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41476 the phallus & the penis -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >Yes, indeed, what utter ignorance to confuse the phallus with a penis. >How gloriously naive. Ha ha ha. Amazingly, the Oxford English Dictionary >makes the self-same error! Don't they know that words mean just what >Lacan wants them to mean? Who are you policing the language for, James, the Academie Francaise? Here's the Phallus entry from the (Lacan-influenced) Langauge of Psycho-Analysis, by Laplanche & Pontalis. Doug ---- PHALLUS = D.: Phallus.- Es.: fal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 1 09:30:56 PST 1998

41477 sex and class -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >> Except sex. Relying on an understanding of elite lifestyles that comes >> straight off of Ally McBeal, Republicans are hoping to sell the >> middle-class on the idea that they ought to vote against the Democratic >> elites because those bastards are getting laid all the time. > >This last remark is a month out of date. Really? Caldwell knows these people well, talks to them every day in DC. He's a writer for the Weekly Standard, for god's sake. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 1 07:13:21 PST 1998

41478 Richard Dawkins: Favorite Book (fwd) -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >Asshole Norm Levitt sent this to a list I'm on. I particularly like the >way Dawkins shows his complete ignorance of Lacan by talking about "erect >penises" instead of "the phallus." Hey, but who needs to know anything about Lacan when Sokal has proven - beyond the shadow of a doubt! - that he couldn't tell an imaginary number from his maternal imago?!?! And why worry about something as intangible and elusive as The Phallus when you can f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 1 06:40:50 PST 1998

41479 A Walk in the Sun -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >Oh, Max. You gave yourself away. No self respecting Red would >have the Verso edition of the Manifesto. She'd have the International >Publishers edition. Damn, I have a copy of the Verso. Do I have to lose my self-respect? Or does the fact that I didn't pay for it get me off the hook? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 31 07:41:30 PDT 1998

41480 A cop hits on me -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Rakesh Bhandari, feeling butch, offers a challenge: > >> So who here is man enough to try to do Arianne Huffington or Camille >> Paglia or Geraldo's Republican pollster (the scrawny blond chick) for the >> revolution? Whoever succeeds gets to be the BMOLBO. I know I would be >> impressed. > >Wow, I can smell the testosterone from here. What if the non-male LBO-ers >want to get into it?? I, for one, would do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 30 13:59:58 PDT 1998

41481 Revolution? -- rank: 1000

hoov wrote: >> I'll confess that I find revolution almost inconceivable in any First World >> country. >> Doug > >gee Doug, isn't this the kind of thing that starts someone down the road >to neo-conservatism or the 'socialism' of the *Dissent* crowd at least. >..maybe hanging with the *Bad Subjects* folks - and their knowingly >playful and self-reflexive readings - can prevent that from happening.. >.and what was it that Gramsci said about 'pessimism of the in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 30 13:05:28 PDT 1998

41482 A cop hits on me -- rank: 1000

MScoleman at aol.com wrote: >Louis, if you go out with her, get the handcuffs off her before you hit the >bed...... maggie coleman mscoleman at aol.com What, and onto Lou? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 30 12:59:04 PDT 1998

41483 the problem with Danish women -- rank: 1000

James Devine wrote: >maggie writes: > it's been a while since i heard any argument so rabidly >anti female.< > >how about this from GWF Hegel? > >"The difference between man and woman is like that between animals and >plants. Men correspond to animals while women correspond to plants because >their development is more placid and the principle that underlies it is the >rather vague unity of feeling. When women hold the helm of government >[calling Mrs. T!] ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 30 12:55:13 PDT 1998

41484 the problem with Danish women -- rank: 1000

MScoleman at aol.com wrote: > So, are you saying that women receiving a living >wage destroys men? >i would be interested in taking this 'story' to the community of African >American women raising their sons -- are you going to tell them that their >sons will be effeminate because their fathers are not in the home???? Maggie, I hope your you's are addressed to Carl Eriksen of Skovlunde and not me, for god's sake. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 29 07:21:48 PDT 1998

41485 the problem with Danish women -- rank: 1000

Michael Eisenscher wrote: >So, Doug, what's the point? > >What I see here is that Danish men are having a hard time giving up their >masculine privileges and short-circuit at having to deal with women as >equals. I don't know about Danish men, just this particular letter writer. But I doubt Danish women would be as well off as they are if most Danish men thought like this. I thought his letter was funny. Maybe I have a warped sense of humor. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 28 20:38:26 PDT 1998

41486 Revolution? -- rank: 1000

DICKENS, EDWIN (973)-408-3024 wrote: >I'm not the list but I do have an imagination. Do you doubt my prediction >Doug? I'll confess that I find revolution almost inconceivable in any First World country. I almost said OECD, but Mexico & S Korea are in the OECD.... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 28 19:24:13 PDT 1998

41487 FWD: Roach sees relief -- rank: 1000

DICKENS, EDWIN (973)-408-3024 wrote: >I'm sure this list will thoroughly >debate the issues of revolution versus reform. Tom, how do you imagine a revolution in 1998? Or 1999, assuming events unfold slowly? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 28 18:43:56 PDT 1998

41488 the problem with Danish women -- rank: 1000

Barkley said the other day that Danish women were among the best-off in the world. Here's a different view, in a letter in the new Economist: The old-fashioned way SIR - Anne Marie Berggren (Letters, August 15th) forgets to mention the reverse side of women's liberation in Scandinavia. "Good-quality childcare" means that children in kindergartens and schools are under the control of women, who account for 90% of the staff, until the age of15. Boys are brainwashed to be sweet and gentle ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 28 17:41:37 PDT 1998

41489 FWD: Roach sees relief -- rank: 1000

DICKENS, EDWIN (973)-408-3024 wrote: >Roach calling for an easing of U.S. monetary policy is just talking Morgan >Stanley's book. Roach says to ease now would repeat what the Fed did in >the wake of the 87 crash, but there is a big difference between what >happened in 87 and what is happening now. In Oct. 87, the Fed was >aggressively raising interest rates. In this case, the Fed hasn't raised >rates in over a year. This suggests to me that the current situation is >not ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 28 16:18:38 PDT 1998

41490 Roach sees relief -- rank: 1000

[Pointed out by Mark Jones. Only weeks ago, Roach was writing about the U.S. bubble economy, and a year or two about impending class struggle. Now, he senses a bailout. Original at <http://www.ms.com/GEFdata/digests/latest-digest.html#xtocid232350>.] Global: At the Vortex Stephen Roach (New York) With world financial markets now in full-blown crisis, a sense of despair and desperation has set in. Currency contagion has run rampant. The IMF and the G-7 seem to be out of bullets. Japan is un ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 28 13:03:49 PDT 1998