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7801 [lbo-talk] Radio Henwood -- rank: 1000

Behind the News with Doug Henwood WBAI, 99.5 NYC: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 5-6 PM kPFA, 94.1 Berkeley: Saturday, June 21, 2008, 10-11 AM The state of American conservatism - alive, dead, or just napping? Corey Robin, of Brooklyn College (and author of a piece on the topic in the June 23 issue of The Nation), and Reihan Salam, of the New American Foundation and The American Scene, a blog. Where have all the pensions gone?, with Thomas Mackell, author of When The Good Pensions Go Away (Wiley) ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 17 12:47:40 PDT 2008

7802 [lbo-talk] more Furman -- rank: 1000

New York Sun - June 17, 2008 <http://www.nysun.com/national/an-ex-new-york-knife-juggler-to-hone- obamas-econ/80153/> An Ex-New-York-Knife-Juggler To Hone Obama's Econ Policy By JOSH GERSTEIN, Staff Reporter of the Sun As the new economic policy director on Senator Obama's presidential bid, Jason Furman will have to juggle the competing demands of labor leaders, corporate titans, scoop-seeking reporters, and erudite academics. His experience as a White House adviser and aide to a Nobel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 17 10:54:07 PDT 2008

7803 [lbo-talk] Anna Burger volunteers for VP -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/06/obama-labor-bac.html> Obama Labor Backer Open to VP Vetting June 16, 2008 9:52 PM ABC News' Teddy Davis, Tahman Bradley, Gregory Wallace, and Alexa Ainsworth Report: One of the unwritten rules of politics is that if you want to be vice president, you don't lobby for the job. But one of Barack Obama's most prominent labor backers has put herself in the running. A Friday e-mail entitled, "New possibilities for Obama's VP," touted ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 17 10:50:06 PDT 2008

7804 [lbo-talk] 3/4 of Americans say gas prices a hardship, 1/2 say it's serious -- rank: 1000

Record-High Pain at the Pump Leads More Motorists to Park it For drivers across the country, the tipping point is past: A record number of Americans say soaring gasoline prices are causing them serious financial hardship, and 55 percent have cut back on their driving as a result, up sharply in the past month. Seventy-seven percent in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll call gas prices a financial hardship, and 51 percent say it s a serious hardship up respectively by 14 and 17 poin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 16 14:46:35 PDT 2008

7805 [lbo-talk] Sexies winners revealed! -- rank: 1000

[Liza & I were judges in this charming competition. For runners-up, and links to articles, see <http://www.sexies.org/news/winners08.html>.] <http://www.sexies.org/news/newsitem5.html> Winners of the first Sex-Positive Journalism Awards ( Sexies ) Announced The board and judges of the Sex-Positive Journalism Awards are proud to announce the winners of the 2008 Sexies. Selected from over 100 entries submitted by both writers and readers, the winning entries cover subjects from ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 16 12:40:43 PDT 2008

7806 [lbo-talk] Gore Vidal -- rank: 1000

[via Lou Proyect - from an interview with Gore Vidal, by Deborah Solomon, in today's NYT] Q: How did you feel when you heard that Buckley died this year? A: I thought hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in life, applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 15 07:29:17 PDT 2008

7807 [lbo-talk] Alternet picks up Canadian anti-beauty rant -- rank: 1000

[Why does female beauty have to appeal only to men? Odd premise for an argument. Gotta say, an attack on an "inclusive" idea of beauty that goes after beauty itself is original. And further proof that when someone says "I'm no prude," he or she invariably is.] <http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/87636/?page=entire> What's So Great About Beauty? By Shannon Rupp, The Tyee. Posted June 14, 2008. From soap ads to elections, looking good is way overrated. I thoug ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 14 07:22:26 PDT 2008

7808 [lbo-talk] Obama's British Funder, George Soros, is a Profiteer of Bush's War -- rank: 1000

[Interesting press release from LaRouche's PR guy. But who knew Soros is British? I thought he was a Hungarian-American.] LYNDON LaROUCHE political action committee From: Don Phau EIR News Service Obama's British Funder, George Soros, is a Profiteer of "Bush's War" 13 Jun 2008 June 12, 2008 (LPAC)--After funding the launching of Barack Obama's political career, and while funding MoveOn.org, Center for American Progress, etc. to attack Dick Cheney's Halliburton Corp. war profiteerin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 14 07:05:00 PDT 2008

7809 [lbo-talk] the problem with Webb -- rank: 1000

On Jun 13, 2008, at 11:45 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Is Henwood an English name? Yup, though I think my ancestors actually converted to Catholicism and moved to Ireland. My father's parents came over from there in the early 20th century. So I ain't no aristocrat, if that's what you're getting at. Other half of the family is Italian, also early 20C immigrants. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 14 06:15:38 PDT 2008

7810 [lbo-talk] the problem with Webb -- rank: 1000

On Jun 13, 2008, at 11:28 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> Expressing sympathy for the Confederacy and gushing over >> violence seem just a little problematic for me. > > What do either of those have to do with Just's flippant dismissal of > "resentment," arguably the basis of all class mobilization? Nothing, really. So why focus on that rather than they icky stuff? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jun 14 06:13:36 PDT 2008

7811 [lbo-talk] the problem with Webb -- rank: 1000

On Jun 13, 2008, at 8:30 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > I can't imagine Just would dismiss racist or sexist slurs quite so > cavalierly as these classist slurs, whatever his personal thoughts > about them. By the way, Michael Lind is brutal about the Scots-Irish in his book on Texas. He thinks they're a bunch of land-stealing con men. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 13 19:54:34 PDT 2008

7812 [lbo-talk] the problem with Webb -- rank: 1000

On Jun 13, 2008, at 8:30 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > So what exactly is the problem? That Webb resents slurs against > people with whom identifies? Oh, I dunno. Expressing sympathy for the Confederacy and gushing over violence seem just a little problematic for me. But I'm a pointy- headed wuss, I know. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jun 13 19:51:55 PDT 2008

7813 [lbo-talk] hetero instinct -- rank: 1000

On Jun 13, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > CB: Yes, with the "this" referring to your playing sophmoric > philosophy > games, like absolute skepticism, like we are Humean beings. You are > the > one putting the discussion on an "undergrad" level, not Ted. And so's your old man! Further evidence of thread exhaustion...

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Date:	Fri Jun 13 12:59:17 PDT 2008

7814 [lbo-talk] heterosexuality? -- rank: 1000

I think this one may be getting a little old. Listmom

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Date:	Fri Jun 13 12:35:38 PDT 2008

7815 [lbo-talk] Samantha Power gets her ass kicked -- rank: 1000

On Jun 13, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > BTW, just for the record, your (correct) analysis of why surge is a > failure Cover of this week's Economist (tomorrow's conventional wisdom today!, though this particular meme has been circulating for several months): "Iraq starts to fix itself." Though I doubt that Krauthammer (who, by the way, has to be the ugliest person reguarly on TV) would agree with the Economist's conclusion: > It's really not about that any mor ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 13 12:02:37 PDT 2008