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27046 [lbo-talk] Arianna v Arianna on 187 -- rank: 1000

<http://www.reason.com/hitandrun/> Nothing if Not Inconsistent A tale of two Lexis-captured CNN appearances by Arianna Huffington, discussing Proposition 187. First up, Nov. 3, 1994, just days before her then-husband was defeated by Dianne Feinstein for a U.S. Senate seat from California: "One-eighty-seven is strictly about the anger and the frustration of taxpayers, who work extremely hard, often having two jobs in one family, to take care of their families, to take care of their chi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 19 09:57:01 PDT 2003

27047 [lbo-talk] No, it's not anti-semitic -- rank: 1000

...and the LRB probably has some good editors. It's often mysterious how much better some writers read in The New Yorker than elsewhere too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 19 08:11:14 PDT 2003

27048 [lbo-talk] blackouts and deregulation -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Doug Henwood writes: > >> Our airline industry is a wreck. > >I think you have to distinguish between "old school" airline industry >(UAL, DAL, AMR) and "new school" airline industry (LUV, JBLU, AWA, >etc.). The old school folks are losing money hand over fist; airlines >like Southwest are going like gangbusters: Southwest flew the largest >number of passengers of any US arline last month, for the first time >ever. Ther ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 19 08:03:26 PDT 2003

27049 [lbo-talk] Marc Cooper: Calif turnout will be higher than normal election -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >For most of this article, I honestly thought he sounded a little bit >besotted. For better or worse, it didn't sound like his normal written >voice. And then at the end it turns out it's Arianna he's besotted with. >Are they a couple, or is this just a case of a nerd mooning from the >sidelines? No they're not a couple, but they're pretty good friends. Arianna hosted Marc's book party in LA in Feb 2001, which inspired Zoe Heller to write this column, which ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 19 07:37:45 PDT 2003

27050 [lbo-talk] blackouts and deregulation -- rank: 1000

Jeet Heer wrote: >Howard Hampton is the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party >(the leading Canadian political party of a social democratic >orientation). In the article linked below he blames recent blackouts >(not just last week but over the last few years) on deregulation. >I'm curious to know what economists on this list think of his >arguments. Is he right? And if so, can the recent blackout be used >as wedge for launching a more broadly based critique of neo-liber ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 18 13:15:26 PDT 2003

27051 [lbo-talk] Nobel prizewinner calls for civil disobedience -- rank: 1000

[Akerlof won the Nobel in economics at the same time as Joseph Stiglitz. He's most famous for a classic paper on "lemons" - you never know if a used car you're buying is a "lemon," which screws up the market mechanism. He calls for civil disobedience and lots of protest at the end.] <http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,258983,00.html> Der Spiegel - July 29, 2003 "The worst government the US has ever had" SPIEGEL ONLINE reached George A. Akerlof, co-winner ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 18 12:51:41 PDT 2003

27052 [lbo-talk] O'Reilly laments verbal mud wrestling, slander! -- rank: 1000

[from the people who brought you "fair & balanced"] New York Daily News - August 18, 2003 Calling Al Franken a satirist is a farce [by Bill O'Reilly] In a few weeks, the Fox News Channel will celebrate its seventh birthday awash in publicity and success. From virtually nothing, the organization that employs me has risen up to become one of the most powerful news agencies in the country. This is a stunning achievement, but it's also one that has engendered bitterness and controversy ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 18 09:34:39 PDT 2003

27053 [lbo-talk] mediations on sixty -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >What is it like to be sixty? > >Being sixty is asking yourself in the morning, can I make it to the >ibuprofen? At night, while brushing your remaining real teeth, it >is looking at the left-over Percodn Rx with longing. > >During the day, it is asking yourself, does any of this shit really >matter, and knowing the answer is no. Why bother with your glasses, >since you wouldn't like it, even if you could read it. At 60? This sounds more like 80. An ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 18 09:56:33 PDT 2003

27054 [lbo-talk] Re: Re: Alex Cockburn (Jonathan Ruby) -- rank: 1000

Let's forget about Ruby. As George H.W. Bush would say, he's history.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 18 09:29:32 PDT 2003

27055 [lbo-talk] Ruby -- rank: 1000

I just booted Ruby for being an asshole. Does anyone mourn his absence? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 18 09:13:45 PDT 2003

27056 [lbo-talk] Re: Re: Alex Cockburn (Jonathan Ruby) -- rank: 1000

Jonathan Ruby wrote: > > Christian fundamentalists? The Hebron settlers? The religious right in >> Israel? People who talk about the greatness of the British Empire? People >> who celebrate Columbus? Aren't you the least worried about these fruitcakes? > >I worry about all kinds of fruitcakes - especially those who tell >stupid lies about countries and peoples of whom they know >nothing. Feel free to let your clan know that that was meant >personally. I haven' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 18 09:04:22 PDT 2003

27057 [lbo-talk] Don't leave entire thread in a reply -- rank: 1000

Bryan Atinsky wrote: >Max (and I am not trying to single you out, it is just that you were the >last one to do it), can you please not make a reply and then leave in the >entire thread, article, etc. with only a one or two sentence reply. > >Just write your comment, go through the article and pick pertinant quotes >you refer to, and delete the rest. Yes, please. Thank you. Doug

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Date:	Mon Aug 18 09:02:01 PDT 2003

27058 [lbo-talk] Cato explains the blackout -- rank: 1000

[regulate? ha! if that worked, Cuba & N Korea would be economic powerhouses!] ---- Wall Street Journal - August 18, 2003 Outside the Grid By JERRY TAYLOR and PETER VAN DOREN As we write, no one has a definitive explanation for the electricity blackout that affected millions of people across eight states last Thursday afternoon -- the largest such system failure in our nation's history. We do know that a sudden imbalance in power flows occurred in a transmission system that connects the Midwe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 18 07:28:38 PDT 2003

27059 [lbo-talk] WSJ post-mortem on blackout -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - August 18, 2003 Overloaded Circuits: Outage Signals Major Weakness in U.S. Power Grid By REBECCA SMITH Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Last week's massive blackout could be the shock to the system needed to draw attention to critical flaws in the nation's power grid. It won't be clear for a while exactly what triggered the cascading collapse that removed enough power from an eight-state, two country system of generating plants, substations and high-voltage power l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 18 07:26:04 PDT 2003

27060 [lbo-talk] parecon -- rank: 1000

I've rescheduled my interview with Michael Albert about his new Parecon book for this Thursday - a little problem with the electricity forced a postponement from last Thursday. I've asked him to join the list for a bit following the interview to have a conversation about the book and the scheme in general, probably starting about a week from now, and he's agreed. So, if you're interested, please take a look at the book, or his articles on the subject, or listen to the interview. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 17 07:59:22 PDT 2003