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22366 [lbo-talk] grist for the cultural angst mill -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >Instead, he says, the statistics demonstrate clearly that >while THE VERY FAT ARE GETTING FATTER, THINNER PEOPLE HAVE >REMAINED PRETTY MUCH THE SAME." > >He's saying that the explanation for the problem is not that a large >proportion of USers are way fatter than they've ever been. (And btw, >the UK and Australia have seen similar increases in the obesity >rate.) What he's complaining about is the use of a _mean_ to suggest >that everyone in the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 10 08:53:21 PDT 2004

22367 [lbo-talk] Hersh talk at U of C -- rank: 1000

[written up by Rick Perlstein] Seymour Hersh spoke tonight at the University of Chicago to a packed (and sweltering) hall at International House. I took some scattered notes. The remaks will be disjoined--as will be the notes--but chilling. He asserted several things that he says he didn't have nailed down enough to write, but that he was confident of. He comments on the introduction by U of C president Don Randel: "It's nice to hear a president who can speak without getting boos and catcal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 10 07:46:07 PDT 2004

22368 [lbo-talk] paleo hit on Perle & Co. -- rank: 1000

<http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1526> Live Free, or Be Killed by David Gordon [Posted June 10, 2004] In the days following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, many Americans reacted with panic. Were the attacks the beginning of a war that would imperil the lives of millions in our country? It soon transpired that no such outcome was in the offing. The terrorists proved unable to follow up their assault; and despite the best efforts of the Bush a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 10 07:38:29 PDT 2004

22369 [lbo-talk] Ronnie's very timely death -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Above all, Reagan's death lures the troublesome paleo-conservatives >back into the Big Tent. Not necessarily. Reagan's political genius was in part about finessing all these divisions within the right - traditionalist vs. libertarian, religious vs. market, paleo- vs. neo-. (Since a lot of people on the left don't understand these divisions, that's yet another reason they underestimate RR's importance.) Bush can't do that. If anything, he's opening up the fissures. After ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 10 07:21:45 PDT 2004

22370 [lbo-talk] Reagan's folks -- rank: 1000

Eubulides wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com> > > >[With the mass media keening for Ronnie and saluting his restoration of >American pride, I offer this tonic rant from Mark Ames' column in NY >Press:] > > >================== > >Which includes the typical self-congratulatory Boomer neuro-gonadal drivel >we've all come to spite!: > >"If there were one perfect spite president, it was ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 10 07:03:04 PDT 2004

22371 [lbo-talk] putting the V in vote -- rank: 1000

[from Gawker] When Playwrights Attack: Eve Ensler's V-Day # New York playwright Eve Ensler, author of "The Vagina Monologues," has sure ridden that vagina a long way. Now she's using the power of the vagina to appeal to women to chose which dick to vote for this year. Salon's Rebecca Traister describes Ensler's Monday night pro-pussy rally: Ensler took the stage and thanked all the "fierce, incredible vagina warriors here tonight. I feel like we are about to take off in this big v ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 10 06:17:14 PDT 2004

22372 [lbo-talk] Gore gets prickly -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - June 10, 2004 SILENT GORE BUSH-bashing belletrist Gore Vidal is refusing to promote his new book, "Imperial America." The tome, just out from Thunder's Mouth Press, consists of anti-Bush diatribes and articles Vidal wrote in the Nation, Esquire and elsewhere from 1975-2004. But Vidal recently canceled interviews for the book, which has gotten a lukewarm reception, and told the publishers he'd only give them three days of his time to promote it. "He's ver ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 10 06:13:08 PDT 2004

22373 [lbo-talk] Ronnie's very timely death -- rank: 1000

But the timing is too early, no? The Ronnie nostalgia will fade in a week or two, and Iraq will still be a mess. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 10 06:06:49 PDT 2004

22374 [lbo-talk] HST on RMN -- rank: 1000

Marc Cooper uses this as the epigraph to his LA Weekly column: >"If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his >casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals >that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine >of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked >that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every >morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest >way. His ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 10 04:31:02 PDT 2004

22375 [lbo-talk] Fwd: News from The Smoking Gun -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0608042jelly1.html> Sweet Salute Black ribbons to adorn Reagan jelly bean portraits JUNE 8--In a strange mixture of marketing and mourning, a candy company that once fed Ronald Reagan's jelly bean habit has announced that they will honor the late president by draping black ribbons on its portraits of the late leader. Those mosaics, hanging in the Fairfield, California office of the Jelly Belly Candy Company, were, of course, rendered in jelly bean. Bel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 9 10:29:54 PDT 2004

22376 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan -- Killer, Coward, Conman -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >On Wednesday, June 9, 2004, at 09:34 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > >>That is, the ABBs are >>increasingly using the same arguments that were used in every election >>for the past 40 years. So if we accept their argument this time, we will >>have to accept it into the indefinite future. > >Politics, even politics in a capitalist system, are not so mechanical as that. They are for Carrol. There was no difference between Carter and Reagan; there' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 9 10:25:38 PDT 2004

22377 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Reading Lord of the Rings is kinda like reading the Bible (I'm serious!). >Even if you're not into it, you need to read it to understand the culture >of our society. I've read The Bible. I watch TV, which is also essential to understand our culture (and I kinda like it too). But I draw the line at Lord of the Rings. I'd rather stay ignorant. Dog

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 9 10:21:39 PDT 2004

22378 [lbo-talk] Reagan's conservatism -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >I though Rick Perlstein had a good take on Reagan in Salon >the other day that makes some of your points above: Rick's gonna be on my radio show on Thursday to talk about Ronnie. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 9 09:18:03 PDT 2004

22379 [lbo-talk] grist for the cultural angst mill -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >At 10:41 AM 6/9/2004, Michael Perelman wrote: >>She is the Judith Miller of science, except that I recall that she >>was reigned in a >>while ago. >> >>On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:34:21AM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: >>> >>> The sister of Judi Bari, as isn't widely known. >>> >>> Doug > >So, how does this invalidate the researcher's claims? Her being Judi Bari's sister doesn't at all - that was just a pie ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 9 09:16:41 PDT 2004

22380 [lbo-talk] Bronski on Ronnie on AIDS -- rank: 1000

Rewriting the Script on Reagan: Why the President Ignored AIDS By MICHAEL BRONSKI For the last two months I've been teaching a course titled "Plagues and Politics: The Impact of AIDS on U.S. Culture" at Dartmouth College, and have spent an enormous amount of time thinking about the AIDS pandemic. So when the political flap over the historical accuracy of "The Reagans" — the CBS miniseries on the lives and White House years of Ronald and Nancy Reagan that was pulled from the n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 9 09:06:21 PDT 2004