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4036 [lbo-talk] Bobby Reich, 1999: Social Security just fine -- rank: 1000

http://lbo-news.com/2010/08/19/robert-reich-on-social-security-no-problem/

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 19 16:05:35 PDT 2010

4037 [lbo-talk] Is My Husband Gay? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2010, at 6:10 PM, magcomm wrote: > A Cosmo quiz for Evangelicals: > > http://christwire.org/2010/08/is-my-husband-gay/ This site is a joke! With Unemployment Benefits Extended, Rates of Domestic Masturbation And Sodomy Are Poised to Skyrocket Chinese Astronauts Eat Puppy Dogs in Space Shapeshifting Fiend, Lady Gaga, on The Move! etc

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 19 15:21:43 PDT 2010

4038 [lbo-talk] Is My Husband Gay? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2010, at 6:10 PM, magcomm wrote: > A Cosmo quiz for Evangelicals: > > http://christwire.org/2010/08/is-my-husband-gay/ > > I answered yes to most of the questions, so Terrance must be gay. > > I am so relieved to know. Finally their server regained its potency. Guess I'm secretly gay! Who knew?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 19 15:19:11 PDT 2010

4039 [lbo-talk] Is My Husband Gay? -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2010, at 6:10 PM, magcomm wrote: > A Cosmo quiz for Evangelicals: > > http://christwire.org/2010/08/is-my-husband-gay/ > > I answered yes to most of the questions, so Terrance must be gay. > > I am so relieved to know. Ha: > Service Temporarily Unavailable > > The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later. > > Apache Server at christwire.org Port 80

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 19 15:13:39 PDT 2010

4040 [lbo-talk] mass dementia -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I think it is a dead end to explain social dementia in terms of > collective individual "stupidity." As Eric said, and I agree - stupidity is produced. But I really think we need to know more about the demographics of this belief before we start getting carried away with sophisticated explanation. This delusion could overlap substantially with the Tea Partiers, who are mostly better-off white reactionaries. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 19 12:48:31 PDT 2010

4041 [lbo-talk] mass dementia -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2010, at 3:11 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > An important theme of US elite propaganda - going back in fact to the 18th century - is the inculcation of contempt for the unwashed majority on the part of the political class (today roughly the 20% of the population who've been to "a good college"). And the growth among the majority of the suspicion that Obama is a Muslim is a confused but accurate recognition that he's not working for them Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I wonder about ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 19 12:17:23 PDT 2010

4042 [lbo-talk] profits -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > My approach to Capital was the opposite of yours: I read it without a > teacher and with a literature background, but my reaction to the first > three chapters was the same: I was absolutely thrilled, on an > emotional level. Seriously, I remember feeling lightheaded Reading the Chapters on Capital and Money in the Grundrisse still make me feel that way. Doug

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Date:	Thu Aug 19 11:12:57 PDT 2010

4043 [lbo-talk] profits -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Explicitly not tooting my own horn but did others here find the first three > chapters difficult? I didn't, though I've heard this many times. I just love the structure of capital, starting with the most mundane things, moving into the factory, and then opening out into reproduction and credit.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 19 08:18:58 PDT 2010

4044 [lbo-talk] mass dementia -- rank: 1000

http://people-press.org/report/645/ Growing Number of Americans Say Obama is a Muslim Religion, Politics and the President A substantial and growing number of Americans say that Barack Obama is a Muslim, while the proportion saying he is a Christian has declined. More than a year and a half into his presidency, a plurality of the public says they do not know what religion Obama follows.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 19 06:49:26 PDT 2010

4045 [lbo-talk] where we are -- rank: 1000

life after financial crises: http://tlrii.typepad.com/theliscioreport/2010/08/index.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 18 20:17:59 PDT 2010

4046 [lbo-talk] profits -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2010, at 10:21 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > And the difficulty of Pound's Cantos is _entirely_ of this sort. All the > lines and phrasesd are wholly clear in themselves; the difficulty is in > consruing what emerges from the whole. On the page, John Ashbery's poems are often barely comprehensible. But when I saw him read them a few times back in the 1980s, they seemed remarkably transparent. I never understood why, but Carrol's point could be relevant. Maybe the aural experience f ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 18 19:28:38 PDT 2010

4047 [lbo-talk] profits -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2010, at 7:11 PM, SA wrote: > That must mean all his ideas are really simpleminded. If there were any complexity to his thought he would write like Judith Butler. Cheap shot, man. Marx isn't easy. I know a very reputable young novelist with excellent politics who found the first three chapters of Capital nearly impossible to get through. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 18 18:14:26 PDT 2010

4048 [lbo-talk] Democrat Suck Watch -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2010, at 5:09 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > My congressman Chris Van Hollen (head of DCCC) interviewed by Cenk > Uygur says he could vote for "a package" that included Social Security > benefit cuts. No one but the Dems could get away with gutting SS. Doug

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Date:	Wed Aug 18 15:39:23 PDT 2010

4049 [lbo-talk] Castro: "It's the Frankfurt School's Fault!" -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Adorno as rock music fan? Oh Jesus, it's a nutty right-wing source, from a nutty right-wing press: http://trineday.com/ Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 18 13:55:26 PDT 2010

4050 [lbo-talk] Castro: "It's the Frankfurt School's Fault!" -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Adorno as rock music fan? Funny. Lyndon LaRouche might agree! And Paul Weyrich too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 18 13:52:56 PDT 2010