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1756 [lbo-talk] The God Market/by meera nanda not shiva -- rank: 1000

On Jun 5, 2011, at 8:45 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > I made a foolish error. Our book, The God Market, is by Meera Nanda not Vandana Shiva. I am sorry about this. Michael Yates Oh, whew. I thought it sounded like an argument I'd heard Nanda make before. World of difference!. Doug

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1757 [lbo-talk] Arundhati Roy -- rank: 1000

On Jun 5, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Dissenting Wren wrote: > Nah, I think you're describing Vandana Shiva there. Arundhati is a celebrity in > India as well, and I don't think there's anything particularly close to nature > about her persona. I think her celebrity in the West is tangled with sublimated > left/liberal postcolonial desire. I'm describing the way people in the Pacifica orbit process her. Shiva too - though from what I've heard, she has no following in India. Re: Roy in India, ...

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1758 [lbo-talk] Arundhati Roy -- rank: 1000

On Jun 5, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Dissenting Wren wrote: > Yes, we seem to be seizing on the tone that FT always uses in their "Lunch > with..." interviews. I fear that we (and I most emphatically include myself) > may envy Arundhati Roy a bit. A £500,000 advance for her first novel, which > goes on to win the Booker Prize, beauty, celebrity, what appears from the > outside to be a charmed life...and all she seems to do now is write crappy > political essays that are mor ...

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1759 [lbo-talk] Arundhati Roy -- rank: 1000

On Jun 5, 2011, at 12:26 AM, // ravi wrote: > I really, badly, want to like Arundhati Roy. Why? I really like Saadia Toor's critique of her: http://www.soas.ac.uk/soaslit/issue2/TOOR.PDF Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 4 21:37:01 PDT 2011

1760 [lbo-talk] Liberals -- rank: 1000

On Jun 3, 2011, at 9:03 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > You have no clue how bad things have gotten in the schools. Carrol's funny. One minute, everything is horrible - no socialism, therefore barbarism. But should someone else point that out, they're just whining like some old crank at the general store. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 4 07:23:13 PDT 2011

1761 [lbo-talk] More Groupon... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 3, 2011, at 4:11 PM, michael perelman wrote: > Why could others not duplicate Groupon's business? They can and do. Facebook and Google may do just that, which would mean major trouble for Groupon. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 3 13:49:34 PDT 2011

1762 [lbo-talk] Liberals -- rank: 1000

On Jun 3, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > And kids still survive. Yeah, they do. But ask them where Canada is or who fought WW2 and you might encounter some blank stares. Doug

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1763 [lbo-talk] St. Hubert Humphrey -- rank: 1000

On Jun 3, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> Rick is one of those left-liberals whose study of the right leads them into apologetics for some awful Dems. HHH, yuck. > > I read this differently -- Perlstein using HH as a stick to beat up > contemporary Democrats who have abandoned anything approaching > economic populism. Those aren't mutually exclusive POVs. But why should you exp ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 3 11:45:33 PDT 2011

1764 [lbo-talk] St. Hubert Humphrey -- rank: 1000

On Jun 3, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/opinion/27Perlstein.html > > Don't have energy to take this nonsense on, but I remember Humphrey as > a 2nd rate hack who supported the Vnam war even in his campaign for > President until the final weeks of the campaign. I also remember > learning that he cosponsered a bill during Truman-McCarthy era to put > commies in concentration camps. I hate to see Humphrey hagiography > catching ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 3 11:01:02 PDT 2011

1765 [lbo-talk] Liberals -- rank: 1000

On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > At 07:38 AM 6/3/2011, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> There was an English teacher in my HS who'd never heard of T.S. Eliot. > > > Does that make you feel a little better about the school search for the little one? You ended up studying English right? If he ever has an English teacher who's never heard of T.S. Eliot, I will consider it a major emergency. Doug

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1766 [lbo-talk] Liberal -- rank: 1000

I think that was the point - be cryptic, impress yourself. On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > You lost me. > > Wojtek > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- From: Wojtek S >> Philosophically, I tend to be a nominalist - I tend to believe that >> abstract concepts not only do not correspond to anything in reality, >> but often obscure reality - or human agency more ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 3 08:16:26 PDT 2011

1767 [lbo-talk] Liberals -- rank: 1000

On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:20 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:11:17 -0500 > Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > >> On 6/3/2011 3:11 AM, Chuck Grimes wrote: >>> >>> My big problem with English teachers was they were extremely >>> opinionated. >> Chuck, this is either incredibly ignorant or a plain fuckng lie. > > Perhaps Chuck was extremely unlucky in his teachers. There > are some awfully bad apples in that barrel. ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 3 07:38:54 PDT 2011

1768 [lbo-talk] bullshit: it's back! -- rank: 1000

On Jun 2, 2011, at 4:28 PM, SA wrote: > Hmm. They say they view "gross profit" as the key indicator of value, but their income statement seems to show that "marketing costs" eat up 70%-90% of gross profit. Is that what you mean by bullshit? All of it. The Groupspawn, a scholarship they give to parents who used Groupon on their first date. The massive losses that they want to bracket because of their curious metrics. The fact that they depend on merchants who typically lose ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 2 13:36:22 PDT 2011

1769 [lbo-talk] bullshit: it's back! -- rank: 1000

Groupon filed its IPO, and it's a beaut. The CEO's opening letter. http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1490281/000104746911005613/a2203913zs-1.htm LETTER FROM ANDREW D. MASON June 1, 2011 Dear Potential Stockholders, On the day of this writing, Groupon's over 7,000 employees offered more than 1,000 daily deals to 83 million subscribers across 43 countries and have sold to date over 70 million Groupons. Reaching this scale in about 30 months required a great deal of operating flexibility, dating b ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 2 13:06:50 PDT 2011

1770 [lbo-talk] usage notes -- rank: 1000

http://www.theawl.com/2011/06/no-matter-how-you-spell-it-its-still-a-blowjob CORRECTIONS The notoriously thorough folks at the New Yorker have sorted through our collection of profanities and when they first appeared in that esteemed periodical, and have offered a few helpful correctives. Of special interest: Mary Gaitskill, not Tad Friend, was the first person to get the common usage for fellatio into the magazine, a mistake which the publication generously forgives by noting that, "This e ...

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