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19561 [lbo-talk] Celebrity and false idols -- rank: 1000

Uh, please, drop the insults, both of you. - Doug Tom Walker wrote: >one of the one too many tentacles wrote, > >>please spare us declarations of the pure heart. You're human. you >>fucked up. we teach. you learn. grow the fuck up. i've been called >>on the carpet for racism, sexism classism, etc. i got over it and >>learned something. you can to. > > >Don't even bother 'replying' if you have to hide behind another one >of your thousand webmail addresses ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 11 05:45:53 PST 2005

19562 [lbo-talk] Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy, 89, Dies: Ann Coulter will definitely not shut up -- rank: 1000

The NYT obit sez McCarthy endorsed Reagan and supported Star Wars. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 11 05:41:54 PST 2005

19563 [lbo-talk] Yahoo! News Story - Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy, 89, Dies - Yahoo! News -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy, 89, Dies Richard Pryor too. The Grim Reaper had a good day. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 10 14:41:49 PST 2005

19564 [lbo-talk] Federal Air Marshal kills innocent ... -- rank: 1000

arash at riseup.net wrote: >Interesting finding, what was your friend's conclusion for the double >standard in diagnosis? Schizophrenia is considered a more stigmatizing diagnosis than bipolar, as I recall. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 10 14:30:20 PST 2005

19565 [lbo-talk] Ann Coulter shut up -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Besides, by now, men's looks probably counts as much as women's >looks in American politics. Politics is showbiz for ugly people, as someone said. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 10 10:04:12 PST 2005

19566 [lbo-talk] Federal Air Marshal kills innocent ... -- rank: 1000

Arash wrote: >This is a bit peripheral to the discussion but I don't think there is a >large correlation between intelligence and bipolar disorder. A psychologist friend of mine did some research in the 1980s showing that people of higher socioeconomic status were more likely to be diagnosed as bipolar, and those of lower SES with similar symptoms, as schizophrenic. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 10 09:45:10 PST 2005

19567 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [Ufpj-disc] The Antiwar Movement Isn't Where You Think It Is -- rank: 1000

Why do we need this dumbass piece twice in less than two weeks? At 5:38 AM -0700 12/10/05, Michael Pugliese wrote: >The Antiwar Movement Isn't Where You Think It Is > >By Dave Stratman, > >November 21, 2005 > >[newdemocracyworld.org] > >On October 29 of this year there was an antiwar rally on Boston >Common. At 10:36 AM -0700 11/29/05, Michael Pugliese wrote: >The Antiwar Movement Isn't Where You Think It Is > >By Dave Stratman, > >November 21, 2005 & ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 10 08:52:04 PST 2005

19568 [lbo-talk] Harold Pinter does not deserve the Nobel Prize by Johann Hari -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: [some crap about why Pinter sucks] Michael, you're hovering on the border between critical thinking and reflexive contrarianism. In the interests of your immortal soul, take up residence on the critical thinking side, please. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 10 08:48:59 PST 2005

19569 [lbo-talk] Ann Coulter shut up -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >This thread is getting pretty revolting. Dunno about that, but it is getting old. I blame myself for starting it, so I apologize. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 9 12:32:07 PST 2005

19570 [lbo-talk] NYU bans Coca-Cola, not self -- rank: 1000

[this is rich - they're busting their grad student union, but taking the high ground on Colombia!] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - December 9, 2005 NYU Joins Coca-Cola Boycott Over Allegations of Union Busting and Rights Violations in Colombia By REBECCA ARONAUER New York University announced on Thursday that it would no longer sell any Coca-Cola products in its campus facilities because of alleged human-rights violations and suppression of unions at the soft-drink maker's bottling a ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 9 12:30:22 PST 2005

19571 [lbo-talk] Ann Coulter shut up -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> No. I'm so twisted that I actually think Ann Coulter is >> kind of hot, in a weird transgressive sort of way. > >What the fuck. Ann Coulter isn't hot, she's Bill O'Reilly in a >miniskirt. Katha Pollitt is hot. I just passed along your appreciation to Katha. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 9 05:20:32 PST 2005

19572 [lbo-talk] "In the year 2014, the NYT has gone offline..." -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Googlezon takes over. > http://epic.makingithappen.co.uk/ That link's not working now, but this <http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GOOG&t=2y> is getting to have a 1999 feel. There's just too much consensus that GOOG is taking over the world and the old media are dead. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 8 21:16:07 PST 2005

19573 [lbo-talk] Ann Coulter shut up -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >>fetching pic of Coulter at orig: > >Fetching as in "fetch!"? No. I'm so twisted that I actually think Ann Coulter is kind of hot, in a weird transgressive sort of way.

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Date:	Thu Dec 8 16:10:12 PST 2005

19574 [lbo-talk] Porn: By Men for Men -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Sex IS a marketable commodity, but the question that needs >to be asked is "Should it be?", "How DID it become that in the >milieu of industrial society", and "Will there be any true social >benefit to *anyone* at all by it's continuation AS a commodity?" Why is "sex" always treated as so extra-special when considered in the context of the commodity form? Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 8 11:55:39 PST 2005

19575 [lbo-talk] Lieberman to replace Rummy? -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - December 8, 2005 Rummy Exit Rumored; Lieberman Eyed for Job By Thomas M. DeFrank and Kenneth R. Bazinet Washington - White House officials are telling associates they expect Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to quit early next year, once a new government is formed in Iraq, sources said yesterday. Rumsfeld's deputy, Gordon England, is the inside contender to replace him, but there's also speculation that Sen. Joe Lieberman - a Democrat who ran against Bush-Cheney in the 2000 ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 8 11:12:38 PST 2005