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4486 [lbo-talk] Language, music, and Kenneally -- rank: 1000

On Sep 3, 2009, at 12:33 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Sure, but you'd be just as wowed by music in a 24-tone scale if that > were the dominant tone system in the music you listened to all your > life. I agree that Bach and Beethoven are important to us, but > that's because our social practices make that music important. > That's true in any society, regardless of the tone system used. Tell it to Yo Yo Ma, or all the Koreans at Juilliard. Look, I realize that there are many great m ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 2 20:53:20 PDT 2009

4487 [lbo-talk] Language, music, and Kenneally -- rank: 1000

On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:29 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > This doesn't demonstrate that there is anything important or > universal about the 12-tone system. Universal, no, but important, yes. There are few things in life more important than Bach or Beethoven. Doug

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4488 [lbo-talk] ciao, public option -- rank: 1000

On Sep 2, 2009, at 8:22 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>> But even if not, the fact is that dropping it is dropping nothing >>> important. The Obamacons are completely right to be baffled as to >>> why the left cares so much about it. >> It's mostly symbolic. The PO was the last gesture the Dems made >> towards decency. They're now chucking it. That makes them pure 100% >> scumbags, unwilling even to prete ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 2 17:27:52 PDT 2009

4489 [lbo-talk] ciao, public option -- rank: 1000

On Sep 2, 2009, at 7:48 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > But even if not, the fact is that dropping it is dropping nothing > important. The Obamacons are completely right to be baffled as to > why the left cares so much about it. It's mostly symbolic. The PO was the last gesture the Dems made towards decency. They're now chucking it. That makes them pure 100% scumbags, unwilling even to pretend otherwise. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 2 16:55:16 PDT 2009

4490 [lbo-talk] words of one syllable -- rank: 1000

<http://www.theawl.com/2009/09/levi-johnstons-sarah-palin-article-simplified > Levi Johnston's Sarah Palin Article Simplified I just read "Me and Mrs. Palin," in which young Levi Johnston "tells Vanity Fair his story about life with the Palin family with whom he lived for two months after the election over the course of his two-and- a-half-year relationship with Bristol." There are many surprising revelations in its pages; you could say that "he turns a number o ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 2 15:31:46 PDT 2009

4491 [lbo-talk] ciao, public option -- rank: 1000

Hey, it's an opportunity to show he's no socialist: http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/ciao-public-option/

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4492 [lbo-talk] Scott McLemee writes... -- rank: 1000

[from Scott McLemee] I am about to go on vacation,and will be offline for a good while. Before vanishing, I wanted to send around links to a few -- if by no means all -- of my recent pieces. Other work is underway that should appear this fall in Dissent, The Nation, International Socialist Review, New Politics, Democracy, and Barnes and Noble Review. (Hence the need for a vacation.) Published just today are this review of David Harvey's book on cosmopolitanism and my column from IHE on Tzv ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 2 12:05:56 PDT 2009

4493 [lbo-talk] private death panels -- rank: 1000

California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee For Immediate Release September 2, 2009 California's Real Death Panels: Insurers Deny 21% of Claims PacifiCare's Denials 40%, Cigna s 33% in First Half of 2009 More than one of every five requests for medical claims for insured patients, even when recommended by a patient's physician, are rejected by California's largest private insurers, amounting to very real death panels in practice daily in the nation's biggest state, acco ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 2 11:59:44 PDT 2009

4494 [lbo-talk] Language, music, and Kenneally -- rank: 1000

On Sep 2, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > The "fundamental" vibration is the "note" you hear. That note is > not a pure tone--it includes a series of secondary vibrations And the pattern - relative strength - of those overtones is what gives musical instruments their timbre. The reason a clarinet sounds different from a flute or a piano is the overtone structure. Doug

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Date:	Wed Sep 2 10:22:02 PDT 2009

4495 [lbo-talk] tongue-tied liberals -- rank: 1000

How Obama has muted the activist liberal left: http://bit.ly/7TPBu

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 1 12:57:17 PDT 2009

4496 [lbo-talk] our Christ-like president -- rank: 1000

Amazing - an official WH photo! <http://gawker.com/5350389/our-christ+like-president-addresses-his- flock>

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Date:	Tue Sep 1 11:24:02 PDT 2009

4497 [lbo-talk] anti-O -- rank: 1000

[the comments are rather stunning] http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2009/08/the-orgasm-gap-just-how-big-is-it.html Since I started writing an advice column on Jezebel with Aretha, we've seen a real uptick in young heterosexual women protesting that they prefer "asexuality," that they are sick of the "tyranny of orgasm," and they don't want to come-- ever. ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 1 11:10:42 PDT 2009

4498 [lbo-talk] far right deepens understanding of Maoist Van Jones -- rank: 1000

On Sep 1, 2009, at 11:56 AM, Left-Wing Wacko wrote: > This article appeared on Alternet yesterday, Defends his former > radical past as youthful naivety. > > http://www.alternet.org/environment/142310/glenn_beck's_crazy_lies_about_van_jones/ As a friend commented, fuck her (the author) and fuck him (Jones). Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 1 09:03:39 PDT 2009

4499 [lbo-talk] 70 years ago... -- rank: 1000

SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 by W.H. Auden I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night. Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole offence From Luther until now That has driven a culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz, What huge imago made A psychopathic go ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 1 09:02:35 PDT 2009

4500 [lbo-talk] manuf'g recovery? -- rank: 1000

[from Dismal.com] ISM Manufacturing Index for United States: 52.9 Consistent with our forecast for a rebound in both manufacturing and the broader economy this quarter, the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index increased 4 points to 52.9 in August. The larger than expected increase puts the index 10.3 points above its second quarter average and above its expansionary threshold of 50 for the first time since January 2008. The details are supportive for future growth as the e ...

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