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23371 [lbo-talk] WWP/N. Korea -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Speaking of Doug and Liza's article Don't forget Christian Parenti. >on "activistism"--I got to skim through that when I was looking >through a book galley two weeks ago. > >Nice essay. When are you all going to post it to the list? Thanks. It's too long for the list, but I'm going to post our original version to the LBO website in a bit. Almost no one saw it in the first issue of Radical Society. The eds softened our language a bit; what I'll post is our ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 1 13:43:23 PST 2004

23372 [lbo-talk] Lynne Stewart -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 12:02:19 -0600, Stephen Philion ><philion at hawaii.edu> wrote: > >> >>--In her whole defense, there are NO denuniciations of the North Korean baby >>eating conspiracy that threatens to become an epidemic world wide, in >>ADDITION to their overpowering use of massive Nuclear and Biological >>Weaponry! Forget it, she won't get MY support! >http://www.google.com/search?q=lynne+stewart+stalin > Monthl ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 1 11:35:59 PST 2004

23373 [lbo-talk] RE: Star drek ("Theory of Porn" -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Carrol Cox wrote: > >>Miles Jackson wrote: >>> >>> I don't mean to share inappropriately intimate info onlist, but >>> I have a point: crude generalizations--"visual fantasies >>> are important to men", "all men get off on lezzie sex"--aren't >>> going to help us understand the astonishing diversity of >>> human sexual activities and desires. >>> >> >>The theories ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 1 11:21:43 PST 2004

23374 [lbo-talk] quote -- rank: 1000

YOUR QUOTE OF THE DAY " To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood. -- Gore Vidal

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Date:	Sun Feb 1 09:49:35 PST 2004

23375 [lbo-talk] RE: Star drek ("Theory of Porn" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Miles Jackson wrote: >> >> I don't mean to share inappropriately intimate info onlist, but >> I have a point: crude generalizations--"visual fantasies >> are important to men", "all men get off on lezzie sex"--aren't >> going to help us understand the astonishing diversity of >> human sexual activities and desires. >> > >The theories continue to pour in, none of the theorists even nodding in >the di ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 1 09:48:42 PST 2004

23376 [lbo-talk] RE: Star drek -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Other than that, I can't think of any movie featuring women lovers >that was half-way decent Bound, with Gina Gershon & Jennifer Tilly, dir by the Wachowski Bros. S*xual choreographer: Susie Bright. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 1 09:23:32 PST 2004

23377 [lbo-talk] Re: theory of porn? -- rank: 1000

Frank Scott wrote: >"...so why do guys like the lezzie script so >much?" > >maybe because they can lust after both >participants , instead of just one? I think I've mentioned the theory of my late friend John Liscio before: with no man on the screen, male viewers don't have to suffer the anxiety that they're getting excited by the presence of another man. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 1 09:05:31 PST 2004

23378 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Southern California Grocery Strike -- rank: 1000

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:02:11 -0500 From: "Joey Hipolito" <jhipolito at ufcw.org> To: <dhenwood at panix.com> Doug, A member of your listserv forwarded to me your e-mail address. I work as a researcher at the UFCW International and we are circulating an academic petition for people to sign concerning the Southern California Grocery Strike. If you could please post the petition to your listserv and circulate to your colleagues, it would be enormously appreciated. Thank ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 1 08:33:12 PST 2004

23379 [lbo-talk] Fred Phelps cheers the tsunami -- rank: 1000

<http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/faq.html#Tsunami> What do you think about the Tsunami that hit Asia on December 26, 2004? Was it God's wrath? The tsunami was an adumbration of the wrath of God, a harbinger of things to come: that Great Day of Judgment. Amos 3:6 "Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?" That word translated "evil" there is means distress, misery, injury, calamity. ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 31 14:51:36 PST 2004

23380 [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Now, put all the information you are talking about for >300 million people -- just to keep it to the US -- and >feed it into computers at a government bureaucracy to >make decisions about what toothpaste Susan Jones will >need in Oklahoma City in December 2007 . . . . This >really does call to mine the joke about "I'm from the >government and I am here to help you." Why this caricature? To talk about more planning we don't need to get ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 31 12:22:38 PST 2004

23381 [lbo-talk] US Airways to Employees: work for Free! -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > >> # "Full pay until the last day!" >> >> Beats 3/4 pay til the last day. > >Except it makes the last day come sooner, no? Who knows? The present structure of the U.S. airline industry is deeply fucked, and I don't think wage concessions are going to change that much. No one wants to say dereg has been a disaster, but it has. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 31 12:21:16 PST 2004

23382 [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >I'm not a big fan of capital markets. That's not the issue. The issue is the behavior of prices in financial markets, which are a poor informational guide to capital allocation because of noise and overreaction. One reason financial market prices are interesting is that they're almost completely unregulated and float with almost no hindrance: i.e., they're a pure laboratory for the markets-as-information position. And they don't pass the test with flying colors. &g ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 31 10:42:08 PST 2004

23383 [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Markets have failed to feed and house "everyone" for the 300 years of >their dominance. To be fair to Justin, he's trying to separate the informational role of markets from the control of production decisions by capital. I don't think it's done as easily as he does, but his position is not unreasonable. I don't think he or any other market socialist would argue that capitalism has been a model of decency. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 31 10:32:01 PST 2004

23384 [lbo-talk] US Airways to Employees: work for Free! -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: ># "Full pay until the last day!" Beats 3/4 pay til the last day. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 31 10:18:14 PST 2004

23385 [lbo-talk] good news! insurance industry likely to be unscathed -- rank: 1000

[The summary of a Merrill Lynch research note.] Insurance-Non-Life: No Outsized Impact from Tsunamis Expected - USA - 5pp Highlights: * The devastating tsunamis that emanated from a huge earthquake off of the coast of Sumatra and resulted in a tragic loss of life and property will not have a dramatic impact on the global insurance and reinsurance industry, in our view. Much of the property in many of the areas (i.e. Sri Lanka and India) that were hard hit by the waves was uninsured and prope ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 31 07:55:55 PST 2004