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20011 [lbo-talk] taxing Wall Street -- rank: 1000
A friend of mine is working on a plan for New York City to revive its stock transfer tax, and he'd like to talk to some Wall Streeters about the details. I know there are a few finance types who subscribe to this list and read the archives, so if you're interested in talking, please contact me offlist. Anonymity will, of course, be fully respected. Doug
Document Size: 4809
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 26 07:34:30 PDT 2005
20012 [lbo-talk] dregs and drugs -- rank: 1000
Charles Brown wrote: >CB: No doubt. I'm thinking women are an oppressed group, so their dressing >better than men in general might fit the generalization of the oppressed >dressing-up for social self-defense. > >I agree with those on this thread who have suggested that women, in general, >take responsibility for the aesthetic and sensual qualities of our lives >more than men do. I'll say "straight men", if that is not stereotyping. Nicely put. You could flip this a ...
Document Size: 5212
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 26 07:26:42 PDT 2005
20013 [lbo-talk] dregs and drugs -- rank: 1000
ravi wrote: >what sort of laptop are we talking about here? if its any sort of apple, >that puts you in the genX category that fussell provides as an "out" for >the non-classifiably hip people. ;-) I was disappointed your Fussell test didn't include the X option! As it is, our space tested as "middle class"! Doug
Document Size: 4783
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 26 07:24:19 PDT 2005
20014 [lbo-talk] Butchies go on hiatus; Kaia to work at Hooters -- rank: 1000
[in cultural news...] HEY EVERYBODY!!! We Butchies, after 7 years of playing music together, have decided to take what we will call a "hiatus". Here's the scoop (inside scoop): simply, we're all ready and desiring to "move on" and pursue other crazy shit in this crazy life. We still love each other and have loved loved loved our experiences and all our fans and in a godly way all our enemies too (not love them as much though). Our last record, Make Yr Life, stands as testamen ...
Document Size: 7347
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 26 07:09:36 PDT 2005
20015 [lbo-talk] Class enemy prepares to eliminate card-check -- rank: 1000
John Lacny wrote: >Business Coalition Forming to Support Secret Ballot Requirements for Unions I understand that this isn't really about principle, but what's a good argument against secret ballots? On the face of it, it would seem tough to argue the union position. Doug
Document Size: 4950
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 26 07:06:20 PDT 2005
20016 [lbo-talk] latest Bates master -- rank: 1000
Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - April 26, 2005 MIT Professor Wins John Bates Clark Medal, Top Prize for Young Economists By ERIC WILLS Daron Acemoglu, a professor of applied economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economics Association on Friday. The medal is awarded every other year to a leading economist under the age of 40. In a written statement, the association praised Mr. Acemoglu, 37, as a "broad and p ...
Document Size: 6957
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 26 07:02:54 PDT 2005
20017 [lbo-talk] HRW calls for 9-11 style cover-up (?) -- rank: 1000
Jordan Hayes wrote: >Geeze, you Ivy Leaguers sure are snobby. Esp with our own! > I think this was Al Gore's >downfall: the emphasis on whether Bush can pronounce a particular word >totally misses the point that he's smarter than most of the people who >elected him. Smart? In what sense? He's never given any public sign as president that he reads, thinks, or knows much of anything. He's appointed people who never challenge him, whose job it is to sell policies decided upon by hi ...
Document Size: 5442
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 26 06:39:45 PDT 2005
20018 [lbo-talk] Sowell on "black rednecks" -- rank: 1000
Wall Street Journal - April 26, 2005 Crippled by Their Culture By THOMAS SOWELL For most of the history of this country, differences between the black and the white population -- whether in income, IQ, crime rates, or whatever -- have been attributed to either race or racism. For much of the first half of the 20th century, these differences were attributed to race -- that is, to an assumption that blacks just did not have it in their genes to do as well as white people. The tide began to turn in ...
Document Size: 11855
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Apr 26 06:33:39 PDT 2005
20019 [lbo-talk] Re: class clothing -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >I am astounded at the sheer tackiness at pretending to know the inner >motives and daily behavior of several hundred million strangers! > >Sheer vulgarity. Vulgarity? Doesn't the use of this word put you in a superior position to what you called the great unwashed the other day? Could you clarify your principle on feeling superior to everyone else? Doug
Document Size: 4873
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 25 21:22:21 PDT 2005
20020 [lbo-talk] Agent Orange -- rank: 1000
Do the Agent Orange vets ever talk about what they did to Vietnamese? Are they all that callous? Doug
Document Size: 4463
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 25 16:11:09 PDT 2005
20021 [lbo-talk] Slavoj the Rock Star -- rank: 1000
San Francisco Chronicle - April 24, 2005 Slovenian intellectual with rock-star status brings out adoring fans Philosophy's his game, but so is provoking academics and the masses Reyhan Harmanci, Chronicle Staff Writer Slavoj Zizek -- philosopher, author, former presidential candidate of Slovenia, cult hero -- sat on a chair in front of a packed house at the Roxie Cinema looking oddly small. The intellectual giant came to San Francisco last week for the world premiere of a documentary -- "Zi ...
Document Size: 15447
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 25 16:08:59 PDT 2005
20022 [lbo-talk] Fwd: French referendum on the EU constitution -- rank: 1000
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:40:15 +0200 From: Sebastian Budgen <sebastian at AMADEOBORDIGA.U-NET.COM> Dear Comrades, I am writing to you on behalf of Project K <www.projet-k.org>. As you are no doubt aware, the opinion polls in France are currently showing that a substantial majority of the French electorate is planning to vote 'No' in the referendum on the EU 'constitution' on 29 May. Even more importantly, this majority against the referendum has a strongly left-wing and 'social' col ...
Document Size: 7987
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 25 16:01:31 PDT 2005
20023 [lbo-talk] dregs and drugs -- rank: 1000
Mark S wrote: >In my experience, I think that the drab, puritanical types are >suspicious of people who dress to impress. They seem to feel that >flashy dressers are trying to hoodwink their audiences. If you have >genuine accomplishments under your belt, you have no need to impress >people with your appearance. And if people don't appreciate your >accomplishments, they're not worth impressing in the first place... Perhaps puritanical types miss Steve Duncombe's point about ...
Document Size: 5022
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 25 15:56:45 PDT 2005
20024 [lbo-talk] ugly polls for Bush, Reps -- rank: 1000
ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL: SPRING POLITICS - 4/24/05 EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AFTER 5 p.m. Monday, April 25, 2005 Doubts About GOP Leadership Include Bush, Judges and DeLay In a triple hit to the Republicans in Washington, Americans express growing discontent with some of George W. Bush's policies, weak support for Tom DeLay as House majority leader and broad opposition to a change in Senate rules on judicial nominations. Views in this ABC News/Washington Post poll are most lopsided on judges ...
Document Size: 11453
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 25 14:54:41 PDT 2005
20025 [lbo-talk] Re: class clothing -- rank: 1000
frank scott wrote: >very much so, and poor, and working people, frequently "dress" so as >not to appear...poor and working class! > >and those who are neither poor nor working class have no need to >appear to be what they are not... I like to dress up, look just like a rich man And you like wearing jeans and looking poor... - Bobby Bare, "Redneck Hippy Romance" (ca 1976)
Document Size: 4907
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 25 14:38:48 PDT 2005
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