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3661 [lbo-talk] Individualism and psychiatric treatment -- rank: 1000

On Jan 10, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > And what is the evidence that Yanks are any > more apt to go "crazy" [sic] than in habitants of > othere nations? According to the OECD, the U.S. has the highest lifetime incidence of mental illness in the First World: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Awfulness.html> > And of the ten countries for which the OECD has data, Americans have > the most severe psychological problems, with nearly half > experiencing ...

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3662 [lbo-talk] Avatar: The Exquisite Horror of The Strange Stranger -- rank: 1000

On Jan 8, 2010, at 6:21 PM, John Gulick wrote: > I'm doing my best to > preserve the nearly obsolete high bourgeois spatial split between > public and private Why? Out of some Adorno-esque revolutionary devotion to high bourgeois aspirations? You're on Facebook, too. You can't fool me. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 8 15:31:50 PST 2010

3663 [lbo-talk] call for help -- rank: 1000

I was just reading Tila Tequila's blog. I think I need an intervention.

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Date:	Fri Jan 8 15:30:56 PST 2010

3664 [lbo-talk] Avatar: The Exquisite Horror of The Strange Stranger -- rank: 1000

On Jan 8, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > dredmond at efn.org wrote: >> Hollywood has gone from "Planet of >> the Apes", those post-Vietnam tales of impending Imperial >> breakdown, to >> "Planet of the BRICs", where the Na'vi are basically Brazilian >> jaguars + >> Russian bears + Indian tigers + Chinese dragons. >> >> -- DRR > > A little tortured, innit? Not to mention a little uncritically admiring of predat ...

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3665 [lbo-talk] MI6: 'Global Intellingence'? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 8, 2010, at 3:00 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > I cut and pasted the wording of this ad on Facebook: 'Time for a > Career Change? MI6 can use your Skills. > Join us as an Operational Officer collecting and analysing Global > Intellingence' > > ... like learning how to spell 'intelligence', for example It was a test. You passed. You're ready for the next step.

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3666 [lbo-talk] Tuli benefit -- rank: 1000

[It's a damn shame that people have to have their friends raise money for them when they're old and blind. It wouldn't be fair to say "especially Tuli," but he did some great things (and was an early subscriber to LBO). Via Facebook] Benefit for Tuli Kupferberg poet, author, pacifist anarchist, Fug Friday, January 22, 2010 7:30pm - 11:00pm St. Ann s Warehouse in Brooklyn Lou Reed, Philip Glass, John Zorn, Sonic Youth and others will play a benefit concert for Tuli Kupferberg, the B ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 8 07:20:41 PST 2010

3667 [lbo-talk] 60's over 30's -- rank: 1000

On Jan 7, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > how important the activities of CP members,s ex-members, and 'fellow > travellers" were That's a point of considerable interest. How many of the better things in modern U.S. history would not have happened without the CP? Civil rights, tenants rights, union organizing - they were crucial to all of it, no? Doug

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3668 [lbo-talk] cell phone hell -- rank: 1000

On Jan 7, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Bryan Atinsky wrote: > Three? One for Ivan? Ha, no. My 93-year-old father. Which does bring up a question. How old are kids when they get their own phone these days? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 7 09:13:25 PST 2010

3669 [lbo-talk] cell phone hell -- rank: 1000

I know everyone hates AT&T, but we're on a family plan with three phones, lots more minutes than we use, 200 texts for Liza and 1500 for me every month, and it's about $90. Doug

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3670 [lbo-talk] My Ayn Randian, libertarian loving relatives....argh... !!! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 6, 2010, at 10:00 PM, Bryan Atinsky wrote: > Interesting, Yaron Brook the head of the Ayn Rand Institute is an > Israeli, could that help to explain the Randy lovers of Zion? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaron_Brook > > http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/the-u-n-goldstone-report-and-just-war/ > Where he argues that Israel (and the US) should get rid of any > notion of constraint and proportionate response...worry about > civilians in a war theater and such) Yup. ...

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3671 [lbo-talk] Obama Administration Approves Permit for Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine -- rank: 1000

On Jan 6, 2010, at 10:51 AM, shrill.polemic at gmail.com wrote: > "The Obama administration rings in the new year by allowing coal > companies to bury more miles of streams," said Joan Mulhern, senior > legislative counsel for Earthjustice. "There is no excuse for > approving this permit when the science is clear that mountaintop > removal coal mining permanently destroys streams. The administration > claims to be making progress on mountaintop removal, but in re ...

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3672 [lbo-talk] Bill Gross fulminates -- rank: 1000

On Jan 6, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > That leaves 4% of the population oppose state olicy from a leftists > perspective. My guess is that it's better than that - more like 10%, or even higher. The constituency for a broadly social democratic, anti- imperial agenda is probably closer to 20%.

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Date:	Wed Jan 6 09:33:58 PST 2010

3673 [lbo-talk] Bill Gross fulminates -- rank: 1000

[Bill Gross is the world's biggest bondholder. He's not a standard- issue Wall Street hack, but he's far from an oddball...] <http://www.pimco.com/LeftNav/Featured+Market+Commentary/IO/2010/Let s+Get+Fisical+January+2010.htm > Investment Outlook Bill Gross | January 2010 Let s Get Fisical Quixotic journeys often make for great literature, but by definition are rarely productive. I am, after all, referring to windmills here not their 21st century creation, but their 17th century chasing ...

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3674 [lbo-talk] co-sleeping with your shotgun -- rank: 1000

http://www.the-backup.com/

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3675 [lbo-talk] "The Relevance of Lenin Today", "The Revolution Still Won t Be Televised" and some other new articles on "The Activist" -- rank: 1000

On Jan 5, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > http://theactivist.org (YDS' blog) Farber: "The remnants of New Left ideas have recently converged with some newer intellectual trends, including postmodernism, and continue to exercise significant influence over contemporary movements such as ecology and feminism." What decade is he living in? Doug

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