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4096 [lbo-talk] music in Iran: verboten -- rank: 1000
On Aug 4, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> What work? A good friend of mine from college came out of the Calexico aristocracy (i.e., her grandfather named the place, along with Mexicali, and ran a private army for the Chandler family in Baja). Can't believe what a godforsaken place it is - the air stinks of ag chemicals, you can't drink the water (or even brush your teeth with it) because of a ...
Document Size: 6168
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 4 11:57:17 PDT 2010
4097 [lbo-talk] Gaga, Eminem top VMA nominees -- rank: 1000
On Aug 4, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Ricky Page wrote: > Until the Dead Kennedys are in the "RnR" Hall of Fame, it can't be taken > seriously. That's not what the DKs are for. They should be outside making fun of the thing.
Document Size: 4815
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 4 10:40:07 PDT 2010
4098 [lbo-talk] music in Iran: verboten -- rank: 1000
On Aug 4, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > my work on the Imperial Valley What work? A good friend of mine from college came out of the Calexico aristocracy (i.e., her grandfather named the place, along with Mexicali, and ran a private army for the Chandler family in Baja). Can't believe what a godforsaken place it is - the air stinks of ag chemicals, you can't drink the water (or even brush your teeth with it) because of all the toxic runoff, and it's always like 105 degrees. Always inte ...
Document Size: 5047
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 4 10:30:35 PDT 2010
4099 [lbo-talk] Gaga, Eminem top VMA nominees -- rank: 1000
On Aug 4, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Ricky Page wrote: > Once again art is dead- knew this when ABBA was elected to the Rock n' Roll Hall > of Fame. Hey, I like both Lady Gaga and ABBA!
Document Size: 4768
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 4 10:04:20 PDT 2010
4100 [lbo-talk] music in Iran: verboten -- rank: 1000
On Aug 4, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > It's driven by political hacks who are more or less ignorant about good scientific measurement practices. That, and people who want to cut costs. Chartering everything cuts teacher salaries, busts unions, and creates a younger, more transient, and therefore cheaper workforce. Doug
Document Size: 4855
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 4 08:19:29 PDT 2010
4101 [lbo-talk] Krugman: The logical fallacy of euro doorstep austerity -- rank: 1000
On Aug 4, 2010, at 11:05 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> But the class effects are different. In a wage deval, the working class gets hammered. In a currency devaluation, those with foreign assets get hammered. > > Excellent point. One that Krugman consistently misses, no?
Document Size: 5151
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 4 08:17:56 PDT 2010
4102 [lbo-talk] music in Iran: verboten -- rank: 1000
Didn't Lenin encourage Soviet youth to take up chess so they didn't drink so much? On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > My attempt at humour below seems to have been either too transparent or not transparent enough, in which case I'm suitably contrite. :) > > On 2010-08-04, at 7:13 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > >> On 2010-08-03, at 10:44 PM, Michael Smith wrote: >> >>> For that matter, one wonders >>> what Lenin would have said to a young man w ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 4 07:39:29 PDT 2010
4103 [lbo-talk] Krugman: The logical fallacy of euro doorstep austerity -- rank: 1000
On Aug 4, 2010, at 9:39 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Hugh puts his finger, in particular, on one gaping hole in the logic of > the opponents of devaluation. We can't devalue, they say, because the > Latvian private sector has a lot of debts in euros, and a devaluation > would make it very hard for borrowers to service those debts. As Hugh > points out, the proposed alternative -- sharp wage cuts, and basically > a major domestic deflation -- will also make it hard to ...
Document Size: 5950
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 4 06:52:02 PDT 2010
4104 [lbo-talk] music in Iran: verboten -- rank: 1000
On Aug 4, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > What struck me about the quote, and the context added by others, is it > sounds an awful lot like the sciency-mathy-techy, > anti-humanities-arts-and-social sciences terrain of the vast majority > American educational leaders. Actually, in its emphasis on math & reading, No Child Left Behind has hurt not only music education, not to mention other arts and the social sciences, it's even taken a bite out of straight science. Doug
Document Size: 5046
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Aug 4 06:08:14 PDT 2010
4105 [lbo-talk] music in Iran: verboten -- rank: 1000
On Aug 3, 2010, at 10:44 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 21:57:26 -0400 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:45 PM, Peter Ward wrote: >>> That's it: time to send in the bombers. >> >> Are you an asshole, or do you just do a good imitation of one? > > I'm with Comrade Ward here, asshole or not. > > One suspects very strongly that this is a factoid, to > put it mildly. It seems highly unlikely ...
Document Size: 5538
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 3 20:33:17 PDT 2010
4106 [lbo-talk] music in Iran: verboten -- rank: 1000
On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:45 PM, Peter Ward wrote: > That's it: time to send in the bombers. Torture: we can live with that. Political executions: happen every day. But music, the linchpin of liberal civilization...! Are you an asshole, or do you just do a good imitation of one?
Document Size: 4792
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 3 18:57:26 PDT 2010
4107 [lbo-talk] music in Iran: verboten -- rank: 1000
Hamid Dabashi's Facebook status update: > Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said today that music is "not compatible" with the values of the Islamic republic, and should not be practised or taught in the country."
Document Size: 4770
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 3 18:31:48 PDT 2010
4108 [lbo-talk] more Michael Lind -- rank: 1000
<http://www.salon.com/news/economics/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/08/03/myth_upper_middle_class> ... The result has been an experiment in social engineering that has gone horribly wrong: the creation of a faux mass upper middle class. Millions of Americans who by objective standards belong to the working class or lower middle class have persuaded themselves that they are part of the professional-investor elite, because they have worthless degrees from diploma mills, negligible am ...
Document Size: 5545
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 3 10:06:54 PDT 2010
4109 [lbo-talk] media -- rank: 1000
On Aug 3, 2010, at 8:32 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Lots of great writers could never get thoughts flowing properly on a wordprocessor. Doomed in the future: variorum editions.
Document Size: 4516
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 3 09:03:29 PDT 2010
4110 [lbo-talk] Michael Lind -- rank: 1000
On Aug 3, 2010, at 12:26 AM, David Green wrote: > Certainly not organizing an establishment think tank. Over the years, I've learned more from bourgeois pundits than from left-wing frothers, I'm sorry to say. Doug
Document Size: 4633
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Aug 3 08:49:52 PDT 2010
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