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39166 Hitchens on homophobia -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: > > >On Sun, 28 Feb 1999 21:14:51 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >writes: > >>But isn't he covertly reinforcing it? > >Yup. > >>And what does it say about women? > >The real question is, what does it say about Hitchens' views on women? That's what I meant. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 28 18:52:20 PST 1999

39167 Hitchens on homophobia -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >Well, Hitchy-poo is playing around with the old stereotype about gay >beauty obsession. But isn't he covertly reinforcing it? And what does it say about women? Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 28 18:14:51 PST 1999

39168 Hitchens on homophobia -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander quoted Christopher Hitchens: >Need he have reminded me of the time >when I could dash off a mocking letter to the likes of himself, and had not >reached the state of decrepitude when only women would even consider going >to bed with me? Can someone parse that for me? Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 28 17:27:04 PST 1999

39169 coming financial armageddon/new wager offer for Max -- rank: 1000

JayHecht at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 2/27/99 2:58:12 PM Central Standard Time, >dhenwood at panix.com writes: > ><< A bear market is defined as a decline of 10% or > more from the most recent high; a bull market, any gain of 10% or more from > that trough. This will go up on the LBO website soon as a public service. >> > Doug, > >I thought if was a 20% decline???? Yeah, but I wanted to get in the "corrections." Users are free to apply th ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 28 17:14:21 PST 1999

39170 dates -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >I'm trying to verify the date and place of birth of Pierre Bourdieu? Has >anyone heard of a biography? Or know of another source? If all else fails, his directory entry <http://cdfinfo.in2p3.fr/College/CHAIRES/PHILO/sociologie.html> says: ======= Chaire de Sociologie Monsieur Pierre Bourdieu, professeur. Bureaux : * Collège de France, site Cardinal Lemoine, Bureau No 365 (3ème ét.). Téléphone : 01 44 27 18 40 Secrétaires : Mme Fabre - Téléphone : 01 44 2 ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 28 16:20:45 PST 1999

39171 CoCC sez... -- rank: 1000

Trent Lott's friends at the Council of Conservative Citizens have a commentary on the Byrd murder verdict at <http://www.cofcc.org/views.htm>. White folks are the victims! A choice excerpt: "James Byrd was much better qualified for victim status because he was an ex-convict, a welfare recipient, a suspected drug dealer, AND handicapped!" Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 28 08:50:25 PST 1999

39172 Genetically Modified (GM) Food -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >Nobody has more reason to disapprove of the use of legal power to >silence opponents than I, and Monsanto should be attacked for doing so. >However, that does not show that the science is bad. The scientific >journals are all pretty much agreed that there is nothing intrinsically >more dangerous about GMO food than any other form of cross-pollination. Yeah, and they also said back in the 1950s that it was ok for shoestores to use x-rays to measure kids' feet ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 28 08:05:19 PST 1999

39173 Marx quote -- rank: 1000

Anyone know where Marx said "M. le Capital and Mme. La Terre danced their macabre dance"? Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 28 07:20:18 PST 1999

39174 Doe fund source?? -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >In a previous post, there was discussion about an organization in New >York city called the Doe Fund which runs a program called "Ready, >Willing, & Able." This organization takes homeless ex-drug addicts, >"rehabilitates" them, and lends them to the city where they collect >trash from street litter baskets and are apparently taking over work >that used to be done by unionized sanitation workers. > >Also supposedly the Ready, ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 27 16:02:24 PST 1999

39175 Fwd: Re: To Yoshie, and anyone interested -- rank: 1000

[This was addressed to the listowner, not the list.] X-Sender: cdriscol at arts.adelaide.edu.au Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 09:40:26 +1000 To: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Catherine Driscoll <cdriscol at arts.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: To Yoshie, and anyone interested Mime-Version: 1.0 Yoshie writes: >Wouldn't you say that there is a problem in using the term 'feminize'? The >term carries an assumption that to be coupled in a sexual engagement with a >man is to be a woman ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 27 15:38:51 PST 1999

39176 Jobs being created -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >Would you say this statement is correct: >Most of the jobs being created in the U.S. economy are low-pay service >sector jobs. >????????????????? No, I don't think that's true. Lots of new jobs are, but not all. I think there's a bifurcation in the market, with good/high paying and bad/low paying jobs being created in bigger numbers than decent/ok paying ones. The real average wage - led by the private service sector, by the way - couldn't be rising if it were j ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 27 13:39:06 PST 1999

39177 in the news -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >How can the organization of homecare workers affect Greenspan one way or >another? I was speaking strictly from a labor market, balance of class forces position. I'll defer to you and others on issues of relations between the workers and people with disabilities. If the union is just looking to grab headlines and dues, well that sucks, but it wouldn't be surprising; if the union lobbies for better funding and better services, wouldn't that be good for all? Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 27 13:11:08 PST 1999

39178 coming financial armageddon/new wager offer for Max -- rank: 1000

Ok, all you folks who want to play the crash/bear market game, here are the historical stats. The first panel is based on monthly average prices; the second, on daily closes. A bear market is defined as a decline of 10% or more from the most recent high; a bull market, any gain of 10% or more from that trough. This will go up on the LBO website soon as a public service. Note that post-1980 bear markets have been short and mild by historical standards. Doug ---- BULL AND BEAR MARKETS IN U.S. STOC ...

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39179 Uh huh (was: Re: Weyrich Letter to Conservatives: Cultural Marxists won the War) -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >the other example i would note is how goldblum's character works in >'independance day': he gets to nod and wink at us the viewer, allowing >for the performance of cynical detachment, as if to say: 'yeah, we >know this is all a joke, don't we'. An old college friend of mine who became a hotshot DC political macher - and who ended up doing some time in federal prison in the House post office scandal - told me once that the secret of Reagan's popularity was just this kind ...

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39180 To Yoshie, and anyone interested -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >An 'effect of globalized conception of cultural production' because of >marketing (e.g. Spice Girls Catherine, you still like the Spice Girls? Doug

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Date:	Fri Feb 26 19:01:19 PST 1999