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3841 [lbo-talk] Obama luvs business (cont.) -- rank: 1000

More from Bloomberg - Obama luvs business (and anti-union CEOs): http://bit.ly/aLYUXF

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Date:	Thu Feb 11 09:05:39 PST 2010

3842 [lbo-talk] Immanuel Kant: An Erotic Life -- rank: 1000

On Feb 10, 2010, at 9:46 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > why BHL is my favorite > intellectual And his daughter, my god, gawjus.

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Date:	Wed Feb 10 20:32:02 PST 2010

3843 [lbo-talk] Marty Peretz: voodoo is Haiti's problem -- rank: 1000

<http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-spine/voodoo-development-and-the-culture-haiti > Voodoo, Development and the Culture of Haiti Marty Peretz February 8, 2010 | 5:05 pm 7 comments Print There are many factors which have determined and over-determined the miserable history of Haiti, to which almost everybody had become accustomed. The recent plague, however, provoked a moment of pity ... and also of self-pity, which manifested itself by Haitian anger against the aid providers who did not act ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 10 18:06:23 PST 2010

3844 [lbo-talk] demotic cuisine -- rank: 1000

On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:28 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > At 01:20 PM 2/10/2010, Eric Beck wrote: > > >> Whatever the word, its deciding how others should conduct >> themselves. > > > Isn't that fundamental to politics? "Thou shalt not kill." Isn't that a little judgmental?

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Date:	Wed Feb 10 14:07:11 PST 2010

3845 [lbo-talk] demotic cuisine -- rank: 1000

On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > I don't see how "revolting," know matter how society-wide its > application, is not a values-based (moral) measure. My problem with > accusing people or a country of "excess" is that you--in this > instance, you personally--have determined a proper level of > consumptive behavior and anything that goes beyond that is, what, > evil? bad? Whatever the word, its deciding how others should conduct > themselves. ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 10 14:06:33 PST 2010

3846 [lbo-talk] demotic cuisine -- rank: 1000

On Feb 10, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Dennis Perrin <dperrin at comcast.net> > wrote: > >> Awesome site. I love this stuff (to look at and ponder, not eat). > > I do too. But when I ask myself why, I don't really like the answers, > because I think it's mostly for prudish reasons: a moralizing critique > of American gluttony, excess, etc. Why do you like it? How can an American be a radical without a critique of the gros ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 10 13:04:12 PST 2010

3847 [lbo-talk] demotic cuisine -- rank: 1000

On Feb 10, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Speaking of which: > > <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/8309> > > When Ace approached his prime. Indeed: > There is the customary invocation to Escoffier's edict Faites simple > and usually a doff of the toque to Brillat-Savarin, though I'm glad > to see that Olney denounces him for the gormandizing old bore he was.

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Date:	Wed Feb 10 12:55:20 PST 2010

3848 [lbo-talk] DC blizzard dooms cap and trade -- rank: 1000

On Feb 10, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > Good point, I'm not sure why I singled out that passage, I do think > his > critique of petit-bourgeois "green" politics is on the money. Also, > aren't > things like the finite nature of time an absolute limit on the system? As a general principle, I'd be wary of betting against capital's ability to adapt. The only essential of the system seems to be exploitation of labor as the source of profit and the creation o ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 10 11:20:25 PST 2010

3849 [lbo-talk] weimar shadows -- rank: 1000

On Feb 10, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > In reference to views of Obama, I don't think we should overlook the > shock to a substantial number of whites of having a black man as > president. Many Republicans hated Clinton, being totally unalbe to > grasp > that he was implementing their program for them as neither Reagan nor > Bush 1 had been able todo. But I think the intensity of the reaction > to > Obama is much greater -- and that would go far to explain why t ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 10 10:06:42 PST 2010

3850 [lbo-talk] DC blizzard dooms cap and trade -- rank: 1000

[also via The Awl] People see the world around them and they extrapolate. I think that it s hard to see an economy-wide cap-and-trade [proposal] of the type that passed the House could prevail." Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) explains how the recent blizzards in Washington, D.C., have made his colleagues too stupid to pass global warming legislation. Maybe they should read Time. If that's not too complex for them. @11:55 AM

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Date:	Wed Feb 10 09:58:32 PST 2010

3851 [lbo-talk] demotic cuisine -- rank: 1000

[via The Awl] http://www.epicportions.com/2010/01/21/taco-bell-stuffed-sausage/

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Date:	Wed Feb 10 09:56:38 PST 2010

3852 [lbo-talk] BHO doesn't "begrudge" Jamie & Lloyd's bonuses -- rank: 1000

On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:20 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Can I get box or mezzanine seats to watch Jamie and Lloyd be savvy? We already watched 'em shake down the gov. Would Lloyd even have a bonus if it weren't for the AIG piggy bank? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 10 09:12:36 PST 2010

3853 [lbo-talk] BHO doesn't "begrudge" Jamie & Lloyd's bonuses -- rank: 1000

[from Politico's Morning Money] OBAMA DOESN'T 'BEGRUDGE' BONUSES FOR 'SAVVY' WALL STREET EXECS, Bloomberg's Julianna Goldman and Ian Katz report: 'President Barack Obama said he doesn't 'begrudge' the $17 million bonus awarded to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon or the $9 million issued to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein, noting that some athletes take home more pay. The president, speaking in an interview, said in response to a question that while ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 10 06:23:43 PST 2010

3854 [lbo-talk] BHL caught with pants down -- rank: 1000

[via Lou Proyect] Irish Times - February 10, 2010 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2010/0210/1224264114285.html Existential crisis as Lévy quotes fictional philosopher RUADHÁN Mac CORMAIC in Paris THERE'S NOTHING unusual about a new book by French celebrity philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy causing a media stir or provoking anguished debate in left-bank intellectual circles. But never has his work given rise to an existential question quite like this one. In his latest title, Lévy l ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 9 20:25:10 PST 2010

3855 [lbo-talk] Operation Titstorm strikes -- rank: 1000

Operation Titstorm: hackers bring down government websites ASHER MOSES 1:17pm | Hackers connected with the anti-Scientology group Anonymous this morning launched a broad attack on government websites. http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/operation-titstorm-hackers-bring-down-government-websites-20100210-nqku.html

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Date:	Tue Feb 9 18:32:14 PST 2010