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41056 responsibility -- rank: 1000

This morning's New York Times is full of talk of responsibility. Supporters of a tough new U.S. bankruptcy bill, which was literally written by a credit industry law firm (a point the NYT doesn't report), say they want to tighten the code to impose a sense of responsibility among profligate debtors. And, responsibility of another sort, too. From a profile of Eleanore L. Walker, a juoror who voted the other day to condemn Darrel K. Harris to death for a triple murder, the first death sentence in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 11 05:16:12 PDT 1998

41057 Greed is good -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >I mean, how do you convince someone to risk without the corresponding >reward? I've never heard a credible answer to that one. > >Isn't "Risk=Reward" hard-wired into animals somewhere near "F=MA"? What risk did BG take commensurate with a $50b reward? Cab drivers, asbestos cleanup workers, and strawberry pickers take big risks too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 10 17:56:02 PDT 1998

41058 Farewell to Kinky Sex? (was Re: what is the christian left?) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >It's amazing that nobody on this purportedly 'left' e-list has yet to >criticize organized religion on the ground that it has and still fosters >sexual repression + subordination of women & sexual dissidents (including >'abortion ambivalence' but of course not limited to it). Not "nobody," please. Susie Bright's current Salon column is about the relations among sexual repression, religion, and kids who shoot up their schools. It's at <http:// ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 10 12:29:43 PDT 1998

41059 Nader -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >No, but what's wrong with trying to stop utility companies from overcharging? Nothing. Nor is there anything wrong with stopping cars from spontaneously exploding, or even getting a stoplight where one is needed. But these sorts of things rarely go anywhere, intellectually or organizationally. Nader's got a flock of interest groups that separately often do fine work, but they never cohere into anything. (His organizations are also notorious for not entering coalitions ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 10 12:08:22 PDT 1998

41060 Nader -- rank: 1000

unterwelt at juno.com wrote: >as far as I'm >concerned one Ralph Nader is worth a thousand armchair Marxists. And I'd take one perfectly grilled salmon over a thousand cans of Spam, too. Is that the only choice? I know lots of Marxists who leave their armchairs to work as union organizers, volunteers in women's shelters, and to do popular education. A couple of them wrote the platform for the Labor Party, too, which, while it isn't perfect, is still pretty oriented towards the real world. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 10 11:45:21 PDT 1998

41061 Farewell to Kinky Sex? (was Re: what is the christian left?) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >What happened to the meeting ground between marxism and kinky sex? I'm afraid it's up to the irreligious and the sacrilegious to prepare that ground! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 10 11:18:06 PDT 1998

41062 Nader -- rank: 1000

J Cullen wrote: > With all due respect, high energy >bills are more likely to get people into the streets than the 150th >anniversary edition of "Capital." We've heard this sort of thing a million times in a million variants, and still people ain't in the streets. My favorite of these is the Alinsky-style community organizers who claim that organizing people around stoplights will somehow lead to a great transformation. It hasn't. It fits in with the pragmatic, anti-intellectu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 10 10:46:38 PDT 1998

41063 Greed is good -- rank: 1000

bautiste at uswest.net wrote: >Any idea how much the Federal R&D budgets for the past 50 years >would come to in today's dollars? The NSF's series begins in 1955. Between 1955 and 1996, federal R&D spending totaled $2.3 trillion in 1996 dollars, an average of 1.3% of GDP over the period. Of course, $2.3t sounds a lot more impressive than 1.3% of GDP, if you're looking for a gee-whiz figure. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 10 10:29:22 PDT 1998

41064 what is the christian left? (was: RE: Abortion and the Death Penalty (To R -- rank: 1000

MScoleman at aol.com wrote: >lesbian/gay/bisexula/transsexual. how about simply using the term sexually >diverse???? it covers all alternatives without having to spell out each term. >IMHO political correctness leads to incredibly unwieldy terminology. If you *really* want to be PC, it should be t*, so that the * covers a plenitude of second syllables - transvestite, transsexual, transgendered.... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 10 10:13:43 PDT 1998

41065 race & religion -- rank: 1000

Kenneth Mostern wrote: >Everything about this thread has pissed me off, from the way Doug framed the >question yesterday, which among other things called upon my and Jonathan's >previous polemics about race as a way to "liven things up", Oh c'mon. I'm not sure exactly what you mean here - the "called upon...as a way to" doesn't parse - but if you think I was demeaning your contributions, you're wrong. I wasn't. >And what you try to teach - there is nothing simple ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 10 09:43:09 PDT 1998

41066 Nigeria -- rank: 1000

Any ideas for someone who'd be good on the radio to talk about the Nigerian crisis (Thursday, 5 PM NYC time)? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 10 09:01:01 PDT 1998

41067 Greed is good -- rank: 1000

CKHartman at aol.com quoted the execrable John Stossel: >JOHN STOSSEL: (voice-over) Bill Gates is a good example. He's now the world's >richest man. >He's got about $40 billion. But does his having $40 billion mean the rest of >us have lost $40 >billion? No. > >BILL GATES, CEO, Microsoft Corporation: It's been fantastic... > >DAVID KELLEY: You see, this is the fallacy that there is some pool of wealth >there that's fixed. >And if I take more, you get less. That's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 10 08:09:15 PDT 1998

41068 Nader -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >We had hims peak at OSU law last year. He was here testifying against the >awful tort reform bill the legislature passed. I thought he was >mesmerizing, just wonderful. And yes, he talkeda bout some of those things. > >I am sorry to see you joining in the pack baying against tort lawyers, >which means plaintiff's laywers. Of course the defense tort bar and the >unsurance lawyers do not love Ralph. Sure, a lot of plaintiffs' tort lawyers >are sleaz ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 10 07:45:47 PDT 1998

41069 Nader -- rank: 1000

I'm listening to a speech by Ralph Nader. My god. He's going on about utility bills, utility bill stuffers from consumer groups, bounce check fees, $200 million in drinking water technology cut from some budget or other. Awful stuff. Does anyone get inspired by this? No wonder the tort lawyers love him. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 9 15:19:06 PDT 1998

41070 Basic Facts about Wealth and Poverty -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >In a recent Cambridge Journal of Economics, Thomas Palley argues that as >the European nations are more dependent on imports/exports, their central >banks attempt to maintain the value of their currencies through even >tighter monetary policy than in the US. The constrictive effects therefrom >yield the higher unemployment. The overwhelming majority of European trade is intra-European, and the EU will be a large, closed economy like the U.S. and Japan, not ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 9 11:46:51 PDT 1998