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25621 [lbo-talk] volume -- rank: 1000

I've been really busy for the last couple of weeks, but now that my book galleys are in the hands of a proofreader, I've got some breathing space. So now I can tend to some business that I've been meaning to for a while - posting volume. There are several people who chronically overpost. I've asked them all to cool it, and they do for a day or two, but then they go back to hitting the send button - seven, eight, nine times a day. And it's not just frequency - it's volume: long texts, inadequatel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 20 10:29:41 PDT 2003

25622 [lbo-talk] McKinney never said it -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >A simple demand for an investigation is unexceptionable. >But her talk goes way beyond an "it". The innuendo in >her speech goes way beyond it. She paints a broad >picture of skullduggery. Without evidence. It's one >thing for an Internet muckraker to do that. For a >Member of Congress, it's stupid. Stupidity is not >an admirable quality in a leader. You say this about a Congress led by cretins like Hastert and DeLay? With an upper hous ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 20 06:12:15 PDT 2003

25623 [lbo-talk] Be Seeing You -- rank: 1000

dua42 wrote: > ,^ (( >://3468686856/%53%75%62%6a%65%63%74/%47%61m%65%73 > ||| || | . .... ................... > http://www.god-emil.dk/~dua42 > .. .:.:~:. :.:~ .. .: ~: || >||||| ||||||||||||| > .. .:.:~:. :.:~ .. .: ~: || ||||| ||||||||||||| > http://www.god-emil.dk/~dua42 >.. .:.:~:. :.:~ .. .: ~: || ||||| ||||||||||||| Wow, that's like some metastasis from nettime. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 19 20:42:50 PDT 2003

25624 [lbo-talk] McKinney never said it -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=229&row=1> The Screwing of Cynthia McKinney By Greg Palast, AlterNet Have you heard about Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. Congresswoman? According to those quoted on National Public Radio, McKinney's "a loose cannon" (media expert) who "the people of Atlanta are embarrassed and disgusted" (politician) by, and she is also "loony" and "dangerous" (senator from her own party). Yow! And why is McKinney danger ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 19 15:56:06 PDT 2003

25625 [lbo-talk] Black (and Asian) in the USSR -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > For starters, housing? How come during the 7 decades of Soviet >planning there was never enough domiciles so that millions of >newlyweds did not have to live with the in-laws in a crowded apt.? Compared with the U.S., where a third of the population has serious housing affordability problems? Compared with Kenya? This seems like where you're exactly wrong - the USSR's strength was providing basic needs. Its weakness was consumer gadgetry and services (and ta ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 19 11:12:32 PDT 2003

25626 [lbo-talk] Bill's new girlfriend? -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - June 19, 2003 BUZZ OVER BILL AND PRETTY PAL BILL Clinton and his "close friend," sexy Canadian billionaire Belinda Stronach, seem to be enjoying one another's company more and more - and sightings of them together have north-of-the-border media types buzzing. PAGE SIX first reported last fall that the former prez had gotten cozy with beautiful blonde Stronach, 37, CEO of auto-parts giant Magna International Inc., at a birthday bash for rocker Ronnie Hawkins i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 19 10:52:07 PDT 2003

25627 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Proto-Stalinism -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Heh, yes, if you follow this thread! Re: Was Max Weber right about >the Bolshevik revolution? and Re: Carr's Weber and Max Weber and Re: >Weber and Hitler No! No!! No!!! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 18 16:53:15 PDT 2003

25628 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Proto-Stalinism -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >From: theoria at att.net >To: psn at csf.colorado.edu >Subject: Proto-Stalinism >Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:30:31 -0400 Please. I delete all this idiocy on PSN; don't inflict it on us here too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 18 16:52:08 PDT 2003

25629 [lbo-talk] Slavoj sez... -- rank: 1000

Please forgive me for boasting a bit. This blurb from Slavoj Zizek for my forthcoming book, After the New Economy, is just in: >Here, finally, is the touch of the real thing, the antidote to the >flourishing fashionable anticapitalism in today's academia - like a >glass of freshly squeezed orange juice after a chemical "orange >drink." If Doug Henwood were not to exist, he would have to be >invented: the will to change the situation is organically inscribed >into his ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 18 16:22:52 PDT 2003

25630 [lbo-talk] Fwd: New Web Site -- rank: 1000

[from Loren Goldner - "the world crisis that began palpably in the early 1970's"? - which makes the 20th century one long crisis, except maybe the 1950-70 period - does the word mean anything when so applied?] I and four collaborators have started a new web site called Fictitious Capital, Real Retrogression at <http://www.munism.com> Further, this web site will accept postings from others. Our purpose is to investigate social retrogression under the impact of the world crisis tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 18 15:59:35 PDT 2003

25631 [lbo-talk] Archive? -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >Whatever happened to the archive. The June archive >contains only May's posts. In the header of every post it says: At 6:01 PM -0500 6/17/03, John K. Taber wrote: >List-Archive: <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/> Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 17 16:39:34 PDT 2003

25632 [lbo-talk] Dean: hang 'em high! -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow wrote: >But if you have captured wrongdoers, and have the resources to >imprison them and put them on trial, then killing them or not is a >matter of choice; there is no argument from neccesity, no valid >lesser evil argument to make. Any killing by a society lessons that >society. It hardens and brutalizes that society , makes it more >ready to use violence. And how is imprisoning someone for life any less brutal? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 17 16:01:42 PDT 2003

25633 [lbo-talk] soemtimes it's so embarrassing to be male -- rank: 1000

[From Ruy Teixeira's Public Opinion Watch] Return of the Gender Gap (If, Indeed, It Ever Went Away) Zogby poll of 1,012 likely voters, released June 11, 2003 (conducted June 6-10, 2003) This week brings new polls showing the return of the gender gap to American politics (if indeed it ever went away--see the November 25-29, 2002 Public Opinion Watch). In addition to the yawing gender gap on whether the Iraq war was really worthwhile (see above), the latest Zogby poll shows a substantial gender ga ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 17 14:50:26 PDT 2003

25634 [lbo-talk] at the CFR, again -- rank: 1000

I went to another one of those breakfast confabs at the Council on Foreign Relations this morning - this one on the world economic scene, with Lewis Alexander (managing director, Citigroup), John Lipsky (chief economist, JP Morgan Chase), and Stephen Roach (chief economist, Morgan Stanley). Roach was his usual fairly pessimistic self; the others were pretty optimistic about a U.S. economic recovery later this year. Lipsky thought that the U.S. budget deficit wasn't a long-term problem because a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 17 14:45:58 PDT 2003

25635 [lbo-talk] spam subjects -- rank: 1000

Does anyone understand why spammers recently started using nonsense subject headings? I just got this: "litus asden uunwom." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 17 12:48:30 PDT 2003