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32086 Rob Schaap on Foucault -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Bob Dylan has: "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now." A line from a song that my right-wing buddies and I revered as a right-wing anthem. "...as if liberty/was just equality in school/equality I spoke their word/As if a wedding vow..." When we heard the word "liberty," we felt like he was a comrade. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 12 09:54:04 PDT 2001

32087 Fwd: Welcome to the land of the politically correct -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >The tendency to confuse "transgressive" lifestyle choices (i.e. >non-standard sexuality, restrictive diet, ) or aesthetic or artistic >tastes (appreciation for popular culture, jazz, blues or rap) with >expressions of radical political activism. (This is the Baffler and Tom >Frank's beat, of course.) >The tendency of leftist intellectuals to believe that academic >victories constitute real victories-or as someone said, that "taking over > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 12 09:49:24 PDT 2001

32088 Senate Dems to move bankruptcy bill -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > > >[Hey Nathan, is Daschle actually pursuing some secret progressive agenda >here?] > >I doubt it, although there are probably some liberal Dems who were happy to >pocket MBNA's money for voting for the bill but won't be too unhappy if the >GOP kills the bill by holding out against the Senate limits on housing >equity and the anti-abortion provisions ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 12 09:42:12 PDT 2001

32089 Rob Schaap on Foucault -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Earlier in the thread, you said that "F the SoK [Foucault the >Sociologist of Knowledge] is Weberian of a high order," & Jim >Farmelant mentioned that "In his last years, Foucault began to take >an interest in liberal thought, and he wrote on such people as >Hayek." What did he actually say about Hayek? I've read hints of F's liberal turn, but Tom Dickens - an economist who lurks here and who studied with Foucault - and his longtime ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 12 09:29:29 PDT 2001

32090 US Hard Landing back in play -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >BIS report is at: >< http://www.bis.org/publ/ar2001e.htm > The BIS annual report is usually excellent - a very serious, thoughtful review of the world economic & financial scene. From a high bourgeois perspective, of course, but really smart. It used to be kind of hard to get, but no longer, thanks to the web. It sounds like Greenspan's colleagues may be giving him a bit of a hard time. oug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 12 09:09:12 PDT 2001

32091 Senate Dems to move bankruptcy bill -- rank: 1000

[Hey Nathan, is Daschle actually pursuing some secret progressive agenda here?] New York Times - June 12, 2001 Bill to Tighten Bankruptcy Gets a Push By PHILIP SHENON WASHINGTON, June 11 - Legislation that would rewrite the nation's bankruptcy laws and make it harder for people to erase their debts has begun to advance again on Capitol Hill, a result both of the Democratic takeover of the Senate and a renewed lobbying campaign for the bill by banks and credit card companies. The House and Senate ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 12 06:05:43 PDT 2001

32092 Fwd: Welcome to the land of the politically correct -- rank: 1000

X-From_: DavidMcR at aol.com Mon Jun 11 22:39:02 2001 From: DavidMcR at aol.com Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:38:56 EDT Subject: Welcome to the land of the politically correct To: cbcox at ilstu.edu Cc: dhenwood at panix.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Dear Carrol, Since you and I are the same age, I won't ask what your excuse is for a retreat into political correctness. I had hoped it was an affectation of the young. If you don't think there are cultural differences among groups then we live on different pl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 11 21:37:24 PDT 2001

32093 Fwd: Re: McReynolds and Palestine, was Should Peace Movements CriticizeTerrorism... -- rank: 1000

X-From_: DavidMcR at aol.com Mon Jun 11 21:57:56 2001 From: DavidMcR at aol.com Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 21:57:48 EDT Subject: Re: McReynolds and Palestine, was Should Peace Movements CriticizeTerrorism... To: dhenwood at panix.com Cc: cbcox at ilstu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Sorry but a discussion of cultural differences is not the same thing as racism. The Israelis have been remarkably adept at assassination, selective, and effective. They could have taken Arafat out anytime they wanted to. But whe ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 11 21:36:56 PDT 2001

32094 Rob Schaap on Foucault -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >For better or worse, France has fostered the idea of politically >committed public intellectuals, from Zola to Sartre to Foucault to >beyond. In contrast, we have soundbites from experts in think tanks. "We"? You feeling increasingly like an American, Yoshie? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 11 12:38:36 PDT 2001

32095 men & sex -- rank: 1000

kwalker2 at gte.net wrote: >being from the county in NY with the highest rate of bestiality So what agency collects that data? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 11 11:52:33 PDT 2001

32096 musical joke -- rank: 1000

Making the rounds... >Arnold Schoenberg: > > Dear ma & pa. How are you? I am fine. Love Arnold. > Arnold love, fine am I. you are how? pa & ma dear. > dlonrA evoL .enif ma I ?uoy era woH .ap & am reaD > .read am & ap ?woh era uoy .I ma enif ,evol dlonrA > >Philip Glass: > > Hello heh heh hello, o-hell o-hell oh > ellow ellow heh heh heh hello mama > mama muh muh muh-mah, ah ah ah > ahhhh! Aye aye aye aye aye yam > yam ya ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 11 11:33:45 PDT 2001

32097 Death to the Social Fascists! -- rank: 1000

brettk at unicacorp.com wrote: >IMHO, you should either raise the posting limit, crack down on malefactors >(which are distressingly plentiful), or get rid of the warnings altogether. Oh, and like I said the other day, the bot got snuffed in a machine change at Panix, and I failed to rescue the text of the script in time. I'm tempted to get nastier, just becuase of this provocation. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 11 11:29:16 PDT 2001

32098 Overposting -- rank: 1000

brettk at unicacorp.com wrote: >Hey Brad, > >>What's wrong with just informing us that we are violating social >>norms established for the general good, and should shape up? > >Nothing is wrong with it, but it's routine to see people post 10 messages >in a day. It makes sense, too. If people didn't post this much, many >threads would take too long to develop or would simply die. The 3 post >limit is too low, and is properly being ignored, IMHO. No it's not. Th ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 11 11:27:33 PDT 2001

32099 the "prick" McReynolds -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >Is it any surprise that alleged leftists prefer to express their >"transgressive" politics in the form of monographs in defense of buggery >from the august halls of the college de france rather than make an >investment in public life which might actually achieve tangible results? > >And for those who wonder why the left has such difficulty developing mass >organizations, you might consider looking in the mirror. You're going to have a hard time d ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 11 08:09:26 PDT 2001

32100 Rob Schaap on Foucault -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: > > I just don't see where 'there is no >> truth' can >> help. > >Because there is none. Why lie about it? Ok, I'll fall into the trap. If there's no truth, then what's a lie? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 11 07:57:12 PDT 2001