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4636 [lbo-talk] Michaels, Against Diversity -- rank: 1000

This one should wind down, I think. There have been nearly 200 (!) posts on the topic. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 9 06:55:52 PDT 2009

4637 [lbo-talk] Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize -- rank: 1000

Well, Henry Kissinger got it too, right?

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Date:	Fri Oct 9 06:52:24 PDT 2009

4638 [lbo-talk] me on CBC -- rank: 1000

I'm going to be on the CBC's Current http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/ this morning. Starts at 8:30 eastern time.

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Date:	Fri Oct 9 03:54:20 PDT 2009

4639 [lbo-talk] CPD on Afghanistan -- rank: 1000

[The full statement is too long for the list; to see it, visit the CPD website. I'm among the initial signers.] Please Forward & Post on Websites, Blogs, Etc. Dear Friend, As you know, the President and Congress are reviewing U.S. policy on the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and we are writing you at this critical moment to invite you to sign the Campaign for Peace and Democracy emergency statement below calling for an end to military intervention in both countries. Your support can ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 9 03:45:10 PDT 2009

4640 [lbo-talk] Americans awash with gun luv -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/123596/In-U.S.-Record-Low-Support-Stricter-Gun-Laws.aspx > October 9, 2009 In U.S., Record-Low Support for Stricter Gun Laws Forty-four percent favor stricter laws on firearm sales by Jeffrey M. Jones PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup finds a new low of 44% of Americans saying the laws covering firearm sales should be made more strict. That is down 5 points in the last year and 34 points from the high of 78% recorded the first time the question was asked, in 1990. Toda ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 9 03:43:06 PDT 2009

4641 [lbo-talk] Medea Benjamin learns to love Obama's war -- rank: 1000

<http://original.antiwar.com/scott/2009/10/07/is-medea-benjamin-confused/ > " We would leave with the same parameters of an exit strategy but we might perhaps be more flexible about a timeline, says [Code Pink's Medea] Benjamin. That s where we have opened ourselves, being here, to some other possibilities. We have been feeling a sense of fear of the people of the return of the Taliban. So many people are saying that, If the U.S. troops left the country, would collapse. We d g ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 8 20:29:19 PDT 2009

4642 [lbo-talk] words of The Wise -- rank: 1000

On Oct 8, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > It is almost redundant to call it an aspect of > neoliberalism, like calling ice cold. If that is all this collection > of > threads has been about, we might as well have been discussing whether > fine-ground or corse-ground cornmeal makes the best corn bread. Since you're always so full of pointed advice on what we shouldn't be discussing, or on how the way we're something is a waste of our time - and more importantly, yours - co ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 8 12:07:39 PDT 2009

4643 [lbo-talk] words of The Wise -- rank: 1000

On Oct 8, 2009, at 8:44 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > after he spends considerable time complaining that people think that > racism is an individual level problem and thinking like that gets > extended to class, which causes a big problem -- the diversity problem > -- because we think class inequality is about individual behavior, > yeah it's kind of moronic that he believes that, as an english > professor with a family income of maybe 250k, he's part of the > problem. It's ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 8 07:43:40 PDT 2009

4644 [lbo-talk] words of The Wise -- rank: 1000

On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:47 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > consider the way Michaels writes about he sees his own participation > in this system of exploitation in the last chapter, just after > explaining that even though his family is in the top 1%, he doesn't > actually feel as if he is as rich. > > "Why is this dissidentification legitimating? Because it leads > Walter Benn Michaels to think of himself as *not* rich; it leads him > to think that when he talks about th ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 8 05:22:34 PDT 2009

4645 [lbo-talk] overconsuming health -- rank: 1000

On Oct 7, 2009, at 2:56 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > Second, Services Annual Survey shows the source of income for > various fields > in the NAICS industry 62 (health) including Medicare/Medicaid (MM), > private > insurance and patient payments. > http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/services.html > > The data are not very user friendly These are a little more so: <http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/downloads/bhg07.pdf>.

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Date:	Wed Oct 7 12:23:27 PDT 2009

4646 [lbo-talk] shoes -- rank: 1000

On a totally different note, thanks to The Awl, check out these sublime shoes: <http://www.fashiontoast.com/2009/10/mcqueen-1-dress-shoes.html>

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Date:	Wed Oct 7 11:53:53 PDT 2009

4647 [lbo-talk] words of The Wise -- rank: 1000

On Oct 7, 2009, at 1:12 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > "It's ludicrous to think of their (the women at Wal-mart) problem as a > problem about gender. The men can't live on their salaries either!" > p 115 > > "Feminism is what you appeal to when you want to make it sound as if > the women of Wall St and the women of Wal-mart are both victims of > sexism." p 115, The Trouble with Diversity, Walter Benn Michaels That's odious, but he didn't say anything like ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 7 11:26:33 PDT 2009

4648 [lbo-talk] overconsuming health -- rank: 1000

On Oct 7, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Chuck Loucks wrote: > Sorry about the way I posed the question. My intent was to ask what > extra benefits the > US people get with all the extra money spent on health care (you > pointed out that the household share of health care has gone from 3% > to over 11% of GDP from 1960 to today.) Ah, thought you meant higher ed. I suppose we all live longer, so there's some benefit there. But a fourfold increase, even if you adjust for an aging population, h ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 7 11:19:41 PDT 2009

4649 [lbo-talk] overconsuming health -- rank: 1000

On Oct 7, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Chuck Loucks wrote: > Would you care to take a stab at the question I asked of Mary Sue > Coleman, that is, what do we get for all that extra money? Wish I knew, but I don't, sorry. They have added massive layers of administration, no? I went to high school with Walter Benn Michaels' friend and former co- author, Steve Knapp, who's now president of George Washington University. Wish I could ask him, but I haven't spoken to him in 35 years. Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 7 09:59:15 PDT 2009

4650 [lbo-talk] words of The Wise -- rank: 1000

On Oct 7, 2009, at 12:00 PM, John Gulick wrote: > I do find > it a bit odd that you are so zealous about going to the mat to > defend a critique of anti-racism that (as Shag has astutely > pointed out) is fundamentally that of a cranky left-liberal rather > than one of a radical Marxist... What I'm defending is Michaels' argument that "anti-racism" is entirely compatible with neoliberalism, and is even used to legitimize it. That's not to say there's no such thing as r ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 7 09:20:32 PDT 2009