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23761 [lbo-talk] McGreevey Resigns -- rank: 1000

SergioL652 at aol.com wrote: >For those interested. Jim McGreevy of NJ resigned effective >November 15 because he is gay. My wife works in Woodbridge, NJ >school district and she had told me this was an open secret when he >was mayor. I can't believe he is resigning for that. They are >saying how brave he is, but the brave and right thing to do would >have been to stay. All in all a terrible week for those of us who >are agaisnt anti-gay bigotry. It doesn't seem right h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 15:32:55 PDT 2004

23762 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [kenslist] Data Lounge on Golan Cipel -- rank: 1000

>Here is something that was posted on the data lounge . Note the date >-- March 9, 2004. > ><http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:eQFtyXkmku8J:www.datalounge.com/datalounge/forums/%3Frelated%3DDL_ARTICLES_INSERTION.21243+%22Golan+Cipel%22&hl=en>http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:eQFtyXkmku8J:www.datalounge.com/datalounge/forums/%3Frelated%3DDL_ARTICLES_INSERTION.21243+%22Golan+Cipel%22&hl=en > >RE: Asbury Park Weds Gay Couple >by: anonymous ><http://www ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 15:31:45 PDT 2004

23763 [lbo-talk] The Importance of Disenfranchising Nader/Camejo Voters -- rank: 1000

SergioL652 at aol.com wrote: >I am voting for Kerry (I might get physically ill afterwards) When I voted for Stanley Aronowitz for NY governor, in the hope he'd get the 50,000 votes necessary to keep the Greens on the ballot (he didn't), I found that heavy drinking immediately after the vote helped cope with the posttruamatic stress. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 15:30:50 PDT 2004

23764 [lbo-talk] Alterman, thief -- rank: 1000

Did you read the letters? Alterman is offering as his argument my argument, which was quite the opposite of what my letter was responding to in his original column. Doug Max B. Sawicky wrote: >huh? > > > >Subject: [lbo-talk] Alterman, thief > >To Report Accurately, One Must Pay Attention > > >___________________________________ >http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 13:22:37 PDT 2004

23765 [lbo-talk] Re: Democracy and Constitutional Rights -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Well, I'm ambivalent about the implied moral authority >of the UN here. It's like female genital mutilation >(or female circumcision): according to our principles, >it's gross sexism, and I'm sure it violates the UN >declaration. However, it is a practice that most >women in these cultures actively participate in (they >do the ritual cutting, and they consider it an >important rite of passage into female adulthood). >Is it morally right for peop ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 13:03:58 PDT 2004

23766 [lbo-talk] Pubic Sociologies -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: > >http://www.asanet.org/convention/2004/featsesslist.html > >Featured Sessions on Public Sociologies >The featured sessions aim to validate a public sociology that speaks >across and beyond disciplines, that converses with all manner of >publics, that affirms but also transcends local and national >differences, that engages with the pressing issues of our time, and >that, in so doing, vitalizes all sociology. Public sociology has >many faces a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 11:52:16 PDT 2004

23767 [lbo-talk] AQ's gay bomb -- rank: 1000

<http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/conspiracies/61525> Weekly World News - August 10, 2004 [series head: Conspiracies & Secret Organizations] AL QAEDA PLANS TO DROP GAY BOMBS Men within 30 miles of the blast will instantly turn queer! By Nick Jefferies EXTREMIST Muslim scientists are developinga bomb that turns anyone within a 30-mile radius of its blast into a homosexual, say U.S. Intelligence insiders. It's all a part of the Al Qaeda master plan to pull our country apart and kill the pa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 09:47:00 PDT 2004

23768 [lbo-talk] Alterman, thief -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - August 11, 2004 Letters to the Editor To Report Accurately, One Must Pay Attention Regarding Steven Zeitchik's article ("It Reports! It Decides!," Taste Page, July 16) on the July 13 panel sponsored by the Center for American Progress and World Policy Institute on media concentration, I wish he had paid a bit more attention. I did not make the statement Mr. Zeitchik attributes to me about trying to get a conservative on the panel. The comment was made by someone e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 09:32:47 PDT 2004

23769 [lbo-talk] Bush losing youth vote; cussing immoral -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - August 12, 2004 Youth Is Fleeting for Bush By Richard Morin, Claudia Deane and Christopher Muste Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, August 12, 2004; 8:00 AM Youth is Fleeting for Bush Of course it would never happen like this, but it should: President Bush and political guru Karl Rove are enjoying a quiet evening together in the private quarters of the White House. Suddenly, Rove looks up in horror from his computer printouts and asks: "George . . . where are the kids ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 08:59:28 PDT 2004

23770 [lbo-talk] RNC fashion notes -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gawker.com/topic/ny-mag-protestors-in-berets-conventioneers-in-cowboy-hats-019434.php> 'NY' Mag: Protestors In Berets, Conventioneers In Cowboy Hats Just because I want to burn all my freelance bridges before I leave Gawker tomorrow, I have to publish this internal email detailing the photo styling for the New York mag photoshoot on the Republican Convention protestors and conventioneers. The best part? The Republican Convention attendee should have big hair, but "but not ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 07:22:32 PDT 2004

23771 [lbo-talk] couldn't imagine this item about Gerald Ford -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - August 12, 2004 SIGHTINGS JAY-Z stopping by Bill Clinton's table at the Spotted Pig, where the former president was dining with daughter Chelsea and her boyfriend Ian Klaus . . .

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 07:17:35 PDT 2004

23772 [lbo-talk] Re: Democracy and Constitutional Rights -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Let's say human rights activists within a country >(home grown, not Western imports) use the declaration >as a touchstone as they seek to change their society. >Are they wrong to do so because some or all of the >declaration's ideas run counter to various traditions? Several years ago, at a bookstore talk in New York, Slavoj Zizek was confronted with the charge that he is Eurocentric. Rather than deny the charge, he said that during the period of apartheid, t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 06:54:13 PDT 2004

23773 [lbo-talk] macho campaign -- rank: 1000

The Economist - August 5, 2004 Lexington It's a man's world Why there is so much macho posturing in this particular race for the White House LET'S call it the testosterone election. John Kerry never misses a chance to surround himself with he-man veterans. George Bush looks happiest when addressing crowds of pumped-up soldiers. Mr Bush likes to spend his free time clearing brush on his Texas ranch, dressed in a sweaty T-shirt and a cowboy hat. Mr Kerry likes to spend his riding Harleys or slaugh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 06:50:26 PDT 2004

23774 [lbo-talk] another reason why America is so scary: Redeem the Vote -- rank: 1000

Washington Times - August 12, 2004 Christian youths targeted for votes By Julia Duin A Montgomery, Ala.-based organization is trying to lure 2 million evangelical Christian youth to the ballot box in November by setting up voter-registration tables at summer Christian music festivals. So far, Redeem the Vote has registered more than 5,000 youth at four festivals or at the group's Web site, www.redeemthevote.com. And the group has plans to increase that total to 2 million voters through announcem ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 06:45:53 PDT 2004

23775 [lbo-talk] Why I am not rich -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Read and be awed! Lovely stuff. Has anyone read Who Moved My Cheese? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 06:29:05 PDT 2004