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24661 [lbo-talk] Sounds like Faulkner -- rank: 1000

Michael Simkin wrote: >Can you explain what was Faulkner's contribution to the literature? Lots of beautiful words and soee fascianting and extravagant characters. It's been 25 years since I read him though. But a guy who can throw around phrases like "all polymath love's androgynous advocate" has my vote. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 12 16:07:25 PDT 2003

24662 [lbo-talk] Manufacturers Cheer Dollar's Decline... -- rank: 1000

Mike Ballard wrote: >Question for LOBsters........Is the decline in the >"value" of the dollar going to bolster the chances of >the Shrubsters in next year's election? Depends. A lower dollar would be good for U.S. manufacturing, but a lot of the trade imbalance is with China, whose currency is so far tied to the dollar. And a lot also depends on how far and hard the dollar falls (if, of course, it falls). If it's steep and/or sharp enough, that could provoke a financial crisi ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 12 14:56:05 PDT 2003

24663 [lbo-talk] Myth Making on Schwarzenegger's victory -- rank: 1000

boddhisatva wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > > > > "No, near record-low turnout. It was only a point or two above the >last gubernatorial election, which had set an all-time California >low. This confounded the predictions of a high turnout." > > No, I'm sorry, I think you are myth-making here. California voter >participation in this election was about 6% higher than in 2002. At 56% it >was comparable to off-year elections since '86 which varied ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 12 13:46:01 PDT 2003

24664 RES: [lbo-talk] Henwood: Collapse in Cancun -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Why should >it be surprising that resistance to capitalist/imperialist globalization >in agriculture might come in the first instance from peasants in the >more "advanced" countries? And why do you say this? "Peasants" in the "advanced" countries could object to "globalization" for all the wrong reasons. Is all that stuff from the 18th Brumaire obsolete? Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 12 13:41:15 PDT 2003

24665 [lbo-talk] Re: Lbo-talk digest, Vol 1 #1450 - 18 msgs -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Why should >it be surprising that resistance to capitalist/imperialist globalization >in agriculture might come in the first instance from peasants in the >more "advanced" countries? Bove makes a fragrant Roqeufort (there's a pic at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/SeattleMonday.html>). I'd hate a world in which McD's squeezes out high-end cheese. But that's not really the whole story in ag trade. It makes a lot of sense to me that Japan and Kore ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 12 13:35:43 PDT 2003

24666 [lbo-talk] Srauss, Bloom, and Rashomon -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: 10 posts on Tuesday 8 posts on Wednesday 2 posts on Thursday 2 posts on Friday 5 posts on Saturday 4 posts on Sunday ...an average of 5.2 per day. Daily quota: 3. Average is 177% of quota. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 12 13:20:51 PDT 2003

24667 [lbo-talk] Pollan: The (Agri)Cultural Contradictions of Obesity -- rank: 1000

Jacob Conrad wrote: >Puritanism is not without its virtues... Not the least of which is its propensity to stimulate vice! Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 12 11:09:46 PDT 2003

24668 [lbo-talk] Sounds like Faulkner -- rank: 1000

Michael Simkin wrote: >All Faulkner quotes are from "The sound and the fury", which was written >before he started to proliferate. > >They were not selected for being "bad" but for being representative of >Faulkner's trademark stream of madness style. It's been a long time, but I loved Faulkner back in my literary days. And, even though it got ridiculous on occasion, I loved his prose style. What's your point here? Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 12 11:07:48 PDT 2003

24669 [lbo-talk] Again I'm left speechless..... -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Clearly, "not speechless", Clearly. But the story was about the U.S. Why the long rant about Israel? Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 11 20:26:02 PDT 2003

24670 [lbo-talk] CONELRAD: Atomic Platters | The Goldwaters Sing Folk Songs to Bug the Liberals [1964] -- rank: 1000

[via Michael Pugliese - a reminder that stupid reaction is an old American tradition] <http://www.conelrad.com/media/atomicmusic/sh_boom.php?platter=25>

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Date:	Sat Oct 11 12:41:10 PDT 2003

24671 [lbo-talk] Re: sex fiend nazi runs california dept. -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >this is the attitude that led people on the "left" to throw their votes >away on bustamonte and give camejo barely 3% , while the right winger >mclintock got anywhere from four to five times as many votes... I'm not sure I buy that. If the Calif electorate were really in some kind of proto-revolutionary mood, why didn't Camejo or Huffington attract more votes? With the yes/no option followed by such a huge field, the usual binary lesser evilism logic didn' ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 11 12:32:16 PDT 2003

24672 [lbo-talk] pervs not welcome in Kenner, Louisiana -- rank: 1000

WDSU TV CHANNEL 6 (NBC) - NEW ORLEANS, LA Fetish Convention Won't Happen In Kenner Congemi Urges Hotels To Turn Away Group POSTED: 10:32 a.m. CDT October 10, 2003 UPDATED: 2:07 p.m. CDT October 10, 2003 NEW ORLEANS -- A group has canceled its convention after the Kenner police chief urged local hotels to turn away those associated with "Fetish in the Fall." In a letter sent to hotel managers, Chief Nick Congemi said the conference would consist of seminars and demonstrations in bondage ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 11 12:21:15 PDT 2003

24673 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [TD] Tomgram: Mike Davis on Schwarzenegger's victory -- rank: 1000

SergioL652 at aol.com wrote: >What I find fascinating is that incomes above 75K made 46% of the >electorate. And this with record turnout (I think) No, near record-low turnout. It was only a point or two above the last gubernatorial election, which had set an all-time California low. This confounded the predictions of a high turnout. Turnouts are always skewed towards the upscale, however. Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 11 12:18:26 PDT 2003

24674 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Network Associates Webshield - e-mail Content Alert -- rank: 1000

Curtiss - your corporate email filter is an idiot! >Date: Sat Oct 11 14:52:00 2003 >To: <lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org> >From: Postmaster at ibi.com >Subject: Network Associates Webshield - e-mail Content Alert >Sender: lbo-talk-owner at lbo-talk.org >List-Id: <lbo-talk.lbo-talk.org> > >Network Associates WebShield SMTP V4.5 MR1a on ibixmaila intercepted >a mail from ><lbo-talk-admin at lbo-talk.org> which caused a Content Filter On the >word ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 11 12:11:26 PDT 2003

24675 RES: [lbo-talk] Henwood: Collapse in Cancun -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Alexandre wrote: > >> Good article, Doug, but I think there are many other aspects that >> arenZt being taken into account... Let the rich countries defend >> their own agriculture while we will protect our industry and >> services. This is a better arrangement. > >I'm with Alexandre on this one. I don't see why rich countries should "defend their own agriculture." They're doing plenty of that already, and vast, non-nourishing, ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 11 10:19:22 PDT 2003