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33316 class -- rank: 1000

Kelley Walker wrote: >but the technical complaint you had missed the point. and he didn't >actually misrepresent anything. and no matter, it's not a >productive defintion of class he's after, as was evident by the >paragraph within which the claim you criticized was couched. Of course he's not after "a productive definition of class," since it would undermine his campaign to middle-ize everyone. Let me quote myself quoting Wolfe again: >On the first page of his awful b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 15:06:32 PDT 2001

33317 no left left -- rank: 1000

The Philadelphia Inquirer - April 16, 2001 Reaction to Bush victories indicates there is no more 'left' in U.S. politics By Matthew Miller With Bush's detailed budget now out, the appalling Democratic abdication continues. Oh, yes, we'll hear Democrats moan about how Bush is failing to fund important priorities, but it's mostly a charade, the mere simulation of outrage. We know this because the leading Democratic rants come from a point of departure that is already indistinguishable from a polit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 14:47:14 PDT 2001

33318 class -- rank: 1000

Kelley Walker wrote: >he is talking about subjective understandings of what it means to be >middle class. furthermore, this discussion does not serve as his >justification for why he chose to study the people he studied. for >THAT you have to read the book where he talks about Bellah et al., >and then you have to read Bellah et al. > >now, if you read the intro, the link to which was posted here, it is >plainly evident that he is asserting something about what USers >t ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 17 14:28:51 PDT 2001

33319 slander of my beloved affiliate on your elist -- rank: 1000

A union friend of mine happened to read Marta Russell's post (appended below), and responded: >Spreading the evil governor's slanders of caring-4-patient worker >heroes (and I ain't being sarcastic here). We take the governor to >court, documenting his use of $6 million in state funds to pay for >replacement workers around the state -- a big labor story -- and the >state releases this bullshit the same day so the idiot papers write >about that crap instead. >Date: Thu, 12 Ap ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 17 12:46:13 PDT 2001

33320 W, pothead -- rank: 1000

<http://www.keepgoing.org/issue3/burning_bush_.asp>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 12:36:08 PDT 2001

33321 Tendency of Earnings Estimates to Fall, Con't. -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>Consider Lucent Technologies Inc., which is the subject of an >>investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into >>accounting irregularities. The company has acknowledged it used a >>host of customer incentives, one-time credits and practices like >>channel-stuffing, or shipping more product to its dealers than >>demand warranted, in order to reach sales targets. "It began with >>setting growth objectives that could ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 17 12:28:55 PDT 2001

33322 Hitchens No Orwell -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >One thing I notice about the rightwing organizations, from the Heritage >Foundation to the Federalist Society, is that they regularly invite liberals >and even leftwingers to their events on the assumption that they will only >make their arguments convincing by testing them against the best >intellectual opposition possible. Most leftwing organizations never invite >conservatives to their events. The results have been that rightwingers have >gotten mu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 12:21:05 PDT 2001

33323 Wolfe -- rank: 1000

christian11 at mindspring.com wrote: >Great review. Thanks. > Where is it going to appear? (I know you probably said earlier, but >I missed it.) It appeared in The Baffler, somewhat edited. That's my original. I hated the book so much that I seem to have lost it - in a 500 sq ft apartment. After I finished the review, I went to check a quote, and couldn't find the book anywhere. >Where did you get that Lefebvre quote? It's from his essay on irony, collected in Intro to Modernity. Do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 12:11:08 PDT 2001

33324 pre-capitalist sex -- rank: 1000

Kelley Walker wrote: >it basically comes down to trust, a code of ethics, and honing the >skills of observation. i happen to think people can manage that. >AND, i happen to think that ethnographies _can_ say something >generalizable. Yup, I agree. You mentioned Luker - I admire the hell out of her abortion book. It's serious, thoughtful, and completely fair. I'm told she's leftish and pro-choice, but you'd never know it from reading the book, and in this instance, it's a good thing, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 11:59:29 PDT 2001

33325 No messages from lbo-talk since 9 april.. -- rank: 1000

M.Blackmore wrote: >I noticed I've had nothing through from lbo-talk since april >9th (OK so I've been a bit slow catching up due to period of >computer sickness). > >Has anything changed? Not on this end, but it's a short electronic journey for me, from one Panix machine to another. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 17 10:49:30 PDT 2001

33326 Fwd: Boycott of "MADE IN CHINA" Products Begins -- rank: 1000

[wonder if Dolan & Hoffa will be signing on...] Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 20:56:26 -0500 From: "Gerald McGlothlin" <gerald at riverview.net> Boycott of "MADE IN CHINA" Products Begins Special Guest Available for Interview A national boycott of all "Made in China" products has been launched by Dr. Paul D. Lindstrom, National Chairman of the newly organized "Remember the Pueblo--Remember the EP-3 Committee." Dr. Lindstrom, a pioneer of the modern hom ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 10:37:47 PDT 2001

33327 > Scaife 'n' Snitch (and the Hitch) -- rank: 1000

John Gulick wrote: >Kind of like >"anti-globalist" hippie kids whose parents are tax attorneys with 401K plans. Eh? Students can only be authentic radicals if their parents are working class? An excerpt from a paper by Richard Freeman and Kim Elliott <http://www.nber.org/~confer/2000/si2000/elliot.pdf> shows that activist kids do come from more affluent families, but their parents also tend to be more left and more supportive than most: >To answer these questions we cond ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 17 09:37:46 PDT 2001

33328 Wolfe and Qualitative Research -- rank: 1000

Christopher Rhoades D˙kema wrote: >Actually, to disagree a little with Doug on one point, I think Wolfe >is less of a >homophobe. Never said he was. I thought it was a bit weird how he reported the homophobia of his interviewees without professing any reaction of his own, but I don't see any direct evidence of his homophobia. Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 17 09:27:53 PDT 2001

33329 Ann Powers -- rank: 1000

Leung, H Curtiss [IT] wrote: >Peter K. wanted to know: > >> what do people think of Ann Powers? > >She is a ninny. I recall a column in the Village Voice some years ago where >she opined that buying one's soaps and lotions at the Body Shop could raise >one's environmental consciousness. >-- >Curtiss, grateful that he saw the Ramones live once RIP, Joey. I saw the Ramones at a Jerry Brown rally in 1992, at which Joey said, "I never fucking voted in my fucking ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 17 08:53:58 PDT 2001

33330 pre-capitalist sex -- rank: 1000

Kelley Walker wrote: >>A lot of "ethnography" seems like journalism with pretentions to scholarship. > >well, it's what i do and i'll bet that if you read what i do you >wouldn't castigate it as such be/c you'd agree with my politics. But what are you claiming to do in your ethnography? Explore, say, how middle managers think and feel in an age of downsizing and speedup? Poll-style techniques can be illuminating there, but I think talking to a bunch of them in some depth ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 17 08:22:32 PDT 2001