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28306 Bashing Al Sharpton (Was: Re: Chomsky News Network) -- rank: 1000

alex lantsberg wrote: >is there a URL for this interview? i've been googling like mad with little >to show for it. Doesn't look that way. Transition is at <http://web-dubois.fas.harvard.edu/transition/>, but they list issue 90 as the current ish, and the Sharpton interview is in 91 (and darn, don't I know how that feels!). Doug

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Date:	Fri May 31 14:27:24 PDT 2002

28307 a list -- rank: 1000

R wrote: >if anyone was wondering how people like ayn rand, shrub, chairman >greenspan, richard nixon or henry kissinger, get that way .... Not sure what you mean by that, but if it's that those folks had mothers who felt like the mother in Winnicott's list, well that's not his point. His point is that even good mothers (or what he called elsewhere good-enough mothers) feel those hateful things, and the failure to recognize that in the context of what is an affectionate relationship overal ...

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Date:	Fri May 31 14:24:12 PDT 2002

28308 How Great We Are -- rank: 1000

Ok, Max, how do you run a welfare state that anyone could walk in and claim benefits in? Doug Max Sawicky wrote: >Neo-classical economics alert!!! > >mbs > >"Beware of those who wave the white flag to oppose the red flag." > -- Mousey Tung > > > >> The welfare state and open borders are incompatible, both in >> capitalist and socialist nations, in the capitalist world economy. >> Yoshie

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Date:	Fri May 31 13:35:38 PDT 2002

28309 Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

budge wrote: >On Fri, 31 May 2002 at 2:44pm Doug Henwood wrote: > >> kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >> >> >so how is this 'Love America" to say this, doug? carrol? >> >> "Love America" is a bit of a caricature. But you seemed >> to think it important to profess patriotic feelings, and >> invoked your mother-in-law's reaction as something of a >> test. I don't know your m-i-l, but I don't feel any >> compulsion ...

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Date:	Fri May 31 13:34:02 PDT 2002

28310 Sandusky, Ohio -- Paris, Texas -- Etc. Re: Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Honestly? NYC and Toronto, for instance, have much more in common >with each other than, say, NYC and Sandusky, Ohio (ever see a >[pretty lame] movie called _Edge of Seventeen_, a gay coming-of-age >story set in Sandusky?). If _you_ are given a choice between living >in Paris, Texas and living in Paris, France, you'd choose the latter >_in a heartbeat_, provided you can make a living there. Yup. I like Toronto a lot. Like Melbourne and London too. And ...

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28311 Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >oh, another thing, have always been intriqued by above attitude >about place, how 'american exceptionalism' becomes - take a pick - >new york/san fran/berkeley exceptionalism... Beats Florida non-exceptionalism any day. >and one more thing, spalding gray, yuuuck... michael hoover Mostly I agree. I like the line though. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 31 13:25:22 PDT 2002

28312 a list -- rank: 1000

Apropos of nothing (well maybe the patriotism thread, tangentially), except that I just came across a copy of this paper in my files, this classic list of reasons why the mother hates her baby from D.W. Winnicott's "Hate In The Counter-Transference" (International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 30 [1949], part 2, pp. 69-74). >The mother, however, hates her infant from the word go. I believe >Freud thought it possible that a mother may under certain >circumstances have only love fo ...

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Date:	Fri May 31 13:12:54 PDT 2002

28313 [Fwd: Re: Query on Book Review] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > Does anyone on this list have a comment on the review of Gould in the >June 10 _Nation_ by David Hawkes? I forwarded this to David Hawkes, a pal of mine (and someone well-known to all Bad Subjects list alums). I'll post his response. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 31 11:48:04 PDT 2002

28314 Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >so how is this 'Love America" to say this, doug? carrol? "Love America" is a bit of a caricature. But you seemed to think it important to profess patriotic feelings, and invoked your mother-in-law's reaction as something of a test. I don't know your m-i-l, but I don't feel any compulsion to shape my comments to please her. Convince, provoke, inspire thought, sure, but why should Chomsky or I or anyone have to play the God Bless America game? Do ...

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Date:	Fri May 31 11:44:53 PDT 2002

28315 Bashing Al Sharpton (Was: Re: Chomsky News Network) -- rank: 1000

Kendall Grant Clark wrote: >* his "Big Left & Liberal Tent" microstrategy for running for prez in 04 comes > across, at least for me, as rather inspirational; I'm not sure it's terribly > realistic or will be a winning strategy, but it strikes me as a better > strategy than Nader's in '00 (well, for some value of 'better') Yup. He very clearly wants to be seen as a leader of a broad left coalition (and he doesn't shy away from the word "left" either). Bu ...

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Date:	Fri May 31 11:39:57 PDT 2002

28316 Bashing Al Sharpton (Was: Re: Chomsky News Network) -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >I first heard that when I was 8 years old. About Richard Nixon. Check out the Transition interview. Nixon never talked like that, and I've got a weak spot for the Trickster. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 31 11:33:33 PDT 2002

28317 Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >At 12:37 PM 5/31/02 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: >>kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >> >>>whose been on the Love America side, eh? >> >>You, Nathan, and Justin come right to mind. (And I'm sure that >>among the 300+ lurkers there are sympathizers.) The Hate America >>crowd is no larger. >> >>Doug > >and where do you fit? Like I said, one foot in each camp. There are things to love about it, and thin ...

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28318 Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >whose been on the Love America side, eh? You, Nathan, and Justin come right to mind. (And I'm sure that among the 300+ lurkers there are sympathizers.) The Hate America crowd is no larger. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 31 09:37:57 PDT 2002

28319 Chomsky News Network -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: <kelley at pulpculture.org> > >> How much of this patriotic deep throating does Noam >>have to do before he's considered a good American? >> >>Miles > >-just to turn the tables: isn't that precisely what goes on here if anyone >-says anything in defense of US culture? isn't it the case that you have to >-suck the cock and both balls of your fellow lefties and prove you're a real >-le ...

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28320 How Great We Are -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The welfare state and open borders are incompatible, both in >capitalist and socialist nations, in the capitalist world economy. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, pp. 142-143: The definitely antagonistic attitude which most planners take toward internationalism is further explained by the fact that in the existing world all outside contacts of a group are obstacles to their effectively planning the sphere in which they can attempt it. It is therefore no accident that, as ...

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