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18556 [lbo-talk] Bloom gets all excited about Whitman -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 29, 2005 Whitman's America By HAROLD BLOOM If you are American, then Walt Whitman is your imaginative father and mother, even if, like myself, you have never composed a line of verse. You can nominate a fair number of literary works as candidates for the secular Scripture of the United States. They might include Melville's "Moby-Dick," Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," and Emerson's two series of "Essays" and "The Conduct of L ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 29 12:40:22 PDT 2005

18557 [lbo-talk] Risk and Keynesian Uncertainty -- rank: 1000

Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote: >But in any event, the partially managed economies of the capitalist >west have suffered from successful attacks on the dismantling of >this apparatus since the 1980's, not the other way round, as a wave >of deregulation took place increasing general investment risk >levels. Evidence of this abounds in the numerous currency crises in >Mexico, Argentina, SE Asia and Russia in the 1990's motivated by the >introduction of flexible exchange rates a ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 29 12:20:43 PDT 2005

18558 [lbo-talk] Fitch on The Split -- rank: 1000

<http://slate.msn.com/id/2123481/> A More Perfect Union? Why Andy Stern isn't helping the American labor movement. By Robert Fitch Posted Wednesday, July 27, 2005, at 11:59 AM PT This week Andy Stern, president of America's largest union, finally made good on the threat he's been brandishing for over two years. He pulled 1.8 million Service Employees International Union members out of the AFL-CIO just before a convention that was supposed to celebrate the Federation's golden anniversary. S ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 29 12:02:59 PDT 2005

18559 [lbo-talk] Man-on-dog -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Doug Henwood: > >> Doesn't your Senator - the one with the gay press aide - > > take that position too? > >Yes, though I've always thought of Santorum as more of a pig-fucker myself. > >Casey's up 52-41 in the latest poll, by the way. Man, did Jon Stewart ever give him a soft interview the other night. He's so nice to evil fucks sometimes. Doug

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18560 [lbo-talk] Thomas: I'll kill myself if Cheney runs -- rank: 1000

At 11:01 AM -0400 7/29/05, <newsfeed at mediabistro.com> wrote: >CHENEY SPAWNS SUICIDE THREAT (DRUDGE REPORT) >Veteran wire reporter Helen Thomas is vowing to 'kill herself' if >Dick Cheney announces he is running for president. "All we need is >one more liar," she told The Hill. >http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1.htm

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Date:	Fri Jul 29 11:41:53 PDT 2005

18561 [lbo-talk] Risk and Keynesian Uncertainty -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Whatever "buffering" role the state plays, I think Keynes' point is >a good one: what faces investors and workers in a free-market >society is not risk in the sense of outcomes with known probability >distributions but rather uncertainty. --Contrast rolling a die with >the chance that the job market will improve in the U. S. in the next >10 years: on any one roll of a die, I don't know for sure what I'll >get, but I can be confident that I'll ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 29 11:21:42 PDT 2005

18562 [lbo-talk] Man-on-dog -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >There's a letter to the editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today likening >homosexuality to dog-fucking. > >http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05210/545385.stm Doesn't your Senator - the one with the gay press aide - take that position too? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 29 11:17:13 PDT 2005

18563 [lbo-talk] more commentary from Duncan/Heidenheimer -- rank: 1000

[again, this was prepended to 20k of digest - quirky formatting in original] From: "dave duncan" <red34birds at hotmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: RE: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 19, Issue 283 Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:21:32 +0000 Dear Doug Henwood: Do you dispute that the U.S. spends aprox 700 million dollers per year on its different intelligence agencies? If you do not, then don't you think at least seven hundred million dollers per year is enough history to worthy a ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 29 09:49:04 PDT 2005

18564 [lbo-talk] Guilty to a Tee -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover quoted Michael Berube: >I can't mention their names, for obvious reasons. But the guy who >did that Marxist analysis of British cultural production between the >world wars? He's a wizard in the greenside bunkers. The guy whose >essay on queer theory caused such a stir in the late 1990s? He's >deadly accurate with everything above a 6 iron. And the guy whose >work on African-American vernacular English is nationally renowned? >He hits it 280 yards off the tee, ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 29 09:43:00 PDT 2005

18565 [lbo-talk] blind item -- rank: 1000

A gay gossip source says it's Rove. Nathan Newman wrote: >Is the whole Miguel Estrada outing already old news? Or is this it? > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> >To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> >Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 9:59 AM >Subject: [lbo-talk] blind item > > >[from Popbitch] > > Which controversial member of President Bush's > inner circle has set tongues ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 29 09:11:45 PDT 2005

18566 [lbo-talk] Risk and Keynesian Uncertainty -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote, > >> Keynes was writing during the Depression, a time of serious rupture. >> That's not the way things are in advanced capitalist economies today. >> The state has taken on the role that Negri wrote about in his essay >> on Keynes - of stabilizing expectations. > >So does this mean Keynes was wrong because policies based on his >ideas succeeded in reducing uncertainty? Not at all! I wrote about Keynes at some lengt ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 29 07:11:29 PDT 2005

18567 [lbo-talk] blind item -- rank: 1000

[from Popbitch] Which controversial member of President Bush's inner circle has set tongues wagging in rich gay New York circles that he is a closeted member of the gays?

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Date:	Fri Jul 29 06:59:17 PDT 2005

18568 [lbo-talk] Risk and Keynesian Uncertainty -- rank: 1000

Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote: >For Keynes, however, most economic events were non ergodic, i.e. >lacking immutable market fundamentals with objective probability >distributions. Therefore, for him, in this uncertain world, the >fundamentals do not provide a reliable guide to the future, which is >subject to sudden and violent changes and, therefore, future market >valuations were subject to dissapoinment.This was his standard >response to classical general equilibrium models ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 28 21:11:07 PDT 2005

18569 [lbo-talk] from the Konspiracy Korner -- rank: 1000

[each of these was prepended to about 20k of extraneous material - edit more carefully, and try using a spell checker] From: "dave duncan" <red34birds at hotmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: RE: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 19, Issue 279 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:59:10 +0000 re chip berletts 9-11 rebuttal as a student of history i am well aware of of the right wing one world gov wing of conspiracy coming out of right wing critiques. to lump these together with most of t ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 28 16:03:38 PDT 2005

18570 [lbo-talk] A time of doubt for atheists -- rank: 1000

Tommy Kelly wrote: >When it comes to the topic of dialectics, I tend to agree with Noam Chomsky: > > "Dialectics is one that I've never understood, actually - I've just >never understood what the word means. Marx doesn't use it, incidentally, >it's used by Engels.|...| I haven't the foggiest idea what it is. It seems >to mean something about complexity, or alternative positions, or change, or >something. I don't know." [p228 "Understanding Power"] You ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 28 12:59:16 PDT 2005