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39301 GAO on SS for women -- rank: 1000

Haven't looked at this yet, but it may be interesting. >February 10, 1999 > >The following items were added to GAO's World Wide Web site in >Portable Document (PDF) format. > >[SNIP] > >- Social Security Reform: Implications for Women. T-HEHS-99-52. 9 > pp. February 3, 1999. > http://www.gao.gov/new.items/he99052t.pdf

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 10 15:19:27 PST 1999

39302 Postmodernism -- rank: 1000

Bromwich writes for Dissent, doesn't he? I'd much rather read Jameson & Anderson than that narcotic periodical. And this - > All that > is submerged in a theory whose demand is that people be known as obedient > consumers, or exploited consumers whose revolt can only emerge through > modified acts of consumption. What is he talking about? I assume this is a joint review of the Jameson collection, The Cultural Turn, and Anderson's book that started as an intro to Jameson's. I read ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 10 14:35:29 PST 1999

39303 Clintonism, Monicagate and the budget -- rank: 1000

curtiss_leung at ibi.com wrote: > Does Keynes's paradise have anything to do with Mandeville's _Fable of > the Bees_? I'm asking because a position like Mandeville's might > provide some help for those despairing of hair-shirt leftism. Any > vanguard party that would promote economic vigor through consumption, > lax morals, and tolerance would be one I'd join... Not this specific paradise, no; Keynes's Eden ruined by thrift is in the Treatise on Money. But th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 10 14:20:36 PST 1999

39304 Counterpunch web -- rank: 1000

The Counterpunch web site is now up. First feature is Alex Cockburn's hit on Snitchens. Also, an article reporting that Judi Bari wasn't blown up by the FBI or loggers but maybe her ex-husband. See <http://www.counterpunch.org/home.html> for more. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 10 10:37:56 PST 1999

39305 danger: queer Teletubby! -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >Thank you, Doug. This makes my point about Lynchburg better than I ever >could. Back when I was in Charlottesville we used to call it Lunchbag. Is that just witless UVa snobbery, or is it in common use? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 10 10:28:53 PST 1999

39306 Despising, hating, and fearing Clinton -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Not true. The root-and-branch Republicans despise, hate, and fear Clinton >like we used to despiste, hate, and fear Nixon. Why they do so is more >complicated: I've never gotten any of them to explain it to me >convincingly... The best explanation I've heard is from Chris Caldwell, Weekly Standard writer and New York Press columnist. He says to the hardcore right - nonlibertarian that is; Caldwell is a libertarian himself - Clinton represents the mainstream trium ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 10 10:21:01 PST 1999

39307 abortion, activism & pomophobia (was: Activism and Avoidance) -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Anyway, here's >some pomobashing du jour for all you pomotistas to gnash your teeth >over: http://www.salonmagazine.com/it/col/pagl/ Oh, Camille Paglia, lovely. A reactionary who's made a career out of packaging utterly conventional thinking as bold and hegemony-smashing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 10 09:20:43 PST 1999

39308 chasing amy -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I'm not sure what's hip these days >because I'm beyond hip. Max, if you'd been reading the Baffler, you'd know that hip is a marketing ploy anyway. We're trying to decommodify our dissent around here! >NYC I think is not hip so much as deranged. Now DC, there's a sane and rooted place! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 10 09:16:21 PST 1999

39309 danger: queer Teletubby! -- rank: 1000

[Funny he shouldn't be upset about a character with a TV in its stomach.] Falwell says Teletubby is gay, damaging (AP).ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - The Rev. Jerry Falwell is trying to out Tinky Winky, suggesting that the purple, purse-toting character on television's popular Teletubbies children's show is gay. A spokesman for Itsy Bitsy Entertainment Co., which licenses the Teletubbies in the United States, said the purse is actually Tinky Winky's magic bag. "The fact that he carries a magic bag doe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 10 09:02:50 PST 1999

39310 "Values, schmalues" continued -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >In policy terms, Clinton is certainly a putz (the mot juste for this >man, IMHO), >but I stand in awe of his amazing ability to bludgeon Republicans to >death, a terrific public service on its own. Yeah, but one reason they're so pissed at him is that he stole their program: welfare "reform," budget surpluses, shrinkage of the noncoercive functions of government, expansion in imprisonment (including something like 50 new categories of federal capital off ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 10 09:00:28 PST 1999

39311 Abortion & Foucault/Althusser (Re: cop shows, postmodernism....) -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: > Last time I looked, something like 75% of the >American public felt that women should have the right to an abortion. It's a little more complicated than that. Gallup has a page tracking the abortion issue over time at <http://www.gallup.com/congressandpub/issues/abortion.htm>. Note the erosion of support over the last few years. Also, when people who answer "certain circumstances" are probed about what those circs are, they give all kinds of answers ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 10 08:50:24 PST 1999

39312 abortion, activism & pomophobia (was: Activism and Avoidance) -- rank: 1000

ripley wrote [quoting Ken]: >>I now realize that I was >>mistaken in expecting to meet kindred souls on LBO-talk, and that much, >>perhaps most, of the dialogue here is explicitly or implicitly a cynical >>assault on those who seek to organize actions in solidarity with the >>oppressed, or avoidance of that responsibility through academic diversions. > >please don't be silly here. Remick and some others were assaulting all us >supposed Butler Bootlickers f ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 10 08:10:18 PST 1999

39313 Abortion -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >activism, by definition, includes answering such questions daily. Yes, I was imagining running into a Catholic in an anti-war, or anti-death penalty, or pro-debt-relief coalition, and having the abortion issue come up. (This isn't very far-fetched at all, since such groups, at least in the U.S., are full of religious Christians.) What should one say to him or her? "Oh, that question's closed, you're a reactionary to bring it up!" With that, Marxism's reputation for dog ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 10 08:04:32 PST 1999

39314 Low Wage Pay Gains -- rank: 1000

John B Kelly wrote: >Are these holdings by rich people, corporations, pension plans, or what? A bunch are held by foreign central banks; the rest are held by banks, rich people, pension funds (not so big in Europe as here), offshore investors like hedge funds. The usual gang. Doug >> >Does anybody know in what financial instruments foreign claims on the US >> >are held? >> >> All kinds, but about 30% of foreign assets are U.S. government bonds ($1.5 >> tril ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 9 17:29:50 PST 1999

39315 pissing -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 17:23:05 EST Apsken at aol.com writes: > >>Alex, if those are Hitchens's qualities that you have tried to imitate, >the >>verdict is in. It's time for Plan B. > >Hyuk, hyuk. But then, if your "activism" were worth anything, we'd be >living in a worker's paradise.... Ok, enough of this please. You've made your points. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 9 15:31:00 PST 1999