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4201 [lbo-talk] agricultural productivity -- rank: 1000
On Apr 19, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Yes, my position is that it would have been better if capitalist > development > had not driven millions from the land, reduced the capacity of women > to > control their own reproduction, forced the separation of home and > work, > radically increased the amount of work demanded, effectively forced > the > migration and immigration of millions of people and generated some > of the > most toxic living, working and ...
Document Size: 5813
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 19 07:45:56 PDT 2010
4202 [lbo-talk] agricultural productivity -- rank: 1000
On Apr 19, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > If the people had not been born, they would not be people. They would > not exist. Better to exist than never to have existed makes no sense. "I don't wanna die but sometimes I wish I'd never been born at all..."
Document Size: 4808
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 19 07:32:23 PDT 2010
4203 [lbo-talk] sexy librarians -- rank: 1000
[via Gawker] <http://willmanley.com/2010/04/11/will-unwound-78-the-1992-librarians-and-sex-survey-results-by-will-manley/ > WILL UNWOUND #78: The 1992 Librarians and Sex Survey Results by Will ManleyApril 11, 2010 You asked for it; you got it! These are the results of the 1992 Librarians and Sex Survey that Wilson Library Bulletin refused to run. They did run the initial survey questionnaire in the June 92 issue in my Facing the Public column and then fired me and destroyed the ...
Document Size: 5283
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 19 06:51:01 PDT 2010
4204 [lbo-talk] agricultural productivity -- rank: 1000
On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:27 AM, brad bauerly wrote: > I think any attempt to paint everything to come out of capitalist > agriculture, or capitalism, as bad is really dangerous for the left. Besides, you'll have a serious credibility problem. People will respond more positively to a "we can do much better than this" kind of argument than an "everything sucks and is getting worse" one. Doug
Document Size: 4947
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Apr 19 06:37:02 PDT 2010
4205 [lbo-talk] in the American grain -- rank: 1000
On Apr 18, 2010, at 8:29 PM, SA wrote: > That's putting it well. Anyone who's ever done the painstaking work > of trying to learn a foreign language, or master a piece of music, > or solve a difficult math problem, knows that such endeavors are > deeply satisfying and that it's precisely the difficulty and effort > involved that make them so. Yes, and it's funny to see people here, who know and have read all kinds of things, disparage the work that went into getting there. Doug
Document Size: 5040
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 18 17:46:35 PDT 2010
4206 [lbo-talk] mayor of Champaign: Obama not an American -- rank: 1000
On Apr 18, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > > Funny how the questioning of Obama's citizenship is a pretty > reliable guide >> to general creepiness. >> > > But Doug, you just wrote last night that "the mayor of NYC would > never doubt > that Obama is an American. Not even a pigfucker like Rudy." Most people who question Obama's citizenship are creeps. N ...
Document Size: 5410
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 18 14:40:45 PDT 2010
4207 [lbo-talk] mayor of Champaign: Obama not an American -- rank: 1000
On Apr 18, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Mr. X wrote: > There are some leftists who are birthers like the talk show host > Lynn Samuels of the Sirious Left channel Is she on Sirius now? I remember her from WBAI. Nuts. And a screamer.
Document Size: 4922
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 18 13:05:07 PDT 2010
4208 [lbo-talk] mayor of Champaign: Obama not an American -- rank: 1000
On Apr 17, 2010, at 10:40 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > A member of our local Champaign-Urbana peace group, AWARE ("Anti-War > Anti-Racism Effort") gave a thumb-nail sketch of the Champaign > mayor's practice: > > "...the long standing issues of overpolicing, racism and profiling > of the CPD in the North End [the black section of town] and of > African-Americans throughout Champaign, the gerrymandering of the > township to minimize poverty aid to the most u ...
Document Size: 6363
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Apr 18 06:07:08 PDT 2010
4209 [lbo-talk] mayor of Champaign: Obama not an American -- rank: 1000
On Apr 17, 2010, at 10:01 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Doug, you've been here (and I've been here for years): it's a > fucking cornfield. The University of Illinois is huge. It has no civilizing effect on its hometown? I remember Churbana as surrounded by cornfields, but the town itself as a typical university town. As I recall Charlottesville, it was surrounded by right-wing rednecks but the town itself would never elect some idiot xenophobe as mayor. Maybe 30 years have distorted my ...
Document Size: 5239
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Apr 17 19:04:55 PDT 2010
4210 [lbo-talk] mayor of Champaign: Obama not an American -- rank: 1000
On Apr 17, 2010, at 9:51 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > > This is the hometown of the University of Illinois, not some fucking >> cornfield: >> > > Living in a metropolitan area hardly immunizes one against reactionary > tendencies. Spend an afternoon chatting up strangers on Staten > Island, in > Bay Ridge, or in Howard Beach. Yeah, there are some benighted people and some b ...
Document Size: 5662
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Apr 17 18:59:02 PDT 2010
4211 [lbo-talk] mayor of Champaign: Obama not an American -- rank: 1000
This is the hometown of the University of Illinois, not some fucking cornfield: <http://gawker.com/5519631/illinois-mayor-doesnt-believe-that-obama-is-american > Illinois Mayor Doesn't Believe that Obama is American Jerry Schweighart, the Mayor of Champaign, a city of 75,000 people, was asked what he thinks of Barack Obama. The President of the United States of America. "I don't think he's American, personally," he responded.
Document Size: 5173
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Apr 17 18:25:20 PDT 2010
4212 [lbo-talk] Bushwick, Brooklyn: Police Raid Anarchist Art Space, Make Two Arrests -- rank: 1000
On Apr 17, 2010, at 8:59 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Peter Ward > <nevadabob at hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >> >> http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/NYPD-Raids-Anarchist-Two-Arrested-90860949.html >> >> Say what you will, anarchists are almost certainly among the most >> persecuted of activists. It's a shame lefty lovers-of-the-state >> couldn't at least lend support to their peers in the class war, >> even if th ...
Document Size: 5924
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Apr 17 18:20:39 PDT 2010
4213 [lbo-talk] Andy's legacy -- rank: 1000
Steve Early has a fine post-mortem on Andy Stern: http://www.counterpunch.org/early04162010.html Stern spent scores of millions on all his internal and external fights, not to mention scores more on Dem candidates. Now the union is up to its ears in debt. Nice. Early's conclusion: > In light of all of the above, is it any wonder then that, as The > Washington Post just reported, SEIU membership growth has slowed -- > after growing by 300,000 workers from 2006 to 2009, it added only & ...
Document Size: 6885
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Apr 17 14:06:49 PDT 2010
4214 [lbo-talk] Thatcherism -- rank: 1000
On Apr 16, 2010, at 10:38 PM, SA wrote: > Barney Frank can be an out member of Congress more because of the > legacy of the liberation movements of the 60's and 70's than because > of the alleged libertarianism of the neoliberal era. Sure, the movements of the 1960s and 1970s had a lot to do with it. But where did they come from? I thought that the standard story of the emergence of modern homosexuality was that capitalism loosened family ties and created the urban space for the deve ...
Document Size: 5359
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Apr 17 08:57:33 PDT 2010
4215 [lbo-talk] Thatcherism -- rank: 1000
On Apr 16, 2010, at 7:09 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > The truth is that it always was the key to Thatcher's success that > the left adopted a defeatist and conservative approach, and > abandoned ambition to the right. Reagan too. Same thing. While a good bit of the left embraces bioregionalism. Doug
Document Size: 4725
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Apr 16 18:20:33 PDT 2010
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