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1876 [lbo-talk] Christian Parenti: Pakistan One Year After the Floods -- rank: 1000

On Jul 10, 2011, at 6:46 PM, lbo83235 wrote: > On Jul 10, 2011, at 11:51 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Who are you, anyway? 83235 is a zip code in Idaho. Is that it? > > No, that's not it. Does that help? > > Objectively, it's interesting (okay, to me) how folks whom I desperately wish to see as allies respond to confusing anonymity, willed discretion, tenuous confidence - to say nothing of identity-based provocation - on top of substantive engagement with loaded topics. T ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 07:47:59 PDT 2011

1877 [lbo-talk] Christian Parenti: Pakistan One Year After the Floods -- rank: 1000

On Jul 10, 2011, at 5:35 PM, lbo83235 wrote: > On Jul 10, 2011, at 7:27 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I think you've answered your own question. It's the go-to mag for the next Dem hope. > > Acknowledging Joanna's sadness, I'd say this is a pretty good example of the kind of depressing, snarky cynicism one finds all too frequently on LBO talk - the absence of which one could be forgiven for welcoming, and the responsibility for which I think one could be excused for laying signi ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 10 14:51:37 PDT 2011

1878 [lbo-talk] Christian Parenti: Pakistan One Year After the Floods -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2011, at 6:06 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > I don't know why The Nation doesn't build their whole advertisting campaign around Christian's articles. If all I read were them, I would have a completely different image of the Nation. I think you've answered your own question. It's the go-to mag for the next Dem hope. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 10 10:27:04 PDT 2011

1879 [lbo-talk] a nation of thumpers -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2011, at 11:33 AM, Dissenting Wren wrote: > Holden Village isn't a nest of thumpers. The mainstream Protestant denominations stopped being Biblical literalists a long time ago. I've been told by an alum of one that no one in any of the mainline schools of theology really believes in God in any literal sense, and mostly take the bible and such to be metaphors. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 9 09:11:16 PDT 2011

1880 [lbo-talk] Krugman: "The question then is why." -- rank: 1000

On Jul 8, 2011, at 5:50 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Maybe, having been bamboozled into gifting billions of dollars to the very richest people on earth under the TARP Minor point: that was a Bush/Paulson program. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 8 19:31:57 PDT 2011

1881 [lbo-talk] kleptocracy gets slap on the wrist -- rank: 1000

On Jul 8, 2011, at 8:47 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > If that is the case, perhaps you could get up a petition and have Doug kick me off. Never. I'd never kick Carrol off either, but I wish he wouldn't be such a dick.

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Date:	Fri Jul 8 19:29:46 PDT 2011

1882 [lbo-talk] kleptocracy gets slap on the wrist -- rank: 1000

On Jul 8, 2011, at 8:04 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Maybe there really is no room on this list for people whose interest lies in doing something rather than in heapiang up complaints. Really, dude, was that necessary? Doug

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1883 [lbo-talk] Krugman: "The question then is why." -- rank: 1000

On Jul 8, 2011, at 3:53 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > [ Pretty cynical, if you ask me ... and yet? --JMH ] > > http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/the-obama-keynes-mystery/ > > [...] > > Obama keeps talking nonsense about economics ... > > [...] > > The question then is why Because O is fundamentally conservative? That video in which he praised Reagan was dismissed by the febrile contingent, but maybe he was telling the truth about how he feels. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 8 13:09:52 PDT 2011

1884 [lbo-talk] a nation of thumpers -- rank: 1000

http://www.gallup.com/poll/148427/Say-Bible-Literally.aspx 30% of Americans take the bible literally; 49% see it as the inspired word of God; 17% see it as a book of legends

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Date:	Fri Jul 8 11:57:39 PDT 2011

1885 [lbo-talk] David Cay Johnston -- rank: 1000

On Jul 8, 2011, at 8:42 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > I like this guy. I don't think he's Marxian, but I'll bet he's read Marx. Dunno about that. He describes himself as something of an old-style Republican, actually. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 8 11:38:10 PDT 2011

1886 [lbo-talk] Adorno and Horkheimer -- rank: 1000

On Jul 7, 2011, at 8:51 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Adorno wrote for the CIA-backed 'Monad magazine Joel Kovel said in a talk many years ago that the CIA funded the re-establishment of the Frankfurt School. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 7 18:14:52 PDT 2011

1887 [lbo-talk] Response to MG -- Was Poll.... -- rank: 1000

On Jul 6, 2011, at 7:49 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Have Die Linke really made any programmatic advance on Keynesian crisis management? You make it sound like that's the dominant bourgeois paradigm. Doug

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1888 [lbo-talk] Response to MG -- Was Poll.... -- rank: 1000

On Jul 6, 2011, at 6:50 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Walter Benjamin wrote that the revolution is like slamming the brakes on the train of history. Really? He said that? Why not taking the controls instead? The brake imagery sounds a lot more like William F. Buckley: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/223549/our-mission-statement/william-f-buckley-jr "Let s face it: Unlike Vienna, it seems altogether possible that did NATIONAL REVIEW not exist, no one would have invented it. The launch ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 6 16:08:38 PDT 2011

1889 [lbo-talk] Nature, Alienation, Mediation, Values... oh, and "Natives, " just for fun -- rank: 1000

On Jul 6, 2011, at 4:34 PM, lbo83235 wrote: > It's nothing personal. Just politics. Oh, right, the personal has nothing to do with the political. Why am I reminded of a Mafioso saying, "Nothing personal, just business," as he's about to deposit a slug in the back of a head? Doug

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1890 [lbo-talk] Response to MG -- Was Poll.... -- rank: 1000

On Jul 5, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > Political consciousness is a relative thing. For some, Carrol's observations are "powerful, coherent, serious, and deserving of a more considered hearing". For others of us, not so much. And regardless of the truth of his observations, it's the "you ignorant fool" part that's problematic. Doug

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