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20821 [lbo-talk] who the novelists are voting for -- rank: 1000

<http://slate.msn.com/id/2107890/> 24 Kerry 4 Bush 3 other

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Date:	Tue Oct 12 15:45:24 PDT 2004

20822 [lbo-talk] Re: making a living, obscurely -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >"What's the difference between "to deconstruct" and "to analyze " ?" > >an academic career... I love these sneers. You think it's so great being an academic these days? It's pretty good if you're making six figures with tenure at a nice university. But for most, it's mediocre pay, minimal job security, and often living in the boonies - if you're lucky enough to have a job. Yeah, it's better than working in a sweatshop, and yeah, some aca ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 12 13:07:17 PDT 2004

20823 [lbo-talk] Diebold & the disabled -- rank: 1000

<http://go.hotwired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65292,00.html/wn_ascii> Diebold and the Disabled By Kim Zetter 02:00 AM Oct. 12, 2004 PT In the controversy over electronic voting machines, activists for disability groups have been at the forefront of campaigns to convince counties and states to purchase touch-screen voting systems. They've attested to the security and accuracy of the machines, going so far as to sue counties and states that don't purchase the machines. And they've opposed e-voti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 12 12:41:06 PDT 2004

20824 [lbo-talk] muncher attack in Oklahoma! -- rank: 1000

<http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004/10/rampant-lesbianism.html> Rampant Lesbianism Listen <http://mywebpages.comcast.net/atrios/coburn.wav> to the Republican candidate for senator from Oklahoma say this: You know, Josh Burkeen is our rep down here in the southeast area. He lives in Colgate and travels out of Atoka. He was telling me lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 21:08:54 PDT 2004

20825 [lbo-talk] Nader and his detractors -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Alex Cockburn Speaking of whom, am I wrong to read this is a backdoor endorsement of terrorism, without the nerve to say so directly? Doug ---- The Nation - October 25, 2004 beat the devil by Alexander Cockburn 'There Are No Innocents' Barcelona An oppressive and beleaguered empire, a terrorist international, a storm raging in the world press about torture, right-wing Christians on the march against moral decline and the collapse of family values--you can stand here o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 14:43:59 PDT 2004

20826 [lbo-talk] Derrida dead -- rank: 1000

Christian Gregory wrote: > >If that's all he was saying, what's the big fuss? That's not only >utterly sensible, but utterly platitudinous. > >What looks like a platitude today was not so at the MLA circa 1970. >The idea of a rigorous theory of textuality was itself something of >an affront to those who believed they knew what kind of object they >were studying. Among other things, the idea of the text was >upsetting to those in literary studies who knew there was a b ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 11 12:53:45 PDT 2004

20827 [lbo-talk] nader and his detractors... -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >> The Green Party is running 435 candidates for 74 types of offices in >> 40 states in 2004. Out of 435, 57 are running for seats in the US >> House of Representatives, and 7, the US Senate. Green candidates for >> Congressional races are found in 21 states: Alaska, California, >> Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, >> Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 12:26:36 PDT 2004

20828 [lbo-talk] Derrida dead -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >My impression from reading the last two or three years of the journal is >that "postmodernism," whatever it is, is gradually entering the stage >where it can be laid aside. I keep forgetting - is "postmodernism" scandalous, fraudulent, obvious, or passe? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 11:16:12 PDT 2004

20829 [lbo-talk] mass assaults on Iraq - after the election -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - October 11, 2004 THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ Major Assaults on Hold Until After U.S. Vote Attacks on Iraq's rebel-held cities will be delayed, officials say. But that could make it harder to allow wider, and more legitimate, Iraqi voting in January. By Mark Mazzetti, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON - The Bush administration plans to delay major assaults on rebel-held cities in Iraq until after U.S. elections in November, say administration officials, mindful that large-scale military ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 11 10:39:54 PDT 2004

20830 [lbo-talk] McLemee's Derrida obit -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >I don't know if that's quite fair to (particularly later) Derrida, but it >certainly captures wonderfully the pomo pall in US universities >post-Vietnam. There's more political activism - real world activism - coming out of humanities departments than there is out of social or natural sciences. Who's putting careerism behind political commitment? The economists? In a typically stupid piece bashing postmodernism in the academy, Eric Alterman wrote several years ag ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 10:36:58 PDT 2004

20831 [lbo-talk] Derrida dead -- rank: 1000

jeffrey fisher wrote: >isn't it sine qua non to a good philosophical conversation that we >presume all interlocutors are actually trying to figure something >out? > >well, i guess it's easier to just curtail that off the bat with >attacks on people's motives using the most banal forms of pop >psychoanalysis. much more insightful than trying to figure out >what's going on. thanks. Yup. One of the reasons I started this list was because I got tired of all the cheap "an ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 11 10:26:00 PDT 2004

20832 [lbo-talk] Re: Nader and his detractors -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >The point about the Democrats pushing public discourse to the right is a >damn good one, no matter what they do if elected. Stonecash's book on class and party in the U.S. is interesting in many ways, but several points from it deserve emphasis: the Democratic party of the 1950s was heavily southern and rather conservative, and the ideological differences between the two parties were fairly minimal. What changed was that the Reps started moving massively to the right ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 11 10:18:53 PDT 2004

20833 [lbo-talk] Re: Nader and his detractors -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >And if Kerry wins there will be a serious threat to social >security. I know that politicians lie a lot, but Kerry has promised not to privatize SS, and Bush has pretty much promised the opposite. So what are you basing this opinion on? Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 11 10:13:20 PDT 2004

20834 [lbo-talk] comments on Australia -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> >>[more on the Australian election from aut-op-sy] >> >>Thiago Oppermann wrote: >> >>>... The antiwar movement and the politics of conscience more >>>generally simply >>>failed to register. That is surprising if one remembers that 18 month ago, >>>half a million people took to the streets in Sydney, and rallies of ten >>>thousand people were ha ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 11 07:16:41 PDT 2004

20835 [lbo-talk] Kydland & Prescott win econ "Nobel" -- rank: 1000

[I haven't studied it in detail, but what I've read of real bizcycle theory sounds like a lot of right-wing mystification.] Norwegian, American Win Nobel Economics Prize By Jan Strupczewski and Stephen Brown STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Finn Kydland of Norway and Edward Prescott of the United States won the Nobel economics prize Monday for research that laid the groundwork for more independent central banks and explained business cycles. "Their work has not only transformed economic research, but ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 11 07:08:07 PDT 2004