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3616 [lbo-talk] Haiti relief -- rank: 1000

On Jan 19, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Other than reactions to the Brooks article, I haven't seen anything > about Haiti on here. I recorded a long and excellent interview last night with Robert Fatton, the UVa political scientist of Haitian origin, which I'll run on Thursday's show. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 19 08:08:34 PST 2010

3617 [lbo-talk] how BHO is like MLK -- rank: 1000

Continuing in her tradition of deeply awful political journalism, Melissa Harris-Lacewell tells us that Obama is like King because King snubbed Bayard Rustin for being a gay socialist: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/517878/how_barack_obama_is_like_martin_luther_king_jr

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Date:	Mon Jan 18 09:20:51 PST 2010

3618 [lbo-talk] ciao, 60? -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen] Charlie Cook, in a rare Sunday bulletin to subscribers: 'This past Thursday, Jan. 14, The Cook Political Report moved the open Massachusetts Senate seat rating from lean Democrat to toss-up, having moved it from solid Democrat to lean Democratic on Jan. 7. We continue to see this race as very much of a toss-up, with Republican state Sen. Scott Brown holding onto a very narrow, single-digit lead over Democratic state Attorney General Martha Coakley. Given the vagaries of ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 18 07:30:40 PST 2010

3619 [lbo-talk] Neanderthals used cosmetics -- rank: 1000

On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:14 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > It's also a spectacularly stupid, junior high school level insult. Enough. Next one to throw a stone goes on moderation.

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Date:	Mon Jan 18 07:21:56 PST 2010

3620 [lbo-talk] MLK day -- rank: 1000

<http://www.ssc.msu.edu/%7Esw/mlk/brkslnc.htm> Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence By Rev. Martin Luther King 4 April 1967 Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City ... There is something seductively tempting about stopping there and sending us all off on what in some circles has become a popular crusade against the war in Vietnam. I say we must enter the struggle, but I wish t ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 18 07:20:27 PST 2010

3621 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

[Note: files are often posted well ahead of their announcement here or on the web archive page - so for the latest, subscribe to the podcast version.] BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73801817 > or <http://tinyurl.com/3bsaqb> opening commentaries now at ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 17 13:07:51 PST 2010

3622 [lbo-talk] Neanderthals used cosmetics -- rank: 1000

On Jan 17, 2010, at 3:43 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Your dream date then, Chris I don't want to impose a duty to be constructive on this list, but was that really necessary?

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Date:	Sun Jan 17 12:53:46 PST 2010

3623 [lbo-talk] room for rent in NYC in early March -- rank: 1000

A friend is contemplating a visit to NYC in early March, first or second week (she's flexible), and is looking for a place to stay. She's happy to pay a modest rent, but something below the going Craigslist rate. Any ideas/offers? Doug

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Date:	Sun Jan 17 12:39:36 PST 2010

3624 [lbo-talk] Clinton & the restoration of Aristide (1994) -- rank: 1000

On Jan 17, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Apologists for Bill Clinton and for liberal interventionism > generally are fond of citing the 1994 restoration of Aristide, > at the point of US guns, as a shining example. > > I was kinda distracted by various personal matters back in > '93 and '94 and I didn't follow events very closely. Somehow > I find it hard to believe that idealism and principle played > much of a role in Bill Clinton's decision to do that. But & ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 17 11:42:14 PST 2010

3625 [lbo-talk] Lincoln Gordon, he dead -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2010, at 2:48 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Ah. I didn't know that. I remember a student saying her father had > said > that only communists used the word "mases." I wonder how many such > verbal identifiers there are in the anti-communist kit. There's a whole passage in Masters of Deceit about the tell-tale phrases. So insidious is the communist threat is that the phrase "male chauvinist pig" is now in almost universal use. My aunt-in-law, Jane "Jenn ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 16 12:23:18 PST 2010

3626 [lbo-talk] Lincoln Gordon, he dead -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2010, at 8:56 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > And J. Edgar Hoover woul never have said that you can tell a > Communist because he is comfortable with women! He did say you could tell a Commie because they used the phrase "male chauvinist." It's in one of his books. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 16 11:02:29 PST 2010

3627 [lbo-talk] Lincoln Gordon, he dead -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2010, at 8:12 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > i wonder why no one gets in a huff over anti-sexism? Is there Tim Wise analogue who's made a business of it?

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Date:	Sat Jan 16 11:01:39 PST 2010

3628 [lbo-talk] NYT does WBAI -- rank: 1000

[All too true, I'm sorry to say.] New York Times - January 15, 2010 <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/nyregion/16wbai.html?pagewanted=all> 99.5 FM, Where the Board Meetings Make the Broadcasts Seem Tame By MICHAEL POWELL Comrades, comrades. WBAI, 50 years old and still innovative in its programming, has suffered management coups and countercoups in the past decade, and assailed some of its own journalists as running dogs. Alex Steinberg, a late-middle-aged self-described revolutionary ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 16 05:01:05 PST 2010

3629 [lbo-talk] Conrad v Hochschild (was Lincoln Gordon, he dead) -- rank: 1000

On Jan 16, 2010, at 6:00 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > The Cross Dunce writes 'This is really funny' - yes I can hear the > hollow laughter echoing around the decrepit halls of your sinking > Chateau from here. > > 'In fact, I'm going to throw this at your face every time you make > one of your interminable...' > > Duly noted, and given all the weight it deserves. Boys, stop bickering.

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Date:	Sat Jan 16 04:21:15 PST 2010

3630 [lbo-talk] Conrad v Hochschild (was Lincoln Gordon, he dead) -- rank: 1000

On Jan 15, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > In fact, I'm going to throw this at your face every time you make > one of your interminable Epsilon Sub-Moron "Heidegger was a Nazi, > environmentalists and Derrida are Nazis, drool drool drool, now I'm > throwing feces at the wall" comments. Think of it as a pool > counterattack, Enough.

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Date:	Fri Jan 15 19:01:22 PST 2010