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25801 [lbo-talk] Fisk: Killing Hussein Boys May Create A New Legend - The Bad Asses Who Won't Go Down Smooth -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >In an interview with the venerable Amy Goodman on >Democracy Now!, he goes even further. Hmm, you can get something similar in the FT (without all that duo's heavy breathing): Financial Times - July 24, 2003 IRAQ: Locals say brothers died fighting like heroes By Charles Clover in Mosul Across the street from the still-smoking house in Mosul where Qusay and Uday Hussein are said to have died on Tuesday, residents who saw it happen disagree on virtually all details but ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 15:12:48 PDT 2003

25802 [lbo-talk] Bring Them Home Now [....] -- rank: 1000

Eubulides wrote: >As for who those drifters are, do tell. :-) Oh, the German Greens and A. Cockburn?

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 14:34:38 PDT 2003

25803 [lbo-talk] Re: FW: My Very, Very Allergic Reaction To Brad Delong On Chomsky (from ZNet) -- rank: 1000

Luke Benjamin Weiger wrote: >Do remember that his partner Noam found the time to reply at length to a >piece penned by Leo Casey. Which is a total waste of time, given what a jerk Casey is. But Noam is an amazingly generous guy, willing to give time & attention to all kinds of people. I admire him for it. I don't know how he does it, in fact. Doug

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25804 [lbo-talk] Bring Them Home Now [....] -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor wrote: >"Eubulides" wrote: > >> While I respect what little I remember of Norberto >> Bobbio, it does seem a little odd sometimes that the >> global eco-politics-class-struggles of the 21 century >> still get their historical bearings from how a set of >> binaries was constructed in France in 1789 ........ > >Ditto. Which is *not* to say that political taxonomy is futile. Yeah, and I always get suspicious when people evoke th ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 13:57:53 PDT 2003

25805 OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >When I was 14 on occasion after high school I would go to the old New >Yorker movie theatre on the corner of 89th St. and Broadway to get a >blowjob in the balcony toilet, and would then come home and do my >homework. At dinner one night, my father said "did you know that >today they started showing "Triumph of the Will" at the New Yorker?, my >mother said "yes, there were demonstrators against it making so much >noise you could hear it ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 13:41:08 PDT 2003

25806 [lbo-talk] cost of war... -- rank: 1000

...a running total: <http://www.costofwar.com/>

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 12:46:29 PDT 2003

25807 [lbo-talk] Leykis Names Kobe's Accuser -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >A fat loud fuck, Tom Leykis, who hosts a syndicated "talk" radio >show, named the woman who accused Kobe Bryant of sexual assault. >I've sent him my two cents on this, and I encourage others to do the >same. Seems he once, um, was encouraged to enter a program for batterers: <http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/leykis1.html>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 12:44:28 PDT 2003

25808 [lbo-talk] pinque blocque -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] >DANCING IN DISSENT > >JONATHAN PADGET, WASHINGTON POST >http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37961-2003Jul23.html > >- Your typical group of radical feminist protesters isn't likely to turn to >a Britney Spears video for inspiration. But Chicago-based Pink Bloque isn't >your typical group of radical feminist protesters. The members have eschewed >the angry, anarchist demeanor and drab wardrobe that dominates contemporary ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 11:40:46 PDT 2003

25809 [lbo-talk] Tomasky: hit Nader, hard -- rank: 1000

[the new editor of The American Prospect, Michael Tomasky, writes...] <http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2003/07/tomasky-m-07-23.html> Here they come again. As if the last two and a half years have been some sort of game show with no real consequences for America and the world, the Greens signaled at their national committee meeting this weekend that they have every intention of running a presidential candidate in 2004. It might be Ralph Nader, they say, or it could be Cynthia McKinney, ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 11:38:45 PDT 2003

25810 [lbo-talk] FW: My Very, Very Allergic Reaction To Brad Delong On Chomsky (from ZNet) -- rank: 1000

The last thing we need now, on top of the usual Stalin controversializing, is to refight the Chomsky-Faurisson affair. Enough! Stop!!!

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 11:28:16 PDT 2003

25811 [lbo-talk] Re: FW: My Very, Very Allergic Reaction To Brad Delong On Chomsky (from ZNet) -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >Herman resembles a pit bull on steriods, confined to a >cage in hundred degree weather and being taunted by a >kid with a bone. > >Doesn't this guy have a life? Where does he even get >the time to churn out this crap? I think he's retired from Wharton. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 10:10:58 PDT 2003

25812 OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>Gorbachev? > >A very impressive guy in a lot of ways... And a total product of the CPSU. So how'd it produce an impressive non-monster? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 09:55:55 PDT 2003

25813 [lbo-talk] HST rants -- rank: 1000

<http://espn.go.com/page2/s/thompson/030722.html> [...] When I went into the clinic last April 30, George Bush was about 50 points ahead of his closest Democratic opponent in next year's Presidential Election. When I finally escaped from the horrible place, less than three weeks late, Bush's job-approval ratings had been cut in half -- and even down into single digits, in some states -- and the Republican Party was panicked and on the run. It was a staggering reversal in a very short time, ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 06:20:52 PDT 2003

25814 [lbo-talk] David Brooks named an Op-Ed page columnist for The NY Times -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >What is the appeal of this guy? He's a right-wing Tom Frank? After Raines, the Times looks to be moving to the right. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 24 19:58:18 PDT 2003

25815 [lbo-talk] Iraq plans -- rank: 1000

[did this make it here? I've been very distracted doing final final final correx on my book...] Telegraph (London) - July 22, 2003 Cheney had Iraq in sights two years ago By Simon English in New York Documents released under America's Freedom of Information Act reveal that an energy task force led by vice-president Dick Cheney was examining Iraq's oil assets two years before the latest war began. The papers were obtained after a long battle with the White House by Judicial Watch, a conservative ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 24 15:58:32 PDT 2003