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4501 [lbo-talk] boom or gloom? -- rank: 1000

Boom or gloom, which is it? Marxists.com vs. Ed Hyman: http://bit.ly/1ubhWQ

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 1 07:43:49 PDT 2009

4502 [lbo-talk] far right deepens understanding of Maoist Van Jones -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > Anybody read to the end of this? Slightly flabbergasting. After > ranting > about Jones, who may or may not have evolved from his prior views, > we learn > Mr. Phillips gave a stirring tribute speech about Paul Robeson on the > occasion of the latter's being put on a U.S. postage stamp. I asked the PR shop about this - no response. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 1 07:18:28 PDT 2009

4503 [lbo-talk] gore vidal is an old, cranky prick -- rank: 1000

On Oct 30, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > What do you mean by "prick" anyhow? That's funny.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 30 13:14:50 PDT 2009

4504 [lbo-talk] gore vidal is an old, cranky prick -- rank: 1000

On Oct 30, 2009, at 1:55 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > On 10/30/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> Life isn't about people. It's about Historical Forces. > > Since you are a Marxist and have been, at least in the past, > sympathetic to poststructuralism, I find it odd that you get so > endlessly exercised about this aspect of Carrol's thinking. Because > he's right: Life is about the interaction of forces, and people only > matter as indexes to thos ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 30 11:36:04 PDT 2009

4505 [lbo-talk] gore vidal is an old, cranky prick -- rank: 1000

On Oct 30, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > At 08:05 PM 10/29/2009, Carrol Cox wrote: > > >> Ad hominems are no better in literary criticism than >> they are in political polemics. > > > This is gossip Carrol. If I Can't Gossip, I Don't Want To Be Part > Of Your Revolution. Life isn't about people. It's about Historical Forces. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 30 10:28:57 PDT 2009

4506 [lbo-talk] Honduras -- rank: 1000

[Greg Grandin, prof of Latin American history at NYU (and a frequent guest on Behind the News), just sent this around.] Seems like a deal has been reached in Honduras, though still has to be voted on by Congress (see Times story below). Despite the fact that negotiations and compromises bestowed some legitimacy to those who carried out the coup -- and despite that fact that the question of whether human-rights violations committed during the coup will be punished is unclear -- on the whole ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 30 07:56:41 PDT 2009

4507 [lbo-talk] gore vidal is an old, cranky prick -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2009, at 2:31 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Are you equating conservative political and cultural beliefs with > vituperative bilousness? IME they're orthogonal. Conservatives are > just as often nice and generous individuals, and just as often > pricks, as liberals or leftists. Actually conservatives are often nicer. For what it's worth, the guy who does the Nation & National Review cruises said that the talent was nicer on the Nation cruise than the NR's, but the NR ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 29 11:50:58 PDT 2009

4508 [lbo-talk] adaptations -- rank: 1000

[from Popbitch] >> Crossing the line << Desperate measures for desperate housewives As botox and plastic surgery has become more and more fashionable within the LA acting community, so TV directors and writers have had to become more and more creative in order to show their cast members registering emotions. Marcia Cross, from Desperate Housewives, seems to have evolved an entirely ageless and expressionless kind of beauty, where nothing above the smile seems to move. An insider clai ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 29 10:21:28 PDT 2009

4509 [lbo-talk] gore vidal is an old, cranky prick -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Or it could be he and Jack Kerouac have more in common than a night > in the sack together. Kerouac was always a conservative prick, he > just got worse when he moved in with his mom to die. Could be > Vidal's not senile, just showing some true colors I'm amazed that VI's Sarcophagus isn't impressed by Vidal's praise of Pim Fortuyn and Tim McVeigh. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 29 10:19:20 PDT 2009

4510 [lbo-talk] NSK -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > The Elvis of theory moniker fits because he works like a musician, > always on the road and always putting out new stuff, some of it in > greatest hits packages. Not to mention four movies. Plus he's kinda fat!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 29 10:15:03 PDT 2009

4511 [lbo-talk] summit! peace? -- rank: 1000

Gates, Crowley meet in Cambridge Henry Louis Gates and James Crowley are spotted at a pub ... read more: http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0910/gates_crowley_meet_in_cambridge.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 29 09:25:18 PDT 2009

4512 [lbo-talk] ciao robust option -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] Does this count as robust? "House Democrats preparing to unveil legislation to overhaul the health-care system signaled Wednesday that they would include a more conservative version of a government-run insurance plan that would negotiate payment rates with hospitals and doctors," Martin Vaughan and Naftali Bendavid write for The Wall Street Journal. "Robust" used to mean payments tied to Medicare rates ... "After a series of discussions over the las ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 29 08:14:19 PDT 2009

4513 [lbo-talk] GOP identity -- rank: 1000

[more GQR - hey, Eric, how's this fit into "identity politics"?] A Sense of Shared Identity The other dominant lesson that emerged from our focus groups and provides critical in- sight into the thinking of today's partisan Republican voters is their clear sense of shared identity. In our focus group discussions, we quickly noted how they routinely used plural first- person pronouns to describe a group of individuals (including all those in the room but extending far beyond those w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 28 18:51:12 PDT 2009

4514 [lbo-talk] the Republican base, race, and "socialism" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2009, at 9:31 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > all of which illustrates what charles has been saying about the > promise of an obama presidency no? between these two reports and the > survey, it's exactly what the obama supporters were hoping for Huh? Delusions of socialism among the lunatic Republican base is exactly what the Obama supporters were hoping for? Why?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 28 18:39:45 PDT 2009

4515 [lbo-talk] Republican base *likes* Obama's post-racial line -- rank: 1000

[more GQR - this may be negation, but then again, it's very different from classic racism] Race: Get Over It In the wake of Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during the president's joint session health care address and other strident personal and political attacks against President Obama, many in the media and Democratic circles advanced an explanation that this virulent opposition is rooted in racism and reactions to President Obama as an African American president. With this possibility in mind ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 28 18:10:30 PDT 2009