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25876 [lbo-talk] Queen for a Day: My Gay Makeover -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Now the same medium features guys like Butch and Adam laboring >intensely to look more gay. And all across America, straight guys >will watch the show, and from their stained, sagging couches, where >they sit in their boxers drinking Budweiser from a can, they'll see >people's lives transformed by queerness, and they'll think, "Dude, >maybe someday that could be me." Wow. Sometimes I think there is hope for America. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 13 15:20:39 PDT 2003

25877 [lbo-talk] education, skills, protection, was: India and cheap labor -- rank: 1000

Tom Roche wrote: >Interestingly, even mainstream analysts are starting to admit this. >E.g. Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute: Jared is a smart fellow, but he's hardly mainstream - he's pro-worker and pro-union, as is his employer. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 13 13:00:04 PDT 2003

25878 [lbo-talk] Dude, Chomsky Rocks! -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >Fourth question down > >http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/13/magazine/13QUESTIONS.html Love the follow-up question on reality TV shows. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 13 07:10:51 PDT 2003

25879 [lbo-talk] blade indeed -- rank: 1000

Toledo Daily Blade - June 25, 2003 Loree's Mailbox: Boy's fondness for speedos worries mom Dear Annie: Last summer, my 14-year-old son, "Jonah," and I spent a week in Florida. While he seemed fascinated by the girls in their sexy bikinis, it surprised me that he also paid a lot of attention to some boys who were wearing scanty bathing suits. I have seen boys wearing speedos, of course, mostly in swim competitions. However, the styles we saw looked smaller. When Jonah asked if he could ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 12 18:56:01 PDT 2003

25880 [lbo-talk] Thavage -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Michael Pugliese] <http://www.radarmagazine.com/freshintelligence.html> ARTIFACT RIGHT-WING SHLOCK-JOCK MIKE SAVAGE HAS A SECRET. Since recapping his racist and homophobic rants in our premiere issue, we've learned that the ex-liberal (aka Michael Weiner) whose syndicated radio program The Savage Nation (aka Sieg Heil on the Dial) was scooped up by a desperate MSNBC was once a close friend and pen-pal of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg. It took a search of the Howl author's collected l ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 17:47:00 PDT 2003

25881 [lbo-talk] Re: Re: fighting ideology -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >And leave progressives to go about their own business. Which is what? I've heard you snarl about what it isn't, but could you enlighten us about what you recommend that we all do? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 16:22:57 PDT 2003

25882 [lbo-talk] diary entry -- rank: 1000

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review] EVELYN WAUGH, 11 JULY 1924 - Chris [Hollis] turned up in the morning and told me a good story. Mr Justice Phillimore was trying a sodomy case and brooded greatly whether his judgment had been right. He went to consult [former Lord Chancellor] Bikenhead. 'Excuse me, my lord, but could you tell me -- What do your think one ought to give a man who allows himself to be buggered?' Oh, 30s or £2 -- anything you happen to have on you.'

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 14:37:56 PDT 2003

25883 [lbo-talk] Sen Springer? -- rank: 1000

Jerry Springer Steps Closer to Senate Bid Fri Jul 11, 1:21 PM ET By Andrew Stern CHICAGO (Reuters) - Self-styled populist Jerry Springer, whose TV talk show features adulterous, brawling guests, took a step closer on Friday to becoming a Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Ohio. Springer, a 59-year-old former mayor of Cincinnati whose show is filmed in Chicago, filed candidacy papers for the 2004 race with the secretary of the Senate in Washington, but will wait until later this month to make a ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 14:12:14 PDT 2003

25884 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Re: fighting ideology] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I don't see that at all. I accept Angela's observation that there is no >way to exist outside of ideology. That concession made, however, I can >think of a very practical example of why this is such an appealing >analysis: lesser evil politics. The Democrats are in no way the lesser >evil. But liberal ideologists - Nathan, you here? - can make some >pseudo-credible arguments to the contrary. The moment you accept that >there's an element of truth to lesser ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 13:48:56 PDT 2003

25885 [lbo-talk] Waksal in stripes -- rank: 1000

New York Post - July 11, 2003 WAKSAL THE FLOORS By AL GUART and JOHN LEHMANN Martha Stewart's champagne-swilling, insider-trading pal, Sam Waksal, will do his time in a prison facility in the mountains of Pennsylvania where he'll be working for as little as 16 cents an hour cleaning dishes and sweeping floors. The disgraced ImClone founder wanted the Bureau of Prisons to find him a spot in balmy Florida at Eglin Air Force Base - a facility once rated by Forbes magazine as the "Best Place to ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 13:32:18 PDT 2003

25886 [lbo-talk] sweatshops breaking Indians -- rank: 1000

Wired News - 02:00 AM Jul. 11, 2003 PT IT Sweatshops Breaking Indians By Manu Joseph <http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59477,00.html> MUMBAI, India -- Outsourcing tech jobs to India has caused turmoil for workers in the United States and Europe. But it seems it's causing turmoil for Indians, as well. An estimated 50,000 young English-speaking Indians who work in call centers here are exposed to a host of health problems. They are usually in their early 20s, just out of college an ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 13:18:21 PDT 2003

25887 [lbo-talk] Re: Note on Lieven -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Japan, which >they'll try to keep a grip on at almost all costs (it's our virtual central >bank, for christsakes) More an ATM than a central bank. They're just supposed to provide the cash, not policy advice. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 12:59:25 PDT 2003

25888 [lbo-talk] George & Laura watch elephants doing it -- rank: 1000

<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030710/170/4n4ah.html>

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 09:40:20 PDT 2003

25889 [lbo-talk] depends on the meaning of is -- rank: 1000

[from Slate's Today's Papers] According to the WP, the CIA considered the Africa report to be "sketchy." Furthermore, administration officials have never been provided with the source of Britain's information, which apparently was provided by an unidentified "third country." Early drafts of Bush's speech, however, included a mention of the uranium claim but did not initially source the British government for the information. While USAT says the CIA successfully pressed for th ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 09:37:59 PDT 2003

25890 [lbo-talk] Savage in perspective -- rank: 1000

Jon Carroll in the SF Chronicle: >Michael Savage, whose show was on basic cable channel MSNBC, had >347,000 viewers. By comparison, during the week of June 9, basic >cable's "SpongeBob SquarePants" had an audience of 2.6 million, >while "The Osbournes" had an audience of 2.7 million.

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Date:	Fri Jul 11 09:35:12 PDT 2003