST 2005

17351 [lbo-talk] Re: No cock left behind -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >Doesn't it? This is meaningless gibberish. Yes, mate. Nothing but straightforward manly working class speech from here forward! Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 18 11:32:08 PST 2005

17352 [lbo-talk] There He Goes Again -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> > > It's always interesting to note when people Nice imitation of Reagan, Carrol. Was that the joke? What followed your truncation was: "turn to biology for a grounding of their position." It happens, and often. Or are you such a social isolate that you've never noticed this? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 18 11:30:38 PST 2005

17353 [lbo-talk] Vatican scientist rejects intelligent design -- rank: 1000

Vatican Official Refutes Intelligent Design By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writer Nov 18, 2005 - 1 hour, 33 minutes ago VATICAN CITY - The Vatican's chief astronomer said Friday that "intelligent design" isn't science and doesn't belong in science classrooms, the latest high-ranking Roman Catholic official to enter the evolution debate in the United States. The Rev. George Coyne, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, said placing intelligent design theory alongside that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 18 11:25:52 PST 2005

17354 [lbo-talk] A sample from Bob Dylan's memoir -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: > who hasn't done anything but follow his own whim for decades. Carrol's right - he's a modern Emersonian. So why's it ok for RWE, but not RZ? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 18 11:01:38 PST 2005

17355 [lbo-talk] Shuttle. Click -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I spent about six weeks back in '99 doing nothing much but going through >that whole Introduction to Bodies that Matter over and over again, >sentence by sentence. And there is no real difficulty in it, as your >commentary reveals, there is only a pretence of translating historical >materialism into Lacanian double-speak. No one has ever shown how there >is a gain involved. Doug repeatedly reposts this fragment of the >Introduction, but he has never explai ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 18 10:59:13 PST 2005