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40846 FYI: Bill Gates, from riches to riches -- rank: 1000

Michael Eisenscher wrote: >As someone who is not particularly fond of sectarian harangues but who does >repost articles I believe might be of some interest, I'd like to question >your judgment on this one. While the article does conclude with a fairly >standard (and boring) bit of dogmatic editorializing, the article provided >some insight into Gates's history I had not seen published elsewhere. While >it's your judgment call, and I respect your desire to keep the list from & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 28 09:03:58 PDT 1998

40847 dorks, again -- rank: 1000

Expanding on this profoundly important dork theme... In the June issue of the dreadful magazine George, the dreadful Naomi Wolf explains: "Though Gore may have discovered common ground with a generation of voters who are young enough to be his children, the elite media dismiss his global Americanism [this concept was first introduced in the piece as a new "American globalism," but it somehow got reversed by the second page] at every turn. In a piece called 'Cranks for Veep,' New Y ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 28 08:26:32 PDT 1998

40848 Define A Dork -- rank: 1000

JayHecht at aol.com wrote: >Can you identify 1 president who was not a dork? Working backwards, Clinton, Reagan, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Truman, Roosevelt.... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 28 08:12:22 PDT 1998

40849 trash v. hicks -- rank: 1000

The following from Kelley Crouse bounced... X-Sender: kcwalker at MAILBOX.syr.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 05:17:50 -0400 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Kelley Crouse <kcwalker at syr.edu> Subject: Re: Michael Moore Responds In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980528112156.00e5c550 at pop.qut.edu.au> References: <709be5f0.356c838f at aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:21 AM 5 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 28 07:18:09 PDT 1998

40850 FYI: Bill Gates, from riches to riches -- rank: 1000

<JAZZ at wwpublish.com> wrote: >------------------------- >Via Workers World News Service >Reprinted from the June 4, 1998 >issue of Workers World newspaper >------------------------- > >FROM RICHES TO RICHES: BILL GATES & THE MICROSOFT MONOPOLY > >By Gary Wilson [etc.] My apologies to all for this. Broadcasts from sectarian newspapers aren't welcome here. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 28 06:29:35 PDT 1998

40851 Michael Moore Responds -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Doug, my question is how would Michael Moore giving that "gang of >fatheads" anti-capitalist firebreathing help the movement to overthrow >capitalism ? No. You tweak them. If you harangue them, they won't listen. If you tweak them right, they'll squirm and listen. >Surely, this is a superman image of the proletarian movie >director/intellectual Moore. He tells a few jokes to these people while >they are a little drunk and they are ready to give ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 27 17:34:27 PDT 1998

40852 the dork factor -- rank: 1000

Jon Fine wrote: >What, pray tell, is the official LBO election model? One that predicts the share of the popular vote going to the incumbent & challenging parties, based on the Gallup presidential approval rating and the year-to-year change in real disposable income per capita in the second quarter of the election year. Right 11 of the last 13 times. I stole the idea from the academic poli sci literature - from an article called, if I'm remembering right, "Why are US Presidential Ele ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 27 15:50:34 PDT 1998

40853 Wellstone -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >I'm not sure that one can be >too dorky to get the chance at a serious run. Gerald Ford. Richard Nixon, >Michael Dukakis. World class dorks, all. Nixon was almost ruined by the televised 1960 debate - a Nixon today couldn't make it on TV. Ford lost (even though the official LBO election model, right 11 of the last 13 times, forecast that he should have won). Dukakis lost, a laughinstock. Gore is a dork, but he's got money & incumbency. The odds are stack ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 27 14:59:38 PDT 1998

40854 Wellstone -- rank: 1000

My wife had Paul Wellstone as a political science teacher at Carleton College in the early 1970s. It was one of those hippie grade yourself courses with virtually no content. She says he could never be a serious candidate because he's too much of a dork. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 27 14:09:16 PDT 1998

40855 Michael Moore Responds -- rank: 1000

MMFlint at aol.com wrote: >Of course it's capitalism. But you told the Fortune audience that the problem was GM's loss of market share - because of a braindead design staff, all of whom you would have fired along with lots of middle managers. If ever an audience deserved a little anticapitalist firebreathing, it was that gang of fatheads. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 27 13:31:05 PDT 1998

40856 Michael Moore Responds -- rank: 1000

Michael Moore wrote: >I have admired Doug for many years, used his writings as a reference point and >suggested to others that they pay attention to his important work. So it was >kind of sad to read him say that my politics are "underdeveloped...and ad >hoc," that my idea that the auto companies be forced to develop mass transit >systems was "surreal," and that my quote from the Bible about the rich not >getting into heaven apparently did not include my (r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 27 11:15:16 PDT 1998

40857 AFL-CIO/DP? -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > I was wondering whether Palley's post-Keynesian ideas are what Max, Brad, >Nathan here think the left should be organizing to implement and whether >they think find it realistic that such policy could indeed be implemented. >From the back cover, I noted that William Greider, James Galbraith >(postKeynesian economist), Michael Hout (an author of the Bell Curve >Critique done by the Berkeley Sociology Dept) and others are quite high >about Palley's id ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 27 09:04:54 PDT 1998

40858 Identity politics -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote [quoting Max Sawicky]: >>My main point was that sympathy for >>the poor, Third World or domestic, >>can be and often is less radical >>and more congenial to the status >>quo than a pro-labor stance. The >>reverse seems less true, but PEN-L >>and LBO-Talk are not dominated by the >>latter phenomenon. >> > >I would agree that it does seem easier to find people around San Francisco >who are sympathetic with those wor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 26 17:16:28 PDT 1998

40859 Identity politics -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Tell me why a lot of the politics of long-run >ecological catastrophe, indigenous peoples, >race/gender/sexual orientation discrimination >doesn't reduce to class-indifferent solutions >(if not worse) How do you make this reduction? Why are they class-indifferent? What do you mean by "class" anyway? If you're talking about ownership and control of property and labor, then sex and race are on the scene from the first. It wasn't all that long ago that w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 26 12:10:27 PDT 1998

40860 more Rorty -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >Umm...He's taken seriously, but strongly disliked, by philosophers, but >not for stuff like this. Why then? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 25 10:32:30 PDT 1998