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2311 [lbo-talk] $39,000 handbag -- rank: 1000
On Aug 28, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Ferenc Molnar wrote: > fm: In between the 20's and the "Identity Politics" of the 70's there's the New Left. The swapping of the Communist Manifesto for Mao's Little Red Book. The revolutionary subject is no longer found within the US's borders but without. Revolutionary solidarity means aligning oneself with Third World liberation struggles against US or European imperialism and colonialism. And within the US that translates into aligning oneself with t ...
Document Size: 5462
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Aug 28 14:17:58 PDT 2011
2312 [lbo-talk] Arab Spring: The Libyan Remix -- rank: 1000
On Aug 28, 2011, at 2:02 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > BTW, I would be surprised if Fidel or any other Cuban leader would use the formulation "authoritarian repressive state" to describe what they see as a people's democracy or proletarian dictatorship where the masses have more say than in a liberal democracy. Did Tariq actually attribute this expression to Fidel verbatim or via Chavez or has the term been employed here by Doug in the context of the present thread? No, that's my phrasi ...
Document Size: 5309
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Aug 28 11:42:07 PDT 2011
2313 [lbo-talk] One very personal response in Red Hook to hurricane Irene -- rank: 1000
On Aug 28, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > The image on the boarded up window is someone's very personal > response to the hurricane. > (note, not political) > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aur2899/6085219851/sizes/l/in/photostream/ It's an epidemic! I posted this photo, taken just around the corner from our place, to FB the other week: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=8139783&l=7dbabd1799&id=709866474 Doug
Document Size: 5432
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Aug 28 10:27:34 PDT 2011
2314 [lbo-talk] Arab Spring: The Libyan Remix -- rank: 1000
On Aug 28, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > All very interesting, but in the rush by yourself, Charles, and Ravi to defend Carrol from criticism and "misrepresentation", you've all failed to address his latest Big Idea which has been at the heart of this discussion - that Venezuala, Bolivia, and Ecuador can't halt at being mere "semi-autocracies" (your words) but will "have to abolish elections" and become full-blown "authoritarian states" (his w ...
Document Size: 5502
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Aug 28 09:57:12 PDT 2011
2315 [lbo-talk] $39,000 handbag -- rank: 1000
On Aug 27, 2011, at 11:31 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > So the power is not out at your place? No. In our favor: the power lines are buried. The constant threat: flooding of ConEd facilities.
Document Size: 4624
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Aug 27 20:38:24 PDT 2011
2316 [lbo-talk] $39,000 handbag -- rank: 1000
On Aug 27, 2011, at 10:04 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Well, you know me. When I'm not being moralistic, I'm being irrelevant. A girl needs a change once in a while. Pick up a fancy handbag. It'll redeem everything!
Document Size: 4723
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Aug 27 19:38:06 PDT 2011
2317 [lbo-talk] Behind the News -- rank: 1000
On Aug 27, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > Behind the news interview with Cockburn was hilarious, snotty, news gossip and a fun listen to. As a newspaperman's kid it was also nostalgia about the oily smell of newsprint and presses, heavy black carbon mark-up pencils and copy editing, typewriters, telephones, linotype cast lead machines, chronic alcoholism, lung disease and driving home in the middle of the night in my jammies with Dad watching the blinking stop lights and super wide b ...
Document Size: 5570
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Aug 27 13:40:40 PDT 2011
2318 [lbo-talk] this sucks about joe noonan -- rank: 1000
On Aug 25, 2011, at 5:32 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > Anyway, he's an old friend and someone old timers here will remember Joe from this list and its precursor, Bad Subjects list. His name was Joe Noonan, he lived in Houston, and he sometimes went by the handle, "budge". > > Noonan passed away. The date is incorrect, but the obit is for reals. It mentioned his wife, his ex-partner, and I see the names of people in the comments section to whom he sometimes referred in our conv ...
Document Size: 5156
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 25 14:41:56 PDT 2011
2319 [lbo-talk] hurricane prep -- rank: 1000
<http://www.theawl.com/2011/08/how-to-face-the-flood> HANDY GUIDES How To Face The Flood Alex Balk @ 3:30 pm You will be alone. There are reasons for that, but they don't make much of a difference anymore. Your flaws, your indecisiveness, the sad upbringing you never quite got over: none of that matters now. You are alone and the flood is coming. You should make sure you're dressed comfortably; you don't want to be wearing any constricting clothes. Climb to the highest point you have acces ...
Document Size: 5903
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 25 13:16:36 PDT 2011
2320 [lbo-talk] I, We or They -- rank: 1000
On Aug 25, 2011, at 11:20 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > At 11:08 AM 8/25/2011, Carrol Cox wrote: >> Quite often in many different contexts, but I am concerned oly with this list, one hears the phrases "too many leftists," "so many leftists," etc. >> >> From what vantage point, what perspective, what relationship to left qctivity are these phrases used? How do they define the writer's vantage point. >> >> It seems to me that such phrases, even ...
Document Size: 5528
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 25 09:04:34 PDT 2011
2321 [lbo-talk] Strauss Kahn -- rank: 1000
On Aug 25, 2011, at 12:31 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Please. Can we stop now? That's a good idea.
Document Size: 4572
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Aug 25 04:37:16 PDT 2011
2322 [lbo-talk] Strauss Kahn -- rank: 1000
On Aug 24, 2011, at 11:35 PM, // ravi wrote: > Not having to lie on an immigration application is a luxury of nativists and hi-tech workers like me. A lie on such a form should count for nothing. Except that she didn't lie on the asylum form, despite having said she did.
Document Size: 4670
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 24 20:40:53 PDT 2011
2323 [lbo-talk] Strauss Kahn -- rank: 1000
On Aug 24, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Dissenting Wren wrote: > The legal standard of "reasonable doubt" is invoked after all of the evidence is presented in a court - and we'll never know how that might have come out. Since we're not in court, I think the relevant standard is "moral certainty" - being sure enough to proceed on the assumption that something is true. And even "moral certainty" is variable, because being "sure enough" depends on what you're plann ...
Document Size: 6467
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 24 13:05:31 PDT 2011
2324 [lbo-talk] Strauss Kahn -- rank: 1000
On Aug 24, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Dissenting Wren wrote: > SA and Doug were right that I should have read the prosecutor's motion before getting into the particulars of this case. So, now I have, and clearly I got some things wrong. Amending those, what do we have? > --An untrue story about rape in Africa, which was not made part of her asylum application, but which was part of a concocted story she had memorized in order to gain asylum. Which she nonetheless didn't use as part of her asylum ...
Document Size: 8581
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 24 11:51:55 PDT 2011
2325 [lbo-talk] Strauss Kahn -- rank: 1000
On Aug 24, 2011, at 2:14 PM, SA wrote: > There is DNA evidence of it. Speaking of which, there is this rich detail, in a footnote: > Three of the other stains on the carpet contained the semen and DNA of three different unknown males, and one other stain contained amylase and a mixture of DNA from three additional unknown individuals. The stain on the wallpaper contained the semen and DNA of a fourth unknown male. As there is no evidence that any other person was present during the charged ...
Document Size: 5096
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 24 11:29:37 PDT 2011
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