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1786 [lbo-talk] Liberals -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:27 AM, // ravi wrote: > Two of them are NPR (Leonard Lopate and Brian Lehrer I kinda like those guys. It's the national NPR voices that drive me nuts.

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1787 [lbo-talk] Liberals -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > Agreed. We could sing some nice close harmony on that topic, > I bet. Just hearing the pissy, snide, and yet portentous > tone of voice in which Robert Seagal says, "And I'm... ROBERT > SEAGAL" sets my teeth on edge. Dude gets paid about $300,000 a year for that crap, too. Doug

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1788 [lbo-talk] Liberals -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > But it doesn't really hold water: whatever limited validity it might have applies to a very tiny patch of literary history: English poetry from Milton to Stevens. That's two countries and three centuries. I suppose that's tiny in a geological perspective, but it's a rather large chunk of literature in English. Doug

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1789 [lbo-talk] Liberals -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > On the contrary: all that dreary ranking and canonizing > and winnowing -- Shakespeare wrote 38 plays, and 24 of them > are masterpieces -- seem quite Philistine and reactionary > to me. I just discovered that HB was interviewed by Vice magazine, of all things. He says: http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n12/htdocs/harold-bloom-431.php Vice: I was hoping to talk first about The Western Canon. > Harold Bloom: Do you mean the whole cat ...

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1790 [lbo-talk] Liberals -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > If you had asked me to name a writer who could have knocked > a kid off his right-wing hobbyhorse on the way to Damascus and > put the fear of Marx in him, Bloom is not somebody I would have > thought of. On the contrary: all that dreary ranking and canonizing > and winnowing -- Shakespeare wrote 38 plays, and 24 of them > are masterpieces -- seem quite Philistine and reactionary > to me. I haven't read any of Bloom's stuff ...

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1791 [lbo-talk] Liberals -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2011, at 2:06 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > But maybe this is prejudice: I loathe Harold Bloom. I kind of adore him. Reading the Anxiety of Influence as a sophomore is one of the things that led me out of the Party of the Right - intertextuality is a lot more fun than the Cleanth Brooks-ish close reading I'd been into as a reactionary. In the (huge) lecture class I took with him, I found him weirdly charming. I know he's kind of ridiculous sometimes, but what the hell? Doug

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1792 [lbo-talk] The deal... -- rank: 1000

On Jul 31, 2011, at 10:07 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > "Taken together, then, the deal is an almost perfect blend of policy punt > and political ploy." > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-debt-deal-disaster-averted-decline-straight-ahead/2011/07/31/gIQAWPaCmI_story.html?hpid=z2 > > I'm not wringing my hands like the author (and Lindsey Graham) are about > "decline," but it really kind of does look like a whole lot of nothing. Matt Miller is yuck ...

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1793 [lbo-talk] The deal... -- rank: 1000

On Jul 31, 2011, at 9:54 PM, // ravi wrote: > I was just going to ask that myself but the $900 billion cuts over 10 years: is there a simultaneous budget being passed (along with raising the debt ceiling) that will bind the share of this cut for 2011? What are these cuts relative to? The 2010 budget? If so, won t some savings come naturally anyway, when TARP, QE or what have you are put to rest? Bet it's back-loaded. That's the way this shit always works.

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1794 [lbo-talk] The deal... -- rank: 1000

On Jul 31, 2011, at 9:50 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > Perhaps, but what about "the trigger" we keep hearing about? It can be repealed. Anything can be repealed.

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1795 [lbo-talk] The deal... -- rank: 1000

On Jul 31, 2011, at 9:12 PM, // ravi wrote: > * $1 trillion cuts over 10 years: from where? > * looks like the debt limit raised to cover 2012 > * no tax raises (I guess?) > * details on benefit cuts? > > Anyone watching this thing? (I am not). Funny thing about this is that it's all reversible. There's no way to bind a future Congress.

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1796 [lbo-talk] Yale in the news -- rank: 1000

[from 06520, the Yale blog] Eugenics promoter William Shockley was shouted down at a 1974 Yale speech, prompting a new university policy that upheld "the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable." Yale was founded in 1701 on the denial of free expression, historian Gaddis Smith 54, 61PhD, writes in the latest issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine: "Faculty had to swear allegiance to a strict code of Connecticut theology. The only ...

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1797 [lbo-talk] questions about the working families party -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2011, at 5:27 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Huh - she's mine as well. Doug, us being such close neighbors and all, we > really should do drinks when I get back from Gaza. (God knows I'll be ready > for a few by then!) You bet. When are you back? > That said, James is no longer WFP/not D. In fact, she ran in the last > election as a D/not WFP candidate, for reasons I won't speculate on here. I've wondered about her & ACORN. She was against Atlantic Yards (and is great o ...

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1798 [lbo-talk] questions about the working families party -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > In practice of course it often replicates the basic problem that when the Dems suck and are powerful, the WFP has no place else to go. And to retain their ballot status, they have to endorse evil pricks like Cuomo. Doug

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1799 [lbo-talk] questions about the working families party -- rank: 1000

On Jul 30, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jul 2011, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > >> This isn't true, they've run and won candidates under their own banner. Im pretty sure there's still a city council member that's WFP. > > That was an extremely unusual case, the exception that proves the rule: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_Families_Party#Electoral_strategy > > That said, Leticia James is fabulous. I wish there were more of her. You can ...

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On Jul 30, 2011, at 4:38 PM, SA wrote: > Huh. I knew fusion was their usual method. I didn't realize they *never* ran their own candidates. I don't think that's exactly true. I forwarded your questions to their Maximum Leader. Doug

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