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20941 [lbo-talk] Warm summers or dark ages? -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Oh great--now we'll receive a lecture from JKS about the inherent >superiority of Cole Porter-- Well Cole Porter's pretty good, even if he isn't my iTunes' Top 25 Most Played. But people are always comparing the best of the old days, e.g. Porter, with the median or worse of the present, e.g. N*Sync. Or Jane Austen with Danielle Steele. It's not fair to the present. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 3 12:09:30 PDT 2004

20942 [lbo-talk] Kerry back on top -- rank: 1000

New York Post - October 3, 2004 PRESIDENT IN POLL STUMBLE By STEFAN C. FRIEDMAN Riding the momentum of his dominating debate performance, Sen. John Kerry has grabbed the lead over President Bush, a national poll released yesterday revealed. In a two-way match-up, the Kerry-Edwards ticket leads Bush-Cheney 49 percent to 46 percent, according to a Newsweek poll of registered voters. With Ralph Nader in the race, the Democratic ticket's lead drops to 47 percent to 45 percent. Both leads are inside ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 3 12:06:39 PDT 2004

20943 [lbo-talk] Warm summers or dark ages? -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >I've been playing and recording music for 25 years, and it's amazing how >computers have changed things for the "little fish" without major >label record contracts. Back in the day, we worked on 4-track machines >and mixers with (if you're lucky) two effects sends for reverb/chorus/ >delay. Now, using computer software, we have a hundred tracks, >we can put dozens of effects on the tracks, we can screw around with >the sounds in new, creativ ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 3 11:43:52 PDT 2004

20944 [lbo-talk] Warm summers or dark ages? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Of course, popular culture has become completely mindless and we >have regressed over a century in political and economic >consciousness, but it's a treat avoiding constant watch repair. When was this golden age? What were its products? The Whiffenpoof Song? Hazel? We just remember the good stuff and forget the tons of crap that all the highdomes of the time lamented. And politics - you nostalgic for Coolidge? McCarthy? Tippecanoe and Tyler too? Property requirements ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 3 09:52:26 PDT 2004

20945 [lbo-talk] 2003 Jobs numbers to be revised up by 500K? -- rank: 1000

mike larkin quoted: >"On Faux News "Beltway Boys" Fred Barnes said that >when the jobs numbers are released next Friday (final >report before the election AND the day of the second >presidential debate) that in addition to reporting the >most recent numbers there will also be a revision for >the entire 2003 jobs numbers -- with the rumor being >they will go up by 500,000+. WTF? Anyone know if >this is usually done so far after the end of the >previous ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 3 09:47:34 PDT 2004

20946 [lbo-talk] Warm summers or dark ages? -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >I don't know how old you were in the '50s, but I was there. >Certainly things have gone downhill somewhat since then, but there >have also been many "material improvements." No! No!!!! Everything sucks and is getting worse!!!!! I've been reading Jeffrey Stonecash's book on class and party in American politics, and he's got some great stuff in there about the politics of the 1950s that, I'm sad to say, supports some of Nathan's points about the Dems. The D ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 3 09:44:38 PDT 2004

20947 [lbo-talk] AAPORnet tightens the sphincter -- rank: 1000

[alas no more forwards...] Dear Fellow AAPORNET members: At the most recent AAPOR Executive Council meeting, the following language describing our position on the privacy of messages posted on AAPORNET was adopted: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AAPORNET is a community. It exists only electronically, but nonetheless it's a community with norms of behavior. One of these norms is how we use each other's contributions outside the community. Not everyone may k ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 3 09:33:53 PDT 2004

20948 [lbo-talk] Republican bias at Gallup -- rank: 1000

Forthcoming in LBO #109, preview just posted to the LBO website A Republican bias at Gallup? A reason behind the funny numbers? <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Gallup.html> Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 3 09:32:53 PDT 2004

20949 [lbo-talk] Lesbo Goes to Muslim Bridal Shower -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >Yoshie fancies herself our enlightener. She posted this because she thinks >she's delivering news to us. She could be. I don't know much about "modern" Islam. I only queried it because I wanted to hear what she found interesting about it - you know, some kind of value-added head- or footnote. Otherwise it looks like it came out of nowhere. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 3 08:08:57 PDT 2004

20950 [lbo-talk] Lesbo Goes to Muslim Bridal Shower -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I posted the same essay to a couple of other listservs as well: ><http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2004w39/msg00270.htm> >and ><http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pen-l/2004w39/msg00131.htm>. >No one has asked why I posted the essay or tried to second-guess why >I posted it on either listserv, though. My question wasn't second-guessing - I wanted to know what you thought about it. It wasn't self-evident. It could be that no ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 3 08:03:52 PDT 2004

20951 [lbo-talk] listus interruptus -- rank: 1000

Sorry, the list's server was down for a few hours yesterday so Jordan could do some disk maintenance. I'd meant to get out an announcement in advance, but didn't get it together in time. This is a good occasion to thank Jordan for hosting the list & the archives. Thanks, Jordan. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 3 08:01:16 PDT 2004

20952 [lbo-talk] TLF back at NYT better than ever -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >[NY Times columnist Tom Friedman has just returned from his >book-writing sabbatical and, drawing on his recent months of deep >reflection on US foreign policy, is brimming with fresh insight:] Isn't he amazing? I'm sure the book he wrote in three months will be a real dazzler. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 3 07:54:32 PDT 2004

20953 [lbo-talk] looking for tech writers in bay area -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >welcome to freebsd! how's your first taste of an approximation (macosX) >of a real operating system (freeBSD)? ;-) I like all that snazzy stuff they wrap around it.

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Date:	Sat Oct 2 11:30:00 PDT 2004

20954 [lbo-talk] Republican bias at Gallup? -- rank: 1000

Forthcoming in LBO #109, preview just posted to the LBO website A Republican bias at Gallup? A reason behind the funny numbers? <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Gallup.html>

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Date:	Sat Oct 2 15:01:09 PDT 2004

20955 [lbo-talk] Towards a Gay Communism -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Michael Pug's response to a query on aut-op-sy for this - on first glance it seems very 1977] Towards A Gay Communism, by Mario Mieli (1977): <http://www.geocities.com/saidyoungman/mielito.htm>. [...] It is precisely the harsh condemnation of 'effeminacy' that sometimes leads gay men to behave in a way that is functional to the system, to become their own jailors. They then balance their 'abnormal' adoration for the male, the tough guy, the hoodlum, with a 'normal' and neurotic ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 2 09:20:03 PDT 2004