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20251 [lbo-talk] Elegant Gothic Lolita -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >the domination of midriff-bearing low-riders Is that a typo or a statement? Doug

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20252 [lbo-talk] Maximise or satisfice? (was:stupid americans? -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >But I'd be more forgiving of Whitman. I had the bad luck of going to >one of Ashberry's self-absorbed poetry readings at U.C.L.A. The >poetry was delicately frozen and the guy had the handsomeness of a >tailor's dummy and what appeared to be a permanent tan. Don't get me wrong - I love Whitman's stuff (which, as I recall, once earned a denunciation from Yoshie for his imperialism). I loved Ashbery too, back in the days when I used to read poetry - and I loved the ...

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20253 [lbo-talk] Maximise or satisfice? (was:stupid americans? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >[Caution: extreme flight of fancy follows] I think one reason is >that the national cult of individualism has decayed into easily >manipulable mass narcissism (a la Christopher Lasch) and lost any of >the positive qualities individualism can have >That line of thought might sound screwy, but at least in part it has >had some popular resonance in US history. I would cite the leading >example of Ralph Waldo Emerson. RWE might have been Mr. Frosty >Fre ...

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20254 [lbo-talk] Maximise or satisfice? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >This is the stance of the dogmatist Best laugh I've had all day! Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 29 09:55:33 PDT 2004

20255 [lbo-talk] not one positive image in Iraq -- rank: 1000

<http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/415a56118ae13> [...] David Swanson added his perspective as a photographer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. "As a photographer, I couldn't find one positive image in Iraq," Swanson said. "Isn't it obvious that there were no positive outcomes to this war?" [...]

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20256 [lbo-talk] Maximise or satisfice? -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >otoh, people, like arundhati roy, IMHO the latest star in global pop >leftism, do fly by NYC every few months with stinging, if shallow, >critiques of the US. I was denounced as "hostile" the other night for implying that Roy's criiques are shallow. Why do you say this? And does her political work have much of an audience in India? Doug

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20257 [lbo-talk] half full or half empty? -- rank: 1000

At 7:28 AM -0700 9/29/04, Yahoo! Alerts wrote: >Reuters via Yahoo! News, Wed, 29 Sep 2004 6:56 AM PDT >Economic Growth Reported Above Forecast >http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040929/bs_nm/economy_dc_3 >AP via Yahoo! Asia News, Wed, 29 Sep 2004 6:39 AM PDT >Economy Grows at Weakest Rate in a Year >http://asia.news.yahoo.com/040929/ap/d85dbm680.html

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20258 [lbo-talk] Meanwhile, Canada Moves Left -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >"Martin draws up a left-leaning blueprint Speaking of Canada, today's NYT has a piece <http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/29/international/americas/29letter.html> on anguish within Canada about the country's "decline." The hook was the Olympic runner Perdita Félicien's tripping over the first hurdle, supposedly received as some sort of national trauma. Anything to this, resident Canadians? It sounded like a right-leaning obsession, but the piece never came ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 29 08:54:05 PDT 2004

20259 [lbo-talk] new meaning to swing states -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - September 29, 2004 PORN TO RUN THE adult film industry is hoping to pump up John Kerry's somewhat flaccid presidential campaign with "The Porn for Kerry DVD." Pro-Kerry group Pornforprogress.com <http://Pornforprogress.com/> is hawking the dirty disc, which has porn stars portraying the likes of Jenna Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Ann Coulter, Al Franken, Tom Ridge and Lyndie England. All proceeds from the DVD, tastefully described as "part political sati ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 29 06:42:22 PDT 2004

20260 [lbo-talk] Maximise or satisfice? (was:stupid americans? -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >It's the same impulse that blames all economic >problems everywhere and in every instance on the IMF >and structural-adjustment policies. It's part of >Americocentrism. America as the root of all evil. It's the same as the dominant "America as #1" impulse, only with a negative sign in front of it. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 29 06:32:38 PDT 2004

20261 [lbo-talk] Re: Fwd: <nettime> A hacker manifesto 007-020 -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >16 yr old nephew stayed over this weekend by me on the UpperWestSide. >he's a junior in a rural (Hagerstown) Maryland high school. his comments >on the stupidity of his surroundings make Wojtsek sound like a booster >Rotarian. he wants to take a year off after graduating, leave the US & >learn another language. then he wants to go to college in Canada. i want >him sent to family and friends in Berlin. he dreams of Prague where >he could meet the compute ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 29 06:31:26 PDT 2004

20262 [lbo-talk] Maximise or satisfice? (was:stupid americans? -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >Later, in a book I used for sociology of family--can't recall now >and it's packed away at the mo'--the author made the point (and >illustrated with evidence) that quite a bit of Western literature is >littered with the "olden daze" theme. Raymond Williams has a nice chapter trope in English poetry on this in The Country and the City - it goes back to Piers Plowman. Here's my version of it from After the New Economy. Doug ---- Golden Age myths belong to li ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 28 17:46:13 PDT 2004

20263 [lbo-talk] Maximise or satisfice? (was:stupid americans? -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >Look I am not going to go troll all the quotes from the previous >posts that argued Americans lead the "stupid Europeans" etc. Damn, I'd like to see those. I missed 'em. Doug

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20264 [lbo-talk] hell no, we won't go -- rank: 1000

Former U.S. Soldiers Balk at New Iraq, Afghan Duty Tue Sep 28, 4:00 PM ET By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thirty percent of former U.S. soldiers who have been called back to duty involuntarily to serve in Iraq (news - web sites) and Afghanistan (news - web sites) have failed to report on time, and eight have been declared AWOL, the Army said on Tuesday. The Army's problem with mobilizing soldiers from the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), a seldom-tapped personnel pool, is another sign of th ...

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20265 [lbo-talk] Fwd: <nettime> A hacker manifesto 007-020 -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: >It's just that everyone is waiting for GTA San Andreas I have no idea what you're talking about. Doug

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