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7981 [lbo-talk] teaching the pampered rich at Harvard -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > That's not what this is about. Doug said students at elite colleges > are entitled pricks and at non-elite colleges they're not. The key > is entitled. Prick is secondary. You can be an asshole without > being entitled, but that's not the point. Yeah. It's all about class & habitus. People who grew up expecting the world to cater to them radiate that attitude in everything they do. People who grew up expecting little are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 23 13:23:02 PDT 2008

7982 [lbo-talk] Edwards caught with mistress, love child -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > when the Repug swine Newt Gingrich does that and even serves her > divorce papers while she is in a hospital bed, that seems to be a > taboof for gossipy tabloids But this is widely known. How do we know it? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 23 11:19:45 PDT 2008

7983 [lbo-talk] declaring independence from a broken campaign finance system -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - July 23, 2008 <http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na- money23-2008jul23,0,2972137.story> Donations to Obama campaign include some biggies Aides have stressed that the average amount in June was $68, but large sums have been given to the committees working on his behalf. By Dan Morain, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Even as he touts his base of small donors, Barack Obama is relying heavily on well-heeled contributors who have given $28,500 or more each to Democra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 23 10:51:18 PDT 2008

7984 [lbo-talk] Obama transforms -- rank: 1000

[the lead of today's The Note - looks like the punditocracy has made up its mind] Some lessons at the approximate midpoint of Sen. Barack Obama's week overseas: The success of a surge is something Obama can't really account for comfortably. But that probably won't matter -- since for purposes of the national debate, he's essentially ended the war. Barack Obama's frenetic travel schedule has triggered one very big move: the campaign's foreign-policy debate -- particularly on Iraq -- is now ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 23 10:38:52 PDT 2008

7985 [lbo-talk] Edwards caught with mistress, love child -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Another point - even if the story were true and Mr. Edwards had a > lover and a "love child" whom he secretly met, so fucking what? If > anything, it is a sad testimony to how much fucked up the Amerikan > system is that forces a politician to renounce his love and his > child to keep his job. Also true. But given my insatiable taste for gossip, I find it irresistible. Plus, fucking around while your wife is dying ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 23 10:35:52 PDT 2008

7986 [lbo-talk] Juan Cole/Salon: Obama saying the wrong things about Afghanistan -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2008, at 11:22 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Obama is saying the wrong things about Afghanistan No kidding. The liberals seem to be giving him something of a free pass on this one. Great strategy - out of one frying pan, into another. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 23 08:28:51 PDT 2008

7987 [lbo-talk] Edwards caught with mistress, love child -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > In other words, the Enquirer is a right wing hatchet man "exposing" > liberal politicians and celebrities, but remaining silent on > conservative ones, no? Sure, looks that way. But not being a Democrat, I'm not sure how much I care about that bias. The paper's long-dead creator, Generoso Pope, spent a couple of years with the CIA. Do with that what you will. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 23 08:24:45 PDT 2008

7988 [lbo-talk] Edwards caught with mistress, love child -- rank: 1000

On Jul 23, 2008, at 8:28 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > Hmmm National Inquirer. Now I get it. This is where you've been > getting _all_ your info on the presidential candidates . I know this is a joke, but the Enquirer is accurate. It's not like the Weekly World News, reporting on the presidential preferences of the space alien. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 23 05:40:35 PDT 2008

7989 [lbo-talk] latest Dustup -- rank: 1000

Latest Dustup between Landsburg & me - why are people falling behind on renegotiated mortgages? <http://www.latimes.com/business/investing/la-op-landsburg- henwood23-2008jul23,0,3749563.story> or <http://tinyurl.com/63uqbu>. Doug

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7990 [lbo-talk] teaching the pampered rich at Harvard -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2008, at 10:42 PM, W. Kiernan wrote: > Come on with this lowly hired help stuff, the hired help don't ever > have the power to make a couple marks with a pen and bounce your > ass all the way out of college. It was very very hard to flunk out of Yale, at least in the 1970s. They give you two chances before showing you the exit. Virtually everyone who enters graduates. Our theory at the time was, having let you in, they don't want to admit they might have been wrong. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 22 19:53:32 PDT 2008

7991 [lbo-talk] LDS porn -- rank: 1000

<http://fleshbot.com/5027995/man-is-that-he-might-have-hot-guys- fucking-latter-day-sinners> PORN OF THE MOMENT Man Is That He Might Have Hot Guys Fucking: "Latter Day Sinners" Arriving hot on the well-polished heels of that Mormon beefcake calendar controversy we posted about last week, straight porn purveyor Pure Play Media has just announced the release of what very well may be the first full-length LDS-themed gay porn flick we'll have the pleasure of soiling our garments ...

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7992 [lbo-talk] teaching the pampered rich at Harvard -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > I'm not sure I share your assumptions here. Correct me if I'm wrong, > but you seem to claim some correlation between deferential approaches > to academic authority and an embrace of the higher education for its > own sake, rather than as a vocational meal ticket. No. I don't know how I can make this any clearer. But I'll try this. The children of the rich who attend elite colleges are generally entitled pricks. The children of t ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 22 17:12:57 PDT 2008

7993 [lbo-talk] Edwards caught with mistress, love child -- rank: 1000

<http://www.nationalenquirer.com/ sen_john_edwards_caught_with_mistress_and_love_child_in_la_hotel/ celebrity/65193> or <http://tinyurl.com/627m9s> SEN. JOHN EDWARDS CAUGHT WITH MISTRESS AND LOVE CHILD! Vice Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards was caught visiting his mistress and secret love child at 2:40 this morning in a Los Angeles hotel by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER. The married ex-senator from North Carolina - whose wife Elizabeth continues to battle cancer -- met with his mi ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 22 14:40:39 PDT 2008

7994 [lbo-talk] teaching the pampered rich at Harvard -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2008, at 5:02 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > But in my experience, that's generally what the majority of students > from every class have in mind when they head off to college. It's been a long time, but my memory of arriving at UVa for grad school was that the products of less prestigious colleges treated the faculty with deference, calling them "Professor" and "Doctor," while the products of more prestigious colleges treated the faculty as equals or less, p ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 22 14:13:24 PDT 2008

7995 [lbo-talk] dustup -- rank: 1000

On Jul 22, 2008, at 5:00 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > Doug may or may not remember 1999 well I remember it well, but mainly because I was falling in love. I'm sorry to hear it wasn't so good for you. Doug

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