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17356 [lbo-talk] Shuttle. Click -- rank: 1000

Rotating Bitch wrote: >Feedback -- real feedback -- might mean reading the whole thing yanno? > >http://blog.pulpculture.org/2005/11/18/shuttle-click/ Hey, I like that. You say: >Well, when you find a quote by someone who advocates the practice, >then maybe we can talk about it some more. I suspect you're >misreading them and pulling what they say out of a larger context. >As far as I know, no one has said that by taking back the word >Queer, heterosexism will stop. What ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 18 10:48:20 PST 2005

17357 [lbo-talk] Re: No cock left behind -- rank: 1000

joanna wrote: > > >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> >>Never hurts to rerun this... > >Awww, Jesus, Doug, I can't read stuff like this..... > >"As a sedimented effect of a reiterative or ritual practice, sex >acquires its naturalized effect, and, yet, it is also by virtue of >this reiteration that gaps and fissures are opened up as the >constitutive instabilities in such constructions, as that which >escapes or exceeds the norm, as that which cannot be ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 18 10:42:48 PST 2005

17358 [lbo-talk] University Inc -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - November 18, 2005 Universities Collected Near-Record Revenues From Commercial Activity in 2004, Study Finds By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK Colleges created a record number of start-up companies based on the inventions of their professors and students in the 2004 fiscal year, and they collected more than $1-billion in revenues from licenses on a host of new drugs, agricultural products, high-tech components, and other breakthrough technologies, according to a sur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 18 10:33:50 PST 2005

17359 [lbo-talk] Discontinuance of M3 - Hang On -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >What are acts by the Fed or other financial institutions that can be said to >impact adversely large numbers of debtors and other commoners ? They shouldn't have let the home equity bubble get so out of hand, and Greenspan shouldn't have encouraged it (as he did the stock bubble). But that's hard to put on a placard. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 18 10:00:39 PST 2005

17360 [lbo-talk] balance of forces -- rank: 1000

Mark Bennett wrote: >Doug Henwood > >[Gang of 500 is The Note's nickname for the Washington press corps] > ><http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> > >An establishment media and 4/5 of the Gang of 500 totally against the >war and thinking that the President is even more foolish to double down >on betting his presidency on Iraq than he was in making the original >wager. >___________________________________ > >"The Bush White House ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 18 09:58:31 PST 2005

17361 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Zizek! The Movie -- rank: 1000

[Slavoj will be at the 8 PM showing tonight.] "THE ELVIS OF CULTURAL THEORY!" - The Chronicle of Higher Education The author of works on subjects as wide-ranging as Alfred Hitchcock, 9/11, opera, Christianity, Lenin and David Lynch, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek is one of the most important-and outrageous-cultural theorists working today. This captivating, erudite documentary explores the eccentric personality and esoteric work of this incomparable academic and writer who has been ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 18 09:52:45 PST 2005

17362 [lbo-talk] SSRIs -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Not quite sure of your point here, Doug. Depression >has a biochemical basis if materialism is true, so >you'd expect the brains of depressed people to behave >different from those of others. > >And while it is true that depression often has >situation occasions and standing situation causes, >clinical depression is different from ordinary sadness >or even grief caused by loss or misfortune. It will >often be triggered by causes too mino ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 18 09:50:41 PST 2005

17363 [lbo-talk] Fwd: NEWS RELEASE: Wal-Mart Critics Reading from an Old Script -- rank: 1000

>From rmorrison at cei.org Fri Nov 18 10:33:19 2005 Subject: NEWS RELEASE: Wal-Mart Critics Reading from an Old Script Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:29:11 -0500 X-MS-Has-Attach: yes X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: NEWS RELEASE: Wal-Mart Critics Reading from an Old Script Thread-Index: AcXsVLqWjNm6OJfER0+ibqOZnRa19gAAANmQ From: "Richard Morrison" <rmorrison at cei.org> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Contacts: <mailto:jclarke at cei.org?subject=Wal-Mart%20paper>Jody Clarke, ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 18 07:37:40 PST 2005

17364 [lbo-talk] balance of forces -- rank: 1000

[Gang of 500 is The Note's nickname for the Washington press corps] <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> An establishment media and 4/5 of the Gang of 500 totally against the war and thinking that the President is even more foolish to double down on betting his presidency on Iraq than he was in making the original wager.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 18 07:32:59 PST 2005

17365 [lbo-talk] Discontinuance of M3 - Hang On -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: > What does the Fed "itself" have as its purpose and goal ? To maximize >income for the rich ? When it attempts to influence the economy , what is >its goal ? Its statutory responsibility is <http://federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/fract/sect02a.htm>: >The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal >Open Market Committee shall maintain long run growth of the monetary >and credit aggregates commensurate with the economy's ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 18 07:30:02 PST 2005

17366 [lbo-talk] SSRIs -- rank: 1000

[a reply to all that vulgar materialism of "brain chemicals make me sad" type] Wall Street Journal - November 18, 2005 SCIENCE JOURNAL By SHARON BEGLEY Some Drugs Work To Treat Depression, But It Isn't Clear How Hardly any patients know how Lipitor lowers cholesterol, how Lotensin reduces blood pressure, or even how ibuprofen erases headaches. But when it comes to Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil, ads and glowing accounts in the press have turned patients with depression into veritable pharmac ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 18 07:09:13 PST 2005

17367 [lbo-talk] Guardian grovels -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > The shameful record of Edward Herman, Diana Johnstone who Noam >supports, on Srbrenica Oh please Michael. What's this "Noam supports" crap? You joining The Guardian & Eric Alterman in accusing Chomsky of apologizing for genocide? What is it with this sectarian policing reflex? Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 18 06:51:56 PST 2005

17368 [lbo-talk] Re: No cock left behind -- rank: 1000

boddi satva wrote: >C. Joanna, > >I think he posted that ironically. No I didn't, I quite like it, but I don't have time to explain why now. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 17 17:31:44 PST 2005

17369 [lbo-talk] Guardian grovels -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >I wonder if Alterman, who revived the tired old "Noam is an island" >pun to link to it He did? What a repulsive hack.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 17 15:59:01 PST 2005

17370 [lbo-talk] A sample from Bob Dylan's memoir -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >So please permit one lone dissenter to boo from the sidelines. Hey, I was the only guy in my sixth grade class who hated Mary Poppins. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 17 15:49:46 PST 2005