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19471 [lbo-talk] SD -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >>Apologies, to those of you care, for not having booted the annoying >>Szechuan Death sooner. We've spent the last week getting the >>apartment painted, which involved massive lifestyle disruptions, >>esp when combined with a transit strike. So I've been very >>distracted. >> >>Doug > >Yeah, without subway service, those Upper West Side apts are a bitch >to traverse. :) Ha. Our apt is probably smaller than a subway car.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 22 11:04:27 PST 2005

19472 [lbo-talk] Fwd: ZNet Update Transit Strike Essay -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >In any case, I just have just one question - why is not this and similar >editiorial broadcasted all over NYC and the nation in labor friendly >*POPULAR* press. I understand that expecting the WSJ or Murdoch rags do it >is unreasonable, but why is not there an equivalent of "The Guardian" in >NYC? If publications targeting much small audiences - like The Nation, >Mother Jones, Dollars and Sense, and yes, LBO, can survive, why not a >lab ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 22 11:02:40 PST 2005

19473 [lbo-talk] Re: Chip Berlet on Hustler -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > > Having read your two posts, I think this list is not for you >> and I suggest you leave. >> >> Jenny Brown > > >I am sorry, but how is this different from the "America, love or leave it" >crap that repug rednecks spit in our face? I've watch various electronic forums spin totally out of control because of a libertarian attitude towards assholes, or other disruptive sorts. This is a moderated list, not a constitutional ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 22 10:46:34 PST 2005

19474 [lbo-talk] Re: Chip Berlet on Hustler -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >So, to reiterate Gar's question: what is so bloody bad about >Hustler, compared to other mass media, if our paramount concern is >gender equality? To paraphrase Zizek on why Slovenians were so outraged by the band Laibach: they reveal the hidden underside of something, which makes it scadalous. In Laibach's case, it was the fascist/Stalinist aspects of Slovenian nationalism; in Hustler's case, it's being so out patriarchal? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 22 10:44:40 PST 2005

19475 [lbo-talk] SD -- rank: 1000

Apologies, to those of you care, for not having booted the annoying Szechuan Death sooner. We've spent the last week getting the apartment painted, which involved massive lifestyle disruptions, esp when combined with a transit strike. So I've been very distracted. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 22 10:30:13 PST 2005

19476 [lbo-talk] Re: Chip Berlet on Hustler -- rank: 1000

Szechuan Death wrote: >Let me guess, you blind-spotted my post(s) into the "FundyChristian >troll saving souls for Jesus" category, right? (I'm not, of course.) >Mental blind-spots are a real pain, aren't they? Not as much a bore as cocky, smug assholes like you. Bye. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 22 10:01:46 PST 2005

19477 [lbo-talk] Fwd: ZNet Update Transit Strike Essay -- rank: 1000

The New York City Transit Strike: It's About Respect...and Solidarity by Michael Hirsch The now three-day-old strike by New York's 34,000 bus and subway workers, crippling mass transit and estimated to have affected some 3.5 million daily commuters, is being played out in the media -- particularly television and radio outlets -- as a natural disaster. That's a pity, because the case could easily be made that the strike was forced on the workers, an outcome of venal public policy and inept state ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 22 09:53:31 PST 2005

19478 [lbo-talk] racist column in the Daily News -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >The newspapers are calling Roger Toussaint a "thug" and railing >histrionically against the strike because they can't stand the sight >of black and brown men who make decent pay and want to protect their >pensions, too. Furthermore, the infantilization of black men -- and >the notion that white men are the father figures who know what's >best for blacks -- is a common pattern of racist thinking in this >country. There are some women on strike too ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 22 06:44:04 PST 2005

19479 [lbo-talk] Women as Leftist Writers' Primary Audience in the USA -- rank: 1000

Jim wrote: >Glenn Sacks is the only regularly published male >columnist in the US who writes about gender issues >from a perspective unapologetically sympathetic to >men. That's really funny. Is he a comedy writer? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 21 22:39:31 PST 2005

19480 [lbo-talk] NY Transit strike or solidarity in the US and the UK -- rank: 1000

Mark Bennett wrote: > >From this distance, the ferocity of the attack on the strikers by the >ruling powers certainly seems to support Harvey's contention that as the >result of the financial crisis of the mid-70s New York was transformed >into the preeminent local and cultural "space" for capital. This is the third transit strike I've lived through, the second in NYC. After the 1963 (?) one, the state legislature passed a law banning public employee strikes. The 1980 o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 21 19:17:33 PST 2005

19481 [lbo-talk] Re: Chip Berlet on Hustler -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >any possibility that there is inverse correlation between diggin' sex >and bein' into porn... Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Next question? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 21 07:31:28 PST 2005

19482 [lbo-talk] Re: Chip Berlet on Hustler -- rank: 1000

Szechuan Death wrote: >I am also curious how you arrive at the conclusion that gender is >"socially constructed". Have you been living under a rock for the last two decades, or what? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 21 07:30:14 PST 2005

19483 [lbo-talk] Women as Leftist Writers' Primary Audience in the USA -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >the myth of "The Left" as a >coherent entity Except on the porn issue, on which it not only speaks, but with an undivided voice! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 21 07:27:36 PST 2005

19484 [lbo-talk] Women as Leftist Writers' Primary Audience in the USA -- rank: 1000

Jim wrote: >The Left has generally ignored male gender issues >which has resulted in men more likely to go >conservative. The Left has generally failed to address >domestic violence against men, prison rape, men >considered ATM machines by family courts, >monoplization of female cusdody of children by the >courts, lack of a make equivelent to abortion (such as >the right to sign away paternity during the same time >period females have the right to abort), etc... All th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 21 07:26:56 PST 2005

19485 [lbo-talk] Dark matter in the current account -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >I don't agree that the Haussman etc "dark matter" thesis is necessarily >lunatic. If you believe that there are rents earned by the USA as a result of >its role as hegemon, then it is not obviously a loony thing to do to >capitalise >the value of those rents and treat it as an asset to set against the debt on >the other side. If you don't do this, then you are bound to continually be >surprised when the "net income from overseas" l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 21 07:21:41 PST 2005