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20281 [lbo-talk] New Press event in NYC -- rank: 1000

The New Press is proud to present REGIME CHANGE BEGINS AT HOME Moderated by Lewis Lapham A public forum on the November election with authors Frances Fox Piven, John Nichols, Esther Kaplan, Sherrod Brown and Nomi Prins Monday, October 4 7-9 pm author book signing will follow CUNY Graduate Center Proshansky Auditorium 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th St New York, NY Admission: $10 (includes a free gift from The New Press; pre-registration is highly recommended) FREE TO STUDENTS To register, for more info ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 28 06:42:17 PDT 2004

20282 [lbo-talk] Banana U.S. -- rank: 1000

ira glazer wrote: >Jimmy Carter fears repeat of election fiasco in Florida Why, just 15 minutes ago, I read on the editpage of today's WSJ that this is all an "urban myth" cooked up by Dems to fire up the black turnout. It was matched on the op-ed page by a column saying the U.S. doesn't lack for foreign allies. Doug ---- Wall Street Journal - September 28, 2004 The Florida Myth In case you were lucky enough to miss it, here's a recent fund-raising letter from New Jersey Democratic ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 28 06:31:01 PDT 2004

20283 [lbo-talk] Re: stupid americans? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > As originally developed, "Mao Thought" implied that each >national movement had to work out its own strategy for revolution, and >hence at the concrete level Mao thought to begin with applied _only_ to >China. Too bad it didn't stick, eh? Or didn't "Mao Thought" get around to that part? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 27 18:55:21 PDT 2004

20284 [lbo-talk] Alan Keyes's daughter is a lesbian -- rank: 1000

[sick, Lance, eh? you & Alan should solidarize over this] Subject: maya keyes (alan's daughter) is a LESBIAN! http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/27/02154/0865

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 27 18:53:17 PDT 2004

20285 [lbo-talk] Any Questions? -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >http://www.spaztard.net/pics2/GODvsBUSH.gif > >Heh. The hurricane paths explained. According to Snopes, this ain't true: <http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/hurricane.asp>. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 27 13:57:52 PDT 2004

20286 [lbo-talk] queers & the fight against oppression -- rank: 1000

[the original of this bounced for excessive length, which was inflated by formatting code - please please please post in plain text!!!!!] Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:59:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Badili Jones <badili at greens.org> This is an interesting discussion and possibly this presentation that I made at the most recent congress of Freedom Road Socialist Organization might add to clarifying the discussion. Badili Jones ---- Intersections: The LGBTQ Role in Society, the Struggle and Socialism ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 27 13:52:23 PDT 2004

20287 [lbo-talk] sick perversions -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >You do not see dogs, monkeys, or people in hunter-gatherer cultures >engaged in sado-masochism? Why? Because it's unnatural - and sick. Neither do you find dogs or noble savages composing poems or building computers - should we follow those models too? As i recall, your first post to this list was a homophobic blast, and you continue in your distinguished tradition of bigotry and ignorance. Who the hell are you, anyway? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 27 12:56:19 PDT 2004

20288 [lbo-talk] Re: stupid americans? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Yes, Dante was a Christian, and those who parrot this line about u.s. >stupidity are revealing that they themseles have never escaped the >stultifying effects of Christianity. This is a weird claim from a retired Milton scholar. Christianity is an ambiguous inheritance - it's also got a revolutionary component to match the stultifying stuff. >The MWM is an ideal example of how a small minority begins the 1000 mile >trek to reach out beyond itself. Aren't you ass ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 27 12:00:58 PDT 2004

20289 [lbo-talk] Re: stupid americans? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Spoken like a true American, Doug :) Your >answer explains why the US is such a cripplingly >conformist society. Criticize others and you’re >putting on airs, saying you're different, you're >better. The national motto: "Who the hell do >you think you are, buddy?" Well, no. I've written hundreds of thousands of words and done hundreds of hours of radio that are evidence that I'm not conforming to the dominant paradigm. But, as others have just ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 27 11:18:22 PDT 2004

20290 [lbo-talk] Re: stupid americans? -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >Not to be too pressing but why should this bother you any more or >any less when the critic is American or or not? Because when American do it, they're assuming they're smarter than their neighbors. It implies they're apart from or above the society that produced them, and immune to its alleged faults. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 27 09:27:58 PDT 2004

20291 [lbo-talk] author -- rank: 1000

If anyone wants to write the author of that long piece on BDSM privately, she can be reached at <whoneedstrumpets at aol.com>. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 27 08:43:50 PDT 2004

20292 [lbo-talk] comments on kink -- rank: 1000

[this is from a listmember who wishes to remain anon.] I don't prefer the terms "pistachio" or "vanilla", and certainly not the label BDSM, which is a casual agglomeration that to me proves little more but that marginal sexual practices get lumped together in analysis and often band together in self defence. However, I've a fair amount of experience at both D and s positions of D/s and I've been thinking about this lately, and written about it a little, and so I thought I'd r ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 27 08:43:00 PDT 2004

20293 [lbo-talk] Re: stupid americans? -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >What's true for a population need not be true for any single >observation. Maybe you are all quite smart but collectively very >dumb (the fallacy of composition works in both directions). I can accept this. I gotta say, though, that watching Americans denounce Americans as stupid and greedy has pretty much cured me of the practice. Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 27 08:39:04 PDT 2004

20294 [lbo-talk] Re: stupid americans? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >You sure took your Walt Whitman pills this morning -- The People, ya >gotta love 'em! But my point is not that working-class USers in >particular are dolts; Americans of *all* classes float around in an >amniotic sac of complacency and ignorance. This is not new (see >Dickens' _American Notes_, e.g.), but it has gotten much, much, much >worse during the reign of Chimpanzee in Chief GWB. About 10 years ago, I sat in the WBAI studio with Bob Fitch as host Mi ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 27 07:24:54 PDT 2004

20295 [lbo-talk] Ruy Teixeira on why most of the polls are crap -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Putin is popular because of the economy, i.e., incomes >in Russia are rising. State-service employees have >seen their salaries double under Putin. Initially the >tough-talking bit was true. He doesn't talk tough at >all now -- he emphasizes moderation and ethnic >harmony. His approval ratings are at an all-time low >of 64%. Isn't there some nostalgia in Russia for the days when the USSR was a great power? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 27 07:07:26 PDT 2004