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2431 [lbo-talk] Atlas Flopped -- rank: 1000

On Apr 29, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Dennis Claxton quoted: > But Sluga remembers another Foucault from that time, as well, a man far removed from the glamorous denizen of Folsom Street. On campus, Foucault looked, except for his distinctive bald pate, like any other professor in his tweed and glasses, briefcase at his side. > > "Here was this figure who had this international reputation and drew these huge crowds," Sluga says, "and what did he do most of the time when he was at ...

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2432 [lbo-talk] The death of cursive -- rank: 1000

On Apr 28, 2011, at 11:34 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > It is also likely to discourage first written drafts, as it's a pain to print. Why handwrite a draft? It's a pain to scribble and then to read. WBAI's former program director, Bernard White, once said that you should learn to edit sound on magnetic tape using a razor. Why, in god's name? That's utterly pointless. Computer editing is sooooo much better in every way. Doug

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2433 [lbo-talk] Atlas Flopped -- rank: 1000

On Apr 29, 2011, at 12:10 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > At 03:34 PM 4/28/2011, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > >> But I don't want to see a movie about Foucault. For one thing, knowing he had AIDS, he spent a fair amount of time having unprotected sex with young men for some kind of radical reason that I don't understand. > > You've said this before but have never offered any evidence. How do you know this is true? I think it's in James Miller's bio of MF. Doug

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2434 [lbo-talk] Atlas Flopped -- rank: 1000

On Apr 28, 2011, at 6:24 PM, B. wrote: > Someone please make a movie about Foucault! :) Oh yes. The scenes in the Mineshaft would be worth the ticket price alone!

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2435 [lbo-talk] Walkerism comes to Massachusetts -- rank: 1000

Ah, those Democrats, boldly defending the working class! http://gawker.com/#!5796707/assault-on-unions-comes-to-massachusetts > It's unclear whether Gov. Deval Patrick would sign this bill if it reached him, but he has boldly stated, "This is not Wisconsin." How would Massachusetts not be Wisconsin, though? After a tweak, of course! Labor reporter Mike Elk writes that Patrick has floated a more moderate proposal that "gives unions a limited time window to bargain before local o ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 28 12:42:04 PDT 2011

2436 [lbo-talk] Typewriters R.I.P. -- rank: 1000

On Apr 27, 2011, at 7:20 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > But there's nothing stopping you anymore, you know. Thanks to the internet, you can listen to WFMU anywhere. I can't remember the last time I heard it over an actual radio. I almost always goes via their (neat, clean, easy to navigate) archives. Terrific iPhone app too. Listen live or to the archives anytime, anywhere. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 27 18:00:28 PDT 2011

2437 [lbo-talk] Atlas Flopped -- rank: 1000

On Apr 27, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Mark Bennett wrote: > A fool and his money . . . . I wonder if he's going to accept the marketplace's judgment. Doug

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2438 [lbo-talk] Atlas Flopped -- rank: 1000

<http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-quick-20110427,0,7726389.story> Twelve days after opening "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1," the producer of the Ayn Rand adaptation said Tuesday that he is reconsidering his plans to make Parts 2 and 3 because of scathing reviews and flagging box office returns for the film. "Critics, you won," said John Aglialoro, the businessman who spent 18 years and more than $20 million of his own money to make, distribute and market "A ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 27 13:05:25 PDT 2011

2439 [lbo-talk] Typewriters R.I.P. -- rank: 1000

On Apr 27, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Hein Marais wrote: > it's about sound qualities, and the feeling that analogue recordings retain texture and warmth that cannot be reproduced in digital recording formats. Or, as they say on the WFMU t-shirt, "Peace, love, and surface noise."

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Date:	Wed Apr 27 12:41:40 PDT 2011

2440 [lbo-talk] DU weapon use in Libya -- rank: 1000

On Apr 27, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote: > And the vile Mr. Redmond Totally uncalled for. Epithets of that sort are streng verboten here. Doug

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2441 [lbo-talk] explaining right-wing idiocy -- rank: 1000

Joe Klein, musing on the epidemic of right-wing idiocy in the USA, writes: http://swampland.time.com/2011/04/26/the-republican-crackup/ There is also the accumulating decades of educational incompetence, since let s face it a whole lot of smart female teachers were liberated to pursue their dreams and we were left, as Albert Shanker used to say, with the bottom 20% of college graduates to preside in our classrooms. And another thing: Perhaps this is just rear-view, rose-colored glasses, but afte ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 27 08:13:39 PDT 2011

2442 [lbo-talk] Chavez gone completely mad -- rank: 1000

Chavez goes from one embarrassment to another, and Yoshie's right there with him: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/pl260411.html > Chávez Condemns Plot against Syria > by Prensa Latina > > Caracas, 25 April (PL) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said today that the government of Syria is a victim of a plot to justify future actions -- including military ones -- against it. > "They are infiltrating terrorists into Syria and causing violence and deaths, and all of a sudde ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 26 20:35:56 PDT 2011

2443 [lbo-talk] Libya from above -- rank: 1000

On Apr 26, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > On 4/26/2011 1:14 AM, fernando cassia wrote: >> [Do you imagine Apollo 11 tweeting from the Moon? By, how things have changed...] > > Yes, it's unfortunate that Neil Armstrong communicated using complete sentences. I can see the tweet now: "1 SM STEP 4 MAN... Though I suppose Bayard Rustin could have re-tweeted, adding, "He should have just farted." (Based on a true story.) Doug

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2444 [lbo-talk] nixon of the day -- rank: 1000

On Apr 25, 2011, at 11:26 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > naturally, I especially liked this one (NSFW): > http://www.thedaveshulmanwebsite.com/wp-content/gallery/nixons/nixon-of-the-day-16dec08.gif Ha. Rolling Stone had a caricature of Spiro Agnew as a used condom. Priceless. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 25 08:35:26 PDT 2011

2445 [lbo-talk] Overrated writers -- rank: 1000

On Apr 24, 2011, at 10:55 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Not over time though. I found out about them from David Harvey's Brief History of Neoliberalism. Harvey considers the group among the founding fathers of neoliberalism. Gosh, is the history of the right that much of a secret? Doug

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