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3226 [lbo-talk] showdown over piece of crap -- rank: 1000

On Mar 12, 2010, at 8:17 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote: > Let's not kid ourselves. If the bill doesn't muster the votes in > Congress, the administration will shift further to the right as > Clinton did after his defeat, and demoralized Democratic voters will > tilt the country further rightwards by ushering in a Republican > dominated legislature. So let's tilt right, lest we tilt right? Doug

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3227 [lbo-talk] showdown over piece of crap -- rank: 1000

On Mar 12, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Same sex marriage? Access to abortions? Loss of civil liberties? > > War on drugs? War on poor people? War on terror? War on airline > passengers? Hey, that's basically just more of the same, not a change in a better direction (except SSM). Doug

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3228 [lbo-talk] Comparative post-Sovietology, 20 years on -- rank: 1000

On Mar 12, 2010, at 4:19 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > I don't mean to diminish in any way the neolib looting of the former > USSR > from 1990-1998, which was one of the monstrous crimes of the 20th > century, > but 15% of Soviet GDP was military output. Russia's military > spending is > around 2.7% of GDP today, so civilian output per person -- as > opposed to > tanks you can't drive and bullets you can't eat -- is more like 20% > higher > than 1989. Hmm, may ...

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3229 [lbo-talk] showdown over piece of crap -- rank: 1000

On Mar 12, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > I think if there's a lesson to be learned over the last 30 years > it's that incremental creeping change is the way to get things done > in this country. Really? Such as? That's not the way Reagan or Bush worked. Doug

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3230 [lbo-talk] showdown over piece of crap -- rank: 1000

On Mar 12, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > I totally get and agree with the idea that it could be a lot better; > in fact it probably couldn't be worse ... except for nothing. Forcing people to buy shitty insurance may not work out well either as policy or as politics.

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3231 [lbo-talk] showdown over piece of crap -- rank: 1000

On Mar 12, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote: > More seriously, if Americans come to accept and like this bill, it > could help rehabilitate notions of public responsibility and > solidarity in this country. Okay, maybe that's just me dreaming. Probably so.

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3232 [lbo-talk] showdown over piece of crap -- rank: 1000

POLITICO Breaking News: ----------------------------------------------------- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her members Friday to brace themselves for a climatic health care vote as early as next week, warning them to clear their schedules for next weekend and promising to stay in session until the landmark vote, people present at the meeting told POLITICO. President Barack Obama has postponed an overseas trip until March 21, and Pelosi said, "I am delighted the president will be her ...

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3233 [lbo-talk] Disappoint With #125 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 12, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Censorship is bad. Censorship is absolutely essential. And there is no > easy or even sensible resolution to this other than fighting it ut as > all political issues have to be fought out case by case. Isn't "censorship" a pejorative way of putting it? You mean some sort of selectivity or editing is required or we'll go mad, or drown in junk. Doug

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3234 [lbo-talk] Disappoint With #125 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 12, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > I am a professor, of sorts... So do you sharpen your head when you get up in the morning?

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3235 [lbo-talk] Disappoint With #125 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 12, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Among other things, the idea that research is important is fine and > the idea > that knowledge accumulation is inefficient is fine but to suggest > that the > intensified demands on faculty to plow out completely mainstream, > totally > pedestrian and intellectually uninteresting research in the > humanities, > social sciences and natural and physical sciences is producing > research more > important than the damag ...

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3236 [lbo-talk] Comparative post-Sovietology, 20 years on -- rank: 1000

On Mar 11, 2010, at 10:22 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > There's an interesting discussion here: http://www.sublimeoblivion.com/2010/03/10/transition-reckoning/ > comparing the changes in per capita (PPP) GDP in various post- > Soviet countries (and Poland) since 1989, tracking the economic > decline through most of the 90s and the economic growth that occured > in most places thereafter. > > I knew most of it before, but it's rather startling to see it laid > out in nifty graf ...

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3237 [lbo-talk] Disappoint With #125 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 12, 2010, at 12:39 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Please, I know four kids who dropped out of CMU - no, not a NSF > Research I > institution - this year because of a combination of rising costs and > falling > state support. Obvious to you, not exactly inefficient or corrupt > to them. Research is important, and so is state support. I don't get what you're calling for exactly? Less research so the kids didn't have to drop out of CMU? Lots of research plus free tuition? Social ...

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3238 [lbo-talk] Disappoint With #125 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 11, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > Judith > Butler, for instance. She's great, man. Doug

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3239 [lbo-talk] Disappoint With #125 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 11, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > If I had my choice, like a Chinese dim sum menu, I would indulge my > philistine prejudices and zero out lots in literary and cultural > studies. I wouldn't, you philistine. I know those fields better than I know econ, and I don't have any desire to eliminate them. Of course some nonsense goes on in those departments, but nonsense goes on everywhere. And, as Carrol says, the nonsense is part of the price you have to pay for the good ...

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3240 [lbo-talk] Disappoint With #125 -- rank: 1000

On Mar 11, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Gail Brock wrote: > nriching human knowledge may be why the public should support > research, but not why undergraduates should pay for the research, > especially with loans. Hey, I'm saying college should be made free. Doug

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