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2956 [lbo-talk] ruins of Detroit -- rank: 1000

On May 23, 2010, at 10:31 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > The only strange thing about it is that the director (art-punk > Julien Temple) has put loads of music in, but almost no motown. Not a prob for me. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 23 07:57:19 PDT 2010

2957 [lbo-talk] FYI: Friends donīt let friends read Ayn Rand -- rank: 1000

On May 22, 2010, at 12:32 PM, B. wrote: > I'm the one who originally made that pic in Graphic Converter on my > iMac ("I'm Horny!"). It's the Mac's equivalent of MS Paint, basically. You've earned a spot in history!

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Date:	Sat May 22 18:01:01 PDT 2010

2958 [lbo-talk] Noam 1, Israelo-apartheid 0 -- rank: 1000

On May 21, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > Anyway, I am sadly disappointed that the breast feeding fad of the > 70s has probably disappeared. Heavens no. At least not in hotbeds of artisinal parenting like Manhattan & Brooklyn. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 21 14:25:12 PDT 2010

2959 [lbo-talk] American Radical -- rank: 1000

On May 21, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > This all makes me admire Dershowitz, we should get some people like > him on our side. C'mon, that's pure thuggery, in the service of bullshit and misery.

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Date:	Fri May 21 11:42:51 PDT 2010

2960 [lbo-talk] American Radical -- rank: 1000

Apropos the vindictiveness of the Harvard hotshot, when The New Press was about to publish a book by Finkelstein, Dershowitz wrote a letter to every member of the press's board reminding them of what a bad bad man Norman is. The press wavered, thanks to all the foundation-y pwogs on the board and in management, so Norman stormed off an took the manuscript to the University of California Press. They published it, but not before Dersh called Schwarzenegger to see if he could head off the pu ...

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Date:	Fri May 21 10:18:30 PDT 2010

2961 [lbo-talk] Rand -- rank: 1000

My pal Corey Robin writes... <http://www.thenation.com/article/garbage-and-gravitas> Garbage and Gravitas Corey Robin St. Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher. The third was neither but thought she was both. Many other people have thought so too. In 1998 readers responding to a Modern Library poll identified Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead as the two greatest novels of the twentieth century su ...

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Date:	Fri May 21 08:45:22 PDT 2010

2962 [lbo-talk] Noam 1, Israelo-apartheid 0 -- rank: 1000

On May 21, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Mike Beggs wrote: > Yeah, it's ludicrous... Just in case the smirk wasn't clear when I > posted that link. Oh, whew. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 21 08:29:08 PDT 2010

2963 [lbo-talk] whites & BHO -- rank: 1000

Some odd patterns by education and income and gender in white approval of Obama: http://www.gallup.com/poll/128261/White-Gender-Gap-Obama-Approval-Widens-Education.aspx The gender gap widens with education. But with income, male approval tends to fall and female, to rise. Not sure what all this means...

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Date:	Fri May 21 08:26:33 PDT 2010

2964 [lbo-talk] Noam 1, Israelo-apartheid 0 -- rank: 1000

On May 21, 2010, at 12:41 AM, Mike Beggs wrote: > The research contradicts the belief promoted by psychologists such as > Sigmund Freud that babies are born ''amoral animals'' and acquire a > sense of right and wrong through conditioning. > > In one experiment, babies aged between six months and a year watched > an animated film in which a ball with eyes tries to climb a hill while > a square tries to help push it up and a triangle tries to force it > back down. > > ...

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Date:	Fri May 21 04:50:48 PDT 2010

2965 [lbo-talk] Texans not fond of curriculum nutters -- rank: 1000

[Just out from Greenberg Quinlan Rosner.] Texas Curriculum Decisions and the Separation of Church and State May 20, 2010. Washington, DC. A recent survey conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner for the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund finds that Texas voters want experts, not politicians, to make decisions about public school curricula and textbook content. Voters also believe that separation of church and state is a key principle of the American Constitution. Key Findings Texas voters be ...

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Date:	Thu May 20 11:12:50 PDT 2010

2966 [lbo-talk] Noam 1, Israelo-apartheid 0 -- rank: 1000

On May 20, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote: > Even apes have a sense of fairness. That in itself is good reason to > believe there's probably an innate element contributing to human > morality. As SJ Gould once pointed out, you can find an example in nature to prove just about anything you want. You could as easily find evidence in nature to justify the worldview of Rand Paul.

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Date:	Thu May 20 10:45:57 PDT 2010

2967 [lbo-talk] Noam 1, Israelo-apartheid 0 -- rank: 1000

On May 19, 2010, at 5:36 PM, SA wrote: > Okay, but without necessarily endorsing that view, it can be pointed > out > that none of it is based on anything "floating above human beings," > much > less God. The opposite is the case - justice is said to be rooted in > some characteristic *of* human beings. Hmm, well they do say the same thing in the sense that whether you're talking some transcendent notion of justice or something built into our genes, both assume some ...

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Date:	Thu May 20 09:15:17 PDT 2010

2968 [lbo-talk] Mike Whitney, The Road to Recession -- rank: 1000

On May 20, 2010, at 11:41 AM, c b wrote: > CB: What is a "real collapse" ? 1929-32, when GDP fell by a quarter and unemployment hit 25%. Doug

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Date:	Thu May 20 08:52:54 PDT 2010

2969 [lbo-talk] Caitlin Flanagan, all-star douchebag -- rank: 1000

A fine polemic, this. And the quotes from the target! http://bitchmagazine.org/post/douchebag-decree-caitlin-flanagan-our-first-douchebag-all-star#comments

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Date:	Thu May 20 08:51:28 PDT 2010

2970 [lbo-talk] Mike Whitney, The Road to Recession -- rank: 1000

On May 19, 2010, at 11:13 PM, SA wrote: > Whether reduced saving came from borrowing or from running down > balances, either way it's not sustainable. Households have not > repaired their balance sheets. You yourself said the Obama-Geithner > plan was to roll things back to the unsustainable world of 2006, and > they have, qualitatively if not quantitatively. In fact, households > may well have been running down saving in response to the temporary > boost to home values from ...

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Date:	Wed May 19 20:22:01 PDT 2010