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2281 [lbo-talk] posh as fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Lazy? This from the Master Of The Snide One-Liner? Hey, dude. I write lots of stuff. Do an hour long radio show almost every week. Give public talks now & then. In other words, lots more than one-liners. That, and it's just rich to hear the term "snide" coming from you.

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Date:	Mon Dec 5 19:58:46 PST 2011

2282 [lbo-talk] posh as fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > You say "convenient" as if it were a bad thing. And I mean that in all > seriousness. How is something's convenience an argument against it? Because it's lazy, evasive, and alienating.

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Date:	Mon Dec 5 19:47:17 PST 2011

2283 [lbo-talk] posh as fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2011, at 4:20 PM, SA wrote: > On 12/5/2011 3:39 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > >> This is another variant of the mother-in-law argument: So what's YOUR master plan, Mister Wise Guy? Master plans are very easy to draw up, but they're also a waste of time. Cookshops of the future, etc. > > So your position is: Don't try to make college better. But don't make college worse. And you have no suggestions about what to replace it with. Thanks for your input. I understand the coo ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 5 13:54:05 PST 2011

2284 [lbo-talk] posh as fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:50 PM, Michael Smith wrote: >> Easy for you to say, comrade. > > One will, of course, ignore the obligatory > ad hominem... Yalie. That's not ad hominem - and surely less so than the "Yalie" crack. For most people, college is a good experience. Higher ed is full of people who take their jobs seriously and do them pretty well. Yeah, I know about tedium and conformity and all those other critiques of the thing, and some of it is true. But your cynicis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 5 03:52:37 PST 2011

2285 [lbo-talk] posh as fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2011, at 11:30 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 23:01:44 -0500 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> Would it have been any more precise if I'd said "political leaders >> and policy intellectuals and others with power over public finances"? > > Yes, it would have been more precise, and the advantage of that > is that it would have been obviously wrong -- or let's say, greatly > oversimplified. Some of these peop ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 4 20:38:47 PST 2011

2286 [lbo-talk] posh as fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2011, at 9:14 PM, Michael Smith wrote: >> Since Rohatyn first insisted on tuition at CUNY, the bourgeoisie has >> been very clear on its higher ed strategy: make it more expensive. >> What do they know that you don't? > > This characteristically smart-alec question suggests at > least two alternative smart-alec answers: > > 1) Nothing. > > 2) You tell me. > > Footnote: using 'the bourgoisie' as the subject > of an active verb in a finite ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 4 20:01:44 PST 2011

2287 [lbo-talk] posh as fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2011, at 7:41 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > I thought the point JH was making was a rather > different one, namely that the the previous Uni > system was anything but socially transformative; > quite the contrary in fact. Which raises the question, > just how worthwhile is it to defend such an institution? > > A broader question is whether the Left should spend any > time, in general, trying to 'defend' things. Go tell it to all the students occupying streets & ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 4 16:49:39 PST 2011

2288 [lbo-talk] posh as fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 4, 2011, at 1:50 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Overall, though, I think the point is right. Before the introduction of fees, the British University system was on the whole a subsidy to a narrowly-drawn group of privileged middle classes. So better now to make it really expensive? Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 4 16:25:22 PST 2011

2289 [lbo-talk] looks like end of Occupy Los Angeles -- rank: 1000

On Dec 2, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > Here's another piece of evidence of the rivers of human talent that > OWS is setting in flow: I couldn't believe the scene at 60 Wall St last night when I went to give my talk about money. There must have been 200 people in the atrium, gathered in about 10 groups. At one point the OWS kitchen brought by some food. This shit is cooking. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 2 09:42:11 PST 2011

2290 [lbo-talk] "I'm so scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I'm frightened to death" -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2011, at 2:14 PM, SA wrote: > http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/republicans-being-taught-talk-occupy-wall-street-133707949.html > > ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Republican Governors Association met this week in Florida to give GOP state executives a chance to rejuvenate, strategize and team-build. But during a plenary session on Wednesday, one question kept coming up: How can Republicans do a better job of talking about Occupy Wall Street? > > "I'm so scared of this anti-W ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 1 11:27:05 PST 2011

2291 [lbo-talk] me & others on money, tonight in NYC -- rank: 1000

Me and (one hopes) a bunch of other people talking about money, tonight at 7, 60 Wall St atrium. More here: http://nyc.thepublicschool.org/class/3785.

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Date:	Thu Dec 1 06:56:04 PST 2011

2292 [lbo-talk] getting his grope on -- rank: 1000

On Aug 31, 2011, at 7:38 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > well, i used to be a fan of tightie whities.... > > Is Groupon s Bizarre CEO Ruining His IPO? > http://gawker.com/5836006/is-groupons-bizarre-ceo-ruining-his-ipo > > surprised Doug didn't post this already! Me too! I am deeply sorry. I can only plead an unfortunate mix of vacation and a work deadline. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 31 16:48:55 PDT 2011

2293 [lbo-talk] Aussie housing -- rank: 1000

Mike Beggs, as I recall, you were pretty sanguine about the Australian housing market. Now I see that Australian house prices are falling. Pretty gently for now, 3.4% for the first seven months of the year: http://www.theage.com.au/business/house-prices-extend-falls-in-july-20110831-1jkvh.html Still, bear markets often begin with gentle declines. What do you make? Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 31 15:03:04 PDT 2011

2294 [lbo-talk] origins of the housing boom -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:09 PM, SA wrote: > Isn't it the same header info as for "Duane Eareckson"? Yup: "Indian": Received: from DuanesDell (c-107-4-143-232.hsd1.va.comcast.net [107.4.143.232]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e21sm463275yhn.35.2011.08.29.16.43.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:43:23 -0700 (PDT) "Duane": Received: from DuanesDell ([107.4.143.232]) by BLU0-SMTP155.phx.gbl over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.467 ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 30 18:56:43 PDT 2011

2295 [lbo-talk] Another thing about Vivaldi.... -- rank: 1000

On Aug 30, 2011, at 4:40 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > A lot of the "tweedle" is in how he is played. This is generally true with baroque music and Haydn's symphonic music, which is played very, very badly. I used to think all of Haydn's symphonies were total hack work. Then I heard one live, played by an orchestra who cared, on original instruments in a church in Berkeley, and I cried for a good twenty minutes. There were layers and layers and layers of stuff in there I had no ...

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