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35251 religion -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >G'day Bill, > >>Jewish 36,700 7 > >Mebbe status/rank is actually an average of two variables - implying a >group's social status can be so low as to drag it below their average >income ranking? Then again, mebbe Doug's scanner needs a clean. I typed that years ago before I had a scanner. "Status is a composite of four measures: income, percent with college degree, percent full-time year-round workers, percent homeowner ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 9 16:56:29 PDT 2000

35252 religious crackpots in public life -- rank: 1000

kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca wrote: >The post-punk Slovenian band Laibach Sneaky of you to bring Z---k in by the back door. Ever see the Laibach film, in which Slavoj himself holds forth about the meaning of the band and their relation to fascism ("real fascists don't act like fascists")? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jul 9 16:42:57 PDT 2000

35253 Baudrillard revisited -- rank: 1000

[Now that the U.S. government is paying down its debt, and the debt clock in mid-Manhattan is being taken down, it's funnier than ever to read this essay by Jean Baudrillard <http://www.ctheory.com/e31-global_debt.html>.] Global Debt and Parallel Universe Jean Baudrillard An electronic billboard in Times Square displays the American public debt, an astronomic figure of some thousands of billions of dollars which increases at a rate of $20,000 a second. Another electronic billboard at the B ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 8 14:01:39 PDT 2000

35254 journalistic crackpots in public life (was: religious crackpots in public life) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Very insightful of you. The topic of religion does appear much more >often on LBO-talk than M-Fem, Marxism, PEN-L, H-Labor, Engrad, >E-Grad, SERJ, & Leninist-International (the lists to which I'm >subbed). Is that good or bad? Do secular leftists make a big mistake by not taking religion more seriously? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 8 13:36:15 PDT 2000

35255 religion -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >there's a lot of problems with data like this. for on thing, is >this individual or family income? Don't have the book at hand, though I will in a couple of hours, but I'm guessing individual, since the highest income, Unitarian, was $34,800 at a time when median household income was around $31,000. As for the "there's a lot of problems with data like this," reputable sociologists designed the survey, not mere journalists. >other than that, what's the differenc ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 8 13:09:21 PDT 2000

35256 religion -- rank: 1000

While I'm sure that there are lots of upscale Evangelical Christians in the U.S., I have a hard time believing that it's predominantly an upscale thing. Here's a chart drawn from a book that reported the most comprehensive poll of religious self-identification ever undertaken in the U.S. The most upscale religions are the most doctrinally and stylistically tepid of them all. Doug ---- average status, income rank Unitarian 34,800 1 Disciples of Christ ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 8 12:27:53 PDT 2000

35257 religious crackpots in public life, was Re: The heart of a leftist -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Gordon wrote: > >>in the >>case of fundamentalism it might offer lower-class traditionalists >>and nostalgics relief from bourgeois cultural pressures and >>continuous modernization. > >Margaret Talbot, "A Mighty Fortress," New York Times Sunday Magazine >27 February 2000 (p. 40): > >***** The re-emergence of a Christian right in the mid-80's took no >one by greater surprise than the liberal academics and journal ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 8 11:01:39 PDT 2000

35258 The heart of a leftist -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >His current mentality is classically Stalinist. down to the ad >hominems, hysteria, the lot. But in service of a political agenda that has little to do with "Stalinism," so once again, you're using the word for its insult, rather than its taxonomic, value. Why not just say he's a prick? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jul 8 10:51:26 PDT 2000

35259 012870.html -- rank: 1000

nathan.newman at yale.edu wrote: >As I understand it, Fox was not a simple choice of the rightwing guard >in PAN. He built a populist support network for himself and essentially >forced himself on the party looking for a win. Not that he is not >neoliberal in a number of areas, but given the ideological bankruptcy of >the PRI, that could be an improvement. > >And the fact that Jorge Castenada is advising his campaign shows that >some interesting political cross-overs ar ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 8 10:49:04 PDT 2000

35260 religious crackpots in public life -- rank: 1000

kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca wrote: > > Any hypotheses as to why the U.S. should be so uniquely plagued by >religiosity? > >I wouldn't say uniquely, but certainly the US, in general, is one of the more >fundamentalist nations around. It probably has to do with the split >face of the >democratic ethos that serves as the constitutional ground. Religion is >assumed to be true, with full authorial powers and legitimacy, but at the same >time no legislation may be ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 8 10:25:52 PDT 2000

35261 The heart of a leftist/Last time -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >I disagree with Doug that the term is not useful That's not what I said. I said: >Maybe there's a time & place when "Stalinist" is a useful >characterization. It isn't here & now. As you're using it, it has more the quality of a schoolyard taunt than a piece of serious analysis. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 7 14:03:25 PDT 2000

35262 Rubin book: $3.5m -- rank: 1000

Inside.com - July 7, 2000 Rubin's Final Answer: I'll Take Random House By Sara Nelson Random House has won the Robert E. Rubin sweepstakes, earning the Bertelsmann-owned house the right to publish the former Treasury Secretary's memoir-cum-advice book for more than $3 million. Ann Godoff, publisher and editor in chief, will edit the very expensive book, to be co-written by Slate chief political correspondent Jacob Weisberg. Godoff did not return calls, but a source close to the negotiations says ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 7 13:22:53 PDT 2000

35263 The heart of a leftist -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >Sure, let's be open minded about Stalinism and skeptical of >critiques about it, those a notable Stalinist virtues. Maybe there's a time & place when "Stalinist" is a useful characterization. It isn't here & now. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 7 12:26:48 PDT 2000

35264 The heart of a leftist -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >In some ways, the thinking of ordinary Americans is much more >preferable to that of LBO-talkers. They don't pay much attention to >foreign affairs, for better or worse, unlike LBO-talkers. Phew! >Things could be a lot worse if they began to think like Brad. >Ordinary Americans, unlike us, don't waste time reading David >Horowitz & other professional anticommunists either. The majority >of them don't know who Paul Krugman is, probably. Good f ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 7 10:30:02 PDT 2000

35265 Fox: Progressive? -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak quoted Jorge Castaneda: >"The idea of the private sector building up infrastructure doesn't work. >Either the US and Canada are going to do it or it will never be done," he >says. Guess it will never be done, then. Doug

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