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2776 [lbo-talk] TP & RR -- rank: 1000

background on that Tea Party survey: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0518199320101005

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 5 11:43:38 PDT 2010

2777 [lbo-talk] TP has a lot in common with Thumpers -- rank: 1000

[Can we just dispense with the idea that there's something "reachable" about these people?] <http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0513043420101005> FACTBOX-U.S. Tea Party movement similar to Christian right Oct 5 (Reuters) - Tea Party supporters who want the U.S. government to play a smaller role in the economy are more likely to back government restrictions on abortion, gay marriage and other social issues, according to a survey released on Tuesday [ID:nN05181993]. Here's a summa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 5 11:40:21 PDT 2010

2778 [lbo-talk] More on Robert Paul Wolff -- rank: 1000

On Oct 5, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > You're talking about haute cuisine. Mike Davis is talking about taco trucks cheek by jowl with noodle shops and hot dog stands, and everything topped off with rooster sauce. I've got nothing against that either. Decades ago they were making lutefisk pizza in Minnesota even. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 5 10:56:57 PDT 2010

2779 [lbo-talk] More on Robert Paul Wolff -- rank: 1000

On Oct 5, 2010, at 10:51 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > I share your sentiments. But more than "resolving difference" it tries to make difference inoffensive and, in creating unintuitive combinations of cuisines, it stresses the "arbitrary" nature of the differences. That is, rather than realizing that each cuisine (like each language) holds a mystery that can be experienced but not solved, it treats this mystery like a variable that can be inserted into any culinary e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 5 08:01:01 PDT 2010

2780 [lbo-talk] More on Robert Paul Wolff -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2010, at 6:32 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > Sometime last year, I decided to go back to school, but do so on the web. So whenever I come across some page or video that interests me, I post it. > > Doug had Robert Paul Wolff on his show Saturday and had a good interview, so I tracked RPW down. His web page is here: > > http://robertpaulwolff.blogspot.com/ It's been ages since I read it but I really enjoyed his little book on Marx's use of irony, Moneybags Must Be So Lucky. Do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 4 17:54:22 PDT 2010

2781 [lbo-talk] Tea Partiers take nearly $1m in farm subsidies -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1010/Nanny_state_extends_to_antispending_group.html> Nanny state extends to anti-spending group A classic from the AP's Henry Jackson: The president of a third party group that's targeting vulnerable Democrats for their support of government spending has herself received thousands of dollars in federal farm subsidies. Sandra Greiner is the president of the American Future Fund, an organization that has spent more than $5 million on advertisements tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 4 15:18:09 PDT 2010

2782 [lbo-talk] European Welfare State -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2010, at 3:36 PM, B. wrote: > Germaine to this topic, Doug recently played this new (!) Killing Joke song on > his show - "European Super State" Have you figured out what it means? Jaz has some sorta EU gig, right? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 4 13:03:00 PDT 2010

2783 [lbo-talk] apercu -- rank: 1000

[From The Nation's editor. Hightower's been using this phrase for at least two years.] http://twitter.com/KatrinaNation/status/25694722052 Jim Hightower on Nation cruise panel..."Dems --weaker than Canadian hot sauce." 11:07 AM Sep 27th via web Retweeted by 5 people

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 4 08:35:53 PDT 2010

2784 [lbo-talk] Some thoughts on Robert Paul Wolff -- rank: 1000

On Oct 2, 2010, at 7:21 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > I have to wonder when will Behind the News return to KPFA? They're fundraising. I was supposed to do something for this morning, but our bedroom and bathroom were flooded during a hellish storm on Thursday night/Friday morning and we spent the day cleaning up. I'll be back next week I think. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 2 18:00:31 PDT 2010

2785 [lbo-talk] highly entertaining, if lacking in redeeming social content -- rank: 1000

On Oct 1, 2010, at 4:14 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > On the Duke U. student's 'f*** list', I was amazed at how sanctimonious the comments were. Every single one was full of pity for the poor guys who had been so 'humiliated'. I thought it was pretty funny, really. Me too. The comments were amazing. Did you read all the ones that were exiled under a special hashtag. Jezebel used to be great. Now it's just the worst LCD quasi-feminism. Emily Gould really nailed 'em. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 1 15:37:30 PDT 2010

2786 [lbo-talk] the Mises gang pays tribute to Rudolf Rocker -- rank: 1000

A Tribute to Rudolf Rocker (1873 1958) by Jeff Riggenbach on October 1, 2010 ... http://mises.org/daily/4732

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 1 10:17:23 PDT 2010

2787 [lbo-talk] anti-fracking bill passes -- rank: 1000

[This just in from the Working Families Party.] A little before 1:00 a.m. last night, by a vote of 94-44, the New York State Assembly passed the moratorium on hydraulic fracture drilling. Go ahead: get up from your chair. Do a little dance, pump your fist, or do whatever you do to celebrate a victory of grassroots action over corporate power. You deserve it. At the time the bill passed last night, more than 52,000 New Yorkers had signed the petition urging the Assembly to act. We joined an incre ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 30 09:30:43 PST 2010

2788 [lbo-talk] Ravitch v. Gates -- rank: 1000

A spirited critique of Bill Gates from Diane Ravitch: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/diane-ravitch/ravitch-answers-gates.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 30 09:11:12 PST 2010

2789 [lbo-talk] WikiLeaks -- rank: 1000

http://lbo-news.com/2010/11/29/wikileaks-so-much-in-the-open/ WikiLeaks: so much in the open Looking over this latest batch of WikiLeaks, I m struck by how few surprises there are, and by how much of importance goes on pretty much in the open. An attentive reader of the news with a decent knowledge of history basically knows most of this stuff already. I don t mean this in the sense in which the bourgeois press is using it...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 29 09:07:06 PST 2010

2790 [lbo-talk] The Horrible Swiss -- rank: 1000

On Nov 29, 2010, at 11:32 AM, SA wrote: > I know you're no fan of North Korea. I'll admit my post was probably too terse to escape being unfair. My point is just that, looking around empirically, if you're trying to put your finger on what makes some societies more xenophobic and others less so, the hegemony of capital doesn't seem to be a very significant correlate, does it? So why stress it the way you did? There's also Hayek's argument that socialism and social democracy have always been c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 29 08:45:59 PST 2010