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20071 [lbo-talk] Re: gorgeous moscow subway stations -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >Further, Carrol called "this" -- the assertion/rhetorical question >-- stupid, not Doug. Gee, thanks. I'm so comforted. >We have consumption politics and aesthetic politics. Left snobbery >at its finest. One thing I know for sure. For years I looked forward >to meeting people on the list. After years of reading this sort of >thing, I'll pass thank you. I'm sure my Walmart finery wouldn't pass >muster. Oh please. I'd say it's snobbery of a sort that ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 19 09:39:14 PDT 2005

20072 [lbo-talk] Re: gorgeous moscow subway stations -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Of course, with sort-of-a-war on and an overall stinky economy that >has gotten quite up-close and personal in recent years, I've been >increasingly disinclined to lambaste US aesthetic deficiencies >(however much they deserve it) and have been more focused on >white-knuckle issues ranging from neo-fascism to neo-medievalism. Don't you think they're related? The ugliness is a pretty direct byproduct of profit maximization and disregard for the environment (aest ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 19 09:21:57 PDT 2005

20073 [lbo-talk] Re: gorgeous moscow subway stations -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >How could they? Instead the prospective owners should have chopped down >a couple douglas firs with their little dime-store hatchets, split them >into boards with their pen knives, wrapped them together with vines they >gathered on the mountain side. This is stupid -- as bad as Tully's >statement that we all chooser to be wage-slaves. There was a time when vernacular architecture in the US wasn't hideous. The landscape is full of lovely buildings designed by ama ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 19 09:17:11 PDT 2005

20074 [lbo-talk] Re: gorgeous moscow subway stations -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > the almost perfect discord between man-made structures and natural >environment No kidding. Several years ago, after visiting the Oregon coast for the first time - certainly one of the more spectacular bits of natural beauty in North America - I drove into a convenience store just a few miles inland. It was made of corrugated tin and looked like hell. How could people do such a thing? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 19 07:28:16 PDT 2005

20075 [lbo-talk] Zizek (the movie & the man) in SF -- rank: 1000

This movie is really great. I saw a rough cut at the Brecht Forum in NYC a couple of weeks ago, and it's really smart & fun. Laura Hanna is next door as I type this tuning up the sound & color, so it should be even better on Thursday. It's almost all SZ talking, with the help of the brilliant & charming Astra Taylor - a real departure from that tedious documentary style of talking heads and high seriousness. >One night only! > Thursday, April 21, 8 pm > >"Zizek!&quo ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 18 17:35:54 PDT 2005

20076 [lbo-talk] more SS: Bush touts unpopular plan that sucks -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - April 16, 2005 Bush Points to a Retirement System With Mixed Results By Peter G. Gosselin and Edwin Chen, Times Staff Writers KIRTLAND, Ohio - President Bush came to Ohio on Friday to highlight a state retirement savings system that he said showed that Americans would be better off handling their own old-age investments through personal accounts than relying on traditional Social Security. But that state's version of personal accounts has attracted few takers among the people ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 18 07:31:37 PDT 2005

20077 [lbo-talk] Rep strategy on Soc Sec -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - April 17, 2005 Panel May Take Lead On Social Security Finance Committee Asks for Priorities By Jim VandeHei Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, April 17, 2005; Page A04 After spending nearly four months campaigning to restructure Social Security, President Bush is headed toward what many Republicans consider a make-or-break moment in the effort to transform the 70-year-old retirement program: a showdown with the Senate Finance Committee. Bush is confident that he has convinced ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 18 07:28:23 PDT 2005

20078 [lbo-talk] critic denied tenure to sue Berkeley -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - April 18, 2005 Denied Tenure, Critic of Research Deal Plans Legal Action Against U. of California By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK A former professor at the University of California at Berkeley who contends that he was denied tenure because of his persistent criticism of the university's research deal with a biotechnology company says he will announce today that he is taking legal action against the university. The professor, Ignacio H. Chapela, was denied tenure ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 18 07:16:04 PDT 2005

20079 [lbo-talk] Americans give up on public pensions -- rank: 1000

Large Majority of Americans have written off public pension sources as their retirement mainstay Ipsos study also shows retirees aren't counting on kids or own homes to bail them out in old age New York, NY, April 18, 2005 - Most Americans have written off public pension sources as their retirement mainstay, but they're not alone in the world. This assessment is shared by large majorities in countries such as Australia, South Korea, and Mexico that have weathered a succession of shocks to the ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 18 06:46:55 PDT 2005

20080 [lbo-talk] it takes a queer man to know a straight woman -- rank: 1000

"Our show's run by gays. It takes a gay man to write for women because none of the straight men in the industry are doing it." --Desperate Housewives actress Eva Longoria (Gabrielle) to Out magazine, April issue. Creator Marc Cherry and Executive Producer Michael Edelstein are gay.

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Date:	Sun Apr 17 16:35:55 PDT 2005

20081 [lbo-talk] conservative appreciations of AD -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Dworkin, Frum & Hitch at dinner? Pass the arsenic. On a Charlie Rose show many years ago on the topic of a dumb piece by Tad Friend called "Do-Me Feminism," Hitch confessed that many of his female friends had confessed their rape fantasies to him. (Katie Roiphe was on the show too, and that's when & where Hitch developed his weird crush on her.) I wonder if he brought that up with Dworkin. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 17 07:49:37 PDT 2005

20082 [lbo-talk] socially irresponsible investment (again) -- rank: 1000

Adam Souzis wrote: >But at the margins, why not include social responsible funds in the >mix? It's better than nothing. Have you looked at what they have in their portfolio? Here are the top 10 holdings in the KLD index <http://www.kld.com/benchmarks/topten.html>: 1. Microsoft Corporation 2. Johnson & Johnson 3. Intel Corporation 4. American International Group, Inc. 5. Procter & Gamble Company 6. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 7. Cisco Systems, Inc. 8. Wells Fargo & Company ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 17 07:24:31 PDT 2005

20083 [lbo-talk] conservative appreciations of AD -- rank: 1000

New York Times [Week in Review] - April 17, 2005 A Radical Feminist Who Could Dine With (Not on) Conservatives It's not surprising that feminists lamented the death last weekend of Andrea Dworkin, the antipornography campaigner and author of such feminist tracts as "Woman Hating." But a few conservatives marked her death, as well. It turns out that Andrea Dworkin and conservatives could agree on at least a couple of issues - Bill Clinton's presidency, for instance, and pornography. Mos ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 17 07:14:21 PDT 2005

20084 [lbo-talk] socially irresponsible investment -- rank: 1000

John Adams wrote: >I've tried a time or two to subtly taunt you into discussing the >Gang of Four song from _Land of the Free_ which contains the >"include myself out" line. I don't think they were just alluding to >the Samuel Goldwyn quote. (I wasn't absolutely certain I remembered >who said it, so I googled the phrase, and the second entry turned >out to be very interesting: >http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22include+me+out%22&btnG=Google+Search > ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 16 08:57:08 PDT 2005

20085 [lbo-talk] socially irresponsible investment -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >I like a lot about the hippie >sensibility. But based on my years living in Eugene, Oregon Do they still have those awful hippie fests downtown on Saturday afternoon? Tied-dyed clothes and Grateful Dead cover bands? The one time I visited it gave me the creeps. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 16 08:44:08 PDT 2005