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3811 [lbo-talk] spreading depression -- rank: 1000

The psychological, not economic, kind. There was some skepticism around here when I said a while back that I thought depression had increased in frequency over the decades. Here's some supporting evidence from an alleged authority, though without footnotes, via The Awl. Somehow, I blame capitalism, but I'm not clear on the mechanism, though suppressed alienation and rage must have something to do with it. <http://www.psychologytoday.com/print/32251> Secondhand Blues By Anonymous Creat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 15 19:00:23 PST 2010

3812 [lbo-talk] Joe the Plumber evolves -- rank: 1000

<http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/remember-joe-the-plumber-hes-pissed> "I don t owe him shit. He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it." Samuel Joseph "Joe The Plumber" Wurzelbacher is not kindly disposed to John McCain. In fact, his enmity toward the Arizona senator is so strong that he is no longer a supporter of Sarah Palin's, due to the fact that she supports McCain's re-election. And, as regards President Obama: "I think his ideology is un-American ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 15 18:46:15 PST 2010

3813 [lbo-talk] terrible political writer gets promotion -- rank: 1000

<http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut/529703/around_i_the_nation_I> Around The Nation posted by KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL on 02/13/2010 @ 11:22am The Nation is excited to announce that our March 8th issue (which goes live at TheNation.com next Thursday) marks the debut of Melissa Harris- Lacewell's new column, Sister Citizen. Harris-Lacewell has been a regular blogger here at TheNation.com for the last year, writing on topics ranging from President Obama's Nobel prize and racial profiling ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 15 18:42:31 PST 2010

3814 [lbo-talk] Comparative Immigrationisms -- rank: 1000

On Feb 15, 2010, at 9:15 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Chris Doss > <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> The three countries with the highest number of immigrants are the >> US, Russia, and Germany (in that order). I'm wondering if any >> comparative studies have been done on the issue (in any respect -- >> how immigrants are treated, immigration law, etc.). Does anybody >> know? Thanks!! > > Wouldn't a per capita ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 15 18:39:20 PST 2010

3815 [lbo-talk] the Vatican's top 10 list -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/02/15/the-beatles-michael-jackson-and-u2-make-vatican-newspapers-list-of-best-albums-bob-dylan-snubbed/ > The Beatles, Michael Jackson, and U2 Make Vatican Newspaper s List of Best Albums; Bob Dylan Snubbed The Beatles, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson and U2 may be one step closer to paradise. But Bob Dylan is still Knockin on Heaven s Door. The Vatican has previously denounced rock music as the devil s work but in a surprise change of tune on S ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 15 18:29:49 PST 2010

3816 [lbo-talk] almost no change in white racial attitudes in 20 years -- rank: 1000

On Feb 15, 2010, at 6:14 PM, Lakshmi Rhone wrote: > And white or citizen attitudes towards undocumented workers? Or toward > Muslim Americans? As we say in New York, don't ask. The answers would be terrifying. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 15 17:29:25 PST 2010

3817 [lbo-talk] almost no change in white racial attitudes in 20 years -- rank: 1000

At least between the elections of 1988 (Jesse Jackson's big year) and 2008: http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/73/5/917

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Date:	Mon Feb 15 13:40:41 PST 2010

3818 [lbo-talk] What Would Have to Happen First -- rank: 1000

On Feb 15, 2010, at 1:45 PM, brad bauerly wrote: > Take my research on > food for example:even though there is growing PPP in most of the > world there > is also an increase in % of population that is malnourished and food > insecure. And a greater share that's fat, too, right?

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Date:	Mon Feb 15 13:06:26 PST 2010

3819 [lbo-talk] The zen of marx (was clarification) -- rank: 1000

On Feb 15, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Lakshmi Rhone wrote: > I don't think the development of the productive forces > should come at the happiness, much less lives, of actual individuals, Any individuals? Do you think that's really possible under any imaginable social system? Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 15 10:08:27 PST 2010

3820 [lbo-talk] What Would Have to Happen First -- rank: 1000

On Feb 15, 2010, at 9:15 AM, brad bauerly wrote: >> Yes, and this is a genuine reason to be hopeful. I was just reading >> UNESCO's Education for All 2010 report, and the expansion of the >> university system throughout the industrializing world is >> astounding. Per >> capita they're still catching up to the US, EU and Japan, but the >> absolute >> size of the student population has mushroomed. The numbers are here: > >> http://slorgzilla.blogs ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 15 07:07:33 PST 2010

3821 [lbo-talk] Waht Would Have to Happen First -- rank: 1000

On Feb 14, 2010, at 10:21 AM, SA wrote: > On Day 3, the new regime would be facing conditions we have no way > of predicting. But it will *also* be facing problems that we have > been dealing with for centuries - problems of production, > allocation, economic calculation, division of labor, etc. When they > start addressing these problems, the actors in the regime will > *necessarily* - *inevitably* - *inescapably* be basing their actions > on the stock of ideas that they ha ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 14 08:22:04 PST 2010

3822 [lbo-talk] Waht Would Have to Happen First -- rank: 1000

On Feb 14, 2010, at 12:42 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Under what condtions would a mass anti-capitalist movement overthrow > the > state and seize total power? That's the only way socialism could happen? Through a violent revolution?

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Date:	Sun Feb 14 06:33:17 PST 2010

3823 [lbo-talk] us in Madison -- rank: 1000

http://isthmus.com/theguide/details.php?event=235141 Politics in the Age of Scarcity Words UW Havens Center seminar: "Do Americans Hate Politics & Love Shopping?" by journalist Liza Featherstone, 4 pm, 3/16, Social Science Bldg., Room 8411; "The Crisis is Over: What Next?" by Left Business Observer publisher Doug Henwod, 4 pm, 3/17, Social Science Bldg., Room 8417; open seminar, 12:20 pm, 3/18, Social Sciences Bldg, Room 8108. Free; all welcome. www.havenscenter.org. ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 14 06:32:00 PST 2010

3824 [lbo-talk] practice -- rank: 1000

<http://www.theawl.com/2010/02/local-politician-misunderstands-butt-sex> February 12, 2010 "We re talking about taking the penis of a man and putting it in the rectum of another man and wriggling it around in excrement. And you have to think, would I want that to be done to me? New Hampshire State Representative Nancy Elliott? You're doing it wrong. by Choire posted @1:35 PM

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 13 18:48:52 PST 2010

3825 [lbo-talk] "[N]early 70 percent of New Yorkers have heard their neighbors having sex" -- rank: 1000

On Feb 13, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Ha. In my almost-31 years in NYC, I've only seen neighbors having >> sex once. Two men, as it happens. Disappointing. > > Yeah, but this says "heard." You've heard it more often than that > for sure, no? Actually, no. The apartment I lived in for almost all those years was very soundproof. Heard a few intense altercations in the hallway - e.g., a drunk ex pou ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 13 18:41:31 PST 2010