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26611 ex-radical -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >If I gave you names and quotes you'd just debate their level of >flackness or their representative quality. This sort of thing >happens here all the time and Carrol and Yoshie are experts >at it, exhibiting an amazing level of gall and chutzpah. >So I would find this routine tiresome. I know you can't come up with any names and quotes, but maybe Christopher can send you some. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 6 17:20:09 PST 2003

26612 Hitchens on Horowitz' "Second Thoughts" (1987) -- rank: 1000

["Extraordinary certitude and frantic aggressiveness" indeed. Hitchens now has his own author page on David Horowitz' website <http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=19>.] The Nation - November 7, 1987 MINORITY REPORT Christopher Hitchens There was something implicitly smug about the naming of the Second Thoughts Conference, just as there was something unmistakably sinister about its deliberations. The presumption of the title was that revisionism-in this case, post- ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 6 17:18:13 PST 2003

26613 : RE: Partying on the Right -- rank: 1000

obvious wrote: > i'm curious what you toasted to doug. I said something like this: "I ambled into the party because of a strange case of late adolescent rebellion, but I got over it. My thinking is very different now. But since membership is for life at least, I thought I'd drop in to see how things were going. In the words of a 19th century political philosopher, expropriate the expropriators." I didn't drink the stuff though; I was afraid I'd get cooties. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 6 16:36:26 PST 2003

26614 : RE: Partying on the Right -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >So, like, what kind of women to these right-wing parties attract? >Gold diggers? Religious types? Hard to say. There were almost none in my day (because there were few women at Yale, and few conservatives of any sex). Several of the women in it now seem to be religious - the toaster to the Catholic Church was one, as was a sometime Chairman who prefaced her remarks by saying she's a lay minister in the Episcopalian church. Many of them were rather well-dressed, though ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 6 16:05:04 PST 2003

26615 Vanishing Marxism on LBO-talk Re: ANSWER, cops, breakaways -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Nonetheless, I do think that there are fewer posts from Marxists on >LBO-talk than there were near the inception of the list (in 1998?). >There are still some Marxists and fellow travelers left here -- >let's see, yours truly, Jenny Brown, Carrol Cox, James Farmelant, >James Heartfield, John Mage, Lou Paulsen (whom I hope will stay), >Michael Perelman, Stephen Philion, Marta Russell, Justin Schwartz, >etc., but few of them post regularly. I guess I n ...

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26616 Partying on the Right -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030217&s=henwood> Partying on the Right by Doug Henwood We all had our youthful indiscretions that haunt us for the rest of our lives. Mine was conservatism. Sometime late in high school, I fell under the spell of Milton Friedman and Bill Buckley, and about the first thing I did when I got to college was join the Party of the Right (POR). I didn't last long in the party, only about a year. I got tired of all the pompous rituals, and political san ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 6 12:53:51 PST 2003

26617 Fwd: [kenslist] Another brilliant Bush appointee -- rank: 1000

[this has been circulating a while, but better late than never] President Bush has announced his plan to select Dr. W. David Hager to head up the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee. The committee has not met for more than two years, during which time its charter has lapsed. As a result, the Bush Administration is tasked with filling all eleven positions with new members. This position does not require Congressional approval. The FDA's Reproductive H ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 6 12:18:13 PST 2003

26618 pollster wit -- rank: 1000

This just in...the winner of the American Association for Public Opinion Research t-shir slogan contest: "The Ns justify the means."

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Date:	Thu Feb 6 12:00:56 PST 2003

26619 a better world? -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >I recommend Nick Dyer-Witherford, author of >"Cyber-Marx" and Professor of Information and Media >Studies at the University of Western Ontario. If you >read his book (and you should have, seeing as he >quoted your book ;), Yup, I noticed. But I'm mercenary, and I need stars!!!!! Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 6 11:18:01 PST 2003

26620 ANSWER, cops, breakaways -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Double standard note. When Kelley decided that she "knew" what my >intentions were re the Frida commentary you did not call her a >prick. She was drawing conclusions that she could not possibly >"know." Carrol doesn't deserve this constant hit on him when no one >else gets it for doing a similar thing. Kelley didn't call you a liar or implicity accuse you of being a cop. And I'm pretty tired of Carrol's routine nastiness - it's his default ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 6 11:10:59 PST 2003

26621 Lawrence article (wasRe: ANSWER, cops, breakaways -- rank: 1000

LouPaulsen wrote: >Furthermore the portrayal of us as valuing action over theory is at best a >half-truth. While there are some people who would say that we have no >theory, probably an equal number of people would say that we are obsessed >with rigorously applying Marxist theory and that it prevents us from dealing >with the world in a "common-sense, reasonable way". (Which, I would retort, >is justification enough for the theory.) Ok. So where's the theory? What's ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 6 10:09:42 PST 2003

26622 a better world? -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >ComRod Cox! pleasepleasplease pretty please?! Seriously, I vote for >LOB-talk luminaries who often address these topics: Jenny Brown, >Gordon Fitch, Gar Lipow, ChuckO, Michael Perelman.... As much as I'd love to, fundraisers require name brands who'll make the phones ring. I couldn't believe the effect Chomsky had on pledges - the board lit up like crazy. Even more amazing was Arundhati Roy (on another show that I sat in on), who inspired almost twice as many calls as Noa ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 6 09:21:10 PST 2003

26623 ANSWER, cops, breakaways -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Perhaps we should start judging people's politics by >how popular they might be at a cocktail party...or, >why not, how well dressed they are. Like I said to Nathan, I said reasonable and sane, not popular or personable. You guys are sounding like Bush and Powell: can't find any weapons? That's proof Saddam is hiding them! Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 6 09:14:34 PST 2003

26624 Bush to dead Israeli pilot's kids: I'll finish the job! -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Doug wrote: >> The children told Bush their father was a jet-fighter pilot who >> destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981 when Israel feared it would >> be used to develop atomic weapons. > >You would agree that the destruction of Iraq's nuclear reactor was a good >thing, right? By Israel, a country with somewhere between 100 and 400 nuclear weapons? Why do they get to keep 'em, but no one else can? Doug

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26625 ANSWER, cops, breakaways -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >My god Doug-- if being a personable guy was exclusive of supporting >monstrous crimes, most of the worst crimes of history could not have >happened. > >I've heard that the head of North Korea, Kim Jong-Il is quite personable and >modern sounding when folks talk with him, even as he has imprisoned 5% of >the population in slave camps while starving the rest through his insane >policies. > >It's not the socially-challenged that cause evil in the ...

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