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6046 [lbo-talk] hit on Scott McLemee -- rank: 1000

On Dec 7, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote: > McLemee writes some of the best takedowns in the business. It would > almost > be a disproof of his quality if someone hadn't gotten sore. Yeah, but that one was soooooo bad. So the guy doesn't have a BA. Big fucking deal.

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Date:	Mon Dec 7 10:49:22 PST 2009

6047 [lbo-talk] hit on Scott McLemee -- rank: 1000

A crazy attack on the excellent Scott McLemee. Please visit the comments section and make this douchebag's life miserable: http://www.edrants.com/scott-mclemee-a-wildly-weak-and-untrained-mind/ Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 7 09:19:50 PST 2009

6048 [lbo-talk] happy birthday -- rank: 1000

On Dec 7, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > After a while it gets old, believe me. You use up > 90 minutes to address an afternoon cable audience > for 30 seconds, sandwiched between imbeciles. The day after I was on Moyers' show, someone recognized me on the subway. I want more of that!

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Date:	Mon Dec 7 09:07:24 PST 2009

6049 [lbo-talk] Ironicality 101: Adbusters War on Your Little Sister s Flannel Leggings -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2009, at 10:58 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > http://theactivist.org/blog/ironicality-101-adbusters-war-on-your-little-sisters-flannel-leggings Nice!

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Date:	Mon Dec 7 09:02:31 PST 2009

6050 [lbo-talk] happy birthday -- rank: 1000

On Dec 7, 2009, at 11:39 AM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote: > But don't you play > one on TV sometimes? Be happy to, but no one's asked lately. Don't get enough time on TV.

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Date:	Mon Dec 7 08:45:37 PST 2009

6051 [lbo-talk] nomenclature -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] On Afghanistan -- an exit strategy that isn't one: "I don't consider this an exit strategy. And I try to avoid using that term," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week." "This is a transition that's going to take place."

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Date:	Mon Dec 7 08:36:55 PST 2009

6052 [lbo-talk] happy birthday -- rank: 1000

On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:22 AM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > Happy birthday to one of my favorite economists! Thanks, but I'm no economist!

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Date:	Mon Dec 7 08:05:16 PST 2009

6053 [lbo-talk] hb to doug -- rank: 1000

On Dec 7, 2009, at 8:11 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > I trust that Ivan's cake was delish. Terrific. And his help was more than notional. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 7 08:04:39 PST 2009

6054 [lbo-talk] hb to doug -- rank: 1000

Aww, thanks! And to Noam Chomsky and Tom Waits, too. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 7 04:54:13 PST 2009

6055 [lbo-talk] A Diversion -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2009, at 7:46 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > A couple > people off list over the last year have expressed curiosity as to > why my > love of Milton. Really, it took a whole epic to give these lines the > punch they have!!! Ok, that settles it. I've got to read PL again. It's been about 30 years. God, it's so great. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 6 17:38:31 PST 2009

6056 [lbo-talk] Ravitch on education -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > I think she was always on the > traditionalist side of education policy, i.e. focusing on Great Books > etc, A POV I'm not entirely unsympathetic with, I gotta say. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 6 15:56:00 PST 2009

6057 [lbo-talk] Ravitch on education -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2009, at 6:25 PM, Joanna wrote: > You may be interested in listening to this five and one-half minute > podcast featuring Diane Ravitch, a highly regarded historian of > education, as well as an educational policy analyst and research > professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education. > She was also Assistant Secretary of Education under Bush #1. She's a very interesting story - former right-winger who's turned on their privatization/charter/testing ed ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 6 15:32:27 PST 2009

6058 [lbo-talk] Some lbo questions -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2009, at 12:32 AM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > Comparing money "spent" to jobs is not an apples to apples comparison. > > Money "spent" in the case of Federal spending or grants is a > reimbursement for spending that might have yet to take full effect. Yeah, mabye. But this is partly captured by multipliers. Even if you halve the $250,000/job figure, you come up with a number several times higher than what it would cost to hire a well-paid worker for a yea ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 6 12:52:03 PST 2009

6059 [lbo-talk] Some lbo questions -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2009, at 3:30 PM, brad bauerly wrote: > I guess I would like to know if the recover that does usually come > after > recent downturns is the result of the improvement in productivity that > occurs? That is to say, is the necessary destruction or devaluing of > capital which is achieved during economic crises not only of fixed > capital > but also of variable capital? The U.S. productivity acceleration of the late 1990s was accompanied by a rise in fixed investmen ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 6 12:50:49 PST 2009

6060 [lbo-talk] A Diversion -- rank: 1000

On Dec 5, 2009, at 11:46 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Other candidates for beginnings and endings. Maybe as a Miltonian this is all second nature, but isn't the opening of Paradise Lost pretty damned great? And "Call me Ishmael" isn't too shabby either. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 6 12:25:54 PST 2009