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3826 [lbo-talk] clarification -- rank: 1000

On Feb 13, 2010, at 1:53 PM, SA wrote: > The idea of devoting your life to a struggle for something you > cannot describe is something only somebody steeped in the Hegelian > mysteries of the great texts can embrace. It's like those mid-20th > century Protestant intellectuals who felt like they needed to reject > the old "unsophisticated" image of god as an old man with a white > beard, but all they could come up with were extremely abstract and > intellectualized ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 13 11:22:30 PST 2010

3827 [lbo-talk] "[N]early 70 percent of New Yorkers have heard their neighbors having sex" -- rank: 1000

Ha. In my almost-31 years in NYC, I've only seen neighbors having sex once. Two men, as it happens. Disappointing.

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Date:	Sat Feb 13 11:17:47 PST 2010

3828 [lbo-talk] [OFF] Immanuel Kant: An Erotic Life -- rank: 1000

On Feb 12, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > Mostly right, but she loves the paradigm of resistance. The psuedo- > left > loves the word resistance , because they like the almost biblical > struggle > it represents. We, the weak, the holy, against them, the Goliaths, > the > malevolent. We ll lose, but at least we ll have a history of bitter > defeats > to reminiscence about. This fatalism is deeply engrained on the left. It's in her book title/slogan, The ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 12 14:43:05 PST 2010

3829 [lbo-talk] [OFF] Immanuel Kant: An Erotic Life -- rank: 1000

On Feb 12, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > I've listened to Democracy Now! on and off for some time and I can > say with > great surety that her delivery's not my favorite part of the program She has a lot of virtues, but the voice reflects the moral-exhortatory nature of her politics. It's always more about outrage than understanding - even victimization than resistance or triumph. Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 12 14:20:03 PST 2010

3830 [lbo-talk] [OFF] Immanuel Kant: An Erotic Life -- rank: 1000

On Feb 12, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > now I'm > feeling neurotic about my teaching, imagining a video of myself... Omigod, don't get me started on video. Terrifying.

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Date:	Fri Feb 12 14:18:30 PST 2010

3831 [lbo-talk] [OFF] Immanuel Kant: An Erotic Life -- rank: 1000

On Feb 12, 2010, at 11:45 AM, martin wrote: > There are a lot of voices that are a problem for me because of some > hearing loss, so I'm always pleased when I encounter a voice that's > clear and articulate. Yours has always been clear for me. Thanks, but years of editing radio shows have proven to me that I talk too fast, and I have a habit of trailing off at the end of sentences. I've tried to correct these flaws but not always successfully. It's really excruciating to get intimate ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 12 08:53:37 PST 2010

3832 [lbo-talk] Americans like gays & lesbians better than homosexuals -- rank: 1000

On Feb 12, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The discussion on the list regarding popular ignorance has been pretty > jumbled and mixed with other matters not necessarily relevant. But > it is > moe important, I think, to study in depth the _sources_ and _causes_ > ot > that ignorance than to dwell on it merely as an empirical fact. Well, yes. Ignorance of the sort that pervades the USA is produced, not spontaneous or genetically determined. It is, however, essential to ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 12 07:50:16 PST 2010

3833 [lbo-talk] Immanuel Kant: An Erotic Life -- rank: 1000

On Feb 12, 2010, at 12:04 AM, martin wrote: > And it did a much better job than I do reading CC's typos. When I > figured out the 'few mouse clicks' I was surprised to hear what > sounded like Doug Henwood's voice reading the text - I thought > 'that's probably why he liked it!' Which voice? The default is "Alex." Does he sound like me?

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Date:	Fri Feb 12 06:39:16 PST 2010

3834 [lbo-talk] Americans like gays & lesbians better than homosexuals -- rank: 1000

[As someone on the AAPOR list pointed out, the Christian right now always uses the term "homosexual marriage." No doubt they've done the research.] <http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/11/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6198284.shtml > Support for Gays in the Military Depends on the Question A new CBS News/New York Times poll finds that the wording of the question is key when it comes to determining whether Americans support allowing gays to serve in the military. In the pol ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 12 06:34:32 PST 2010

3835 [lbo-talk] Immanuel Kant: An Erotic Life -- rank: 1000

On Feb 11, 2010, at 11:06 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > We have several text-reading programs or gadgets; but they involve > some > switching around of computers in the house, and Jan (thehousehold tech > geek) has been overloaded. Moreover, mastering them puts stress on the > learning curve of a 79-year old brain! But were getting closer on all > fronts, & I think before my eyes fail so I can't even type this I'll > be > able to have text read and my voice turned into text ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 11 20:36:16 PST 2010

3836 [lbo-talk] Obama's Wall Street ass lick: cause and effect -- rank: 1000

On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:49 PM, Eubulides wrote: > There is no periphery or semi-periphery any more. There are no > emerging markets. It is 2010 and clinging to the counternarratives > of 20-30+ years ago no longer perform interesting explanatory work. You mean that all militaries are now created equal, many countries hold their reserves in Indonesian rupiahs, and the pop culture products of Jakarta are now watched around the world?

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Date:	Thu Feb 11 18:03:43 PST 2010

3837 [lbo-talk] In performance at the WH -- rank: 1000

On Feb 11, 2010, at 8:49 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > Does Pete Seeger at an inaugural event change the event, or change > (for the worse) > the way people think about Pete Seeger? Dunno. I never thought much of Pete Seeger. Too much of that sentimental pop fronty folky crap for me. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 11 18:01:06 PST 2010

3838 [lbo-talk] Obama's Wall Street ass lick: cause and effect -- rank: 1000

On Feb 11, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > In theory, with popular mass support backing him, Obama could easily > give the bankers the finger. Clearly, Obama has not chosen that path. > Why? Because he's in awe of Wall Street. The establishment adopted him, greased his rise, and he has nothing but admiration and gratitude in return. He's not like FDR, who emerged from the aristocracy and didn't mind pissing on them. That, and the quiescence of the working class and the lack o ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 11 17:32:45 PST 2010

3839 [lbo-talk] Immanuel Kant: An Erotic Life -- rank: 1000

On Feb 11, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Now of course it's complicated by eyesight. Do you do text-voice recognition? I installed a reader on my "blog" that actually sounds pretty good. It was your complaint about not being able to read blogs that made me do it. The Mac comes with a built-in text reader - dunno about Windows, but I'm sure it's no big deal. No interest in trying that? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 11 11:43:34 PST 2010

3840 [lbo-talk] Tracking the decline of the left's historic base -- rank: 1000

On Feb 11, 2010, at 1:38 PM, B. wrote: > I posted one very germane nugget from a longer book, about a > relevant demographic being discussed (for ex., Sarah Palin's "real > America") -- ergot you extrapolate and make broad, crotchety, and > 100% unwarranted generalizations/speculations about other topics. Carrol's response could have been a bit more measured, but I really wonder if Chomsky is right about the demographic. That would be especially true of the Tea Party peop ...

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