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23341 [lbo-talk] Kerry: America First! -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >An election doesn't just have to be about results, its an >opportunity to debate ideas as well. In an American election? That's the funniest thing I heard all day! Doug

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23342 [lbo-talk] Kerry: America First! -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: > >>So what would be >> >>>the point of a Nader run? >>> >>>Doug >> >> >>Same as last time: Exert leftward gravity on the DP and remind it that it >>can't continue to betray its constituents forever. Crack the debates open. >>Try to get Kerry to adopt a platform plank or two. Speak truth to the >>people. > >Issues, Doug, issues. But Chuck, aren't you giving a lot of ...

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23343 [lbo-talk] Kerry: America First! -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >So what would be >> the point of a Nader run? >> >> Doug > >Same as last time: Exert leftward gravity on the DP and remind it that it >can't continue to betray its constituents forever. Crack the debates open. >Try to get Kerry to adopt a platform plank or two. Speak truth to the >people. Did Nader have anything like that effect in '96 or '00? Not that I can see. If anything, he hardened DP opinion against him. I'm no Kerry fan ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 4 17:23:22 PST 2004

23344 [lbo-talk] Kerry: America First! -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >Run, Ralph, run! Why? He'd be lucky to get 1% of the vote. What would be the symbolic achievement of that? Proving there's no diff between the parties? Almost no one, and I mean almost no one, would believe that - and the disbelief would be underscored by his <1% total. Party building? He's already refused the Green nomination, and it'd be hard as hell for him to get on more than a few state ballots by now. So what would be the point of a Nader run? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 4 16:42:24 PST 2004

23345 [lbo-talk] "Full of shit" - -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >THE BLACK BOOK OF COMMUNISM: Crimes, Terror, Repression <yawn>

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Date:	Wed Feb 4 11:26:07 PST 2004

23346 [lbo-talk] Activistism piece -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Is there a mass political movement of any kind in the US? Not really, in the sense that most non USers would recognize. We've got lots of dispersed movements, but they're geographically and ideologically (and often ethnically) isolated from each other. >IMO, it's the mass movement that creates activists and theoreticians >in the first place. Without a mass political movement, it's almost >impossible to sustain activity as well as theory in the long term. >W ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 4 10:39:50 PST 2004

23347 [lbo-talk] Activistism piece -- rank: 1000

dave dorkin wrote: >I enjoyed this piece very much and identified with it >more than I'd like to admit unfortunately. Why "more than [you'd] like to admit"? Doug

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23348 [lbo-talk] birthday boy -- rank: 1000

Today would be John Maynard Keynes's 121st birthday. Spend some borrowed money in his name!

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Date:	Wed Feb 4 06:36:57 PST 2004

23349 [lbo-talk] Activistism piece -- rank: 1000

I've just posted "Action Is Being Taken" to the LBO website <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Action.html>. Liza Featherstone, Christian Parenti, and I wrote it for the debut issue of Radical Society, which about five people on earth have seen. This is the version we submitted - the editors softened our language somewhat in the published version. It's just a straight text file - no graphics or links or anything. The lead is below. Comments deeply welcome. Doug ---- "Actio ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 3 17:23:40 PST 2004

23350 [lbo-talk] abrupt climate change imminent? -- rank: 1000

Fortune - January 26, 2004 The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare The climate could change radically, and fast. That would be the mother of all national security issues. By David Stipp Global warming may be bad news for future generations, but let's face it, most of us spend as little time worrying about it as we did about al Qaeda before 9/11. Like the terrorists, though, the seemingly remote climate risk may hit home sooner and harder than we ever imagined. In fact, the prospect has become so real t ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 3 17:00:23 PST 2004

23351 [lbo-talk] Theory of Porn -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >On Tuesday, February 3, 2004, at 02:42 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > >>>Did you talk like this to your students? >>> >> >>You mean the average lbo-subscriber is a sophomore and needs to be >>treated with kindness? >> >>I thought they were all big boys and girls. >> >>:-) >> >>Carrol > >touché. > >people like me may wish that it were more relaxed and a little less >brutal around here, som ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 3 16:48:51 PST 2004

23352 [lbo-talk] Theory of Porn -- rank: 1000

Kenneth MacKendrick wrote: >The Buddha said that it would be better to stick your prick >into the mouth of a snake or into a bed of hot coals than put it in a >woman... shall I go on? Did he really? Then I'm glad the Taliban blew up his statue. They deserve each other!

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Date:	Tue Feb 3 16:36:51 PST 2004

23353 [lbo-talk] what is obscene? -- rank: 1000

[Via Chuck0 & Infoshop news. I thought JJ's breast was rather beautiful (not that I watched the Super Bowl - I just saw some stills, which I've posted at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/JJfar.jpg> and <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/JJclose.jpg>). To order a similar adornment, visit <http://www.bodypunks.com/category.asp?category=NIPPLE%20RINGS>.] Published on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 by CommonDreams.org Protecting the Purity of American Children or What Exactly ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 3 15:41:21 PST 2004

23354 [lbo-talk] conversation on empire -- rank: 1000

A conversation the other night at a convenience store in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn: Customer (of apparent Caribbean origin): "The dollar's no good. The euro is very strong." Clerk (of apparent South Asian origin): "The pound is very strong too." [A strength I'd just been very aware of. London prices seem like the same numerals as dollar prices, only valued in a currency more than 80% more expensive.] Customer: "It's Bush. Ever since Bush took office, the dollar ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 3 15:22:38 PST 2004

23355 [lbo-talk] "Creative Class War" -- rank: 1000

alex lantsberg wrote: >http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0401.florida.html > >Creative Class War >How the GOP's anti-elitism could ruin America's economy > >By Richard Florida > >------------------------- > >i know that doug (and others from both the left and right) don't have much >use for florida's brand of analysis but i'm not entirely certain that he's >entirely off the mark. I think he generally overestimates the economic influence of the &qu ...

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