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19711 [lbo-talk] RE: Vegetarianism -- rank: 1000

Sujeet Bhatt wrote: >I have always wondered about the ecological >implications of vegetarianism. Could, for >example, the planet sustain 6 billion (or more) >ethical vegetarians? Certainly calls for an >investigation. Here's one such attempt: > >American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 59, >1110S-1116S, Copyright © 1994 by The American >Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc > > >REVIEW ARTICLES > >Ecology and vegetarian considerations: does >environm ...

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19712 [lbo-talk] lbo, a den of right-wingers? -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >The political arena has been made un-inhabitable through a basic (and >Nazis) technique that is deeply related to ad hominem attacks. When was it not that way? Doug

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19713 [lbo-talk] lbo, a den of right-wingers? -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >This is a very confusing moment to be sure. At least for me. > >No doubt, by admitting this I'm creating an opening for all sorts of criticism >centered around my failure to understand this or that simple solution. No doubt you are, but not from me. Years ago, when I was visiting Duke on Wahneema Lubiano's invitation, I remember her then-partner Raphael Allen asking me a question about what my aim was with my writing - "a better empiricism, like Chomsky, o ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 30 07:41:19 PDT 2005

19714 [lbo-talk] Supermarket question -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Why do cashiers in US supermarkets and department stores have to stand while >doing their jobs? When I was a toll collector on the NJ Turnpike in the summer of 1973 we were supposed to stand. There were stools in the booths, and everyone ignored the instruction, but we were warned that if a supervisor ever drove by, we'd be disciplined. Standing, in this case, was supposed to signify attentiveness and servility. Doug

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19715 [lbo-talk] earnings down in 2004 -- rank: 1000

<http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/income04/prs05asc.html> >Earnings are by far the biggest component of income. Median >earnings for men who worked full time, all year, declined by 2.3 >percent in real terms in 2004. The earnings of year-round, >full-time women decreased 1.0 percent in 2004 from the year before, >the second consecutive annual decline for women. >Prior to 2003, women had not experienced an annual decline in real >median earnings since 1995. As s ...

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19716 [lbo-talk] income flat, poverty ticks up -- rank: 1000

<http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/income_wealth/005647.html> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2005, AT 10:10 A.M. EDT CB05-125 Income Stable, Poverty Rate Increases, Percentage of Americans Without Health Insurance Unchanged Real median household income remained unchanged between 2003 and 2004 at $44,389, according to a report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Meanwhile, the nation's official poverty rate rose from 12.5 percent in 2003 to 12.7 perc ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 30 07:12:54 PDT 2005

19717 [lbo-talk] A War to Be Proud Of (when you drunk and deluded) -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >I have a ready answer to those who accuse me of being an agent and >tool of the Bush-Cheney administration (which is the nicest thing that >my enemies can find to say). Attempting a little levity, I respond >that I could stay at home if the authorities could bother to make >their own case, but that I meanwhile am a prisoner of what I actually >do know about the permanent hell, and the permanent threat, of the >Saddam regime. However, having debated almost al ...

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19718 [lbo-talk] Re: retro lyric policing -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >granted, if he had written it today ( this land is your land) , he >might have mentioned all the identity groups the country "really" >belonged to, but isn't it possible he simply referred to a >collective people? > >without any mean or underlying sub text, such as is sometimes >prevalent in the minds of thought police of our day? Who's doing the thought policing here, with your all-too-typical dyspepsia about "identity groups"? Doug

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19719 [lbo-talk] Cuba's painful blah blah -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >doesn't anyone wear briefs anymore? I do. Time for an lbo-talk poll?

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19720 [lbo-talk] Rangel: Cheney a diseased grunter -- rank: 1000

Steven L. Robinson wrote: >Isn't Rangel the one that's been advocating for a return of the draft? Yeah, though ostensibly for egalitarian reasons - to make the children of the privileged have to go to war too. He's a bit of a hack, but he can be funny. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 29 12:14:29 PDT 2005

19721 [lbo-talk] Rangel: Cheney a diseased grunter -- rank: 1000

New York Daily News - August 27, 2005 No holds barred as Rangel bashes veep By MICHAEL SAUL DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU Rep. Charles Rangel, dean of the city's congressional delegation, blasted Vice President Cheney yesterday as a "sick man" who "grunts a lot." "Sometimes I don't even think Cheney is awake enough to know what's going on," Rangel (D-Harlem) said during an interview on New York 1 last night. "[Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld is the guy in Wash ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 29 11:53:53 PDT 2005

19722 [lbo-talk] SBUX, favorite of the young, liberal, and female -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Dunkin' Donuts is "pencil shaving coffee" It's not bad, actually. Have you had any lately, or are you just sounding off? Doug

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19723 [lbo-talk] manna for anti-Freudians -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Amazing. That's almost verbatim from "The Psychiatrist" routine on >the original Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner "2000 Year Old Man" album. >It featured a psychiatrist (Brooks, of course) discussing his >treatment of a young woman with a paper-tearing compulsion. The >therapy consisted of telling her over and over: "Don't sit and tear >paper!" When I was in Italy in the summer of '76, I heard a story from a guy who'd been bicyclin ...

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19724 [lbo-talk] SBUX, favorite of the young, liberal, and female -- rank: 1000

<http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1016> Released: August 08, 2005 Starbucks Brews Up Trouble for Dunkin' Donuts: Seattle Chain's Coffee Preferred by 34% to 30%; 'Starbucks Divide' Evident in Age, Politics of Coffee's Drinkers -New Zogby Consumer Profile Finding (Utica, NY)-Starbucks coffee is preferred by more Americans than rival Dunkin' Donuts' caffeinated offerings, leading the longer-established brand by 34% to 30% nationwide, according to the Zogby Consumer Profile. The in-de ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 29 07:18:00 PDT 2005

19725 [lbo-talk] manna for anti-Freudians -- rank: 1000

<http://www.villagevoice.com/people/index.php?issue=0534&page=interview&id=67068> Village Voice - August 19, 2005 The Interview The Interpretation of Reams Talking with Albert Ellis, world-renowned anti-Freud therapist by Rachel Aviv Albert Ellis, the founder of cognitive behavioral therapy, has spent the past 50 years encouraging patients to "forget their goddamn past!" The best way to cure people's unhappiness, he says, is to just tell them-firmly-to stop acting irratio ...

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