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7966 [lbo-talk] Dustup - final installment -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2008, at 8:17 PM, shag wrote: > but man, that was a satisfying, tight set of arguments where you > creamed him with your command of data. i know, i know: not many > people are going to be swayed by 'just the facts,' but that was > still some mighty fine stuff. >> <http://tinyurl.com/6a7xor>. Wow. Check out the comments. Egads.

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7967 [lbo-talk] dustup revisited -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2008, at 8:12 PM, shag wrote: >> >> (as Steve Wasserman >> pointed out in his piece on the decline of the book review) > > > which piece is that? > > also, when was the book review ever not in decline? Well he was specifically talking about newspapers. <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2007/2007-September/016600.html>

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7968 [lbo-talk] dustup revisited -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I really don't see this. The Collective I pointed out is certain to > appear in some other bodies, and focusing on Gramm seriously obscures > this fact. It does & doesn't. I was just listening to my year-ago interview with the Brit anarchist Ian Bone. He's a big fan of personalizing politics. Yeah, it's the system, but the rich and their minions are revolting people. It's a refreshing argument, precisely because he understands the ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 18:50:48 PDT 2008

7969 [lbo-talk] dustup revisited -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2008, at 7:27 PM, shag wrote: > whatever 'these things' are, i do not, but could ask. Facebook status updates, the sibling of Twitters.

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7970 [lbo-talk] dustup revisited -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Charles A. Grimes wrote: > Sure wish Doug had been able to work something in about Gramm. Me too. A 500-word limit is really tight. It's odd (as Steve Wasserman pointed out in his piece on the decline of the book review) that in a medium with theoretically no length limit, essays are shorter than ever. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 13:30:34 PDT 2008

7971 [lbo-talk] Buchanan: exit from empire -- rank: 1000

<http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27696> Honorable Exit From Empire [by Patrick J. Buchanan] 07/25/2008 As any military historian will testify, among the most difficult of maneuvers is the strategic retreat. Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, Lee's retreat to Appomattox and MacArthur's retreat from the Yalu come to mind. The British Empire abandoned India in 1947 -- and a Muslim- Hindu bloodbath ensued. France's departure from Indochina was ignominious, and her abandonment of hun ...

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7972 [lbo-talk] Dustup - final installment -- rank: 1000

On Jul 25, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > You have a reference to the Kinks song "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" > in there. I wondered who did that ever since it was used as the end > title to a Sopranos episode. It wasn't a compliment there. They > used it to accompany Tony walking away from Janice's house after > being an "undermining" asshole with her. Who wouldn't want to undermine Janice? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 11:18:56 PDT 2008

7973 [lbo-talk] Dustup - final installment -- rank: 1000

The final installment of my exchange with Landsburg: <http://www.latimes.com/business/investing/la-op-landsburg-henwood25-2008jul25,0,5322431.story > or <http://tinyurl.com/6a7xor>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 10:31:19 PDT 2008

7974 [lbo-talk] making money on the rising death rate of my cohort -- rank: 1000

Some cheery news from Euromoney's Hedge Fund Daily: > HF Bets On Aging Boomers > Hedge funds are looking to cash in on the rising Baby Boomer death > rate through Service Corp. International, the biggest U.S. funeral- > home and cemetery owner.

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Date:	Fri Jul 25 07:55:29 PDT 2008

7975 [lbo-talk] more Dustup -- rank: 1000

My latest salvo with Landsburg: <http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/sunletters/la-op-landsburg-henwood24-2008jul24,0,5994887.story > or <http://tinyurl.com/5wo7v7>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 24 12:54:23 PDT 2008

7976 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole: A History and Evaluation of the Surge -- rank: 1000

On Jul 24, 2008, at 1:31 PM, Michael Pollak quoted Juan Cole: > A Social History of the Surge Good luck changing the discourse with fact-checking. The best thing you can say about The Surge is that it now makes it easier to get out. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 24 11:11:20 PDT 2008

7977 [lbo-talk] flashback -- rank: 1000

So the prince of darkness, Bob Novak, hit a pedestrian in DC while driving his black Corvette. Today's Note recalls an observation from Novak in 2001: "Since I don't run the country, all I can do is yell at 'em. The other option is to run 'em over, but as a compassionate conservative, I would never do that." --Robert Novak, raging at jaywalkers, in 2001.

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Date:	Thu Jul 24 06:44:06 PDT 2008

7978 [lbo-talk] Roubini: Worst Financial Crisis Since the Great Depression and W -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2008, at 10:46 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > On Jul 23, 2008, at 9:48 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> There is no consensus among forecasters that there's going to be a >> serious recession. > > When that consensus occurs it will be time to expect a sharp recovery You're probably right. I should clarify that I don't think there's much value to what the consensus thinks - I was just disagreeing with what CSenior at aol.com said it was. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 23 20:00:29 PDT 2008

7979 [lbo-talk] Roubini: Worst Financial Crisis Since the Great Depression and W -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2008, at 8:26 PM, Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote: > Among a large plethora of analysts, recently Nouriel Roubini,a sharp > rightwingish economist, has predicted that the US and global > economy is heading > toward serious recession. Doug Henwood's answer to this view was: > "Again, maybe so, but there's no evidence that this is happening yet. > It will be very interesting if the oil bubble bursts, too. " > ^ > ^ > ^ > ^ > ^ > ^ > ^ ...

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7980 [lbo-talk] teaching the pampered rich at Harvard -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Getting back to Doug's original question, if the kid who owned the > Observer went to Wayne State and cut the pay of his teacher, it'd be > the same, right? Yeah, but he wouldn't. There's a reason that Harvard is Harvard. Doug

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