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25726 [lbo-talk] aphorisms -- rank: 1000
At 7:08 PM -0400 5/28/03, Chuck0 wrote: >The problem with capitalism is that it takes up too many of my days. At 6:09 PM -0400 6/1/03, Chuck0 wrote: >Leninist. Trotskyist. Social Democrat. It's all the same to me. At 4:02 PM -0400 6/3/03, Chuck0 wrote: >Disillusioned Left? Are we really disillusioned? It's great having you here, Chuck. Doug
Document Size: 4832
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jun 3 13:43:52 PDT 2003
25727 [lbo-talk] Bill "cut his mic" O'Reilly vs Al "Clinton's Army" Franken -- rank: 1000
Dennis Perrin wrote: >O'Reilly's an asshole I can't watch him anymore, or the rest of the Fox gang. About the second or third day of the war on Iraq it stopped being entertaining and became entirely appalling. Yuck. Doug
Document Size: 5246
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jun 3 11:44:31 PDT 2003
25728 [lbo-talk] Critique of Roy -- rank: 1000
[From the World War III Report.] ARUNDHATI ROY GIVES A DISILLUSIONED LEFT WHAT IT WANTS by Subuhi Jiwani The recent review in the Village Voice of Arundhati Roy's new book War Talk (South End Press, Boston, 2003) concluded with the following reflection: "Most essayists are content to make you think; Roy wants to make you believe." Living up to these words, on May 13, Roy intoxicated New York's disillusioned Left at Riverside Church with satire, drama and metaphor. Roy opened with a di ...
Document Size: 11585
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jun 3 09:26:03 PDT 2003
25729 [lbo-talk] LBO in Mexico -- rank: 1000
SergioL652 at aol.com wrote: >They translated your title to "shitty", not crappy. Yeah, I noticed. Is there no "crappy" in Spanish? Doug
Document Size: 4654
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jun 2 19:51:29 PDT 2003
25730 [lbo-talk] Ignorance in action (was democrats in action) -- rank: 1000
andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Now this is political naivete and it shows the kind of >ignorance of the way the govt REALLY works that has >put the Dems in the fix they are now. The GOP long ago >declared open season on the Dems, and have been >fighting total war, while the Dems pretend this is >still Marquis of Queensberry Rules with a loyal >opposition and both parties concerned about the Good >of the Country. If the Dems had declared war and >fought it, they'd be a pa ...
Document Size: 5927
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jun 2 15:52:33 PDT 2003
25731 [lbo-talk] no dissent, we're Americans! -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >When I began opposing the Vietnam War in the mid '60s I still assumed >(and had never seen anything to the contrary in any publication) that >the Korean War had been a "good war." Hey, Michael Walzer says it was. Doug
Document Size: 4835
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jun 2 15:48:55 PDT 2003
25732 [lbo-talk] no dissent, we're Americans! -- rank: 1000
R wrote: >how far back does your memory go? if you're old enough, haven't you noticed >some change from the days of edward r morrow to today, nationally? I'm 50, so my memory of Murrow is very dim. These media histories are always very selective. Murrow had many virtues but he still was years too late in going after McCarthy. CBS kept blacklisting Commies even after McC's censure by the Senate. Going way back, when Alexander Woollcott delivered an anti-Nazi commentary on CBS radio in 1935 ...
Document Size: 5579
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jun 2 15:07:37 PDT 2003
25733 [lbo-talk] another birthday -- rank: 1000
The Marquis (Donatien Alphonse Francois, Comte) de Sade would be 263. Celebrate appropriately!
Document Size: 4502
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jun 2 14:41:39 PDT 2003
25734 [lbo-talk] no dissent, we're Americans! -- rank: 1000
R wrote: >delightful story. especially in light of today's FCC ruling. we have six >companies controlling most of the mass media in the USA today. any bets on >how long it will take before six becomes one, and who that one will be? When were things much better? I don't get the concentration argument - do we really prefer a media world run by Hearsts & Chandlers? Doug
Document Size: 4968
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jun 2 13:32:23 PDT 2003
25735 [lbo-talk] Re: consensus-direct-representative democracy etc -- rank: 1000
Gar Lipow wrote: >But I disagee with you if you think that our current situation was >produced democratically, and that more democracy would make it worse. I don't think it was produced democratically, no. But we've got to deal with the world that we inherited, and on many many issues, Americans hold fairly barbaric views. >Even on issues on which is most popular to be reactioary, public >opinion is to the left of current public policy. Anti-gay prejudice >(this really isn't a str ...
Document Size: 5546
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jun 2 13:31:25 PDT 2003
25736 [lbo-talk] up up & away! -- rank: 1000
[hmm, time to short the Nasdaq?] Nasdaq run fails to worry tech stock bulls Monday June 2, 4:03 pm ET By James Paton NEW YORK, June 2 (Reuters) - If the bear market has bred a new generation of conservative, tech-leery investors, you wouldn't know it by talking to mutual fund managers. Instead of cashing in their tech stock chips after a more than 20 percent climb for the Nasdaq (NasdaqSC:^IXIC - News) this year, many big investors are showing persistent faith in the sector, trusting the rally i ...
Document Size: 7282
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jun 2 13:08:53 PDT 2003
25737 [lbo-talk] LBO in Mexico -- rank: 1000
A translation of my "Crappy Little Countries" piece from LBO #104 was published over the weekend in La Jornada, the Mexican daily. That makes me happy. For those interested, it's at <http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2003/jun03/030601/mas-doug.html>. Doug
Document Size: 4726
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jun 2 09:57:20 PDT 2003
25738 [lbo-talk] "more deductive than empirical" -- rank: 1000
What a lovely way to put it! <http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,455767-2,00.html> "Over the past two weeks, TIME has interviewed several dozen current and former intelligence officials and experts at the Pentagon and cia and on Capitol Hill to try to understand how the public version of the intelligence got so far ahead of the evidence. The reporting suggests that from the start the process was more deductive than empirical...."
Document Size: 5054
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jun 2 08:45:15 PDT 2003
25739 [lbo-talk] Gypsies -- rank: 1000
What was Soviet/EE policies towards Gypsies during the Communist days? Surely they weren't allowed to beg, steal, and keep their kids out of school. Doug
Document Size: 4501
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jun 2 08:05:18 PDT 2003
25740 [lbo-talk] MN: Repugs beginning to worry Iraq will be bad for them -- rank: 1000
Luke Weiger wrote: >Doug wrote: >> By the way, speaking of the potential for bourgeois troubles for >> Bush, my window into upper middle class thinking, the Yale class of >> 1975 listserv, is showing considerable fear & alarm at the Bush >> admin. Upstanding professionals are throwing around words and phrases >> like "disaster," "fascism," "ruin of the U.S.," "climate of fear," >> and "emigration." ...
Document Size: 6167
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jun 2 08:00:07 PDT 2003
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