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20851 [lbo-talk] Derrida dead -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >What did Derrida really mean when called for a new international in >the Spectres of >Marx? I have no idea. I couldn't make much sense of that book. Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 9 09:20:11 PDT 2004

20852 [lbo-talk] Sopranos -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >That lost-in-the-woods episode is another of the all-time greats. >Tony's henchmen Paulie and Chris take a Russian gangster (apparently >a highly trained former commando) off into the woods to whack him. An episode rich with New Jersey content. They're in the Pine Barrens in central Jersey, and they worry about being attacked by the "Jackson Whites." I have no idea who the Jackson Whites really are, but I grew up hearing about them as a horde of inbred hill ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 9 09:18:42 PDT 2004

20853 [lbo-talk] ABC: debate a draw -- rank: 1000

ABC NEWS POLL: THE SECOND PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE - 10/8/04 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Viewers Divide on Winner In Second Presidential Debate The presidential contenders battled to a draw Friday night, with viewers of their second debate divided, largely along partisan lines, on who won. Among registered voters who watched the debate, 44 percent called John Kerry the winner, 41 percent said George W. Bush won and 13 percent called it a tie. That threepoint difference between Kerry and Bush is within the ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 9 09:13:33 PDT 2004

20854 [lbo-talk] Derrida dead -- rank: 1000

[no jokes about deconstruction please] French philosopher Derrida, father of deconstruction, dies at 74 PARIS (AFP) - Jacques Derrida, one of France's best-known philosophers and the founder of the deconstructionist school, has died of cancer at the age of 74, his entourage said. He had been diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas in 2003. Derrida's prolific writings, criticised by some as obscure and nihilist, argue that in literature -- but also in fields such as art, music, architecture -- ther ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 9 08:45:14 PDT 2004

20855 [lbo-talk] Avoiding Bad Taste -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >Well, you picked a mighty convenient moment not to read: > >Here are a few highlights for you, straight from the ultimate horse's mouth: Or as Henry supposedly put it, no country should be allowed to go Communist because of the irresponsibility of its people. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 8 15:27:08 PDT 2004

20856 [lbo-talk] U.S. religious ID: "none" makes a big gain -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >On the downside, if American workers are secular in practice >(whatever religion they identify with), that's probably because they >don't have much free time in any case, and, for what little free >time they do have, they barely have enough energy left to do >anything except zone out in front of a television According to a survey released by Gallup earlier in the week, compared to Canadians & Brits, Americans don't profess to be too unhappy about their ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 8 15:21:16 PDT 2004

20857 [lbo-talk] Sopranos -- rank: 1000

Just had a chat with my office neighbor, Larry Konner, who's written several episodes of The Sopranos, and was invovled with planning the broad "story arc" for the 3rd and 4th seasons. He says they don't intend to glorify the mob life, but you have to contend with the fact that anything that appears on the TV or movie screen tends to glorify whatever it depicts. Larry agreed with me that the whole thing is quite complicated - that you like a lot of the characters, and are shocked and t ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 8 14:59:01 PDT 2004

20858 [lbo-talk] Avoiding Bad Taste -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >liked rolling in mud and shit I stopped myself from forwarding the item from yesterday's Popbitch in which it was reported that a gentleman in the north of England was caught masturbating in a farm's manure pile. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 8 13:53:39 PDT 2004

20859 [lbo-talk] SorosLoser.com -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Not half bad! It's not so terrible to be a Hungarian >left wing millionaire, hm? Billionaire, with a "b." $7.2 billion - which puts him at only #24 on the latest Forbes 400! Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 8 13:17:07 PDT 2004

20860 [lbo-talk] Jedi Knights -- rank: 1000

[This came up in the religion thread on AAPORnet - Jedi Knight came in just behind Hinduism and just ahead of Sikhism] <http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=297> 390,000 Jedis There Are But did hoax campaign boost response in teens and 20s? Seven people in every thousand in England and Wales gave their religion as 'Jedi' in the 2001 Census. The Census form's question on religion - the only question where a response was not compulsory - offered a series of tick-boxes for the major ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 8 12:56:56 PDT 2004

20861 [lbo-talk] SorosLoser.com -- rank: 1000

[hey these guys sound like some lefties I know!] <http://sorosloser.com/> America's sovereignty at stake! Soros is buying the White House not only to lose the war in Iraq but destroy U.S. power & values You've certainly heard of George Soros, the billionaire who is investing $15 million in an obsessed drive to oust President George W. Bush. You probably know he's sore about losing the last presidential election, that he has - for all practical purposes - purchased the Democratic Party, ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 8 12:16:36 PDT 2004

20862 [lbo-talk] Saddam-9/11 connex -- rank: 1000

For a study of the origins of the perception that Saddam was behind 9/11, see <http://www.apsanet.org/PS/oct04/althaus.pdf>. It seemed to be there before Cheney & Fox pushed the idea. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 8 11:59:53 PDT 2004

20863 [lbo-talk] Wired Bush -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >the Democratic Party, which either goes lite on these (Haliburton) A lot of the time, yeah, but Edwards certainly didn't the other night. As for the media, check out the first installment in Matt Taibbi's match to see who the worst of the campaign hacks is: <http://nypress.com/17/40/news&columns/feature.cfm>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 8 11:22:55 PDT 2004

20864 [lbo-talk] frat idiocy -- rank: 1000

Howard Fineman is a dreadful hack, and this is further proof. Also from today's Romenesko: <http://betathetapi.org/publications/magazine.htm> Fineman believes Bush once gave him a frat handshake Beta Theta Pi Magazine Newsweek correspondent and Beta Theta Pi member Howard Fineman says President Bush may have once given him the Delta Kappa Epsilon handshake. "But I sure didn't give him the Beta grip," he adds. "Understanding the role of fraternity in American life is importan ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 8 09:42:40 PDT 2004

20865 [lbo-talk] more on Keyes's lesbian daughter -- rank: 1000

[via Romenesko] <> Claim: Chicago journos are dying to write about Maya Keyes <http://www.chireader.com/hottype/2004/041008_1.html> Chicago Reader While bloggers gossip about the sexual orientation of Alan Keyes' daughter, Chicago's dailies say nothing. "Almost every Chicago political reporter is currently and actively pursuing the Keyes controversy, and his refusal to talk about it is starting to drive them a little crazy," writes Rich Miller of Capitol Fax, an Illinois po ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 8 09:28:08 PDT 2004