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27001 [lbo-talk] The Most Hellish Hell Of All? (was, school uniforms) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >From the viewpoint of the _rest_ >of the world the u.s. is probably much worse, a much greater threat, >than Hitler ever was. You have some evidence for this extravagant claim, which you've made many times? Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 26 16:27:12 PDT 2003

27002 [lbo-talk] Sad Story -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Brian: >> Oh, my God, we're living under the NAZIS? Why didn't anyone TELL me? >How >> could I have been so easily DELUDED by the lack of storm troopers, >> Waffen-SS, and Gestapo officers running our lives? How could I have >> MISSED the CONCENTRATION CAMPS just outside of Philadelphia? Why did I >> not NOTICE the sudden disappearance of all my Jewish friends? Oh, my >> GOD, how could I have IGNORED this for so long? > ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 26 16:25:52 PDT 2003

27003 [lbo-talk] Sad Story -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >On a long car trip today, I discussed politics with my >almost-14 year old daughter, and the Clintons came up >as a topic. She said she'd vore for Hilary cause she's >smart. I said I didn't like them because they knew >what was right and did the wrong thing. Like what, she >said. I said, like full employment, nationa; health, >no striker replacement. Oh, she said, you mean >_communism._ Like Ralph Nader. > >So that is how things look to a ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 26 16:05:32 PDT 2003

27004 [lbo-talk] school uniforms (was: Ehrenreich responds to BDL) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Also the plain vulgarity of thinking that choosing this color or >that color for a shirt has anything to do with freedom or autonomy. Why not? People choose their clothes because of the way they feel and the kind of groups they want to affiliate themselves with. That's freedom of expression and association, which, despite their bourgeois roots, are rather fundamental rights that I think should be embraced and expanded, not dismissed with a patronizing sneer. If you could ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 26 15:54:40 PDT 2003

27005 [lbo-talk] school uniforms (was: Ehrenreich responds to BDL) -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >There is a big difference! The Catholic school uniformity comes >explicitly and unabashedly from above and as a result often instills the >life-long disgust for authority in right-minded individuals. The >corporate standards of fashion, by contrast, are imposed from above just >as the Catholic school uniformity is - but they are cleverly disguised >as "individual choice." As a result, people slavishly follow them >without even knowing t ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 26 15:38:50 PDT 2003

27006 [lbo-talk] mattoid(al) -- rank: 1000

Jonathan Schwarz wrote: >What does "mattoidal" mean? Pug gave you the context, but there's this great thing called dictionary.com that has this helpful definition: >mattoid > >\Mat"toid\, n. [It. matto mad (cf. L. mattus, matus, drunk) + -oid.] >A person of congenitally abnormal mind bordering on insanity or >degeneracy.

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Date:	Tue Aug 26 15:34:09 PDT 2003

27007 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [cultstud-l] Sokal & Bricmont or Lenin? -- rank: 1000

From: "Michael Simkin" <simkin_michael at hotmail.com> To: "CULTSTUD-L: A listserv devoted to Cultural Studies" <cultstud-l at lists.acomp.usf.edu> Subject: [cultstud-l] Sokal & Bricmont or Lenin? Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 18:45:04 -0700 X-URL: <http://www.cas.usf.edu/communication/rodman/cultstud/> Dear Collegues, some of you are probably familiar with the book "Fashionable Nonsense" by Sokal & Bricmont (the book grew out of the celebrated S ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 26 15:12:55 PDT 2003

27008 [lbo-talk] school uniforms (was: Ehrenreich responds to BDL) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Ah come on. Give an argument. I really don't understand the concept of >"expressing one's individuality." What does it mean? What is an >"individuality," and how can it be expressed? In your case, i was referring to your constant prescriptions for how everyone else should think and act. The tone is that of a one-way communication - i.e., Carrol talks, others listen and learn. It's not a very social or sociable mode of discourse. It can be pretty fu ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 26 14:45:54 PDT 2003

27009 [lbo-talk] NEJM sez: Single payer would solve all US's healthcare problems -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >[Isn't the New England Journal of Medicine pretty much the official >house organ of >American Medicine?] I used to see it pretty regularly, but haven't for a few years. Then, esp under editor Arthur Relman, it was on the "liberal" end of the medical spectrum, critical of market incentives in health care. The cynical interpretation of this would be that, having seen managed care, it preferred a more public sector solution - to preserve the old professiona ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 26 14:41:16 PDT 2003

27010 [lbo-talk] Sad Story -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >In the current LBO Doug suggest that a "will to ignorance suggests a >troubled conscience." Probably in some cases, but it's a pretty damn >superficial explanation: at best it names what needs to be explained >rather than explaining anything. It certainly can't explain the "will to >ignorance" of those people who were themselves dying from the lead in >the air of their town. So what's your explanation, Wise One?

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Date:	Tue Aug 26 13:39:23 PDT 2003

27011 [lbo-talk] Forecast: Russia's GDP to grow 15%-18% in 2003-2005 -- rank: 1000

Peter Lavelle wrote: >Chris is correct it is about half. However, Russia had changed ...and many things now require cash that used to come for free or near-free, no? How much growth is the result of paying for things that used to be state perks? Are rents and utilities still nominally priced, or are they heading towards market levels? Doug

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Date:	Tue Aug 26 07:43:45 PDT 2003

27012 [lbo-talk] Radio archives -- rank: 1000

martin schiller wrote: >With my dialup connection the streaming link would probably be futile - >it is - and the download link on the page causes my G4 mac to try to play >the file. Any attempt to download it with the contextual menus gives me a >'file does not exist' error. If any of you are mac/radio archive users >who have downloaded any of the archive files could point the way for me >I'd be grateful. If your browser is playing the file instead of downloading, you need to r ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 26 07:16:09 PDT 2003

27013 [lbo-talk] Radio archives -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > >On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, martin schiller wrote: > >> With my dialup connection the streaming link would probably be futile > >Really? I listen on a dialup connection all the time with no problem. >Doug's made a lower fidelity version of every show especially for people >with slow connections. I use a 56K dialup at home, and I've had no >trouble listening to either of them. It's a 16kbps signal, so there should be plenty of bandwidth to spare. ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 26 06:59:32 PDT 2003

27014 [lbo-talk] school uniforms (was: Ehrenreich responds to BDL) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Why in the world would anyone want to "express his/her individuality"? Ask yourself that, man. You do it all the time. Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 23 06:55:53 PDT 2003

27015 [lbo-talk] Servant culture -- rank: 1000

Diane Monaco wrote: >Sure, that is what the US Department of Commerce did when it >standardized our national income and product accounts (GNP) in the >1940s; the economists involved defined "production" by including >some activities and not others. Look at the production process >closely and decide...that's what others have done including Simon >Kuznets who was involved in the project for a while...that's what I >was doing. But for the record Simon Kuznets quit t ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 22 12:40:59 PDT 2003