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17416 [lbo-talk] Bloomberg's demographic profiling -- rank: 1000

[If this business about race & class mattering less is really true, well, um, time for a rethink.] New York Times - November 15, 2005 Voter Profiles for Bloomberg Went Beyond Ethnic Labels By JIM RUTENBERG Throughout this year's mayoral campaign, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's spending records included something called "voter list development." It looked ominous to Democrats - especially as Mr. Bloomberg poured millions into it. L ists like this usually include voters' personal data ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 15 07:58:29 PST 2005

17417 [lbo-talk] NYC mayoral postmortem -- rank: 1000

New York Times - November 13, 2005 Singing the Blues in a Blue City By GIGI E. GEORGES and HOWARD L. WOLFSON WITH post-election analysis raising questions about what the Democrats can do to recapture City Hall in 2009, it's time for a good hard look in the mirror, and a new approach. Despite holding a four-to-one advantage in party enrollment, Democrats have lost four straight New York City mayoral elections. One or two is a fluke. Four in a row - the longest dry run for Democrats in our city's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 15 07:55:32 PST 2005

17418 [lbo-talk] Iraq: on the way out? -- rank: 1000

[The Daily Show's Rob Corddry had a great routine last night about Iraq: if you lied your way in, you've got to lie your way out. So, things will be going great by mid-2006, time to leave!] <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> With the move today in the Senate led by Dr./Leader/Sen. Frist to head off a Democratic effort to (let's face it) bring the troops home, facts on the ground be darned, the Congress is now hurtling down the slippery slope. "Stay the course,&qu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 15 07:45:07 PST 2005

17419 [lbo-talk] MasterCard SpendingPulse -- rank: 1000

Damn, this is good. And no doubt very expensive: <https://www.spendingpulse.com/spweb/Home.do>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 15 07:31:32 PST 2005

17420 [lbo-talk] stripper -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson wrote: >This email was cleaned by emailStripper, available for free from >http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.htm Thank you. Other posters, please note. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 15 06:59:01 PST 2005

17421 [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood, a Blogger??? -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I was Googling for the cover images of Sam Gindin's books and his >articles available online, and lo and behold, I found a Doug Henwood >blog (?): <http://henwood.blogspace.com/>. I didn't know that you >had set up such a thing, Doug. (Maybe I missed the announcement as >my participation in the list has been sporadic. If this is old news >to everyone, sorry.) A listmember wrote a script that takes my posts here and puts them into blog format. N ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 15 06:38:04 PST 2005

17422 [lbo-talk] The War on the Car -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >Doug writes >[the WSJ editpage is normally a nutty place, but this one stands out >even by its standards] > >I can't agree. The article seemed very sensible to me, it was the >students who were nutty. > >Far from being a means of destruction, the internal combustion >engine is a condition for the reproduction of western societies. > >Consider this, almost every single thing that you will buy from your >local store or supermarket was de ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 14 12:21:43 PST 2005

17423 [lbo-talk] latest from Carville & Greenberg -- rank: 1000

<http://www.democracycorps.com/reports/analyses/Democracy_Corps_November_2-6_2005_Memo.pdf> RE: CHANGE HAS CONSEQUENCES Democrats need to do better The growing desire for change and anger with Washington and the disengagement from the Republicans and Bush have put the country at the edge of a political upheaval. The change mood has consequences, as Democrats win every argument by significant margins in the races for House and Senate. But the voters are ready for more change than that - en ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 14 11:53:58 PST 2005

17424 [lbo-talk] a sitdown with Chairman Bill -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >On Monday, November 14, 2005 10:04 AM [PDT], >Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > > >> William F. Buckley Jr. Opined: > >"My view is unorthodox," Mr. Buckley says of the violence roiling the >French suburbs. "It seems to me that a very hard dose of market >discipline would distract the attention of the young revolutionaries >from their frolics, traditional and otherwise, and my sense is that >if they had to ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 14 11:18:47 PST 2005

17425 [lbo-talk] Edwards: "I was wrong" on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - November 13, 2005 The Right Way in Iraq By John Edwards I was wrong. Almost three years ago we went into Iraq to remove what we were told -- and what many of us believed and argued -- was a threat to America. But in fact we now know that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction when our forces invaded Iraq in 2003. The intelligence was deeply flawed and, in some cases, manipulated to fit a political agenda. It was a mistake to vote for this war in 2002. I take responsibili ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 14 10:10:17 PST 2005

17426 [lbo-talk] a sitdown with Chairman Bill -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - November 12, 2005 William F. Buckley Jr. Old School By JOSEPH RAGO NEW YORK -- There is something out of time about lunching with William F. Buckley Jr. It goes beyond the inimitable WFB style: the mannered civility, the O.E.D. vocabulary, the jaunty patrician demeanor. It is also something more than mere age. "Well, I am one day older than I was yesterday," he says, with rather good cheer. Yet if there's anachronism to Mr. Buckley, it is also a sense of being pre ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 14 10:04:11 PST 2005

17427 [lbo-talk] the war on the car! -- rank: 1000

[the WSJ editpage is normally a nutty place, but this one stands out even by its standards] Wall Street Journal - November 11, 2005 Supply Side The War Against the Car A few years ago, I made a presentation to my second-grader's social studies class, asking the kids what was the worst invention in history. I was shocked when a number of them answered "the car." When I asked why, they replied that cars destroy the environment. Distressed by the Green indoctrination already visited upon ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 14 06:27:35 PST 2005

17428 [lbo-talk] Marseille and the riots -- rank: 1000

[perhaps the most surprising thing in this story is that in normal times, there are 5-10 car burnings a night] Financial Times - November 12, 2005 Geography that helped Marseilles escape the riots There is no room for banlieues in France's southern gateway - one reason it did not share the disturbances of other cities. Martin Arnold reports By MARTIN ARNOLD Ask Jean-Claude Gaudin why Marseilles has seemed immune to the riots that swept France in the last two weeks and the mayor of France's third ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 13 19:31:32 PST 2005

17429 [lbo-talk] Harold Bloom interview in the Boston Globe -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful >misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence. Damn, I still love this guy. "As Shelley should have said somewhere..." - another of my faves. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 13 19:16:22 PST 2005

17430 [lbo-talk] Harold Bloom interview in the Boston Globe -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Didn't Doug study under Harold Bloom >at Yale? He was my intellectual hero in college, but I only took one large lecture class with him. It was a wonderful performance, but a mass experience. My roommate took a seminar with him, to which HB reported the dream that he's walking down a hallway lined with doors. With each successive door he opens, the face that's revealed gets uglier & uglier. Finally at the last door he realizes that the face is his own. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 13 19:13:12 PST 2005