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3646 [lbo-talk] cell phone hell -- rank: 1000

On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > heading down to > the Passaic River to watch pollution float by Still then, eh? My father grew up near that thing back in the 1920s and 1930s and saw dead horses and human turds floating by all the time. He's amazed that swimming in it didn't kill him. I guess consciousness changed enough over 40 or 50 years that people stopped swimming in it at least. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jan 13 08:15:40 PST 2010

3647 [lbo-talk] Individualism and psychiatric treatment -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2010, at 9:58 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > I won't defend insults on principle (although using them in practice > is > another question), but what brought that on? Neither James nor > Chris's posts > seemed particularly offensive by the normal standards hereabouts. I meant Chris X 2. He'd also said that watching James on Heidegger was like watching a donkey try to count. Ok, I'm not always consistent. I've got a lot of other things to do. But a certain standard of polit ...

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3648 [lbo-talk] Individualism and psychiatric treatment -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2010, at 9:10 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Seriously, Carrol's view of the world outside the US is very... > weird. It's like, Beijing isn't a sophisticated metropolis. It's a > bunch of wooden hovels, and people are running around saying "Me > Chinaman. Me smoke your opium, me do your laundry," instead of > playing World of Warcraft on their computers and having a giant > army. I think this ties in with his paranoiac belief that the US > runs the world. The ...

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3649 [lbo-talk] cell phone hell -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:54 PM, c b wrote: > CB: Kids are probably more likely to die in a car crash than be > harmed even by an uncle, no ? I doubt many of these scared parents > are fearful to put their kids in a car. True. Dan Lazare told me back in the high-crime days of the early 1990s, a friend of his compared the risks of a teenager getting hurt or killed from urban street crime vs. suburban car-driving. The risks of driving were far higher. Doug

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3650 [lbo-talk] Cell phone hell -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:30 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > 'the fact that most sex offenses against children are committed by > someone known to the family is ignored.' > That's good for the relative proportion of sex offences between > strangers and family members, but it ought also to be put in > perspective, that serious sex offences against young children are > very rare. There is a miserable view of the family as nothing more > than torture and incest, which likes the formu ...

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3651 [lbo-talk] cell phone hell -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2010, at 3:44 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > This is > usually met with the retort that "there are lots of sick people out > there." I don't disagree with that But how many of them are there, really? Crimes committed by strangers against young children are quite rare, aren't they? Kids are probably more at risk from their uncles than from these alleged sick strangers. Doug

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3652 [lbo-talk] Individualism and psychiatric treatment -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Chris Doss > <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>wrote: > >> >> An individualist one. >> > > But not solely individualist ones, of course. This is a worldview > with a > very long pedigree, much more venerable than individualism, or at > least the > individualism we recognize. But of course the question Cde Doss was answering wasn't individualist vs. not, it was op ...

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3653 [lbo-talk] Individualism and psychiatric treatment -- rank: 1000

On Jan 12, 2010, at 12:17 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Religious believers in impending armageddon are optimists, not > pessimists. It's a little more complicated than that, don't you think? What kind of internal psychological structure might project an imminent violent end to the world and condemn a large portion of humanity to eternal suffering? Doug

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3654 [lbo-talk] no money? -- rank: 1000

Is there really "no money" to solve the MTA's budget problem? Of course not! http://bit.ly/6hR0Ve

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3655 [lbo-talk] Fed makes $52b in 2009, hands over $46b of it to Treasury -- rank: 1000

[looks like they're making money on the bailout] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/other/20100112a.htm> Press Release Release Date: January 12, 2010 The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced preliminary unaudited results indicating that the Reserve Banks provided for payments of approximately $46.1 billion of their estimated 2009 net income of $52.1 billion to the U.S. Treasury. This represents a $14.4 billion increase over the 2008 results ($31.7 billion of $35.5 bi ...

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3656 [lbo-talk] Palin news -- rank: 1000

Interesting story in the NYT today http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/business/media/10ailes.html about how the Murdoch family isn't fond of Roger Ailes. But they swallow their objections because he makes them so much money. Michael Wolff adds some self-interested commentary at: http://www.newser.com/off-the-grid/post/372/roger-ailes-rupert-murdoch-and-how-i-became-a-non-person-at-the-new-york-times.html?utm_source=otg&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20100111 Woolf emphasizes this quote fr ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 11 18:37:46 PST 2010

3657 [lbo-talk] Individualism and psychiatric treatment -- rank: 1000

On Jan 11, 2010, at 3:52 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > This is the culture you call optimistic? To an arch-pessimist, I > guess that would look optimistic. > > As for individualistic, only in the sense that we saw in The Life of > Brian: 'we are all individuals'. > > 'As I keep saying, if you're going to offer opinions on the USA, you > should really spend some time here. Yes the official culture is > unremittingly optimistic and individualistic. I don't know where you ...

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3658 [lbo-talk] Individualism and psychiatric treatment -- rank: 1000

On Jan 11, 2010, at 1:39 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Though the finding that France is also high on the list would > militate against that conclusion, since France is often cited as the > European country with the most developed hostility to free market > individualism in its culture. "Our mental disorders tend to be more severe, as well; though France is pretty high up in the rankings, three times as many disorders are classified as mild rather than severe; the two categori ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 11 10:47:57 PST 2010

3659 [lbo-talk] individualism and psychological treatment -- rank: 1000

On Jan 10, 2010, at 3:27 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Any reasonably responsible estimate such as this, even if it is wrong, > usually points to something, and while "greater diagnosis of mental > illness" is probably one of the factors, there may be others of > importance. I just don't think Andy's why yanks are so crazy is a good > place to start. I don't think you should start by assuming what you set out to prove, or anything like that. The OECD does offer some support f ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 10 12:38:18 PST 2010

3660 [lbo-talk] individualism and psychological treatment -- rank: 1000

On Jan 10, 2010, at 12:59 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > I would be sceptical about a statistic like the OECD's increasing > mental illness, since this would, presumably, reflect greater > diagnosis of mental illness. It's a measure of lifetime prevalance, a snapshot, and not a trend. Doug

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