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2476 [lbo-talk] U.S. giving up on Libyan rebels -- rank: 1000

[So much for all those grand plans that seemed so grand just a week or three ago.] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/14/us-libya-usa-rebels-idUSTRE73D68S20110414 U.S., allies see Libyan rebels in hopeless disarray By Mark Hosenball and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Too little is known about Libya's rebels and they remain too fragmented for the United States to get seriously involved in organizing or training them, let alone arming them, U.S. and European officials say. U.S. and allied ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 14 15:32:55 PDT 2011

2477 [lbo-talk] the decline of men -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2011, at 6:10 PM, John Wesley wrote: > Woman enjoy almost complete empowerment in all aspects of contemporary, while at > the same time still preserving their age old place on the pedastal . This is just performance art, right? Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 14 15:23:01 PDT 2011

2478 [lbo-talk] the decline of men -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2011, at 6:04 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > But as for multiple orgasms: men can have them too with Tantric sex. That's work. Women can do it with a simple battery-operated device. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 14 15:22:21 PDT 2011

2479 [lbo-talk] why Sarah Lawrence is so expensive... -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2011, at 6:02 PM, John Wesley wrote: > How many cents on the dollar does a woman housekeeper in a hotel earn in > comparison to a woman radiologist? That's the real outrage. There can be more than one outrage, you know. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 14 15:20:54 PDT 2011

2480 [lbo-talk] the decline of men -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Andy wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> The second is only partly a joke. Men are afraid of the disruptive power of female sexuality. Read George Gilder - he lays it all bare. That, and the homo-anxiety at the core of so much right-wing thought. > > Any pointers? Really, you should read it. Everyone should. The whole thing is miraculous. George Gilder, Men and Marriage (revised and expand ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 14 14:08:25 PDT 2011

2481 [lbo-talk] the decline of men -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2011, at 4:53 PM, c b wrote: > Liberals and academics stay in a sort of permanent state of "high > skepticism" . It's an aspect of social science inferiority complex. > "There are no definite truths in social science". Marxists ( well > some of us) ,on the other hand take seriously the designation of > Marxism as science with some significantly definite truths. Hmm, there's something about that line that makes me think of firing squads - not that th ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 14 13:58:20 PDT 2011

2482 [lbo-talk] the decline of men -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > At 01:27 PM 4/14/2011, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> The second is only partly a joke. Men are afraid of the disruptive power of female sexuality. > > Hard to tell which is stronger, this fear, or the related fear of queer sexuality Yup, which is why I mentioned Gilder. Really, there's almost nothing you could read that would provide more insight into why abortion and homosex are so central to right-wing obsessions. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 14 13:55:48 PDT 2011

2483 [lbo-talk] the decline of men -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2011, at 4:19 PM, // ravi wrote: >> Women also had to deal with pregnancy and lactation. >> >> Of course, there's the envy of multiple orgasms theory of women's oppression too - men just couldn't stand it, so they kept 'em on a short leash. >> > > You guys need to start using smileys, however uncool it feels. Srsly. :-) The first is not a joke at all. I read a whole article on the topic in NLR about 20-25 years ago. The second is only partly a joke. Men a ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 14 13:27:04 PDT 2011

2484 [lbo-talk] the decline of men -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2011, at 4:07 PM, c b wrote: > However, of course they don't call what they are saying politically > correct because that phrase has been demonized and trashed by the > bourgeois media. I thought that it's long had a self-mocking aspect, even from Commies. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 14 13:12:17 PDT 2011

2485 [lbo-talk] the decline of men -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2011, at 3:42 PM, c b wrote: > hypothesis: In the olden, olden days, women dominated birth, of > course, and childcare, and men became envious; so they instituted male > supremacist family, private property and the state. Women also had to deal with pregnancy and lactation. Of course, there's the envy of multiple orgasms theory of women's oppression too - men just couldn't stand it, so they kept 'em on a short leash. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 14 12:53:03 PDT 2011

2486 [lbo-talk] Majority opposes wealth redistribution -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2011, at 3:27 PM, // ravi wrote: > That s an Americanism, isn t it? (I know, I know, we are in the USA, most of us, and importantly, the list is, but still, we are Internationalists, aren t we!). In comparison to the rest of the world, AFAIK: > > English US English > ================================== > Majority Plurality > Absolute Majority Majority Wow, you learn something new every day. From Wikipedia: > "With three-cornered contests as common as they now ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 14 12:37:27 PDT 2011

2487 [lbo-talk] why Sarah Lawrence is so expensive... -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2011, at 3:22 PM, John Wesley wrote: > However, as long as "the people who matter" can afford to attend there, then > there's no problem. I see that there are a number of women listed here...I'm > sure they're not earning the proverbial 59 cents on the dollar! You really don't know what you're talking about, do you? Women with college degrees earn less than men with college degrees. Even after you account for education, experience, occupation, and every other demogr ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 14 12:34:29 PDT 2011

2488 [lbo-talk] the decline of men -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Yet Ross' ethnography suggests otherwise much of the time... hte whole > creative class thing, no? Wait, you mean at Razorfish? Lane studied engineers and marketers, not vegans with funny haircuts. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 14 12:02:56 PDT 2011

2489 [lbo-talk] Majority opposes wealth redistribution -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > Not that it is worth much, but even as gap between rich and poor is > wider than ever, a majority (albeit slight) of Americans opposes > taxing the rich to redistribute wealth. > > http://www.gallup.com/poll/147104/Democrats-Republicans-Differ-Widely-Taxing-Rich.aspx A plurality, 49-47. Sorry to be picky about it. But the wording is quite strong: "Do you think our government should or should not redistribute wealth by heavy taxe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 14 11:45:48 PDT 2011

2490 [lbo-talk] why Sarah Lawrence is so expensive... -- rank: 1000

...because the education is "handcrafted," the president explains. What do you expect, for $59,000 a year? http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2011/04/14/essay_on_why_sarah_lawrence_college_is_among_the_most_expensive_in_the_nation [via Gawker]

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Date:	Thu Apr 14 11:12:00 PDT 2011