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31321 cocks pinched -- rank: 1000

Rocky Mountain News - November 12, 2001 Kidnapped Penises Now In Police Custody by Owen S. Good Bob Rowan has a wife, a 5-year-old daughter and a house north of Boulder, and to all three he returned Saturday morning, carrying a bag full of penises. He put them in a box in the family room, and started getting over his rage. Rowan, 49, was infuriated by a display inside the Boulder Public Library's gallery, where the colorful ceramic penises had dangled from a clothesline in a domestic-violence th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 13 07:28:27 PST 2001

31322 campus traitors -- rank: 1000

Boston Globe - November 13, 2001 Conservatives Denounce Dissent by Patrick Healy A conservative academic group founded by Lynne Cheney, the wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, fired a new salvo in the culture wars by blasting 40 college professors as well as the president of Wesleyan University and others for not showing enough patriotism in the aftermath of Sept. 11. ''College and university faculty have been the weak link in America's response to the attack,'' say leaders of the American Counc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 13 07:20:13 PST 2001

31323 pull-down menus -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >Speaking of obsolete computers, here is the first computer I ever >owned ('82) which my mother-in-law gave me from her lab. The story >that goes along with the pictures (at the site below) is pretty much >what I used it for: to teach my kid how to become really annoying when >he was nine: > >http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/zx81.html > >Yes, the awesome Sinclair ZX-81, on which you could either compute or >display, take your choice. Damn. T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 13 07:04:36 PST 2001

31324 Comrades? Re: "Hit List" Hits IAC/WWP -- rank: 1000

Chuck Munson wrote: >This isn't just about consensus decision-making. Believe me, I'm in a >minority of the anarchist movement which favors pure c-d-m. So what about the critique of c-d-m - that it favors the articulate, voluble, and charming over the reticent? And that it gives men an edge over women, because men are more likely to talk? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 13 06:44:17 PST 2001

31325 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

Two items from today's NYT: >But the ideology, it seems, never sank in. When Taliban soldiers >arrived they smashed every television set they could find. As they >approached his home, Muhammad Asif, a young shopkeeper, rushed his >Sharp 17-inch television and VCR to the backyard, where he buried >them. > >Since then, Mr. Asif has dreamed of the day when he would be able to >watch again. That moment arrived today when he unearthed his >television and slipped a weathered ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 13 06:29:11 PST 2001

31326 "the sex partners of homosexual employees" -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Why bother forwarding this on when we all know that the real danger comes >from right-wing social democrats too duplicitous and cowardly to speak truth >to power? Danger comes in many forms, and from all sides, comrade. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 12 18:33:09 PST 2001

31327 Afghan food situation not as bad as thought? -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 12, 2001 HUMANITARIAN CRISIS: Aid agencies adapt to new reality By RICHARD MCGREGOR Kept awake by a dose of snuff, and the odd pipe of hashish, Rahat Ullah drove for almost 24 hours straight from Kabul back to Pakistan on Friday after unloading his latest truckload of emergency food aid in the Afghan capital. The US bombing campaign was no impediment for this swarthy, three-decade veteran of the rough, Pakistan-Afghanistan trucking route. "We're used to such probl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 12 18:31:04 PST 2001

31328 "the sex partners of homosexual employees" -- rank: 1000

AFA Action Alert American Family Association Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, President Tim Wildmon, Vice President Randy Sharp, Editor P.O. Drawer 2440 Tupelo, MS 38803 Phone (662) 844-5036 Fax (662) 842-7798 URL: <http://www.afa.net> ************************* Please forward this Alert to a friend and encourage them to subscribe. To Subscribe go to <http://alerts.afa.net> or send e-mail to: <afalert-join at lyris.afo.net> NOTE: No further information is required of you; simply send the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 12 18:05:04 PST 2001

31329 nukes already here? -- rank: 1000

[anyone know anything about this paper? Frontier Post (Pakistan) - November 10, 2001 Al-Qaeda nukes may have reached US shores UNGA session possible terror target Naveed Miraj ISLAMABAD: Pakistani and American investigators converge that Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network may have successfully transported several nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons of mass destruction to the United States, The Frontier Post learnt Friday. Already on high alert, United States security officials are having s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 12 14:28:44 PST 2001

31330 "Hit List" Hits IAC/WWP -- rank: 1000

I think participants are just exchanging volleys from fixed positions here - the ideological equivalent of trench warfare. Bloody and static. You've all made your points. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 12 13:52:19 PST 2001

31331 Alterman & Lilla lovefest -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Straussian Henry Jaffa. Jaffa has stated that "sodomy" is the chief >problem facing the Republic. Hmm, Allan Bloom didn't seem to think so. But is it ok for the elite to bugger, while the masses must be kept to the straight & narrow? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 12 07:41:35 PST 2001

31332 Anthrax theory? -- rank: 1000

Bob Morris wrote: >FWIW, from <http://www.debka.com>www.debka.com, "the Drudge Report of Israel" Well W I this stuff W? Less than zero, I'm thinking - it seems even more mysteriously sourced than Drudge. It makes Drudge look like the NY Post, in fact. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 12 07:14:43 PST 2001

31333 AP story on recount -- rank: 1000

<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011112/ts/florida_ballot_review_7.html>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 11 21:47:15 PST 2001

31334 Alterman & Lilla lovefest -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >You are too flattering to him. In the Straussian precincts of the >Cmtee on Social Thought, it is presumed that taxi drivers and >businessmen can't think and must be lied to by the Enlightened. I am >not making this up. What I am saying is literally true. Do tell more. The other day at the Nation's offices, Alterman MC'd a chat with Joan Didion. Why a talented and distinguished writer like Didion had to be saddled with such an interlocutor is anyone's guess, b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 11 11:40:33 PST 2001

31335 Wouldn't ya like to be a Stalinist, too? (was: Sedition Act) -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >avoiding ancient list debates and standoffs, could someone explain >to me what it means to say "i'm a stalinist" or "she's a stalinist"? >is there a, uh, non-pejorative sense of the term? I just google'd the name "Adolfo Oleachea" - the Peruvian aristocrat now living in London exile who does PR for Shining Path, and who is fond of invoking things like the need for an "iron broom" - and came up nearly empty. Adolfo was a real charmer ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 11 10:24:09 PST 2001