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27781 a critique of the march on Sandton -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >But don't get in the way of those who want to burn the convention center down. You've got to be kidding, Chuck. There's the immediate problem of massive numbers of cops who would have shredded anyone who tried, and the less immediate one of discrediting any movement that did something like that. Are you really interested in a political transformation, or just in getting your ya-yas out? Doug

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Date:	Mon Sep 2 11:04:38 PDT 2002

27782 Mencken, thou shouldst be living at this hour -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Even Mencken's best stuff has a sledge-hammer, har-har quality. Wish I had the exact wording on this, but as the man said, there are times when you want to roll up your sleeves, hoist the black flag, and start slitting throats. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 1 16:31:05 PDT 2002

27783 a critique of the march on Sandton -- rank: 1000

[and a counter to yesterday's commentary from Patrick Bond] From: "Patrick Bond" <pbond at sn.apc.org> To: <debate at sunsite.wits.ac.za> After the March on the Left by Franco Barchiesi . Saturday August 31, 2002 at 07:01 PM <f_barchiesi at yahoo.com> Critical comments on today's march AFTER THE MARCH ON THE LEFT Franco Barchiesi We at Indymedia South Africa had announced in a previous comment that today' s march on the WSSD would have been also a "march on the l ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 1 13:48:19 PDT 2002

27784 Vidal: In Defense of Mencken -- rank: 1000

s-t-t at juno.com wrote: >Admittedly, I am quite found of Tom Tomorrow. Good core there. Still, >there's something about the sheer bombast of Mencken, a verve not so >apparent in Tomorrow's work. And TT just isn't very funny. He's too busy being earnest and correct. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 1 13:44:25 PDT 2002

27785 Vidal: In Defense of Mencken -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Mencken is essentially cotton candy for snobs. And you are a ground glass cocktail for grumpy sectarians. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 1 13:38:23 PDT 2002

27786 Mencken, thou shouldst be living at this hour -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Of course he wasn't a thinker - he was a journalist! And I'm well >aware of his numerous hateful shortcomings. But like I said, he was >a great polemicist and funny as hell. Why oh why must the left >(which of course doesn't exist in the Coxian orthodoxy) ceaselessly >invoke all the familiar pieties? It's as if lefties (if they exist, that is) are afraid of being caught having an unorthodox thought, so they have to compensate by reciting the equivalent of the ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 1 12:52:18 PDT 2002

27787 Mencken, thou shouldst be living at this hour -- rank: 1000

Christopher Rhoades D˙kema wrote: >Mencken had many virtues, but also was, as Carrol points out, quite >benightedly anti-Jewish, and also, though ambivalently, racist. >Check out his diary. All these qualities come through in it. >Moreover, his reputation for anti-religious enlightenment, though >deserved in many ways, needs careful examination. He tended to go >somewhat light on Catholicism, mostly because he saw the temperance >movement and prohibition as anti-Catholic (It ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 1 12:41:05 PDT 2002

27788 Empire weighs in -- rank: 1000

[Hitch wouldn't approve of all this root cause stuff.] New York Times - September 1, 2002 Confronting Anti-American Grievances By ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI WASHINGTON - Nearly a year after the start of America's war on terrorism, that war faces the real risk of being hijacked by foreign governments with repressive agendas. Instead of leading a democratic coalition, the United States faces the risk of dangerous isolation. The Bush administration's definition of the challenge that America confronts has ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 1 10:59:57 PDT 2002

27789 list movment -- rank: 1000

The lbo-talk list will soon be moving from Panix to Jordan Hayes' infothecary server, thereby saving your moderator $250-300/mo. I'll try to make it as painless and "transparent" as possible, but I apologize in advance for any transitional glitches. Watch this space for further announcements. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 1 10:53:28 PDT 2002

27790 Mencken, thou shouldst be living at this hour -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet recommended: >http://tentmaker.org/articles/The-Touchstoning_of_Americas_Heart.htm ...where one reads an unsurprising critique of the filth purveyed by Hollywood (with which some Z writers might be in partial agreement!), but also a critique of imperialism and greed and: >What the United States of America needs right now is not to start >another war, this one a "War on Terrorism." This is NOT a time to >wave the nationalistic pride flag, especially for Christian ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 1 10:34:11 PDT 2002

27791 Mencken, thou shouldst be living at this hour -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Cockburn flirts with anti-semitic language. Mencken was aggressively >anti-semitic. I'm not sure we need him all that badly. This coming from a Pound scholar? Mencken had lots of flaws. But he was a brilliant polemicist and funny as hell. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 1 09:51:26 PDT 2002

27792 "Republican shill" -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >The people on the street I hear this from are usually uninformed >Clinton apologists This guy's not a Clinton apologist - he's an aspiring standup comic. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 31 16:41:02 PST 2002

27793 Gore V's conspiracy article -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I don't know if it's a conspiracy, but I get a blank page when I click on >that link. Can other people connect? Heavens, The IP police must have taken it down. It was there yesterday. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 31 16:35:55 PST 2002

27794 Are Marches Pep-Rallies? (was Antiwar Protest Largest Since '60s) -- rank: 1000

Dddddd0814 at aol.com wrote: >Dennis Perrin, a >Democratic Party liberal That's almost as funny as the characterizations in Workers Vanguard: "reformers and centrists like the ISO..." Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 31 15:37:17 PST 2002

27795 "Republican shill" -- rank: 1000

So it's come to this... The guy who works at the cafe next door to my office asked me if I knew anything about the movie that's playing around the corner at the Film Forum, "The Trial of Henry Kissinger." I said, yes, it's based on a book by Christopher Hitchens... ...at which point he interrupted me and said, "Hitchens? I don't don't believe anything he says. He's just a Republican shill." It was too beautiful to correct. Doug

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Date:	Thu Oct 31 12:05:29 PST 2002