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3946 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 opening commentaries at: <http://lbo-news.com/> Note: this show no longer originates at WBAI. For an explanation, see the links on the radio archive page, below. -------------------------------------------------- Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: December 11, 2010 Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, author of Starstruc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 14 15:28:40 PST 2010

3947 [lbo-talk] dialogue -- rank: 1000

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/14/AR2010121402330.html A progressive's answer to Obama By Katrina vanden Heuvel Tuesday, December 14, 2010 ... I met Obama once - when he was a candidate for president. On learning that I was editor of the Nation, he said to me, "The perfect is the enemy of good." Perhaps he expected me to disagree. I don't. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 14 11:13:09 PST 2010

3948 [lbo-talk] busted munis: a sonnet -- rank: 1000

Just learned that Wordsworth got burned when Pennsylvania suspended interest payments on some bonds he held, so he wrote a sonnet about it! To the Pennsylvanians by William Wordsworth (1845) Days undefiled by luxury or sloth, Firm self-denial, manners grave and staid, Rights equal, laws with cheerfulness obeyed, Words that require no sanction from an oath, And simple honesty a common growth-- This high repute, with bounteous Nature's aid, Won confidence, now ruthlessly betrayed At will, your pow ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 14 09:37:07 PST 2010

3949 [lbo-talk] Years of Wrangling Lie Ahead for Health Law -- rank: 1000

On Dec 14, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > It seems that O's administration turned to be neither good strategists nor > good tacticians - they wanted to play it safe, but in the end they face > losing it all. And the irony is that I would not mind if they did. As I said a while back, pragmatism isn't always pragmatic. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 14 07:15:05 PST 2010

3950 [lbo-talk] centrists gather: yuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 13, 2010, at 11:24 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > At least in an education context, those decent contracts have largely been a > bribe to get union buy-in to totally screwy and utterly refutable ed policy, > no? No, it's also the rest. There's no solidarity among unions, anyway. (The building trades are deserting the anti-Walmart coalition, in somewhat related news.) Besides, the ed policy is bipartisan now anyway. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 14 04:41:49 PST 2010

3951 [lbo-talk] centrists gather: yuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:17 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > I figure that he would be around the same as most of the other rich guys who buy their way in: they get there and find out that politics isn't like the Board Room, and then they're stuck for a few years being a lame duck. Well he is in his third term as NYC mayor, so he's probably familiar with all that. Still, he could be a lot worse. On the major stuff - budget and land use - no Dem would have been significantly different from him. He's giv ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 19:28:57 PST 2010

3952 [lbo-talk] centrists gather: yuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:15 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > I hope you don't care about your gawker password ... It was my usual very low-security password - and it was in the list of compromised identities. Changed it, but what was the risk? Someone might leave a rude comment? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 19:26:45 PST 2010

3953 [lbo-talk] Prop 13s have been so good for CA and NJ... -- rank: 1000

On Dec 13, 2010, at 6:06 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Retaining tax breaks for the rich means extending austerity at the state and local level, and that will definitely be an attack on his base. No point arguing with Charles. Obama can do no wrong. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 15:11:03 PST 2010

3954 [lbo-talk] getting back to criticism -- rank: 1000

On Dec 13, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > What's striking here is the lack of any political content Well, there is that Motorhead video where they beat up the bankers. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 15:07:04 PST 2010

3955 [lbo-talk] protest Obama -- rank: 1000

On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Joanne Landy wrote: > I signed the open letter about Obama, but it isn't clear to me who the organizers of the letter were John Halle got it started, with some significant help from Paul Street and Josh Frank. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 13 14:02:44 PST 2010

3956 [lbo-talk] getting back to criticism -- rank: 1000

On Dec 13, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > He is still the most important English composer of the 20th century, and > AMM was the most important group to come out of the entire English Free > Jazz/Free Improvisation milieu. English composers of the 20th century isn't the most competitive group. His earlier "avant garde" stuff isn't all that unlike Stockhausen's in a broad sense - 99 out of 100 listeners couldn't tell the difference I'm sure - and the later Maoist ditt ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 12:52:55 PST 2010

3957 [lbo-talk] centrists gather: yuck -- rank: 1000

http://gawker.com/5713046/the-fierce-ideology-of-no-labels The Fierce Ideology of 'No Labels' A cabal of centrist Democrats and lapsed Republicans are gathering in New York today to launch "No Labels," a group that advocates ditching partisan politics for supposedly common sense solutions. Cute! But don't pretend that this isn't ideological. The purpose of No Labels, according to the "Declaration" they ask you to sign, is this: "Sign the No Labels Declaration and join yo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 12:15:41 PST 2010

3958 [lbo-talk] protest Obama -- rank: 1000

On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I don't, of course, KNOW. But it seems a simpler hypothesis than complex > analyses of his inner thoughts. Wojtek mentioned a simple way in which he > could have acted to let them expire. Are there any grounds for assuming that > he and/or his staff were too simple-minded or two frightened (of what?) to > follow that simple path. Instead he went through a complex procedure that > seems to have guaranteed their extension. > &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 11:26:52 PST 2010

3959 [lbo-talk] protest Obama -- rank: 1000

On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > His OWN goal was to extend the tax cuts Maybe, but how do you know? Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 13 10:59:44 PST 2010

3960 [lbo-talk] getting back to criticism -- rank: 1000

On Dec 12, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > You can read it here - the essay itself starts on page 47 and it's not > very long. > > http://www.chinesenewear.com/gno/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/cardew_stockhausen.pdf > > In a nutshell (- and I merely report, you decide): My god, that's silly. I yield to no one in my contempt for what Mencken called that flapdoodle blowing out of the east. But, really, should one hold Bach in contempt for the Christianity of so much of his mu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 12 18:32:41 PST 2010