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23026 [lbo-talk] Hitch's crime spree -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - January 6, 2004 MIKE! ARREST THIS COLUMNIST! VANITY Fair columnist Christopher Hitchens has launched a one-man crime spree to protest some of Mayor Bloomberg's more overbearing ordinances. In the space of a few hours, Hitchens managed to break a slew of New York's pettier laws: He sat on an upended milk crate, took his feet off bike pedals, put his bag on the subway seat next to him, fed pigeons in Central Park and sat on a subway step. He also smoked in a bar and in a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 6 07:23:38 PST 2004

23027 [lbo-talk] lesser evilism -- rank: 1000

[Sent around by David McReynolds.] The question of "lesser evilism" has bothered me all my life because it is an inaccurate way of posing the issue. We ALWAYS, EVERY DAY, are choosing a lesser evil or - to put this in reverse - we are choosing a greater good. There is never any perfect decision offered to us. Never. We are finite creatures trapped in a real world, of real choices, not a single one of which is perfect. (Except for that one brief and wonderful moment when we convince our ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 6 07:21:22 PST 2004

23028 [lbo-talk] Hello! -- rank: 1000

[No flat lines about knifing a pancake stack in the original.] <http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/pirates/html/p13.html> GENERAL: I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 6 06:45:00 PST 2004

23029 [lbo-talk] oil price in euros? -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Doug wrote: > >>> Do you know of a table/chart of oil/euro/dollar over the last >>> couple of years? >> >> I just made one - it's at >> <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/OilIn3Currs.gif>. > >Hey, thanks... > >It would look massively different if you were to index all 3 =100 with >the Bush II election, November '00, no? Yes, but that also coincides with the euro's low. I indexed to Jan 99 because the Fed's his ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 6 06:35:10 PST 2004

23030 [lbo-talk] oil price in euros? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >So is it theoretically possible that higher Euro wouldn't have to be a >terrible thing for the Eurozone economy? It may stay the hand of the ECB in tightening, since they perceive a higher currency to be disinflationary. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 6 06:15:38 PST 2004

23031 [lbo-talk] Hello! -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at pro.SoftHome.net wrote: >When this first appeared, I posted another translation of the same passage. Yup, I remembered that, but I used the one M Pug posted because it was shorter. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 6 06:13:41 PST 2004

23032 [lbo-talk] Re: people in glass cages shouldn't... -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >"...WW3 REPORT was unable to independently verify the glass cage >incident, but >it is sort of beside the point... " > >the point is that saddam, and milosevic, and, um, whatsisname, are all >satanic butcher-monsters, according to bush, the establishment, and the >weft... those bloody bastards (pick one, any one) sodomized the blessed >virgin mary...though that incident can't be verified, but is also beside >the point... > >can't you ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 6 06:10:34 PST 2004

23033 [lbo-talk] Hello! -- rank: 1000

Hari Kumar wrote: >5 Jan 2004 15:37:03 -0500 To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org >Dwayne Monroe wrote: >>>Is it nice Alex to slap down the mouth(s) that >compliments you >>>with the word *crazies*? No. That's just bad manners that is. >> >>Real revolutionaries don't care about manners! You must be hard and cold. >>Doug > >Which manual did that come from? Hari One instance, from V.I.: At 10:38 AM -0800 12/23/03, Michael Pugliese wrote: > Lionel Tri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 5 16:01:58 PST 2004

23034 [lbo-talk] Re: IAC/ANSWER hack to defend saddam? -- rank: 1000

I think this thread is reaching the end of its useful life.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 5 15:15:05 PST 2004

23035 [lbo-talk] oil price in euros? -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Doug, today the dollar moved down against the euro and oil in dollars >went up more or less in synch. Do you know of a table/chart of >oil/euro/dollar over the last couple of years? I just made one - it's at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/OilIn3Currs.gif>. There's no caption to the graphic, so in lieu of one: Chart shows monthly averages of daily crude oil (West Texas Intermediate) prices in U.S. dollars, euros, and Japanese yen, all indexed to January 1999 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 5 15:09:11 PST 2004

23036 [lbo-talk] Prepare To Be Scanned -- rank: 1000

JT Ramsay wrote: >i got two books for xmas presents this year: d. henwood's and >christian parenti's. _the soft cage_ has made the evening news all >the more terrifying. and it's also made me fearful of e-z pass. For those who haven't listened, Christian put in a great performance on my radio show talking about this book. (I re-ran the interview on New Year's Day, though I wonder if anyone was listening.) Go to <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html> and scroll down to No ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 5 13:36:00 PST 2004

23037 [lbo-talk] Pollin v Krugman -- rank: 1000

At 1:00 PM -0800 1/5/04, Your Call Radio wrote: >NEXT SHOW :: Debating Clintonomics :: Tuesday, 1/6/04 >10amPT/1pmET on 91.7 KALW or http://www.workingassetsradio.com > >New York Times Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman and University of >Massachusetts economist Robert Pollin debate the Clinton economic >legacy. Was the Clinton administration's stewardship of the U.S. >economy all it claimed to be, or did the "great unraveling" commence >long before George W. Bush cam ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 5 13:33:10 PST 2004

23038 [lbo-talk] econ & culture job at NYU -- rank: 1000

Position Announcement: Economy and Culture The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University seeks an experienced teacher/scholar for a position in economy and culture. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in economics, business, history, geography, sociology, anthropology or a related field; they should have a demonstrated interest in some combination of the following: economics and culture; business and society; history of economic thought; great books in political economy; politic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 5 13:27:10 PST 2004

23039 [lbo-talk] Hello! -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Is it nice Alex to slap down the mouth(s) that >compliments you with the word *crazies*? > >No. That's just bad manners that is. Real revolutionaries don't care about manners! You must be hard and cold. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 5 12:37:03 PST 2004

23040 [lbo-talk] WP ombud on Style -- rank: 1000

[Getler's a lot better than the tedious hack who's doing this for the NYT. The Wolfowitz story is at <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22921-2003Dec22.html>; Zinni, <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22922-2003Dec22.html>.] Washington Post - January 4, 2004 Ombudsman Too Important for Style? By Michael Getler Two of the most talked-about articles in the paper during the holiday season appeared next to each other on the front page of Style on Tuesday, Dec. 2 ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 5 11:56:07 PST 2004