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31486 Fwd: Re: Katha Pollitt on Andrew Sullivan -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 17:32:41 -0700 From: Katha Pollitt <kpollitt at thenation.com> you could post this: Andrew has made himself a public figure, and has made his presumed sexual behavior part of that public persona and part of his arguments in favor of various stands. Sometimes, indeed, his self-report is just about the ONLY evidence he puts forward: he takes testosterone and uses his one-man sample to make all sorts of ridiculous assertions about innate male-female differences. Lots of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 31 14:43:31 PDT 2001

31487 Fwd: June 1, 2001 MMWR Table of Contents -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:37:25 -0400 From: MMWR Questions <mmwrq at CDC.GOV> Subject: June 1, 2001 MMWR Table of Contents The June 1, 2001 edition of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report is enclosed in Adobe Acrobat format. View this week's MMWR as a web page at: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr and http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5021.pdf Spain Mirror Site* http://cisat.isciii.es/mmwr June 1, 2001/Vol. 50/No. 21 (file size 264,869 bytes) * First Report of AIDS http://www.cdc.g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 31 09:37:10 PDT 2001

31488 Katha Pollitt on Andrew Sullivan -- rank: 1000

Here's what Katha Pollitt has to say about the Andrew Sullivan controversy. Doug ---- Andrew sullivan is a charming and egregious self-promoter who has put his private life into print in self-serving and self-seeking and apparently not very honest ways (isn't he always going on about how he wants to get married? sure). He has to expect people will be interested in gossip about him. (That business about how as a mini-celeb he found it hard to pick up guys is priceless. Most people would say fame ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 31 09:34:34 PDT 2001

31489 Windows 98 key -- rank: 1000

I'm installing the Windows 98 emulator on my new Mac G4, and I've lost the key code to make the damn thing work. I really paid Bill Gates for this copy - just lost the key. Could someone give me one? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 31 09:28:22 PDT 2001

31490 Sullivan on the Barebacking Story -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >While hypocrisy is embarrassing, proving it does not disprove the spoken >view because the speaker falls short of its standards. Some of the greatest >moralists (in the positive sense of great) have been great because they had >such a personal sense of their own weaknesses. Do people with strong senses of their own weaknesses go around prescribing behavioral standards for others? The mote in the eye and all, you know. >To >give one example, folks on this ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 31 09:17:25 PDT 2001

31491 Sullivan on the Barebacking Story -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >I don't care about hypocrisy: it is a venial sin at worst; and I >don't think he's guilty of it here anyway. Please, let's do get back >to attacking his political views, and not his private life! Maybe it's my residual Catholicism showing through, but I think hypocrisy matters if people prominently go about telling other people how to live their lives, and then act in a completely different way in private (writing a piece denouncing abortion, say, almost at the v ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 31 09:04:25 PDT 2001

31492 ISO in Chi'town -- rank: 1000

Dear friends, I want to let you know about an important conference coming up in Chicago, bringing together activists from the global justice movement, the Palestinian solidarity movement, anti-sanctions movement, labor movement, the abortion rights struggle, and many others to debate and discuss the vital issues facing all of our struggles. HIGHLIGHTS: * Doug Henwood, editor of Left Business Observer * Oscar Olivera, a leader of the fight to stop water privatization in Bolivia * Dirceu Travesso, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 31 08:30:11 PDT 2001

31493 Fwd: "Freedom Now!" Exhibit at State College PA -- rank: 1000

[list alum Ken Lawrence writes...] From: Apsken at aol.com Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 00:10:43 EDT "Freedom Now!" is the title of Ken Lawrence's collection of political protest buttons and memorabilia, currently on display at the American Philatelic Building, 100 Oakwood Avenue, in State College, Pennsylvania. The exhibit features colorful items distributed by popular movements for social change that arose during the past half century, not only in the United States, but in many other coun ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 31 08:28:52 PDT 2001

31494 academe -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 08:13:56 +1000 From: InfoDesign <info_design at dingoblue.net.au> At 05:08 31-05-01, you wrote: >That is exactly why I decided to go to college - and was quite open about >it to the great disappointment of my old folks. Except that I was quite >good at "something else" - I was supposed to be an electrical engineer, but >the engineering crowd scared me, too much "in the box" thinking and >admiration f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 31 08:12:04 PDT 2001

31495 Protest against Israeli Occupation -- rank: 1000

TheGolem wrote: >Protest Palestinian Terrorism > >And, for those who live anywhere in the diaspera, there will be many days >to protest against Palestinian terrorism and violence which makes >necessary the occupation and even more stringent security measures to >enforce peace on Palestinians unwilling to achieve any peaceful resolution >and a Pan Arabism that wants an Islamic Middle East and Jews out of >Israel. > >TheGolem >http://pnews.org/ What the fuck is thi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 30 17:01:20 PDT 2001

31496 stereotypes -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >2. my argument that 'social capital' (e.g. manners, aspirations, >credentials, social connections) is an important requisite to attain a >middle class status, so children whose parents cannot endow them with that >'social capital' are less likely to attain that status is not true? > >3. you dislike my statement that I dislike scapegoating and blaming >someone/thing else for one's actions? > >4. you are generally pissed at my irreverent attitud ...

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Date:	Wed May 30 14:06:53 PDT 2001

31497 stereotypes -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >But to be sure, the point I tried to make in my response to Kelley had to >do with stereotypes, namely the liberal sterotype of 'victimization.' This >means a bunch of hoodlums or loosers blaming anyone/anthing other than >themselves for their own actions or failures. This pisses me off royally, >partly because it was quite widely spread in my old country (blaming >"communism" for anything from being an unpublished writer to a drug >addic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 30 13:02:07 PDT 2001

31498 stereotypes -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > That is, who tells certain people >that they should drop out of school, put baggy clothes on, start listening >to (c)rap musing and doing drugs, and what does he do to enforce it? You referring to white suburban teenagers? Doug

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Date:	Wed May 30 12:18:02 PDT 2001

31499 threats to the family... -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >The Nation, 1957................George Silver..... Damn, a winner so soon. Did you cheat with an index, or were you aware of this creaker already? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 29 15:15:06 PDT 2001

31500 threats to the family... -- rank: 1000

[An lbo-talk contest, with, unfortunately, no prize. Here's the beginning and end of an article. In what publication did this appear, and when?] The Homosexual: Challenge to Science COARSE BUTT of banal humor, condemned and despised, a criminal punishable by law, the homosexual continues to flourish. There is a cyclical character to this growth that is curious and revealing. In our own time, the spate of books on the subject - learned studies, novels of justification, poems, plays - may indicate ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 29 15:01:30 PDT 2001