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7891 [lbo-talk] The atheist delusion -- rank: 1000

On Jun 3, 2008, at 9:44 AM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > Didn't Freud say that religion arose out early childhood experience > -- most generally, out of an inability to give up the comforting > sense of a world centered on "me" and managed by protective (or > punishing) dieties? > > This is a broad enough description to apply to primitive > societies, and it's hard to say whether it's a cultural formation > or a private need. But if it's so fundamental, why have so ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 3 07:04:25 PDT 2008

7892 [lbo-talk] Ha'aretz purge -- rank: 1000

[there's been a purge at Ha'aretz - here's what Amira Hass has to say about it - formatting cleaned up] Here is an email that I received from Amira Hass on the current situation and changes at Haaretz. Ed Corrigan Dear Ed Corrigan, I forward you a letter i have already sent to two people who asked me directly about the rumors. i should add that as far as i know Gideon Levy's column is under no threat. It was published last Friday as usual, and so are his weekly op-eds. Dear friends, The rum ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 2 15:18:47 PDT 2008

7893 [lbo-talk] The Nation does CNA-SEIU -- rank: 1000

On Jun 1, 2008, at 7:22 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > wrote: > >> Man, that's like a Republican talking point. > > I'm sorry, what is? Organizing workers? That is exactly what I mean. No, organizing workers is not a Republican talking point. Saying things like "CNA is a union buster" over & over. Or saying that "Fitch thinks that home care workers aren't real workers." Or &q ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 2 14:49:54 PDT 2008

7894 [lbo-talk] Obama has spent $4.46 per vote on TV ads so far -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/2008/06/campaign-ad-spe.html> Campaign Ad Spending: Fun With Numbers June 02, 2008 4:12 PM A report today by a study group at the University of Wisconsin estimates that the presidential candidates have spent nearly $200 million on television advertising this election cycle. Which makes it time for some fun with numbers. The Wisconsin Advertising Project, using ad tracking data from an outfit called TNS Media Intelligence/CMAG, figures that Barack O ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 2 13:43:10 PDT 2008

7895 [lbo-talk] "Theory's Empire," an anti-"Theory" anthology -- rank: 1000

On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > You moderate me for saying a phrase like this but not someone who says > something along the lines of > "_shut up shuttin' up already > since you're > being a ridiculous fuckheaded bore." And similar things that she > said to > Ravi which chased him away? > > Doug I have to say that this is a very weird sense of propriety. > But maybe > you just agree with shag and thus impoliteness doesn't bother you ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 2 12:19:43 PDT 2008

7896 [lbo-talk] rant -- rank: 1000

<http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/06/01/brave-nation-of- half-literate-blog-commenters/> Brave Nation Of Half-Literate Blog Commenters by KEN LAYNE [...] But what's most incredible, to me, as a person who writes about this garbage for a living, is that it doesn't matter at all what I write about, because the comments will be an insane half-literate string of racist nonsense and startling ignorance that has nothing to do with the subject of this post. [...] As America loses it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 2 11:56:29 PDT 2008

7897 [lbo-talk] Arianna on her yacht, while HuffPo bloggers toil for free -- rank: 1000

On Jun 2, 2008, at 2:35 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > You're just jealous you don't have a yacht. That's not completely untrue. But I'd pay my writers. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 2 11:44:15 PDT 2008

7898 [lbo-talk] breaking: bras make (straight) men impulsive -- rank: 1000

<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/uocp-bwm053008.php> Contact: Rudy Faust rfaust at press.uchicago.edu 773-834-0386 University of Chicago Press Journals Bikini-clad women make men impatient Images of sexy women tend to whet men's sexual appetite. But stimulating new research in the Journal of Consumer Research says there's more than meets the eye. A recent study shows that men who watched sexy videos or handled lingerie sought immediate gratification even when they were m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 2 11:18:54 PDT 2008

7899 [lbo-talk] "Theory's Empire," an anti-"Theory" anthology -- rank: 1000

On Jun 2, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > negligible pomo gibberish I'm putting on my moderator's hat and announcing an official list policy: no assertions like this without names and quotes. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 2 10:59:48 PDT 2008

7900 [lbo-talk] Arianna on her yacht, while HuffPo bloggers toil for free -- rank: 1000

<http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=127435> From Media Darlings to Public Enemy No. 1 in Five Years or Less Why Are the Online and Offline Communities So Up in Arms About Certain Pseudo-Celebrity Bloggers? By Simon Dumenco It's hard for me to believe it's been this long, but five years ago this summer, in my waning days as an editor at New York magazine, I took Elizabeth Spiers, then the founding editor and writer of Gawker, out for coffee with the intention of poaching her ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 2 10:40:17 PDT 2008

7901 [lbo-talk] a radical congestion plan -- rank: 1000

On Jun 2, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > That is: the bus system becomes a rolling homeless shelter. I doubt the NYPD would permit that. The visible homeless pop in New York is now pretty small. I don't know where they go, or have gone, but they went somewhere. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 2 09:04:09 PDT 2008

7902 [lbo-talk] a radical congestion plan -- rank: 1000

<http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/06/02/kheel-plan-2-to-revive-free- transit-proposal-for-09-races/> Kheel Plan II to Revive Free Transit Proposal for 09 Races In for a penny, in for a pound is how the Brits express what we Americans less elegantly call the whole hog : why do something halfway when you might as well go all the way? That s the thinking behind Ted Kheel s free-transit proposal. If an $8 congestion fee, as unsuccessfully proposed recently by Mayor Bloomberg, infuriated ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 2 08:43:03 PDT 2008

7903 [lbo-talk] today's Dems -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen] QUOTE DU JOUR, from Albert R. Hunt, executive editor for Washington at Bloomberg News: 'As the Democrats strive to increase their congressional majority, [Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee] says he usually hosts two fundraisers somewhere almost every weekend -- one for bankers and one for gays. 'There's a 10 percent overlap,' he notes.'

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Date:	Mon Jun 2 08:03:33 PDT 2008

7904 [lbo-talk] so Big Bill *has* been getting some -- rank: 1000

[via The Note] Todd Purdum takes on the former president in the new Vanity Fair, up to and including whispers of extracurricular activities. "None of these wisps of smoke have produced a public fire," Purdum writes. "But four former Clinton aides told me that, about 18 months ago, one of the president's former assistants, who still advises him on political matters, had heard so many complaints about such reports from Clinton supporters around the country that he felt compell ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 2 06:38:11 PDT 2008

7905 [lbo-talk] Fwd: From Gallup.Com: Americans Favor President Meeting With U.S. Enemies -- rank: 1000

Two-thirds of Americans think it s a good idea for the U.S. president to meet with leaders of enemy countries, generally, and 59% think it would be a good idea to meet with the president of Iran, specifically. <http://www.gallup.com/poll/107617/Americans-Favor-President-Meeting- US-Enemies.aspx>

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Date:	Mon Jun 2 04:58:46 PDT 2008