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4306 [lbo-talk] getting back to Brooks... -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2010, at 4:38 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > avid Brooks' Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They > Got There, Simon & Schuster; 2000 was pretty funny, though, wasn't it? And, on factchecking by Sasha Isserman, revealed to be rather inventive: http://www.phillymag.com/articles/booboos_in_paradise/

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Date:	Tue Apr 6 13:47:18 PDT 2010

4307 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2010, at 4:15 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Maybe the LOBsters ought to invite the Platypii to state the argument I'd be happy to do that - Bhaskar, you know 'em. Could you invite one or two? But they've written thousands of words of their own stuff, and I still don't get the argument.

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Date:	Tue Apr 6 13:23:54 PDT 2010

4308 [lbo-talk] getting back to Brooks... -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Does ANYONE have any idea where Brooks got this? > "Over the past 10 years, 60 percent of American adults made more than > $100,000 in at least one or two of those years, and 40 percent had > incomes > that high for at least three." He attributes it to Rose, right? I'm guessing that this is household income, not individual income. Annual wage & salary earnings at the 90th percentile are around $80,000 - so we're talkin ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 6 13:00:33 PDT 2010

4309 [lbo-talk] Liberals with guns: scarier than Tea Partiers -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Joseph Catron quoted: > "Maria Harris-Lacewell is a professor at Princeton University, as so > subtly alluded to in the above excerpt from her latest drivel for The > Nation, and she's concerned about the 'legitimacy' of the state -- a > legitimacy she assumes but doesn't explain -- which she notes some > backwards reactionaries have had the temerity to challenge in the age > of Democratic government. Now, considering that U.S. government > i ...

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4310 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2010, at 2:42 PM, SA wrote: > To echo someone else's question, what exactly is this Platypus/ > Postone political analysis? I don't quite understand what they're > driving at, when they talk about the Left, its past and future, etc. Do you say that after having read their stuff? Because I have, though not with obsessive care, and all I get is that they think everyone else is fucked but I don't understand what they're putting in its place. I'm ok with that position if you're ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 6 11:53:20 PDT 2010

4311 [lbo-talk] Bizarre Comment from David Brooks -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2010, at 10:45 AM, SA wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> The whole column seems delusional. >> >> Parenthetically, he quotes Steven Rose - famous for that American >> profile poster, showing the inequality of the U.S. income >> distribution - on what a bright fucking future we face after the >> financial crisis. What happened to him? > > Oh, he turned a long time ago. I remember a paper he wrote years ago > about how in today's America nobod ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 6 11:41:07 PDT 2010

4312 [lbo-talk] Bizarre Comment from David Brooks -- rank: 1000

The whole column seems delusional. Parenthetically, he quotes Steven Rose - famous for that American profile poster, showing the inequality of the U.S. income distribution - on what a bright fucking future we face after the financial crisis. What happened to him? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 6 06:49:58 PDT 2010

4313 [lbo-talk] Philip Weiss: "AIPAC confronts its worst fear: daylight" -- rank: 1000

The American Conservative - May 2010 <http://amconmag.com/article/2010/may/01/00010/> Out From the Shadows AIPAC confronts its worst fear: daylight Philip Weiss In that radical handbook on the workings of American society, the Wizard of Oz never recovered once Dorothy pulled back the curtain of her own innocence. One would like to believe that AIPAC will never recover from a brutal spring that has exposed its real interests to the American public. Even supporters of the Jewish state ha ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 6 05:48:41 PDT 2010

4314 [lbo-talk] Demographic composition of the Tea Party -- rank: 1000

On Apr 5, 2010, at 10:15 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > I know a few who actually are Brooklynites (but in Bay Ridge - a bit > different from your neighbors, Doug!). For sure! This isn't the Upper West Side - many fewer Jews, to start with - but I know it's not The Real America. Are you in Queens, Joe? Any up that way? Doug

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4315 [lbo-talk] TPers -- rank: 1000

Gallup alum David Moore, now an academic at the University of New Hampshire, offers this explanation of why the CNN and Gallup polls differ on TP demographics: > Major difference: CNN measured activists people who said they > had contributed some money or time to the Tea Party movement, while > Gallup and others are measuring those who say they support the Tea > Party. > Activists are almost always more upscale and extreme in their > demographics than the hoi polloi ! ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 5 18:44:58 PDT 2010

4316 [lbo-talk] Demographic composition of the Tea Party -- rank: 1000

On Apr 5, 2010, at 9:37 PM, martin wrote: > Have you ever met one in the flesh, or know someone who's been > invited to participate? (I haven't) Nope. Though I think there are some sympathizers around here, you don't run into many folks like that in Brooklyn. Especially Fort Greene/Clinton Hill. Doug

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4317 [lbo-talk] Demographic composition of the Tea Party -- rank: 1000

On Apr 5, 2010, at 9:20 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > Just like the rest of U.S. society, says USA Today/Gallup: > > http://www.gallup.com/poll/127181/Tea-Partiers-Fairly-Mainstream-Demographics.aspx Except really right-wing. Wonder why the demographics are so different from that CNN poll a while back. I'll ask the AAPORites. One thing - all people have to do is self-identify as TPers. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 5 18:25:02 PDT 2010

4318 [lbo-talk] Michal Kalecki -- rank: 1000

On Apr 5, 2010, at 8:56 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > And yeah this is what my dissertation's on, more or less (inflation > and macroeconomic policy in Australia 1945-85) So how did Australia's role as a commodity exporter enter into all this? The rule in the markets these days is that in times of rising commodity prices, you buy the A$ (and the C$). That would put a damper on domestic prices. How did that work during the era of fixed exchange rates? But countering the currency effect, stron ...

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4319 [lbo-talk] jesus h christ, what a way to die -- rank: 1000

Jesus is no longer updating his Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/jesus

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4320 [lbo-talk] Limits of Criticism, was Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 1000

On Apr 2, 2010, at 9:08 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Aren't you the guy who insinuated that Derrida was a closet Nazi? Drop this.

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 19:19:17 PDT 2010