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21076 [lbo-talk] Also Sprach Djugashvili -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Some great Stalin quotes ANy sign of my favorite? "For some people, four walls are three too many."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 20 12:15:12 PST 2004

21077 [lbo-talk] a skeptical view of the Freeman paper -- rank: 1000

"Mystery Pollster" Mark Blumenthal (there's not much mysterious about him, really) has a skeptical analysis of the Freeman paper on exit poll discrepancies: <http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/11/the_freeman_pap.html>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 19 13:56:39 PST 2004

21078 [lbo-talk] new blog -- rank: 1000

My Marxist Literary Group pal Matt Ruben, a smart & funny guy, has started a blog: <http://www.democrappy.com>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 19 12:13:31 PST 2004

21079 [lbo-talk] re: Proyect on Nathan Newman and Reconstruction -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >Doug said: > >"As Angela M used to say, it's all about drawing lines, and how important or >interesting is that, really?" > >Mmmm, so long as those lines can be drawn thick or thin or with >spaces in between to allow some movement, it can be important and >even interesting. The line-drawers usually like them fine and bright, with no spaces. There's no question that politics is about defining enemies as well as friends. But some people, whethe ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 19 11:47:26 PST 2004

21080 [lbo-talk] another reason to hate Joan Baez/Comment -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > > >Carrol Cox wrote: >> >> That is, Good Taste is displayed, regularly, by >> displaying one's freedom from its opposite, Bad Taste (in some circles, >> equated with vulgarity). One IS what one hates > >What play from ca. 1900 contains a line something like, "We leave living >to the servants"? That is the sort of attitude I was gunning for in my >original post. It seems to me supercilious looks down the nose at >ins ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 19 11:43:54 PST 2004

21081 [lbo-talk] Fla poll tapes -- rank: 1000

[I have no idea how true any of this is, but enough odd stuff is accumulating that people should be curious, no?] Published on Thursday, November 18, 2004 by CommonDreams.org 'Stinking Evidence' of Possible Election Fraud Found in Florida by Thom Hartmann There was something odd about the poll tapes. A "poll tape" is the phrase used to describe a printout from an optical scan voting machine made the evening of an election, after the machine has read all the ballots and crunched the num ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 19 09:56:54 PST 2004

21082 [lbo-talk] American journalism: comfort the comfortable, afflict the afflicted -- rank: 1000

National Journal Online - November 19, 2004 OFF MESSAGE Here's To The Losers By William Powers, National Journal I n politics, one man's win creates many losers. And America knows what to do with those pathetic figures as they lie there prostrate and broken. Kick 'em hard. Study the front page of a major paper some time; huge portions of the content are all about keeping score. Who's a billionaire now? Whose movie flopped? Who's being sued? Who lost everything? Here's Slate's Fred Kaplan on the ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 19 09:49:22 PST 2004

21083 [lbo-talk] another reason to hate Joan Baez/Comment -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >That doesn't, as I say, excuse bad judgment and poor >taste with the blackface act. But she is not another >white latte liberal -- in fact she is neither a >liberal in the sense intended at all but a radical and >always has been -- and she is not white either but a >Mexican-American. I suppose it makes a difference of >some sort. Her music is still painfully insipid. Gimme Foxy Brown any day. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 19 09:42:33 PST 2004

21084 [lbo-talk] WSJ reporters don't drink! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gawker.com/news/media/index.php#why-the-wsj-is-boring-sober-reporters-026027> Why The 'WSJ' Is Boring: Sober Reporters # This might be the most important thing we ever address here at Gawker, so let us get to the point: in an industry that thrives on the belligerence of its best writers, it's come to our attention that reporters at the venerable Wall Street Journal are-get this-not drinking. Says WSJ writer Ken Wells: "There are 300 or 400 people in the Wall Street Journal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 19 08:53:25 PST 2004

21085 [lbo-talk] Ostalgia lives -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - November 19, 2004 Soviet-Era Brands Rise On Socialist Nostalgia Traubi, Tisza Re-Emerge As Firms Look to Cash In On Eastern Europe Success By MARTA KARENOVA SPECIAL TO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BUDAPEST -- In one of this city's busy kerts -- courtyards surrounded by drab buildings that have been transformed into trendy open-air pubs -- Kati Manu, 26 years old, finishes off her second bottle of Traubisoda, a grape drink popular during communist times. "Drinking Traubi ,& ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 19 08:38:00 PST 2004

21086 [lbo-talk] Proyect on Nathan Newman and Reconstruction -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >Well, it's very important for those who understand politics in a >quasi-military way (e.g., "militant Marxists"). The idea is that to >win the political war you have to amass as large an army on your >side as possible, have everyone put on uniforms so you know who is >on your side and who is the enemy, and have at it. It's not even very good at following that model. if you're constantly drawing lines, you're shrinking your base, not expanding it. Po ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 19 08:33:12 PST 2004

21087 [lbo-talk] another reason to hate Joan Baez -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Michael Pug - good links at orig] <http://www.lastsuperpower.net/newsitems/Baez> Joan Baez and Me Once Joan finished her minstrelsy riff, the audience, in which I did not see a single black person, went wild with applause and hoots and hollers. I have never felt so embarrassed for a bunch of "liberals" in my life. I wonder where Baez got her notions of how poor black country folk talk-she couldn't be stereotyping, could she? Ronald Bailey She gwine tell de folks how da ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 18 21:55:27 PST 2004

21088 [lbo-talk] Florida anomalies -- rank: 1000

<http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2004/0,4814,97614,00.html> University researchers challenge Bush win in Florida 'Something went awry with electronic voting in Florida,' says the lead researcher News Story by Dan Verton NOVEMBER 18, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, said today that they have uncovered statistical irregularities associated with electronic voting machines in three Florida counties that may have given President George W. Bush ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 18 17:10:43 PST 2004

21089 [lbo-talk] Proyect on Nathan Newman and Reconstruction -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >He is also an active participant on Doug Henwood's LBO-Talk mailing >list, which has become quite the pole of attraction for the >anticommunist left. Oh please. There are communists here, and not that many anticommunists; they're just not LNP's kind of people. Even though a boy leaves the sect, he still has to divide the world into the "sound" and the "unsound," as we used to say in the POR. As Angela M used to say, it's all about drawing lines, ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 18 16:58:12 PST 2004

21090 [lbo-talk] Virgin Mary In Grilled Cheese -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=19270&item=5535890757&rd=1#ebayphotohosting $69,107.69!

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Date:	Wed Nov 17 21:40:34 PST 2004