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2521 [lbo-talk] Desktop Publishing for people who don't know what they are doing -- rank: 1000

I second InDesign. It ain't cheap. If you want the whole CreativeSuite, that really ain't cheap. But it can do everything. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 8 16:38:28 PDT 2011

2522 [lbo-talk] Shut down the government? Seriously? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2011, at 4:10 PM, fernando cassia wrote: > http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-07/opinion/navarrette.debt.burden_1_baby-boomers-spending-cuts-future-generations?_s=PM:OPINION > > "You want drama? The United States cannot pay its bills, and the longer we wait to do something about it, the deeper the hole will get and the more difficult it will be to climb out of it. We have a generational war brewing as baby boomers, generation Xers and millennials who are working get stuck wi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 8 13:18:41 PDT 2011

2523 [lbo-talk] Stiglitz today -- rank: 1000

On Apr 7, 2011, at 6:15 PM, Mark Bennett wrote: > Keating wasn't acquitted, but his convictions were overturned on > instructional error, and he eventually pleaded guilty to a couple of charges > and was sentenced to time served. He served around 4 years in federal > prison. Alan Greenspan wrote him a gushing character reference once, for which he was paid $20,000. Martin Mayer reproduced it in his book on the S&L debacle. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 7 15:23:21 PDT 2011

2524 [lbo-talk] Projections?? for WI Supreme contest -- rank: 1000

On Apr 7, 2011, at 4:31 PM, John Wesley wrote: > Not in the $500,000. to $1,000,000+ real estate market! Where do you think some > of the money received in those slashed income tax rates goes? It happened a lot of other places. E.g., Paradise Valley, Ariz., where average house went from about $1.75 million in 2007 to under $1 million today: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5237-E-Mountain-View-Rd-Paradise-Valley-AZ-85253/7829238_zpid/#%7Bscid=hdp-site-map-list-address%7D or http://liten. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 7 13:38:56 PDT 2011

2525 [lbo-talk] Projections?? for WI Supreme contest -- rank: 1000

On Apr 7, 2011, at 4:23 PM, John Wesley wrote: > Passing through Waukesha Co. on I-94 today one sees nothing but more and more > new McMansions. No housing bust?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 7 13:27:06 PDT 2011

2526 [lbo-talk] almost half of Mississippi Republicans want to outlaw interracial marriage -- rank: 1000

On Apr 7, 2011, at 4:13 PM, John Wesley wrote: > I thought there was a U.S. Supreme court decision on that issue back in 1967! Another reason to secede?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 7 13:25:48 PDT 2011

2527 [lbo-talk] almost half of Mississippi Republicans want to outlaw interracial marriage -- rank: 1000

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2011/04/barbour-bryant-lead-in-mississippi.html We asked voters on this poll whether they think interracial marriage should be legal or illegal- 46% of Mississippi Republicans said it should be illegal to just 40% who think it should be legal. For the most part there aren't any huge divides in how voters view the candidates or who they support for the nomination based on their attitudes about interracial marriage but there are a few exceptions. Palin's net ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 7 12:51:10 PDT 2011

2528 [lbo-talk] Dems & demobilization -- rank: 1000

Nice piece by Scott McLemee on on a paper about the demobilization of the antiwar movement, thanks to Obama. Interesting comment from one of the paper's authors on how the increased polarization of the parties aids this process - in contrast with the 60s. This contradicts the usual line about the shrinking distance between the parties. http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee_antiwar_no_more

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 7 08:22:24 PDT 2011

2529 [lbo-talk] Projections?? for WI Supreme contest -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2011, at 7:34 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > right -- I live in Waukesha County, the county Ron Johnson won by the > biggest margin in the race against Feingold, and it is that -- wealthy > suburb of Milwaukee, where the biggest concern seems to be whether or not to > share water with Milwaukee. Well, you know, there *are* a lot of black people there. Next thing you know, they'll want food and shelter too.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 6 17:58:52 PDT 2011

2530 [lbo-talk] Sharp Drop in American Enthusiasm for Free Market, Poll Shows -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > huh. Doesn't the 9% "strongly disagree" (on the free market economy being > "the best system") come pretty close to confirming the 11% communist figure > from a month or two ago? Questions at that high a level of abstraction are good at eliciting feelings, but you have to wonder what Americans would like as an alternative. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 6 09:22:44 PDT 2011

2531 [lbo-talk] Millennials -- rank: 1000

On Apr 5, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > Since Obama and McCain were equally reactionary in their aims, how does that make them "progressive" rather than credulous? Dude, many - maybe even most - people who voted for Obama thought they were voting for a more peaceful and egalitarian society. They were deluded, of course, but that's what they thought. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 5 09:39:40 PDT 2011

2532 [lbo-talk] kids alright -- rank: 1000

On Apr 4, 2011, at 10:16 AM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> But this is really heartening - because people don't get more conservative >> as they age. > > What's the data on this? See pp. 20-21 of this: http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2010/06/pdf/voter_demographics.pdf Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 4 07:27:23 PDT 2011

2533 [lbo-talk] Millennials -- rank: 1000

More on kids today: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1437/millennials-profile ... * They are the most ethnically and racially diverse cohort of youth in the nation's history. Among those ages 13 to 29: 18.5% are Hispanic; 14.2% are black; 4.3% are Asian; 3.2% are mixed race or other; and 59.8%, a record low, are white. * They are starting out as the most politically progressive age group in modern history. In the 2008 election, Millennials voted for Barack Obama over John McCain by 66%-32%, while adu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 4 07:00:59 PDT 2011

2534 [lbo-talk] kids alright -- rank: 1000

On Apr 2, 2011, at 10:16 AM, SA wrote: > On 4/2/2011 10:04 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> A couple of years ago I read an analysis claiming that today's young were the most left cohort - not just on social issues but economic ones as well (and sorry for perpetuating that questionable opposition) - in the history of polling. I can't find the reference now though. But this is really heartening - because people don't get more conservative as they age. > > Yeah, I've read things like ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 3 19:47:01 PDT 2011

2535 [lbo-talk] Trusting the BLS job numbers... -- rank: 1000

On Apr 3, 2011, at 10:19 PM, Paul Bartlett wrote: > You will of course want to use unadjusted data, generally the more years the > better. BLS probably has some differences with the Census in their > customizations regarding specifically employment hiring behaviour. I would > like to hear from Doug the differences of using CPS data (household survey) > from BLS data. I would assume that BLS is better in employment data, and > CPS might be better at characterizing the unemploye ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 3 19:45:11 PDT 2011