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4471 [lbo-talk] um, cass sunnstein? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 7, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Michael McIntyre wrote: > In the Horowitzian spirit of "heightening the contradictions" - if I > get my daughter to fill Glenn Beck in on the very juicy U of C gossip > about Cass Sunstein, will he pay the tuition bill? Fill us in too!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 7 10:54:39 PDT 2009

4472 [lbo-talk] Glenn Beck, agenda-setter -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26813.html> Beck up, left let down and Jones defiant By: Ben Smith and Nia-Malika Henderson September 6, 2009 06:04 PM EST The resignation early Sunday of green jobs adviser Van Jones says as much about the Obama White House as it does about Jones marking the latest sacrifice to the political gods after a long summer of compromises and surrenders highlighted the limits of White House power. The departure nominally the choice of a still-de ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 6 18:06:22 PDT 2009

4473 [lbo-talk] lunacy re: Jones -- rank: 1000

On Sep 6, 2009, at 4:08 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >> I'm not giving up hope. >> > > You did *not* just say that. ;-) > > I suppose I think that in the same way that it took Bill Clinton to > turn me > into a communist (not all on his own, mind you, but, wow, was I > disappointed > in him), maybe Obama will have the same effect on younger people who > actually expect him to do something. Exactly.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 6 14:23:13 PDT 2009

4474 [lbo-talk] lunacy re: Jones -- rank: 1000

On Sep 6, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> Delusions on the left concerning Van Jones: >> >> http://bit.ly/1A9bi3 >> > > "At what point will people stop blaming things like the failure of > white > green organizations to fight a racist attack and start admitting to > Obama s > loyalty to the deep structure of American capitalism?" > &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 6 12:04:47 PDT 2009

4475 [lbo-talk] lunacy re: Jones -- rank: 1000

Delusions on the left concerning Van Jones: http://bit.ly/1A9bi3

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 6 10:48:53 PDT 2009

4476 [lbo-talk] ciao, Van Jones -- rank: 1000

Ciao, Van Jones. Now accepting apologies for earlier complaints about my alleged "cynicism": http://bit.ly/2ZHQ4

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 6 07:35:50 PDT 2009

4477 [lbo-talk] ciao, Van Jones -- rank: 1000

[This didn't take long, did it?] News Alert from The Wall Street Journal The White House said Van Jones, one of President Barack Obama's advisers, is resigning amid controversy over past inflammatory statements. Mr. Jones, who has promoted "green jobs," was linked to efforts suggesting a governmental role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and to derogatory comments about Republicans. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125221129315388817.html?mod=djemalertNEWS

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 6 05:47:44 PDT 2009

4478 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73801817 > or <http://tinyurl.com/3bsaqb> opening commentaries now at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> Facebook group: <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53240558375>. ---------------------------------- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 4 14:18:23 PDT 2009

4479 [lbo-talk] fresh punditry -- rank: 1000

Fresh punditry (Obama's polls, private death panels, August employment): http://bit.ly/YDJ4M

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 4 14:16:18 PDT 2009

4480 [lbo-talk] baby thoughts -- rank: 1000

On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:52 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > srsly? back when I was publishing on habermas, i did a massive > inquiry as to which was the ultimately correct approach: habermas' > or habermas's. it bugged me that i could never find a definitive > answer. Back when I was teaching composition, long long ago, the textbook I used said that you do "s's" for words of one syllable, and just "s'" for words of more than one.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Sep 4 07:13:13 PDT 2009

4481 [lbo-talk] For LBO's music theory crowd -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2009, at 11:44 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: >>> Is this what you're saying is empirically wrong? Have Nettle and/or >>> Carterette and Kendall, about whom I know nothing, been proved >>> fakers? >> >> You can find sources to support any argument. Based on my reading of >> anthopological evidence, I do not agree with the above sources. I >> encourage people interested in the debate to do a thorough review >> of the >> available ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 3 21:01:12 PDT 2009

4482 [lbo-talk] For LBO's music theory crowd -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2009, at 6:20 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > The premise that the 12-tone system is universal is just empirically > wrong. This is what the paper says: "All musical traditions employ a relatively small set of tonal intervals for composition and performance, each interval being defined by its relationship to the lowest tone of the set. Such sets are called musical scales. Despite some interesting variations such as the pélog scale used by Gamelan orchestras in Indonesia whos ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 3 18:12:09 PDT 2009

4483 [lbo-talk] Financiers gone wild -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Max Sawicky wrote: > Nice piece here, anybody in URPE could have written it. > http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/finance-gone-wild/?hp Ha. I sorta did write it about 12-13 years ago: http://wallstreetthebook.com. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 3 07:13:30 PDT 2009

4484 [lbo-talk] Baby thoughts -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2009, at 9:42 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > i always dig thinking about this position. i always wonder what's > gonna happen when we get, finally, at the truth. will we just BE > truth? will we no longer be human? will there be, like, a big bang > or something? if we are truth, what then. godamnitwhatwillhappen? Just think of all the progress we've made over the centuries - from that old primitive, Plato, to the sleek truth-approaching modern, Glenn Beck! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 3 06:54:26 PDT 2009

4485 [lbo-talk] Language, music, and Kenneally -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2009, at 12:33 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > our social practices make that music important And it's not like most Westerners run around listening to the Diabelli Variations on their iPods, or imperialistically proselytizing on Ludwig's behalf. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 2 20:57:10 PDT 2009