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28756 Rule responds to Walzer -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >In Search of Michael Walzer > >by James B. Rule Good letter. Thanks for forwarding it - esp if you don't agree with it! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 17 16:35:03 PST 2002

28757 poll -- rank: 1000

sui.generis at myrealbox.com wrote: >At 01:33 PM 3/17/02 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: >>sui.generis at myrealbox.com wrote: >> >>>brave people to vote yes if the damn thing remembers who you are >>>and it's on your server so you can see who was so insubordinate. >> >>Right. I'm keeping a little list. And I'm going to, um, do >>something with it, as soon as I figure out what. >> >>You're kidding, right? >> >>Doug > >ye ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 17 11:24:51 PST 2002

28758 poll -- rank: 1000

sui.generis at myrealbox.com wrote: >voting is a dumb idea and i'm not participating it in it except to rig it. Hey, why not vote 20 times? You post 20 times a day too. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 17 11:15:01 PST 2002

28759 Bush enters Palestine -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of attached html - which gave me the chance to strip all the =20's from the end of every line] From: "Chris Kromm" <ckromm at mindspring.com> To: "chris kromm" <chris at southernstudies.org> Subject: Bush Enters the Fray (Palestine) Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 13:55:44 -0500 A horribly written story from Time.com today -- although full of insights into the twisted imperial minds of Bush & Co., such as this gem: "Zinni is proposing to put CIA monit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 17 11:13:40 PST 2002

28760 poll -- rank: 1000

sui.generis at myrealbox.com wrote: >At 11:53 AM 3/17/02 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: >>On the crucial obscuring of email addresses in the archive >>question, the no's have the lead so far - 15 no votes, 9 yes. A bit >>over 30 hours remain before the polls close. If you haven't voted >>yet, visit <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/lbo-talk-poll.html>. >> >>Doug > > >brave people to vote yes if the damn thing remembers who you are and >it's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 17 10:41:11 PST 2002

28761 poll -- rank: 1000

sui.generis at myrealbox.com wrote: >brave people to vote yes if the damn thing remembers who you are and >it's on your server so you can see who was so insubordinate. Right. I'm keeping a little list. And I'm going to, um, do something with it, as soon as I figure out what. You're kidding, right? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 17 10:33:20 PST 2002

28762 Heartfield on Australia -- rank: 1000

Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 14:22:46 +0000 From: James Heartfield <Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk> Subject: Letter from Australia The WEEK ending 17 March 2002 LETTER FROM AUSTRALIA When Commander Norman Banks of Her Majesty's Australian Ship Adelaide stepped ashore this week for the first time since his crew picked up becalmed asylum-seekers last October he denied reports that he had seen children thrown overboard. In Australia the incident is seen as having won the general election for right-w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 17 09:15:35 PST 2002

28763 Regressions and Advances (Was: Re: Walzer on the Left) -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >It's pretty sneaky. And not terribly conclusive, from what you describe. The relative durations of shocks given to subjects in an experiment don't tell you much about whether a man will commit rape, do they? Do they compare the results of watching a war or slasher movie? Depictions of violence against men vs. depictions of violence against women? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 17 09:06:21 PST 2002

28764 poll -- rank: 1000

On the crucial obscuring of email addresses in the archive question, the no's have the lead so far - 15 no votes, 9 yes. A bit over 30 hours remain before the polls close. If you haven't voted yet, visit <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/lbo-talk-poll.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 17 08:53:39 PST 2002

28765 Chicago -- rank: 1000

oh, by the way (and the US isn't falling deeper into recession, don't blame me for that)... >INDEPENDENT PRESS ASSOCIATION FORUM > >Connecting the Dots: The Independent Press and the Enron Scandal > > >Panel discussion, featuring: > >Doug Henwood, the author of Wall Street and editor of Left Business >Observer. > >David Moberg, senior editor at In These Times. > >Joel Geier, associate editor of the International Socialist Review. > >Alysia Tate, edito ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 16 16:15:11 PST 2002

28766 Regressions and Advances (Was: Re: Walzer on the Left) -- rank: 1000

Kendall Clark wrote: >That, of course, is a tacky demurral; i.e., the hypothesis asked you to >suppose that there *were* good empirical evidence showing that (let's say >this time) violent erotic photographic and cinematic material influenced men >to have violent attitudes and behavior toward women. The evidence is as good as the specification, and I don't think you can specify anything rigorously as "violent erotic...material." >The bit about criminalization, however ju ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 16 15:18:49 PST 2002

28767 Regressions and Advances (Was: Re: Walzer on the Left) -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >In these studies, films with aggressive >sexual content clearly provoke more negative attitudes >and behaviors towards women. Behaviors? What'd they do, follow the guys around afterwards? Or did they just ask them a battery of questions? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 16 15:07:31 PST 2002

28768 effacement poll -- rank: 1000

Sooo, Marco tells me that he & Ravi have come up with a relatively quick & easy way to obscure email addresses from the archive, though of course they'll still be in google's cache. Ok, being a vulgar bourgeois I thought - I'll take a poll! So I've created a poll on the lbo website. I voted yes just to test the thing, so I'm going to subtract one yes vote. I tried to balance it with a no vote, but it remembered me and wouldn't let me vote again. So, go to <http://www.leftbusinessobse ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 16 14:45:15 PST 2002

28769 Dicks n' Dough -- rank: 1000

sui.generis at myrealbox.com wrote: >furthermore, doug participated in about two years of heated debate >on the Bad Subjects list about whether to archive anything long >term. so, those of us here from that debate know that doug knows >full well how a significant number of us feel about these issues. > >he was aware. furthermore, i've also told him frequently how we >could use spidercide and how we can obscure the email addresses so >we don't get spam. > >but he jus ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 16 12:36:46 PST 2002

28770 archives -- rank: 1000

Matt Cramer wrote: >On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, budge wrote: > >[...] > >> > If you care about your privacy, >> >> This is actually more an argument about respect for other >> people, not that I can actually put a price tag on that for >> you, so I don't actually expect you to understand that. >> But I had expected a bit more from my 'left' brethren. > >Ah, it seems you've done some homework. But it is still a cheap shot. >And I don't se ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 16 12:16:26 PST 2002