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241 [lbo-talk] Check your privilege? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2013, at 2:32 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > I don't quite get this "check your privilege" business. We've solved this one on Facebook!

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242 [lbo-talk] Contradictions of contemporary working class consciousness -- rank: 1000

On Aug 14, 2013, at 4:12 PM, "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Then the Telemachiad > climaxes in a "meeting" at the palace of Menelaus. Nausicaa with her maids > doing the laundry. You're on a roll, comrade. Doug

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243 [lbo-talk] Slate: "In College Admissions, Affirmative Action and Its Critics Both Have The Same Problem" -- rank: 1000

On Aug 13, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Can anyone here write the agitational leaflet which will provoke a few > million u.s. citizens to take to the streets to demand that NYC community > college students be admitted, free of charge, to UC Berkeley? What are the CUNY senior colleges, chopped liver? They're not Berkeley, but most of them are pretty damn good. And cheaper, I think. Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 13 14:01:00 PDT 2013

244 [lbo-talk] WBAI -- rank: 1000

On Aug 7, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Arthur Maisel <arthurmaisel at gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe Doug Henwood will disagree (having been associated with the station), > but it's hard for me to imagine life without the place that gave us Amy > Goodman *and* Bob Fass *and* a show put on by people from OWS. And...and... I am bitter, first from many years of miserable association with a decaying, often lunatic operation, and then from being dumped for having annoyed a dimwitted hack of an interim ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 7 13:22:11 PDT 2013

245 [lbo-talk] Free people making free choices.... -- rank: 1000

A severe takedown of Yggy: http://www.mrdestructo.com/2013/04/destructo-salon-does-matthew-yglesias.html

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Date:	Fri Apr 26 07:28:40 PDT 2013

246 [lbo-talk] No rights for Tsarnaev? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 22, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Sean Andrews <cultstud76 at gmail.com> wrote: > I've never heard > of a "public safety exception" to the Miranda rights. Is there something > good out their on the invention process Obama, etc. went through? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/04/dzhokhar_tsarnaev_and_miranda_rights_the_public_safety_exception_and_terrorism.html

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Date:	Mon Apr 22 12:20:24 PDT 2013

247 [lbo-talk] No rights for Tsarnaev? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 22, 2013, at 3:03 PM, "Jordan Hayes" <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: > Justice Scalia responded with a defense of Agent Bauer, arguing that law enforcement officials deserve latitude in times of great crisis. "Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles... A SC justice believes something this ludicrous? My god.

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Date:	Mon Apr 22 12:17:23 PDT 2013

248 [lbo-talk] No rights for Tsarnaev? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 22, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > As I said before, Miranda warning is like saying a prayer - symbolic, but > otherwise irrelevant. Not saying this prayer may prevent prosecution from > using what T said in court, but they do not need it, they have plenty of > other evidence to convict him. Presumption of innocence, right to counsel - mere technicalities!

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Date:	Mon Apr 22 12:01:50 PDT 2013

249 [lbo-talk] No rights for Tsarnaev? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 22, 2013, at 2:33 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > Actually, Obama administration decided NOT to treat his as enemy combatant, > contrary to demands of some Republicans. So Obama bashing seems a bit > misplaced, again. He just dispensed with the Miranda warning, using a "public safety exception" his administration invented. That's a Dem for you, splitting the difference, and thereby legitimating a previously extreme position. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 22 11:41:11 PDT 2013

250 [lbo-talk] Social security on the chopping bloc? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 10, 2013, at 2:36 PM, mjs at smithbowen.net wrote: >> [WS:] I do not quite understand what O is trying to accomplish. > > I do not quite understand why not. He's a neoliberal. What he's > trying to accomplish is austerity, like all his colleagues. > Where's the complication? I keep being surprised by the continual surprised. He's been talking about this sort of thing for years. Just this morning, I watched his brief talk at the opening of the Hamilton Project (a Bowles-S ...

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251 [lbo-talk] CounterPunch or Weekly Standard? -- rank: 1000

Doesn't CP publish almost anything that comes in?

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252 [lbo-talk] Fame of a sort -- rank: 1000

On Sep 30, 2012, at 9:12 AM, James Heartfield <james at heartfield.org> wrote: > I was enrolling at the library of a London University last week, and the librarian said, 'do you post on the left business observer list - I recognise your name?' Cool.

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Date:	Sun Sep 30 06:25:14 PDT 2012

253 [lbo-talk] Alex Cockburn's memorial and WBAI -- rank: 1000

On Sep 23, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Mitchel Cohen <mitchelcohen at mindspring.com> wrote: > Fifteen years earlier, Laura Flanders occasionally interviewed her uncle (yes, Alex Cockburn was Laura's proud uncle!) on her show, WBAI -- out of sheer stupidity -- never featured Alexander Cockburn or provided regular access for this most stunningly wide-ranging and incisive radical voice. Cockburn would regularly eviscerate Empire in his weekly "Beat the Devil" columns in the Nation and de ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 23 15:57:16 PDT 2012

254 [lbo-talk] Is Iphone mostly white? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 21, 2012, at 10:42 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote: > On 9/21/2012 1:07 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > > >> Blacks do not mind spending considerable amounts on expensive fashion items such >> as car detailing ("car pride"), sneakers or hairdo. > > > > Is this a joke or what? It's funny when a sociologist really just decides to let it rip.

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Date:	Fri Sep 21 19:59:54 PDT 2012

255 [lbo-talk] Is Iphone mostly white? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 21, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > [Ws:] I do not think it is deliberate writing off, let alone racism > (which as you said is almost certainly false.) It seems more like a > class issue - appeal to a certain socio-economic class (a subset of > the professional class to be sure) that happens to be mostly white. You need to visit Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Doug

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