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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

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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 ...

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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

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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 ...

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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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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

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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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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)

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Date:	Mon Apr 25 14:38:48 PDT 2005