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23581 [lbo-talk] same-sexers share the housework -- rank: 1000

Psychology Today - November 18, 2004 <http://cms.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20041118-000004.html> Household Bliss for Same-Sex Couples Equitable division of labor and child care helps produce domestic peace and harmony in same-sex unions. By Carlin Flora While Americans wage a battle over gay marriage, the results of the first study on same-sex couples in civil unions indicate domestic peace and harmony. The survey, which compared men and women in civil unions with their married hete ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 1 06:39:42 PST 2004

23582 [lbo-talk] Challenge for leftists of all stripes -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >-And would John Q. Moneybags III, individual capitalist, behave any >differently? > >John Q Moneybags rarely controls property or assets which the public wants >to regulate. He almost always controls such property through corporate >entities. If the public cannot regulate the corporate entity, they lose >the a lot of power to control corporate power. > >Let me give an example I am working on right now. Hartford and Chicago are >debating cit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 1 06:38:20 PST 2004

23583 [lbo-talk] Michael Berube Becomes A Republican -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >via atrios. > >http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php?id=P249 I think that's ironic, but you never can tell. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 31 17:58:00 PDT 2004

23584 [lbo-talk] pix from Sunday's march -- rank: 1000

I've just uploaded some pictures from Sunday's anti-Bush march in NYC taken by Michael Di Paola <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/A29.html>. Since I didn't take them, I can say that they're really good. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 31 17:54:30 PDT 2004

23585 [lbo-talk] Re: meat for 9/11 conspiracists] -- rank: 1000

martin wrote: >Isn't that the history of civilization? Spoken like an aristocrat. Keynes, from My Early Beliefs: >We were not aware that civilisation was a thin and precarious crust >erected by the personality and will of a very few, and only >maintained by rules and conventions skilfully put across and >guilefully preserved. Whe had no respect for traditional wisdom or >the restraints of custom. We lacked reverence... Keynes on Marxism (CW IX, p. 258): >How can I accept a d ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 31 16:54:01 PDT 2004

23586 [lbo-talk] Re: meat for 9/11 conspiracists] -- rank: 1000

srobin21 at comcast.net wrote: >But how does one explain the vibrancy and the appeal that >conspiracism has had for many on the left and among progressive >circles in recent years? It's a lot easier than dealing with the complexity of real life - the complicated ways that classes and institutions work, the role of contingency and chance, etc. It provides a highly simplified way of understanding the world - a small group of omniscient and almighty people run things, and the rest of us ar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 31 15:43:41 PDT 2004

23587 [lbo-talk] Excerpts from the GOP Party Platform -- rank: 1000

good thing Nathan says that platforms don't count!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 31 13:49:15 PDT 2004

23588 [lbo-talk] Kolko on the 'Lesser Evil', Part 2 -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer quoting Kolko: >"In this [the Bush] context, it is far more likely that the nations >allied with the U.S. in the past will be compelled to stress their own >interests and go their own ways. THE DEMOCRATS ARE FAR LESS LIKELY TO >CONTINUE THAT EXCEEDINLY DESIRABLE PROCESS, A PROCESS ULTIMATELY MUCH >MORE CONDUCIVE TO PEACE IN THE WORLD. Is that really more conducive to peace? Just read the words - nations separately pursuing their interests. Won't those interests com ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 31 13:27:03 PDT 2004

23589 [lbo-talk] Republican parties -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> [the second item - the McCain government of national unity - is scary] >> > >Why? Isn't that what we've had for 3 years now? Unity? Carrol, do you read newspapers? Did you notice a little demo in NYC the other day? A major part of the U.S. population, including a significant and growing part of the ruling class, hates Bush. Opinion polls consistently reveal sharp divisions on major issues. McCain, though some trick of appea ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 31 13:12:40 PDT 2004

23590 [lbo-talk] Re: meat for 9/11 conspiracists] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >To put it another way, if I held in my hand absolute documentary proof >that Bush & Co. had plotted 9/11, I would immediately burn that >documentation. > >The exposure of the Watergate conspiracy was _one_ of the factors in the >steady rout of the left after 1974. Man, sometimes you're really weird. You'd suppress the truth in the interests of what? A revolution that's not even a twinkle in someone's eye? And how was Watergate a contribution to the rout o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 31 13:07:16 PDT 2004

23591 [lbo-talk] polling complications -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >In the interview with your Gallop friend Hardly. He's the editor-in-chief. It's the one and only time we've spoken. >, he said that cell phones were not a distorting >factor. Was he blowing smoke? That's been the standard line up until recently - not enough people have given up land lines for cell phones yet to make a difference. If the trend has continued, and if it's concentrated among a specific subset of the pop, it could make a diff. Presidential elections ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 31 13:04:01 PDT 2004

23592 [lbo-talk] polling complications -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug: >> Phone polls undersample young people (18-35 - esp those who don't >> live with older family members), nonwhite people, and men. The first > > >This problem has been known for some time. Other factors compromising >phone sampling include: >- multiple phone lines which increase the probability of selection of >those who have them (i.e. those who can afford them are more likely to >be oversampled than those who cannot); > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 31 09:49:04 PDT 2004

23593 [lbo-talk] new Pacifica internet stream -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >Pretty easy -- I work in a field where, supposedly, you have to use >Windows to make a living, but I do it with no problem while using as >my only M$ product the Mac version of Word, which I like in some >aspects and not others. I use a Mac to, and it's hard to avoid Word or Excel. I got into the Explorer habit, but there are substitutes for that. But Word or Excel's another story. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 31 09:28:24 PDT 2004

23594 [lbo-talk] Republican parties -- rank: 1000

[the second item - the McCain government of national unity - is scary] Washington Post - August 31, 2004 In New York, the Grand Old Par-tay By Richard Leiby Tuesday, August 31, 2004; Page C03 "Is this supposed to be the big party of the night?" a young GOP gal asked us at Crobar, a New York club where Lynyrd Skynyrd -- a Southern rock band we thought died along with its key members in a plane crash 27 years ago -- was the big-name act. Yep, howling longhairs in the reconstituted Skynyr ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 31 09:23:18 PDT 2004

23595 [lbo-talk] KPFA etc. -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >there is probably some exaggeration here as to me being a >'gentleman' etc., but nonetheless..... Wow, this is some overheated stuff. For a pair of fulminators who are criticizing Sasha's remarks as "sexist" and "racist," they're awfully patronizing to her as a woman under 40. Ms. Beagle: >Thank you for this important letter, John. Joe Wanzala, a >wonderful dedicated community contributor and gentleman who does not >deserve flippant se ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 31 07:34:28 PDT 2004