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8296 [lbo-talk] me on Kuttner's latest -- rank: 1000

On Jan 11, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008 3:50 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> The strongest statement I ever made was that >> some things are marginally better when a D is in the WH than an R. > > You think this doesn't hold true today? What's changed? Me, maybe. I'm tired of all of them. They suck. I often try to imagine what a Kerry presidency would have been like. We'd probably still be in Iraq. And it wouldn't sur ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 11 13:11:53 PST 2008

8297 [lbo-talk] Saving it for true love at Harvard -- rank: 1000

On Jan 11, 2008, at 12:01 PM, berber carpet bomb wrote: > http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/tlr/ > > do they have one for Yale Doug? Not that I know of. But Harvard has long been a pioneer. My sister-in-law, who graduated from Harvard in June 2006 and does not hold the place in high regard, says that the whole thing is just an excuse for the fact that all those Harvard students are too unappealing for anyone to have sex with them. Doug

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8298 [lbo-talk] me on Kuttner's latest -- rank: 1000

On Jan 11, 2008, at 8:35 PM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote: > So, I take it that Doug has gotten over the infatuation with the DP > that he seemed to be manifesting four years ago. The Kerrys, > Clintons, etc. will tend to do that to oneself. I'll admit I'm more hostile to the Dems now than I was a few years ago - my inner Trot has been running wild - but I was never "infatuated" with them. The strongest statement I ever made was that some things are marginally better when ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 11 12:50:45 PST 2008

8299 [lbo-talk] the blogging revolution reaches its full potential -- rank: 1000

On Jan 11, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Jezebel is a strong contender but at the risk of inciting stabby > violence I'll admit that sometimes (often!) its tone seems closer to > being a platform for Drunk and Cranky 2.0 than anything coherently > feminist. But then again, is that (feminism) even the intention? Hard to say. But the drunkest and crankiest of them, "Moe," once called herself a "dirty Marxist," for what that's worth. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 11 12:25:44 PST 2008

8300 [lbo-talk] the blogging revolution reaches its full potential -- rank: 1000

[from Gawker] Gawker commenter Rod Townsend is live-blogging from the new pay toilet in Madison Square Park.

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Date:	Fri Jan 11 11:55:50 PST 2008

8301 [lbo-talk] movement conservatism has come to this... -- rank: 1000

<http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24398> HUMAN EVENTS Endorses Fred Thompson by Human Events The 2008 presidential election is the most unusual and most important in many years. It's been more than five decades since such a race didn't feature an incumbent President or Vice President. Since World War II, America has not had a presidential election at a time when the stakes were higher. Conservatives have to win this election, and to do so, we have to identify a candidate arou ...

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8302 [lbo-talk] me on Kuttner's latest -- rank: 1000

On Jan 11, 2008, at 12:13 PM, berber carpet bomb wrote: > On Jan 11, 2008 7:22 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> It's not clear who the audience for this book is. ... The liberal >> netroots maybe? But they're less >> ideological than Kuttner and they don't read books anyway. > > I don't know either, but the lack of reading among the netroots isn't > a problem for them. that is what Amazon is for! That is what a blog is > for! You can read ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 11 09:37:08 PST 2008

8303 [lbo-talk] housing policy -- rank: 1000

[from an interview with Northern Trust economist Paul Kasriel] Surely, all of those McMansions were needed. Well, they were - because they're likely to be turned into bed and breakfasts to house all of our visiting Chinese and Indian creditors in years to come. That's quite a forecast. Yes. But I think a lot of baby boomers who bought these big houses - who moved up rather than downsizing - will be renting out rooms to our creditors.

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Date:	Fri Jan 11 08:41:28 PST 2008

8304 [lbo-talk] me on Kuttner's latest -- rank: 1000

On Jan 11, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > And the great postwar boom was one in which market dynamism > took a back seat to what Baran and Sweezy called Monopoly Capital > > ^^^^^ > CB: Monopoly capitalism ? monopoly capitalism ? Gee. Who had used > that term before they did ? Dunno. Jesus?

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8305 [lbo-talk] me on Kuttner's latest -- rank: 1000

On Jan 11, 2008, at 9:34 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote: >> Parents spend just three minutes a day talking to their kids. > > > Unbelievable. I could never talk to my nine year old again and beat > this average over a lifetime. Where did you get this info? I'm spinning that a bit - it's talking to kids as an exclusive activity, not including while washing the dishes or something. But still, Ivan's two and I talk to him a lot more than that every day! It's from the BLS's time use ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 11 08:33:47 PST 2008

8306 [lbo-talk] me on Kuttner's latest -- rank: 1000

Thanks, both of you. No, exclusive to Truthdig. Doug On Jan 11, 2008, at 9:18 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Ditto. In Nation also? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Max B. Sawicky" <sawicky at verizon.net> > To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 8:23 AM > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] me on Kuttner's latest > > >> nice. >> >>> <http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/ >>> 20080110_doug_h ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 11 08:31:52 PST 2008

8307 [lbo-talk] me on Kuttner's latest -- rank: 1000

<http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/ 20080110_doug_henwood_on_robert_kuttners_the_squandering_of_america/> Doug Henwood on Robert Kuttner's 'The Squandering of America' Posted on Jan 10, 2008 By Doug Henwood Twenty years ago, in November 1987 a date that was one year ahead of a presidential election, rather like now I reviewed Robert Kuttner's "The Life of the Party" in The Nation. It was the first piece I wrote for that magazine, and one of the first pieces I'd publish ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 11 04:22:42 PST 2008

8308 [lbo-talk] Bill Bennett names names -- rank: 1000

On Jan 10, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > more Bennett on Obama: > > "Talk about the black community -- he has taught the black community > you don't have to act like Jesse Jackson; you don't have to act like > Al Sharpton. You can talk about the issues." What a shit Bennett is. Jackson and Sharpton both have talked plenty about issues. More than Bennett actually. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jan 10 17:23:44 PST 2008

8309 [lbo-talk] exit poll... -- rank: 1000

On Jan 10, 2008, at 3:42 PM, John Thornton wrote: > Could this explain some of the apparent higher support for Obama over > Hillary in NH polls when in actuality Hillary won? > Has this been raised at AAPOR? yeah they've been talking about it a lot - mostly to dismiss it - but Kohut's op-ed gave them pause because he's highly regarded - but they mostly want not to believe race is a factor

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Date:	Thu Jan 10 12:57:49 PST 2008

8310 [lbo-talk] exit poll... -- rank: 1000

Interesting: Hillary's voters hate Bush more than Obama's, and think she's more likely to win than his voters did. And she beat Obama in every educational category except postgrad. Her voters are more likely to be "falling behind"; his, "getting ahead." Surreally, her voters are more eager to get out of Iraq, too. <http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/epolls/ index.html#NHDEM>

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