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3481 [lbo-talk] Polanski is Free!! (NYTimes.com: Swiss Reject U.S. Request to Extradite Polanski) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > Suck on it, all you pathetic prurient puritanical apologists for Los Angeles "Justice." Let's not start this shit again.

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Date:	Mon Jul 12 08:08:45 PDT 2010

3482 [lbo-talk] why Prince is right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > He's making a distinction between a real musician's life and the fantasy musician's life. It's not that famous musicians aren't real musicians. It's that they are unreal models for musicians. We know all know lots about their lives, but to aspire to it is to aspire to an unrealizable fantasy that even if attained, usually only last a very short while. Meanwhile most people know little about the how the 99.9% musicians not living like that ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 12 06:51:38 PDT 2010

3483 [lbo-talk] why Prince is right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2010, at 7:49 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Haven't thought about Chadbourne in ages... I mostly listened to the > late-80s Shimmy Disk stuff... always interesting, always odd, not always > listened to more than once... though that Lyrics by Ernest Noyes Brookings > collection was pretty darned cool. He's the cousin of my former neighbor on the Upper West Side. I saw him a few times. He played an electrified garden rake. It was excruciating, and not in a good way. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 12 06:01:34 PDT 2010

3484 [lbo-talk] why Prince is right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2010, at 9:43 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > Keenan's the shithead for daring to be possessive about his precious music. He made several points when I interviewed him. One (and I'm paraphrasing this somewhat tendentiously), the record companies, scummy as they were, at least gave advances to bands that allowed them to tour and live. That's dying. And two, musicians these days have to be good with marketing plans and spreadsheets - he liked it better when they were good with music an ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 11 18:56:13 PDT 2010

3485 [lbo-talk] "Is Dominique Strauss-Kahn on the Left?" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2010, at 1:52 PM, SA wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> On Jul 11, 2010, at 11:59 AM, SA wrote: >> >> >>>> But if he were really some sort of social democrat, how could he even serve as head of the IMF? Surely he'd have to know that the institution and the forces shaping it are larger than he is. >>> Because he has no principles >>> >> >> Oh, ok, that explains it > > I can't tell if that's sarcastic. It's not. At a ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 11 15:22:42 PDT 2010

3486 [lbo-talk] "Is Dominique Strauss-Kahn on the Left?" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2010, at 11:59 AM, SA wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> It was the "inscribe ... within the horizon" phrasing. It's like hearing someone talk Cultural Studies on a TV talk show. >> > > No! It's exactly the opposite!!! I've complained about this exact thing before on this list. In French, "inscribe...within the horizon," is just ordinarily good, educated speech. Oh yeah, we don't do "good, educated speech" on TV talk shows here, eit ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 11 09:08:08 PDT 2010

3487 [lbo-talk] "Is Dominique Strauss-Kahn on the Left?" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2010, at 11:59 AM, SA wrote: >> But if he were really some sort of social democrat, how could he even serve as head of the IMF? Surely he'd have to know that the institution and the forces shaping it are larger than he is. > > Because he has no principles Oh, ok, that explains it.

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Date:	Sun Jul 11 09:05:44 PDT 2010

3488 [lbo-talk] "Is Dominique Strauss-Kahn on the Left?" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2010, at 9:35 AM, SA wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> On Jul 11, 2010, at 6:42 AM, SA quoted: >> >> >>> we must inscribe the project of the left within the horizon of neoliberalism >>> >> >> Why do French people talk like this? >> >> How would DSK be all that different from Sarkozy? And how is neoliberalism - which views unions and a generous welfare state as rigidities to be dismantled - ever be part of the left? > ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 11 08:40:12 PDT 2010

3489 [lbo-talk] Corporate Taxes, was why Prince is right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2010, at 1:23 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > Freelance writers were a mercenary bunch, he said. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." - Dr Johnson

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Date:	Sun Jul 11 08:28:55 PDT 2010

3490 [lbo-talk] "Is Dominique Strauss-Kahn on the Left?" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2010, at 10:28 AM, SA wrote: > He's several steps to the left of the DLC. Well yeah, but it's France! In France, Congressional Republicans would be practically LePen-ites, no? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 11 08:23:26 PDT 2010

3491 [lbo-talk] "Is Dominique Strauss-Kahn on the Left?" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2010, at 6:42 AM, SA quoted: > we must inscribe the project of the left within the horizon of neoliberalism Why do French people talk like this? How would DSK be all that different from Sarkozy? And how is neoliberalism - which views unions and a generous welfare state as rigidities to be dismantled - ever be part of the left? It is a challenge to figure out a left politics in the present neoliberal era, but really, how can you reconcile the IMF with "the left"? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 11 05:57:31 PDT 2010

3492 [lbo-talk] The Alan Greenspan Chair! -- rank: 1000

<http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/news/news.cfm?doc_id=101914> Hedge Fund Founder John A. Paulson Gives $20 Million to NYU Stern Major Gift to Fund School s Faculty Research, Scholarships, and Campus Renovation NYU Stern announced today that alumnus John Paulson (BS 78), founder and chairman of hedge fund Paulson & Co., Inc., has given a gift of $20 million to NYU Stern. John Paulson s gift will endow two faculty chairs the Alan Greenspan Chair in Economics and the John A. Paulson Professor ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 10 18:42:46 PDT 2010

3493 [lbo-talk] Corporate Taxes, was why Prince is right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 10, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > > On Jul 10, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: >> ...a corp is really just a network of relationships organized towards the ultimate benefit [of] shareholders and top management, and not a person in any real economic sense... > > This is like saying that food is produced for the ultimate benefit of humans and tapeworms. The interests of shareholders and top management (leaving aside the few Black Swans like Buffet and Jobs) ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 10 12:08:33 PDT 2010

3494 [lbo-talk] why Prince is right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 10, 2010, at 12:54 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > i think stuff we're talking about here (music, software, newspapers, etc.) that you get for free is a commodity. Yes - but of course it's a nonrival good, which is infinitely reproducible at minuscule or less marginal cost. If I copy it and give it to you, my copy isn't lessened in any way. It feels like it should be free, but you can't see or feel the labor that went into producing it. Fuck you, pay me - I like that. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 10 10:09:43 PDT 2010

3495 [lbo-talk] why Prince is right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2010, at 5:30 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > but you know damn well, and said so yourself, that this is not what doug is advocating (copyright laws). what he's talking about is an unfortunate state of affairs that is *normalizing* the notion that music, art, words, software, whatever magically appear before you for your enjoyment, without any sense of how it got their. it's a process that systematically evaporates the human social relationships involved in creation. > > i can't ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 10 09:57:58 PDT 2010