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22756 [lbo-talk] Re: The Black Commentator on Cosby -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: > >Doug just wrote something from Adolph Reed about narcissism. > >I don't mean to diss Reed, but looking at character identification as >narcissism is itself not a structural critique. Why? Because using >narcissism as the mode of interrogation is itself a study of character, >not structure. These modes of analysis are so ubiquitous that it takes >a fair among of reflection to figure out a way around them. Why go >around? Because I want to understa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 6 07:42:24 PDT 2004

22757 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Nationwide: Kerry 47%, Bush 44%, Nader 3% -- rank: 1000

John Kerry and George W. Bush remain tied among all voters nationwide. In a survey conducted July 1-3, Kerry is at 47%, Bush is at 44%, and Ralph Nader is at 3%. Without Nader on the ballot, it is Kerry 49% and Bush 45%. The Bush-Kerry-Nader and Bush-Kerry ballots are at: http://americanresearchgroup.com/presballot/ Overall, 44% of Americans approve of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president and 50% disapprove. When it comes to his handling of the economy, 41% of Americans approv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 6 07:33:55 PDT 2004

22758 [lbo-talk] The Black Commentator on Cosby -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >the same patrick mason who's at florida state university? if he's the one, >i met him when he taught at UC riverside. Yup, that's the one. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 6 07:18:20 PDT 2004

22759 [lbo-talk] Stanley on science -- rank: 1000

mitchelcohen at mindspring.com wrote: >the Brooklyn Greens is sponsoring a workshop with CUNY professor and >former Green Party gubernatorial candidate Stanley Aronowitz on > >WEDNESDAY, JULY 7 at 7 PM >at our Brooklyn office (see below) > >Stanley will be talking on a totally different subject than what we >normally hear: > >"A Green Critique of Science," > >which will explore the history and basic presuppositions of Science >since the Enlightenm ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 6 07:17:23 PDT 2004

22760 [lbo-talk] a correction -- rank: 1000

<http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/news/9077613.htm> Lexington (Kentucy) Herald-Leader - July 4, 2004 Front-page news, back-page coverage THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN LEXINGTON By Linda Blackford and Linda Minch HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITERS CLARIFICATION: It has come to the editor's attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the civil rights movement. We regret the omission. [...]

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 6 07:12:01 PDT 2004

22761 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: July 1, 2004 Phyllis Bennis, lead author of Paying the Price, on the human, economic, and environmental costs of the war on Iraq * Joe Garden, Mike Loew (both of The Onion), and Randy Ostrow, authors of Citizen You!, a manual of patriotic duty (some of the original audio was lost - details at the top of the show) June 24, 2004 Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire, on the state of the empire in the light of the I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 5 16:03:36 PDT 2004

22762 [lbo-talk] Re: The Black Commentator on Cosby -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >Since role model culture and structural analysis do not peacefully >coexist (indeed, you might say role model culture pushes the >analytical tendency into the shadows) I wonder how much of its >dominance can be attributed to propaganda? .d. > >-------- > >All of it? The dominance of character over structure is the basis of >propaganda. Adolph Reed once said the role model obsession was the result of the would-be modelers' petit bourgeois narcissism ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 5 15:14:17 PDT 2004

22763 [lbo-talk] The Black Commentator on Cosby -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Do you know how other minorities stack up? Nope, sorry.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 5 14:41:51 PDT 2004

22764 [lbo-talk] The Black Commentator on Cosby -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >I think it was Wilson Barber who made mention of the >role of propaganda in a post about the supposed Black >American disinterest in education. I meant to mention this the other day, but didn't get around to it. The best statistical predictor of a person's ultimate educational attainment is the educational attainment of his/her parents. The wonderful economist Patrick Mason has shown that actual black eduational attainment has exceeded the level predicted by the mo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 5 13:14:51 PDT 2004

22765 [lbo-talk] Re: there is a difference between D and R! -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >the annoying visual garbage >show up as [IMAGE] boxes you mean the graphics that make some web pages visually attractive?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 5 12:56:57 PDT 2004

22766 [lbo-talk] state of same-sexers around the world -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - July 5, 2004 Societies polarised by rising profile of homosexuals By Terry Kirby, Chief Reporter Widespread acceptance of homosexuality in many areas of society has been accompanied by a rise in the number of countries where it is punishable by death and a polarisation of attitudes elsewhere, according to a new book. Although gay and lesbian people are more prominent in society than ever before, the price of this attention is that they are now being persecuted in many part ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 5 10:51:22 PDT 2004

22767 [lbo-talk] words for the black community -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >> http://www.nationbooks.org/book.mhtml?t=kelley > >The Head Negro in Charge Syndrome: >The Dead End of Black Politics >by Norman Kelley Norman's going to be on my radio show this coming Thursday to talk about the book. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 5 10:35:35 PDT 2004

22768 [lbo-talk] CP's hit on F911 -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Like I've said before -- Counterpunch sucks. After I sent it, I realized that the author, Doug Valentine, is the same one who pissed on Seymour Hersh for CP, calling him a "company man." Aren't people at all embarrassed to display their envy so nakedly in public? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 5 10:33:33 PDT 2004

22769 [lbo-talk] there is a difference between D & R! -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/05/technology/05systems.html> New York Times - July 5, 2004 Knowing Their Politics by the Software They Use By STEVE LOHR In a campaign season of polarization, when Republicans and Democrats seem far apart on issues like Iraq, the economy and leadership style, it is perhaps not surprising that the parties find themselves on different sides in the politics of software as well. The Web sites of Senator John Kerry and the Democratic National Committee run mainl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 5 10:30:22 PDT 2004

22770 [lbo-talk] Re: Mackerras's Law ("traditors") -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >I guess when Doug says that we should take >the right wing seriously, he thinking back to >his days at Yale when he and fellow members >of the Party of the Right, would sit around reading >the collected works of Bill Buckley and Russell Kirk, >and ponder the relationship of conservatism to >the libertarian thought of people like Hayek >or Rand. The problem is that all that has only >a tangential relationship with actually existing >right wing p ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 5 10:21:32 PDT 2004