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1951 [lbo-talk] Politics of DIY -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Ferenc Molnar wrote: > I'm surprised no one's mentioned William Morris yet who very much did see a politics of the handmade. I think DIY comes out of two long traditions. One is the American taste for utopian communities that's been going since Brook Farm and the other is William Morris. I think Morris himself admitted that the goal of de-alienating the worker from his labor by reviving the cult of the artisan was a failed project for a number of reasons (mainl ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 12:53:39 PST 2011

1952 [lbo-talk] Politics of DIY -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2011, at 2:46 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > In this model, you have less, but what you have is much better than the mass produced stuff. Really? You think Lauren Weber's homemade detergent is better than Tide? My mother's towel dresses better than what you can get at Target for fifteen bucks? Sure there's some handmade artisanal stuff that's really good, but the odds are against you unless you really know what you're doing. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 11:57:44 PST 2011

1953 [lbo-talk] Politics of DIY -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2011, at 1:45 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > So, if you can't go retro with your home furnishings, if retro martini shakers are just soooooooo 2004, whaddya gonna do? Knit! Make kitchen curtains out of burlap rice sacks! Can't sew? Even better: so authentic and rustic! My mother used to make dresses out of old towels. It was a mix of extreme frugality and self-punishment (with some serious psychological issues thrown in) and it always depressed me. I'd much rather save up my pennies ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 11:14:39 PST 2011

1954 [lbo-talk] Politics of DIY -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > When was the last time you saw a true revolution that didn't turn out badly? Eric, I've been reading your stuff for years and your politics are still opaque to me. You mostly write about how fucked everyone is - Stalinists, social democrats, liberals, whatever - but I don't have any idea of how you'd like to make the world a better place. Calling Mark Ames a liberal and casting him as some sort of Kerry apologist was weird and confusing. Really, ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 11:11:15 PST 2011

1955 [lbo-talk] HB, JH -- rank: 1000

Happy birthday to Jordan, provider of many web services to LBO Holdings, and all-around good guy. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 08:00:31 PST 2011

1956 [lbo-talk] The MEGA Finally Online! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2011, at 12:39 AM, SA wrote: > On 1/23/2011 12:32 AM, CHRISTOPHERR CARRICO wrote: > >> Its there in English? Any links to the content as yet? > > Any word on when the Talmud will be up there? Now, now.

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 05:53:58 PST 2011

1957 [lbo-talk] Mark Ames uncorks -- rank: 1000

http://exiledonline.com/we-the-spiteful/ The answer came to me just I was just finishing my book Going Postal. Researching and writing that book was a real mind-fuck: spending all those isolated months sloshing through Middle American malice. I realized something obvious when I pulled back from all that research and looked at the Kerry-Bush race: malice and spite are as American as baseball and apple pie. But it s never admitted into our romantic, naïve, sentimental understanding of who American ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 22 18:20:33 PST 2011

1958 [lbo-talk] Behind the News, today -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2011, at 7:34 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > Good show today on Behind the News at KPFA. Here's a link: > > http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/67005 Thanks for the pointer and the comments, Chuck. A higher-fidelity link: http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S110122 Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 22 18:02:23 PST 2011

1959 [lbo-talk] manners today -- rank: 1000

http://www.popbitch.com/home/2011/01/13/a-polite-notice/

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 20 10:39:00 PST 2011

1960 [lbo-talk] Higher Taxes Wouldn't End Some Deficits, really? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 20, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > The LA Times built a little tool to let you try your hand at making cuts and increasing taxes to see what the impact on the deficit would be. > > http://www.latimes.com/news/local/budget/ > > One downside is that it only gives you knobs to change the things that are on the table (so you can't make up your own tax rate brackets), but I found it pretty easy to increase taxes and close the gap without making any spending cuts. Hey, ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 20 09:36:46 PST 2011

1961 [lbo-talk] guest list -- rank: 1000

Among the guests at the White House dinner for Hu Jintao: Steve Ballmer, Lloyd Blankfein, Jackie Chan (with his publicist), Jamie Dimon, Thomas Friedman, Herbie Hancock, Robert Iger, Jeff Immelt, Robert Kagan, Wendi Deng Murdoch (sans Rupe), Barbra Streisand, Vera Wang, Anna Wintour... http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/19/expected-attendees-tonight-s-state-dinner

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Date:	Thu Jan 20 06:49:38 PST 2011

1962 [lbo-talk] John Ross, 1938-2011 -- rank: 1000

On Jan 18, 2011, at 10:10 PM, SA wrote: > On 1/18/2011 9:27 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > > >>> I was encouraged actually. Hard to say why. You can live to 72 on the fringe of poverty, politics, intellectual edges, and numerous fronts of revolt and do art, music and or poetry. Hell yeah. >> I'm too much of a wimp for that. >> ___________________________________ > > > Didn't it seem easier once upon a time? This is a question for those age 50 and above. I think ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 18 20:50:26 PST 2011

1963 [lbo-talk] John Ross, 1938-2011 -- rank: 1000

On Jan 18, 2011, at 9:16 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > I was encouraged actually. Hard to say why. You can live to 72 on the fringe of poverty, politics, intellectual edges, and numerous fronts of revolt and do art, music and or poetry. Hell yeah. I'm too much of a wimp for that.

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Date:	Tue Jan 18 18:27:02 PST 2011

1964 [lbo-talk] John Ross, 1938-2011 -- rank: 1000

I hadn't seen John Ross in years - used to talk to him and see him now & then about 15 years ago. Wonderful, fascinating guy. Sad. 72 doesn't sound so old to me anymore. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 18 14:36:33 PST 2011

1965 [lbo-talk] NYT's hearts Iran's new austerity measures -- rank: 1000

On Jan 18, 2011, at 2:08 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > OK. But so far as the hoi polloi are concerned, being included in the world market seems to go hand in hand with deprivation. What am I missing here? How do you figure that? Japan, Western Europe, Canada, China, S Korea are all part of the world market. Are they deprived? Doug

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