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6661 [lbo-talk] bondage lovers "normal," maybe even happier -- rank: 1000

<http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24238131-2,00.html> Bondage lovers normal, maybe even happier By Tamara McLean August 25, 2008 03:37pm AN unusual sex survey has found that Australians who enjoy bondage and discipline are not damaged or dangerous, and might even be happier than those who practise "normal" sex. The research showed 2 per cent of adult Australians regularly partake in sadomasochism and dominance and submission-type sexual role play. And contrary to commonly- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 2 13:07:06 PDT 2008

6662 [lbo-talk] Speaking of female candidates... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 2, 2008, at 3:40 PM, John Thornton wrote: > Palin knowingly put her child in the line of fire when she sought > public office. Adolph Reed passed this along this morning: Obama wrote in The Audacity of Hope (pp. 255-256): "We know that many in the inner city are trapped by their own self-destructive behaviors . . . perhaps the single biggest thing we could do to reduce [inner-city] poverty is to encourage teenage girls to finish high school and avoid having children out of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 2 11:52:29 PDT 2008

6663 [lbo-talk] Vietnam treasures ties with Australia -- rank: 1000

On Sep 2, 2008, at 1:50 PM, uvj at vsnl.com wrote: > August 29, 2008 > > Vietnam treasures ties with Australia Could you explain what the point of this was? Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 2 11:01:39 PDT 2008

6664 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on Reed and Vietnam (1) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 2, 2008, at 1:38 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Ralph Reed *Adolph* Reed.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 2 10:46:27 PDT 2008

6665 [lbo-talk] more on Palin -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] "For every piece of the portrait of Palin that the McCain campaign sketches, a far more complicated picture of the Alaska governor is drawn," Peter Wallsten writes in the Los Angeles Times. "The woman introduced to America as a reform-minded Washington outsider who opposed the infamous 'bridge to nowhere' -- the symbol of McCain's hatred of wasteful spending -- originally supported its construction. The governor who in her introductory speech decried the prac ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 2 10:14:29 PDT 2008

6666 [lbo-talk] strange bedfellows dept. -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/mccain-hires-go.html> McCain Hires GOP Operative Who Helped Smear Him in South Carolina in 2000 September 01, 2008 8:46 PM Former officials of Sen. John McCain's 2000 campaign expressed shock and disbelief Monday to learn than the GOP presidential nominee had hired South Carolina political consultant Tucker Eskew. Eskew, along with Warren Tompkins and Neal Rhodes, were key members of then-Gov. George W. Bush's South Carolina team during ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 2 10:11:30 PDT 2008

6667 [lbo-talk] Speaking of female candidates... -- rank: 1000

On Sep 2, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> Palin is a big proponent of the idiocy of abstinence education, which >> doesn't work and never will. That's a political point to make out >> of all >> this. > > And you don't think there's something despicable about making > political points at the expense of 17-year-olds in vulnerable > situations? > > ( ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 2 10:04:50 PDT 2008

6668 [lbo-talk] Unions mobilize to elect Obama -- rank: 1000

On Sep 2, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Unions mobilize to elect Obama > > PWW Print Edition August 30, 2008 > > http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/13592/ Yawn. What Dem haven't they mobilized to elect in the last 75 years? Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 2 09:33:43 PDT 2008

6669 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on Reed and Vietnam (1) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 2, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > [WS:] Here is a quote from Reed's piece: > > "Obama goes a step further in deviating from Alinskyism > to the right, by rejecting its `confrontationalism,' which severs its > rhetoric of `empowerment' from political action and contestation > entirely and merges the notion into the pop-psychological, big box > Protestant, Oprah Winfrey, Reaganite discourse of > self-improvement/personal responsibility." > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 2 09:30:33 PDT 2008

6670 [lbo-talk] Speaking of female candidates... -- rank: 1000

Palin is a big proponent of the idiocy of abstinence education, which doesn't work and never will. That's a political point to make out of all this. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 2 09:27:04 PDT 2008

6671 [lbo-talk] fine article by Adolph Reed on Obama -- rank: 1000

Actually I posted this entire piece on July 16, with the note that Adolph was going to be on my radio show on the 17th to talk about it. Maybe the summer heat affected memories. The interview is up on the web: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#080717>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 2 08:27:12 PDT 2008

6672 [lbo-talk] Stern evades tough questions from UHW members -- rank: 1000

Andy Stern evades the tough questions by Lisa Tomasian September 1st, 2008 <http://seiuvoice.org/article.php?id=532> On our second day of SEIU's "Take Back Labor Day" caravan, myself and several other UHW members got a chance to sit down with International President Andy Stern. We had arrived at the afternoon rally in Madison, which was hosted by three locals from Wisconsin. Andy agreed to meet with us after it became clear that our members were not going to accept the same ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 2 08:22:57 PDT 2008

6673 [lbo-talk] Sarah Palin goes really rogue -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 31 18:24:12 PDT 2008

6674 [lbo-talk] RIP, Studs Terkel -- rank: 1000

<http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2008/10/studs-terkel-may-16-1912-october-31-2008.html > Studs Terkel, May 16, 1912 - October 31, 2008 Studs Terkel has taken his last turn at bat. "Take it easy, but take it..." No one ever said it better.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 31 16:22:29 PDT 2008

6675 [lbo-talk] Peggy Noonan waxes weird -- rank: 1000

On Oct 31, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Dorene Cornwell wrote: > The writing is entertaining even if the thinking is muddled. I've long had a soft spot for Noonan. She's weird, but in an engaging way. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 31 16:19:13 PDT 2008