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20131 [lbo-talk] the 100 -- rank: 1000

[Time mag's list of the 100 most influential people in the world] George Bush Condoleezza Rice Bill Clinton Barack Obama Bill Frist Donald Rumsfeld Mark Malloch Brown Gordon Brown Ali Husaini Sistani Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi Hu Jintao Kim Jong Il Manmohan Singh Thabo Mbeki Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Mahmoud Abbas Ayaan Hirsi Ali Ariel Sharon Javier Solana John Howard Chen Shui-bian Hugo Chavez Clint Eastwood Michael Moore Hilary Swank Quentin Tarantino Dan Brown Dave Eggers Marc Cherry John Elderfie ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 12 09:55:41 PDT 2005

20132 [lbo-talk] Hitchens hit -- rank: 1000

George Scialabba does Hitchens: <http://www.nplusonemag.com/hitch.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 12 08:19:20 PDT 2005

20133 [lbo-talk] crypto-Nazi parenting -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - April 12, 2005 Maria Shriver said on "Oprah" if the kids leave their clothes or shoes on the floor, hubby Gov. Schwarzenegger, throws them in the fire.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 12 08:10:02 PDT 2005

20134 [lbo-talk] Bush's domestic approval slipping -- rank: 1000

AP/Ipsos Poll: Popular Support For Bush's Domestic Agenda Slipping Overall Satisfaction With Congress And The President Drops As Well April 11, 2005 Washington, DC - The latest Associated Press poll finds support for President Bush's domestic agenda slipping, with overall Congressional and Presidential approval dropping as well. This poll, conducted by Ipsos-Public Affairs for The Associated Press, indicates that a majority of Americans disapprove of Bush's handling of the economy, domestic issu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 11 17:15:57 PDT 2005

20135 [lbo-talk] Re:What Is Value, Anyway? -- rank: 1000

Mike Ballard wrote: >Do we need yellow dye number 5 in our pickles? Dunno, do we? What if it makes the pickles look nicer? Or, taking the opposite position, do we really need pickles? Full of salt, not very nutritious. Wouldn't it be more efficient to eat textured vegetable protein and chlorophyll pills? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 11 14:32:14 PDT 2005

20136 [lbo-talk] Psychotherapy -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >I understand >how vivid anecdotes can lead a person to distrust >professionals in a field I love the unspoken assumption of tellers of such tales about talk therapy that they're actually in a position to judge their own mental status while passing judgment on the professional efficacy of others! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 11 12:41:30 PDT 2005

20137 [lbo-talk] Andrea Dworkin dead -- rank: 1000

amadeus amadeus wrote: >I appreciate a lot of Andrea Dworkin, and, heck, I'm a >dude. I think like any decent thinker a lot of people >distort her, particularly with the idea that all >intercourse is rape. I just wrote this to Susie Bright, reacting to her obit for AD, and she liked it so much she asked me to post it to her blog: >What an odd and amazing character she was - clearly lots of >brainpower, but so twisted up about lust and aggression. I guess >that's what made he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 11 12:36:05 PDT 2005

20138 [lbo-talk] Susie Bright on Andrea Dworkin -- rank: 1000

<http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2005/04/andrea_dworkin_.html> Andrea Dworkin Has Died I received word Sunday morning - from Doug Henwood, Amber Hollibaugh, Carol Queen, and Rachel Kramer Bussel - that Andrea Dworkin has died. She was 59. Her partner John Stoltenberg found her near death in on Friday, and she passed away peacefully, according to his report, in the evening. There is nothing about Dworkin's death in the news yet but I am sure we will hear a lot more detai ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 11 11:45:22 PDT 2005

20139 [lbo-talk] Housing Market -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Sure we do, across the world and in the US. Simon Kuznets provided >the empirical 15-25 year waves. Doug, you remember the REIT crisis >of the mid-1970s and the S&L crash of the late 1980s? (Worse in some >places than others to be sure, but hard not to notice vast real >estate overcapacity, mortgage defaults, negative equity and 30% >price declines in key markets.) Same processes here in South Africa. >Read Neil Smith's Uneven Development or David Ha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 11 10:42:01 PDT 2005

20140 [lbo-talk] Psychotherapy -- rank: 1000

tully wrote: >I base my opinion on my own experience with the industry and the >reading I've done. When my marriage started failing I agreed to >participate in counseling sessions, which I went into with all good >faith in the field. I did not come out with any faith at all in >marital counseling. Maybe you just weren't suited for each other, and the counseling field has nothing to add. >Both my ex and I read a lot on the subject, and when I finally >stumbled on DSM4, I re ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 11 09:46:30 PDT 2005

20141 [lbo-talk] Shiavo "Forbidden video" -- rank: 1000

amadeus amadeus wrote: >Why oh why did they remove his feeding tube? Enough!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 11 09:27:36 PDT 2005

20142 [lbo-talk] Shiavo "Forbidden video" -- rank: 1000

Ok, I think this thread has really exhausted itself. Enough. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 11 07:37:14 PDT 2005

20143 [lbo-talk] Housing Market -- rank: 1000

amadeus amadeus wrote: >Could someone please explain as layman-ly as possible >what's going on with the housing market? Is it really >a "bubble about to burst?" Some markets are bubbly, other's aren't. As even the narcotically orthodox Wall Street economist Ed Hyman has to concede, the national averages are in bubble territory - but that's really being driven by the bubbly markets (e.g., SoCal, NYC, south Florida). There's no bubble in Iowa. As for bursting...we don't have muc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 11 07:11:48 PDT 2005

20144 [lbo-talk] Andrea Dworkin dead -- rank: 1000

[this was on the infoshop list - haven't seen it elsewhere - I'm far from a Dworkin fan, but she sure had a way about her] From: "Judie M" <firme2306 at comcast.net> Date: April 9, 2005 5:53:57 PM HST To: <firme2306 at comcast.net> Subject: Andrea Dworkin Here's a note I received this evening with some other personal stuff included that I've cut. I checked Reuters, AP, and a general site that covers several news outlets but found nothing so far. http://www.nostatusquo.com/ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 10 07:18:23 PDT 2005

20145 [lbo-talk] Shiavo "Forbidden video" -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >Marta, you've been profoundly dishonest on this whole thread Can you stop insulting Marta and everyone else you disagree with, or is it a compulsion for you? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 10 07:16:01 PDT 2005