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17881 [lbo-talk] indiscreet question -- rank: 1000

[also via the Progressive Review] STUDENT ARRESTED AT ANN COULTER TALK FOR ASKING DIFFICULT QUESTION <http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2005/05/04/TopStories/Arrest.Made.At.Coulter.Speech-947529.shtml> YASHODA SAMPATH, DAILY TEXAN - Incessant heckling and shouting culminated in an arrest Tuesday night during a speech by Ann Coulter, an extreme right-wing pundit, at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. Shouts became so pervasive during the question-and-answer session that Coulte ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 4 15:50:11 PDT 2005

17882 [lbo-talk] kids & parents -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>] DATA: BY THE TIME YOU START TEACHING YOUR CHILD IT'S TOO LATE http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20050504/oplede04.art.htm STEPHEN J. DUBNER AND STEVEN D. LEVITT, USA TODAY - The U.S. Department of Education recently undertook a monumental project called the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, which tracks the progress of more than 20,000 American schoolchildren from kindergarten through the fifth grade. Aside from gathering e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 4 15:48:29 PDT 2005

17883 [lbo-talk] Re: alt-porn & explicit content -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >What makes *IT* socially and culturally more useful and humanistic than >the military industrial complex is for some *other* interest group? Sexual commodities can make people happy. Military commodities are meant to kill people. On use value terms, no contest. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 4 15:22:51 PDT 2005

17884 [lbo-talk] evo psych: balderdash -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Overlimit By 5 posts! Doug

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Date:	Wed May 4 13:58:26 PDT 2005

17885 [lbo-talk] denial -- rank: 1000

Katha Pollitt wrote: >Susan's question is exactly what is so frustrating about the >Freudian POV. If you accept it, fine. if you reject it, you're in >'denial." Or as Katie Roiphe once said to me, explaining why she hated Gloria Steinem,feminists are "humorless and anti-sex." A roughly equivalent level of caricature. Denial isn't just about "rejecting" something - it's about the nature of that rejection. A disproportionately or weirdly intense rejection of somet ...

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Date:	Wed May 4 13:57:41 PDT 2005

17886 [lbo-talk] Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World -- rank: 1000

"DANGEROUS LIVING: COMING OUT IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD" NARRATED BY JANEANE GAROFOLO PREMIERES ON HERE! MAY 11th here!, the nation's first gay and lesbian premium television network, is proud to present Dangerous Living, an important and powerful documentary about being gay and lesbian in developing countries, by acclaimed filmmaker John Scagliotti (Before Stonewall, After Stonewall). Dangerous Living will air on here! Wednesday, May 11th to coincide with the anniversary of the arrest ...

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Date:	Wed May 4 13:28:02 PDT 2005

17887 [lbo-talk] Now Germans are the Gastarbeiters -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Mine usually involve my visa application being denied. A friend of mine - a naturalized US citizen - is married to a woman from Uzbekistan. If she returns to Uzbekistan, she's likely to be boiled alive, or shot, or something like that, because she's a journalist who's written critically about the regime. But the INS is telling her she's got to go back there for two years before she can re-apply to come here. Appeals are underway, but it's really messy. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 4 12:28:18 PDT 2005

17888 [lbo-talk] evo psych: balderdash -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >As for "provably" adequate ev psych or SB >explanations, go out and learn something if you care >to. I'll give some references to them as care to >listen. The WSJ article was based on a new book, which I presume none of us have read. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 4 11:23:23 PDT 2005

17889 [lbo-talk] evo psych: balderdash -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Of course we are biological organisms, but evolutionary psychology like >Freudianism is a vulgar biological reduction. Freudianism is biological reduction? I could swear that neurotransmitter explanations of affective disorders would qualify as biological reduction, and maybe even the vulgar kind, and certainly evo psych could qualify, but how is psychoanalysis "biological"? Or did you just hit a macro key and autotype one of your rude dismissive formulations? ...

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Date:	Wed May 4 11:12:25 PDT 2005

17890 [lbo-talk] housing boomble? -- rank: 1000

[this is from the WSJ.com nightly roundup] U.S. Metro Areas See Record Housing Boom Speaking of interest rates, the Fed's (previously) super-low rates have helped fuel a housing boom, according a new government study. More U.S. housing markets are booming than at any time in at least 30 years, according to Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. analysis of government housing data. Although that may not mean a wave of bad-news "busts" is on the way, the risks could be high. Of 362 U.S. metropo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 3 15:06:06 PDT 2005

17891 [lbo-talk] explicit content -- rank: 1000

This one's for Wojtek: (via WFMU's website) NWA's Straight Outta Compton edited so that only the "explicit content" remains: <http://www.ni9e.com/>. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 3 14:06:20 PDT 2005

17892 [lbo-talk] FOMC correction! -- rank: 1000

[never saw one of these before, and it's rather strange, since I'm sure they spend a lot of time obsessing over every comma in these statements - the **'d sentence (the addition) is in bold in the original - the **'s are mine, to preserve plain text - gotta wonder if they saw the market reaction and worried that they were sounding a tad too hawkish] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/monetary/2005/20050503/> May 3, 2005 For immediate release (Note: Corrects previous release to ...

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Date:	Tue May 3 13:10:25 PDT 2005

17893 [lbo-talk] evo psych: balderdash -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - April 29, 2005 SCIENCE JOURNAL By SHARON BEGLEY Evolutionary Psych May Not Help Explain Our Behavior After All Like almost everyone else, David J. Buller says he was "completely captivated" by evolutionary psychology, and no wonder. This field claims to explain human behaviors that seem so widespread we must be wired for them: women preferring high-status men, and men falling for nubile babes; stepfathers abusing stepchildren. Even the more troubling claims, such ...

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Date:	Tue May 3 12:41:41 PDT 2005

17894 [lbo-talk] FOMC stays the course -- rank: 1000

[Completly expected increase; the only question was how much they'd change the language from the last release (excerpted below today's release). There's more worry about inflation in the second graf (the containment of inflation expectations is gone), but the wording of the third was unchanged - the magic word "measured" is still there. But there's no signal that the slowdown in the previously solid pace of spending has inspired them to hold off on the tightening. Bond prices fell a bi ...

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Date:	Tue May 3 12:33:11 PDT 2005

17895 [lbo-talk] making elbow room -- rank: 1000

Andy F wrote: >If you haven't read it already: > > > Out of the Superpower Orbit >by Tom Engelhardt > ><http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=5811> > >...It's remarkable what the Bush administration can't >do today in its own backyard. It can't fully isolate >Cuba; it can't create a regional "coalition of the >willing" against Venezuela; it can't simply impose its >version of economics on the continent; it can't stop a >number of ...

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Date:	Tue May 3 10:06:04 PDT 2005