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24901 [lbo-talk] book events -- rank: 1000

To those of you in the Seattle or San Francisco areas...please come! I'll be at the following two bookstores, flogging After the New Economy: Modern Times Bookstore 888 Valencia Street, San Francisco Wednesday, November 19, 7:30 PM The Elliott Bay Book Company 101 South Main Street, Seattle Tuesday, November 18 at 5 PM Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 16:46:41 PST 2003

24902 [lbo-talk] Anybody But Bush? -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >at least hundreds of thousands of Greens who are simply not going to >vote for a Democrat I.e., too few to worry about? There were something like 102 million votes in 2000; every 100,000 is just 0.1%. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 15:46:14 PST 2003

24903 [lbo-talk] Why not Lieberman? -- rank: 1000

It's academic anyway, since Lieberman isn't going to get the nomination, right? I think the Lieberman exception is a dignity defense. Ok, I'm a slut, but I have my limits! Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 15:43:59 PST 2003

24904 [lbo-talk] Greens: National vs. State? -- rank: 1000

Anders Schneiderman wrote: >The Nation had an interesting article about debates w/in the Green Party >on 2004 election strategy (see below). After reading it, I've got a >question for Green / Third Party folks on the list. In an election >like 2004, where if Bush wins we are seriously screwed and where there's >a clear difference between the likely Dem presidential candidates and >Bush -- not on all issues, but on plenty -- why not focus on state-level >races and skip the ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 12:59:34 PST 2003

24905 [lbo-talk] Democratic Communism -- rank: 1000

Carrol is channelling that ghost of Matthew Arnold again! Curtiss Leung wrote: >Come on--what is a government but that which exercises >power over a state? What would be the role of a government >in a stateless society? If it were to simply coordinate >the operations of the various public institutions *without* >having authority over them, could you properly call it a >government? > >Curtiss > >> "State" and "Government" are not the same. T ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 12:53:19 PST 2003

24906 [lbo-talk] RE: Oberlin College -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >What about Skull & Bones? What about it? It's nice to see Kerry's campaign failing, so there won't be a Bones v. Bones election. Dog

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 12:47:02 PST 2003

24907 [lbo-talk] George Soros: The major financial player of the Left. -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: > My recollection is that Felix the Fixer's mouth and money have not >always been in close proximity "Felix pounds the pulpit with one hand, and endorses checks with the other." - Michael Thomas (personal communication)

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 12:11:26 PST 2003

24908 [lbo-talk] Gen Clark courts the hip-hop vote -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - November 11, 2003 CALL HIM RAPPIN' WESLEY HOW desperate is presidential hopeful Gen. Wesley Clark to appear hip to the Democratic masses? So desperate, he's put the boys of Outkast, Andre 3000 and Big Boi, into a Rock the Vote television spot. Clark's clip shows the general sitting around a table with college students and ending the discussion by saying: "I don't care what the other candidates think, I don't think Outkast is really breaking up. Big Boi and Andre 3 ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 12:08:04 PST 2003

24909 [lbo-talk] re powers of discernment -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: >--you're comparing incidences that later come to have independent >verification I believe? the claimed mass graves found in Iraq, which >ones are from the Iran-Iraq war? From the Kurdish repression of the >80's that the US supported (though the Kurdish repression in Iraq was >nothing compared to that practiced by our ally the democratic >Turkey...)? > >Should we trust the US at its word that it is carefully following >international protocols t ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 11:51:45 PST 2003

24910 [lbo-talk] New Hampshire Still Least-Generous State -- rank: 1000

Kenneth Campbell wrote: >N.H. High Court Says Gay Sex Not Adultery When Rudy Giuliani was in the midst of his divorce, there were odd press reports about his impotence, secondary to his treatment for prostate cancer. Since I was going through my own, much lower profile, divorce at the time, my lawyer explained to me that it was a way to defer an adultery charge by his wife. Apparently under NYS law, it ain't adultery if there's no entry of a penis into a vagina (wonder if that'll set off Curt ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 11:25:08 PST 2003

24911 [lbo-talk] Anybody But Bush? -- rank: 1000

Someone writes about me in another forum: >He has recently begun to dip his big toe into the "Anybody but Bush" >camp but does not seem to have the guts to be explicit about this. It >mostly amounts to Green Party bashing on his part. I'll have the guts to be explicit about this: almost anybody but Bush. Not Lieberman. But just about anyone else. And if Nader runs, he will reveal himself as a grandiose and destructive naif and the ludicrous reincarnation of Harold Stassen. Dou ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 11:19:29 PST 2003

24912 [lbo-talk] Oberlin College: Hell on Earth -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >I'm getting tired of >earnest feminists complaining of my "patriarchal" >vocabulary when I use the term "rule of thumb" in >my research methods course. It's not even true, that etymology, is it? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 08:05:08 PST 2003

24913 [lbo-talk] Oberlin College: Hell on Earth -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Agreed. Growing up in Republican Indianapolis I knew that my parents >(divorced, in two different worlds) were involved in some pretty wild >scenes, some sexual, some booze and/or drug fueled. Their friends were, on >the surface, straight-laced conservative folk, but after a few drinks . . . >whew! They had The Flag in the front yard, weekend cookouts, voted for >Repubs and all the rest, and yet I'd find porno under the guestroom sink, >overhear drunken ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 08:02:30 PST 2003

24914 [lbo-talk] Re: Angst fest -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Europeans are not necessarily anti-religion. Instead, religion, which >in Europe was traditionally a universalist force, lost its universalist >appeal to more secular social forces that includes, inter alia, >socialism, democracy, and more recently -enviornmentalism. But what we >see in the US religiosity is not an antiquated ideological affirmation >of universal values - but the exact opposition of it - an >anti-universalist fascist ideology pro ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 07:53:27 PST 2003

24915 [lbo-talk] Staticians in the news... -- rank: 1000

At 10:09 AM -0500 11/11/03, <newsfeed at mediabistro.com> wrote: >MEET THE (META)PRESS: JON FINE >The Ad Age media reporter on the Rosie trial, the big stories, and >whether the Manhattan media scene is problematically incestuous. >http://www.mediabistro.com/articles/cache/a910.asp

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Date:	Tue Nov 11 07:36:31 PST 2003