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20641 [lbo-talk] more Eminiem -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - October 29, 2004 EMINEM: HOME-TOWN BOY THERE'S a reason why Eminem has stayed out of trouble for the past couple of years - he was scared straight. Having landed in court on assault and gun possession charges, the rapper born Marshall Mathers told the December issue of Vanity Fair: "Nothing woke me up more than standing in front of a judge, and my life is in his hands." Consequently, the somewhat reclusive Grammy and Academy Award-winning superstar says he wi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 29 09:26:39 PDT 2004

20642 [lbo-talk] The Coming Post-Election Chaos -- rank: 1000

This is based on a pure stock-market kind of contrarianism, but since everyone thinks the pres elec is going to be a squeaker beset with controversy, I have a strong suspicion someone's going to win decisively and everyone will be surprised. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 29 10:01:13 PDT 2004

20643 [lbo-talk] Goldstein on the street -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - October 29, 2004 DOWN-on-his-luck smut sultan Al Goldstein has finally hit rock bottom. The former Screw magazine publisher, who has lately faced destitution, legal woes and homelessness, called us from a shelter at Bellevue Hospital yesterday and said he was fired from his job as a greeter at the Second Avenue Deli. "I got fired Monday night, after I slept there on Sunday," he said. "The owner got mad at me. I feel terrible. I loved that job. It kept me ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 29 09:24:28 PDT 2004

20644 [lbo-talk] Arendt didn't donate to JDL -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - October 29, 2004 Arendt's Biographer Corrects a 22-Year-Old Mistake Linking the Philosopher to a Jewish Terrorist Group By SCOTT MCLEMEE In the newly reissued paperback edition of her acclaimed biography Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl says she made only one significant mistake in the original, published by Yale University Press more than two decades ago. But it was a doozy. And the repercussions are bound to echo much loud ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 29 09:40:34 PDT 2004

20645 [lbo-talk] binoumenos -- rank: 1000

The Wimp Factor By Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet Posted on October 29, 2004, Printed on October 29, 2004 Swaggering machismo got a new lease on life after the post-9/11 attacks, as Republicans tried to appropriate not just patriotism but also masculinity as a GOP virtue. Attacking the manhood of the opposition has become a signature tactic of any GOP election strategy. So it isn't surprising that the 2004 presidential election campaign has been played out over the past six months as a battle over J ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 29 09:46:26 PDT 2004

20646 [lbo-talk] Legitimation Crisis? (washingtonpost.com: Don't Ask Me) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Why are Kerry supporters on LBO-talk so lacking in motivation as to >require round-the-clock discussion of disputable polls in a tight >race before they can make up their minds to show up? If they want >to win, they should be getting ready to not just vote on November 2 >but also fight in the streets for several days, weeks, or maybe >months after election day, rather than leaving the battle to the >Democratic and Republican battalions of lawyers. H ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 29 06:58:21 PDT 2004

20647 [lbo-talk] Re: washingtonpost.com: Don't Ask Me -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: > > >On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Michael Pollak wrote: > >> This shows these guys aren't even trying to account for what's going on. >> They're in full CYA mode. The last presidential election was notable for >> its unrandom error: 85% of the polls called it for Bush and Gore won. > >I have my criticisms of the pollsters, but this is not a reasonable >assessment. Almost all the polls Doug posted earlier did not "call >it for Bush& ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 28 11:43:56 PDT 2004

20648 [lbo-talk] JDK runs on FreeBSD!! -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >I think it's useful to think about this in more general terms: >Open source software is people collaborating for mutual benefit. >In these general terms, the open source software mentality >is applicable to most sectors of the economy that Doug >mentions above. I agree that the specific model of collaboration >may not transfer easily, but the noble socialist vision that >we can effectively collaborate for mutual benefit does apply to >these other ar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 28 11:32:03 PDT 2004

20649 [lbo-talk] Re: JDK runs on FreeBSD!! -- rank: 1000

jimi ayler wrote: >It sets a bad example >>economically and it sets a bad example politically. > >and, frankly, so do doug and carroll on this topic. I'm not opposed to open source - I just think it's not much of a model for anything larger. > if >software is collaboratively created and freely >distributed, it might actually make that writer's job >easier, rather than shelling out whatever microsoft is >charging for ms office these days. > >and, in any case, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 28 11:28:31 PDT 2004

20650 [lbo-talk] vote theft -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >freedom rider Election 2004: The Vote Theft Begins >by Margaret Kimberly >http://www.blackcommentator.com/111/111_fr_vote_theft.html > >Political scientist Lawrence Britt identified fourteen >characteristics common to fascist regimes around the world. The >United States has the dubious distinction of exhibiting all of them. >The promotion of nationalism, disdain for human rights, scapegoating >of "enemies," military supremacy, sexist public policy, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 28 11:18:53 PDT 2004

20651 [lbo-talk] polling crisis? -- rank: 1000

At 12:04 PM -0400 10/28/04, Poynter Institute wrote: >Newspaper polling chiefs are worried about their business > > <http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3735-2004Oct27?language=printer> >Washington Post >Post polling director Richard Morin says he listens as fellow >pollsters talk nervously about the present and agonize about the >future. "Cell phones, Caller ID and increasingly elaborate call >screening technologies make it harder than ever to reach a ra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 28 09:18:30 PDT 2004

20652 [lbo-talk] Chechen justice -- rank: 1000

[from Tom Heald's Pridelets daily email] The Pridelets Files for October 28 On this day in 1996, the new separatist government of Chechnya announces changes in the nation's law books: gay sodomy will be punishes with a range of punishments from five years in prison to the death penalty.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 28 09:16:32 PDT 2004

20653 [lbo-talk] you c*nt say that: our free press at work -- rank: 1000

WSJ.com - October 27, 2004 Chicago Tribune Tries to Stop Publication of Feature Story Article Explored Usage Of Vulgar Slang Term By BROOKS BARNES Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL So much for "stop the presses." Top editors at the Chicago Tribune tried desperately to stop publication Tuesday of a prominent feature story exploring usage of a vulgar slang term for a woman's anatomy. After discovering Tuesday morning that the story, which contained a provocative headline, had alr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 28 09:15:24 PDT 2004

20654 [lbo-talk] JDK runs on FreeBSD!! -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Doug: > >Who else could emulate it? > >================ > >Anyone, if you expand the definition beyond software creation in >general and operating systems specifically. > >For example, Creative Commons attempts to fashion an alternative >copyright universe, inspired, I think, by Open Source ideals. That's ok if writers have day jobs and don't expect to be paid for their writing, and publishers don't have to pay any rent. Even so, that only e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 28 09:12:22 PDT 2004

20655 [lbo-talk] Eminem and fascism?? -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >Now, I'm starting to feel dissed because apparently Doug still >thinks I didn't like the video b/c of my comment about fascism. Not at all! I get the hummer joke, and second it. I was just wondering why several people had brought up fascism - some of the cultstuds did too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 28 09:07:48 PDT 2004