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5431 [lbo-talk] Triple Your Lizard -- rank: 1000

On Jul 20, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Well, except for the national language part. DOH! That was your 17th post today. Chill, dude. Doug

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5432 [lbo-talk] Triple Your Lizard -- rank: 1000

On Jul 20, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Geoffrey Wildanger wrote: > The Silicon Valley is probably more diverse than most places in the > US, but it is not particularly diverse for the Bay Area. I doubt, > however, that there are many places in the world that are that > diverse. At least in my travels, I have yet to find one. I think that, statistically speaking, Toronto is the most "diverse" big city in the world. Or so I remember. One reason is that U.S. cities have large concentr ...

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5433 [lbo-talk] Triple Your Lizard -- rank: 1000

On Jul 20, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > When you go from LA to New York, are they going to be speaking a > different language? Do you have any idea how many languages are spoken in Queens? Seriously. Brooklyn to a lesser extent, too. Compare that even to otherwise cosmopolitan places like Seattle and Portland. Doug

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5434 [lbo-talk] Bayard Rustin on the moon landing -- rank: 1000

Since it's the 40th anniversary... ...First time ever reported! My story of watching the moon landing with Bayard Rustin, and his memorable comment: http://bit.ly/QlZAf

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Date:	Mon Jul 20 11:02:25 PDT 2009

5435 [lbo-talk] Dems from rich districts causing problems -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - July 20, 2009 Democrats' New Worry: Their Own Rich Voters By JONATHAN WEISMAN A group of Democrats elected in recent years from some of the country's richest congressional districts have emerged as a stumbling block to raising taxes on the wealthy to pay for President Barack Obama's ambitious health-care overhaul just as the plan has begun to meet increasing resistance over its cost. Friday, two freshmen representatives -- Dina Titus, from suburban Las Vegas, and Color ...

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5436 [lbo-talk] Triple Your Lizard -- rank: 1000

On Jul 20, 2009, at 11:16 AM, John Gulick wrote: > No doubt C Doss is overstating the case in his inimitable style, but > when vast swathes of Manhattan resemble a vertical suburban shopping > mall, he's got something of a point here... There are a few other boroughs in NYC, and they don't resemble all that much of anything else in the USA.

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Date:	Mon Jul 20 08:56:57 PDT 2009

5437 [lbo-talk] GM Tamas: where the EE dissidents went wrong -- rank: 1000

[bounced because of excessive length - here's the beginning] From: Joanne Landy <joanne.landy at igc.org> Date: July 16, 2009 10:46:25 AM EDT To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Extraordinary interview with Hungarian ex-dissident Below is an interview of Gaspar Miklos Tamas by Chris Harman, editor of the British journal International Socialism. Ihttp://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=555&issue=123 It appeared in the journal. --Joanne Interview: Hungary Where we went wrong Issue: 123 P ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 16 07:58:09 PDT 2009

5438 [lbo-talk] yahoos launch war on Census -- rank: 1000

<http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/07/13/bachmann-poe-introduce-bill-to-curb-yearly-census-survey/ > July 13, 2009 Bachmann, Poe introduce bill to curb yearly Census survey @ 4:59 pm by Michael O'Brien Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Ted Poe (R-Texas) have introduced legislation that would curtail the extent of information collected by the U.S. Census Bureau in a yearly survey. The bill comes after Bachmann came under fire, even by some Republicans, for vowing not to fill out th ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 14 11:01:43 PDT 2009

5439 [lbo-talk] job opp't'y -- rank: 1000

[A fine group. More details at link.] <http://q4ej.org/jobs> EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Queers for Economic Justice 16 W. 32nd St., Suite 10H New York, NY 10001 www.q4ej.org Position Title: Executive Director, Queers for Economic Justice Resumes due: July 31, 2009 Terms: This position is full-time. Salary: $65,000 POSITION SUMMARY Queers for Economic Justice seeks an experienced, creative, collaborative, mature, visionary, progressive leader to fill the position of Executive Director. Queers for ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 13 09:00:41 PDT 2009

5440 [lbo-talk] WBAI election - signatures needed -- rank: 1000

[An email sent to Jews for Racial and Economic Justice by Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Neimark. I don't know these candidates personally, but I do know Esther & Marilyn, and if the candidates are ok by them then they're ok by me. If you're in NYC and can stop by Tuesday afternoon, please do.] Dear JFREJers, We're writing to enlist your support for some important changes that are in the works at WBAI, where JFREJ's radio program, Beyond the Pale, has been broadcasting weekly for over 13 year ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 13 08:17:44 PDT 2009

5441 [lbo-talk] a great paragraph -- rank: 1000

<http://www.theawl.com/2009/07/flicked-off-bruno> I do not care if Bruno is good for the gays. You know what is good for the gays? A nice dinner at a very expensive restaurant with exceptional service and a dessert on the house, followed by, most likely at a different location, some good old-fashioned ass-fucking. Also maybe a week-long trip to a tiny island on the eastern side of the Peloponnesus. [-Choire Sicha]

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5442 [lbo-talk] CV -- rank: 1000

<http://cityfile.com/profiles/al-goldstein> Goldstein estimates that in his sexual career, he's slept with over 7000 women and "sucked about a half dozen cocks." He says "the few interludes with circus and farm animals number less than five."

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Date:	Sun Jul 12 18:51:11 PDT 2009

5443 [lbo-talk] More on Kenneally -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2009, at 7:48 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Ya know, evolutionary psychology, despite being immoral, er, > antihuman, must be broadly right, given that different species have > different psychologies. Is that what evolutionary psychology is all about? Damn, learn something new every day.

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5444 [lbo-talk] Roma history -- rank: 1000

On Jul 10, 2009, at 8:08 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > True. But anything published in English about Iran (or any other > foreign country) that has at all a popular bent to it is going to be > filtered by what the publisher feels is interesting for his or her > readers and/or marketable. This results in the image of the state of > affairs being skewed. Huh? Does this include works in English by Hamid Dabashi, Ervand Abrahamian, and Val Moghadam? Or does the phrase "at all a popula ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 10 18:34:51 PDT 2009

5445 [lbo-talk] Iran: "the bizarre case" of MRZine -- rank: 1000

[via Lou Proyect - more for you Yoshie-missers out there] <http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/21948> The Tragedy of the Left's Discourse on Iran July 10, 2009 By Saeed Rahnema ... MRZine and Islamists The most bizarre case is the on-line journal MRZine, the offshoot of Monthly Review, which in some instances even publicized the propaganda of the Basij (Islamic militia) hooligans and criminals. The website has given ample room to pro-Islamist contributors; while they can ha ...

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