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2026 [lbo-talk] Liza & me on the radio -- rank: 1000

Matt Rothschild, editor of The Progressive, interviewed Liza & me when we were in Madison for his radio show. Here it is: Doug Henwood and Liza Featherstone | The Progressive http://www.progressive.org/radiohenwood11.html

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Date:	Sat Feb 26 12:50:36 PST 2011

2027 [lbo-talk] Breast milk ice cream... -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Some of it's delicious, of course. But if presented with an opportunity to > eat much healthier human cheese, I wouldn't think to myself, "Wait! This is > completely unnatural. I should be eating cheese from a cow instead," because > that would be absurd. No it wouldn't. Cheese is one of the reasons to get up in the morning (there are a lot of others, but it's def on the list). But I'm fine with exploiting animals, I guess ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 26 11:55:09 PST 2011

2028 [lbo-talk] sucky demo in NYC -- rank: 1000

Sucky demo in NYC: http://wp.me/pqagG-fy

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Date:	Sat Feb 26 11:53:17 PST 2011

2029 [lbo-talk] Breast milk ice cream... -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Of course, for adults to drink the milk of any species is rather silly. But > in a society where the consumption of cow milk is taken for granted, shock > about some getting ahold of another option that's at least species-, if not > age-appropriate, rings a little hollow. Does this mean that cheese is trayf in your book? Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 26 11:18:02 PST 2011

2030 [lbo-talk] First results announced in Irish general election -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2011, at 12:53 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12585048 > > [WS:] So it looks like the voters' response to the financial meltdown > is to put a neo-liberal socially conservative party in power. > Depressing. There's not much choice in Ireland - it's about the only country in Europe without a serious social democratic tradition. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 26 10:24:13 PST 2011

2031 [lbo-talk] Saif Gaddafi's Dissertation... -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > Also, as Richard Seymour has been pointing out on his > blog, Anthony Giddens, who use to be a pretty respectable, > and respected academic, was not only (as we all know) > hobnobbing with Tony Blair but also was hanging out > (and advising) the elder Gadaffy too. I guess that sort > of thing must be more fun (and far more lucrative) than > writing tomes on Max Weber or Talcott Parsons. The Gadaffy family gave buckets of m ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 25 18:00:41 PST 2011

2032 [lbo-talk] Vietnam -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2011, at 2:57 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The Presidential campaigns of Gene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy, and George > McGovern should be regarded as part of the "Cover-Up" of the nature of the > U.S. invasion of Vietnam and the tactics used there. Those men knew the > facts. They knew the facts were evidence of the genocidal policy being > followed in Vietnam. Nevertheless they "opposed" that war in terms which > drew attention away from the substance o ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 25 12:05:27 PST 2011

2033 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [New post] Polarization -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2011, at 2:47 PM, SA wrote: > I wonder about that though. When it comes to social freedom for blacks, say, isn't it possible to say that the real transformation came in the 50's and 60's, and that everything since then has just been about the logical results of that transformation? The same thing could be suggested about gays in the 70's. This is a question rather than a statement. My aunt-in-law Jane Mansbridge has been working on a book about feminism in which she argues, among o ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 25 12:04:39 PST 2011

2034 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [New post] Polarization -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > The tricky thing about all this is the sharp disjuncture between economic and social issues. Ain't dat da troot? In a move straight out of Walter Benn Michaels' playbook, Obama is clearly "pivoting" (as they say) on same-sex marriage to throw a bone to liberals disillusioned by his terrible economic policy. I'm not just making this up - I read it in this morning's NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/us/politics/25marriage.html ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 25 11:48:11 PST 2011

2035 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [New post] Polarization -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > In the 60s, the liberals in both parties talked about full employment and free health care while conservatives spouted ludicrously paranoid communist conspiracy theories and demands to go back to the 19C in terms of the welfare state and regulation. No, that was the fringe of the Republican party. Goldwater got creamed in 1964, and it was 15 years before the right really recovered. Nixon had his crazy side, but, you know, he gave us the E ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 25 10:57:31 PST 2011

2036 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [New post] Polarization -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2011, at 12:45 PM, SA wrote: > There's a misunderstanding of the concept of Congressional polarization. It's about relative positioning, not absolute positioning. In other words, it's not about ideological intensity, it's about ideological consistency. > > Polarization doesn't mean that those toward the left are moving further left and those toward the right are moving further right. It just means those more toward the left are getting more consistent in their more-left votin ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 25 10:08:42 PST 2011

2037 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [New post] Polarization -- rank: 1000

http://lbo-news.com/2011/02/25/polarization/ Polarization Doug Henwood | February 25, 2011 at 12:09 pm Tags: bourgeois politics, Congress, polarization | Categories: questions | URL:http://wp.me/pqagG-ft It s widely believed on the American left that the Democrats have moved right and that the difference between the parties has nearly vanished. That s a tempting POV, for sure. But it s hard to reconcile with Congressional voting habits. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, both parties had liberal and c ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 25 09:22:34 PST 2011

2038 [lbo-talk] Saif Gaddafi's Dissertation... -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > It's becoming very difficult to escape the impression that Held, Desai, Giddens and the whole cosmopolitanism crew were very embarassingly seduced by money, charm and power. Money is very cosmopolitan! Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 25 09:19:20 PST 2011

2039 [lbo-talk] Saif Gaddafi's Dissertation... -- rank: 1000

On Feb 24, 2011, at 10:40 PM, Charles Turner wrote: > <http://londonersdiary.standard.co.uk/2011/02/desai-tells-lse-not-to-disown-gaddafis-son.html> > > "Lord Desai reveals that he examined Saif for his PhD, entitled the _Role of Civil Society in the Democratisation of Global Governance Institutions_. 'I was an examiner with one other for this PhD at the university,' said Lord Desai. 'I grilled him for two hours on it there was no suggestion he hadn t written it himself. We ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 19:51:00 PST 2011

2040 [lbo-talk] The liquidation of society -- rank: 1000

On Feb 24, 2011, at 7:55 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Bad on them....you know Yves? I met her at UMass a few months ago - and had her on the radio a few months earlier. She's good. The author, Matt Stoller, told me he'd gotten the graph from someone else, who didn't know where it came from. Can't get no respect in this world. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 24 17:56:07 PST 2011