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3406 [lbo-talk] blog post: from Boulder North and West to Portland, part 1 -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2010, at 10:55 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > Too bad my wife and I didn't have it as a guide before our recent two month road trip through the States which took us to and through some of the places in New Mexico, California, Utah, Colorado etc. you describe. Welcome back, Marv. Excellent to meet you two on your stop in NYC. You going to write up any reports on your trip? Doug

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3407 [lbo-talk] artisinal everything -- rank: 1000

On Jul 24, 2010, at 5:07 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > But it has to be a joke... right? "Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke."

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3408 [lbo-talk] artisinal everything -- rank: 1000

The guy who did Get Your War On has a new venture: http://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com/index.html

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Date:	Sat Jul 24 13:50:52 PDT 2010

3409 [lbo-talk] DC fires teachers -- rank: 1000

On Jul 24, 2010, at 8:43 AM, James Leveque wrote: > Where is all this policy going, anyway? So Rhee fires over 300 teachers and > admin support and they replace them with, who...? I know that Obama talks as > if highly skilled teachers grow on trees, but Rhee, DC's mayor, Dept. of Ed. > etc. must know that the teachers hired to replace those who got the ax are > going to be mostly young and inexperienced and probably aren't likely to get > any better scores. So what happens whe ...

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3410 [lbo-talk] Are recessions better for the left or right? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > It does seem awfully crude to read a crude political message into the symbolism of a masterpiece > by one of the very greatest poets, whatever his prose animadversions about the Mussolini > of the early 1920's. Harold Bloom is many things, but I wouldn't include "crude" on the list. Doug

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3411 [lbo-talk] Are recessions better for the left or right? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2010, at 10:47 PM, Chip Berlet wrote: > Yeats: "The Second Coming" : > > Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold... > > The best lack all conviction, while the worst > > Are full of passionate intensity. Not Yeats! Bloom!!

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On Jul 23, 2010, at 10:45 PM, Chip Berlet wrote: > How can something be grassroots and yet neither independent nor populist? Because it's a mass movement of the petty bourgeoisie? Doug

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On Jul 23, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Bloom is probably right. I'm reasonably sure that the "roubh beast" is > Red, which Yeats hopes fascism will protect us from. But I can't support > this. Too bad Doug can't qutote the text. Ok, I just ordered a copy for $0.55 from Amazon. Doesn't anyone else on this list have a copy of this book? Wow, Googling turned up this, from a 2007 NYT article: <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/12/opinion/12mon4.html> > As for hi ...

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On Jul 23, 2010, at 10:00 PM, Stephen Cheng wrote: > What are some those polls and surveys? I've been meaning to do some > research into the Tea Party movement(s). I posted this here the other day: http://www.democracycorps.com/strategy/2010/07/special-report-on-the-tea-party-movement/ > The Tea Party is very real and will have a big impact on this year s election and beyond but it is important to correctly characterize this movement. The Tea Party is a grass-roots, intensely ideol ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 23 19:22:13 PDT 2010

3415 [lbo-talk] Chomsky/Blankfort -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2010, at 10:02 PM, Seth Kulick wrote: > Nobody else commented on this, but looking it over again, I have the > same reaction as before. This is insane. Chomsky spends a life > documenting and speaking out against Israeli crimes as part of an > effort to protect Israel by throwing people like Blankfort off the > trail of the Israeli lobby. Is there any other way to read this? No. But Blankfort is a really toxic character. Doug

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3416 [lbo-talk] Are recessions better for the left or right? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2010, at 9:40 PM, Chip Berlet wrote: > the center cannot hold (tip o' the hat to the Yeats poem) As I've said before, Harold Bloom reads that passage as evidence of Yeats's fascist sympathies. I could quote the text, but I lost the book in the divorce. Doug

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On Jul 23, 2010, at 8:18 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > An ISO response to Doug. Thanks to Louis Proyetc. > > http://www.isreview.org/issues/72/gasper-crisis.shtml My two favorite parts of this rather weak piece: > While the far right obviously grew as a result of the Depression, eventually seizing power in Germany, Spain, and Austria, the left also grew in many European countries, and there was nothing inevitable about its ultimate defeat. In Germany, the Social Democratic and Communist ...

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3418 [lbo-talk] Palestine Think Tank: Jeff Blankfort - Chomsky andPalestine: Asset or Liability? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Really, at this point it does not _matter_ whether a given action > "contributes" to the achievement of some goal; it _only_ counts that it > gives the activists themselves seomething to do and to talk about doing. Do you really think that getting people involved in essentially pointless actions just for the sake of doing something doesn't have some risks? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 22 09:47:20 PDT 2010

3419 [lbo-talk] Palestine Think Tank: Jeff Blankfort - Chomsky and Palestine: Asset or Liability? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2010, at 11:52 AM, SA wrote: > I don't know all the particulars about M&S, but virtually every mass retailer sells products made in Israel, including the settlements. By the way, U.S. trade with Israel is pretty insignificant - imports are on the order of $18-20 billion a year. Over a quarter of the imports are diamonds. About 20% are pharmaceuticals (Israelis are major makers of generic drugs), and another 15% are electronics & telecoms. Then the numbers get very insignifi ...

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3420 [lbo-talk] Palestine Think Tank: Jeff Blankfort - Chomsky and Palestine: Asset or Liability? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > Seems pretty ineffectual to > me. It'd be much more effective, imho, to organize against larger > companies like Intel and Caterpillar, while continuing the divestment > and celebrity-boycott campaigns I agree.

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