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8461 [lbo-talk] i am *so* not a liberal -- rank: 1000

On Feb 27, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > In fact liberal policies are supported by majorities. Huh? This is somewhere between a big oversimplification and a fantasy. What are you talking about? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 27 07:56:08 PST 2008

8462 [lbo-talk] Moby - nerd, wuss, or dick? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 27, 2008, at 6:09 AM, Wendy Lyon wrote: > He did manage to do a decent Joy Division cover, though, which is rare > enough for anyone. And he did a cover of MoB's "That's When I Reach for My Revolver," only he changed it to "That's how I know when it's over" because he didn't want to promote gun violence. Jerk. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 27 04:14:14 PST 2008

8463 [lbo-talk] crises kill -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Voyou wrote: > In large part this > is a consequence of students' ambiguous structural position, stranded > between their old role as subjects of disciplinary institutions and > their new status as consumers of services. Man, whatever happened to the pleasures of fucking and getting high without the parents watching, and maybe reading some good books too? Doug

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8464 [lbo-talk] crises kill -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > My 17-year-old is mopey a lot of the time. I asked her why, and she > replied, > "Everything's dead!" > > "What do you mean?" > > "Everything's been done! Music, art, film. Politics sucks. It's all > dead." > > She said she didn't envy my age (who would?), but that I was around > when > punk first hit, and was old enough to remember the hippies, etc. > Today, it's > all reh ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 26 12:07:26 PST 2008

8465 [lbo-talk] crises kill -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2008, at 1:36 PM, B. wrote: > Additionally, it seems like anxiety, and especially > stress, and the need for sedation/tranquilization > through either the use of benzodiazepenes, or alcohol, > etc., is increasing. People of all classes drink less now than 100 or 200 years ago. > A lot of this data seems to indicate the economy, as > it is, takes a massive toll on folks' mental well > being. Yeah. It'd be interesting to do an analysis of the political economy of d ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 26 11:46:51 PST 2008

8466 [lbo-talk] crises kill -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote: > The problem with this study is it doesn't offset the > death toll with the number of financiers who jump out > of windows. Didn't someone find that no financiers jumped out of windows after the 1929 crash?

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Date:	Tue Feb 26 11:43:15 PST 2008

8467 [lbo-talk] Moby - nerd, wuss, or dick? -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Percival Myers wrote: > n Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> On Feb 24, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Chris Doss wrote: >> >>> Why do people hate Moby so much? >> >> Because he's pompous and self-righteous and his music sucks. > > This explanation fails when it is applied to globally-aware U2/Bono, It fits Bono to a T. > it probably also fails when applied to other musical performers of > similar tempe ...

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8468 [lbo-talk] crises kill -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - February 26, 2008 Bank crises kill, says study By Clive Cookson, Science Editor A global banking crisis would kill tens of thousands of people through heart attacks brought on by stress and anxiety, Cambridge university researchers will warn today. David Stuckler and colleagues have carried out what they say is the first study relating banking crises to mortality. Their statistical analysis of 40 years of data from the World Bank and World Health Organisation concludes tha ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 26 08:44:34 PST 2008

8469 [lbo-talk] whom Americans wouldn't vote for -- rank: 1000

On Feb 26, 2008, at 8:55 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > Got any "surveys" of Black or other colored women on this question > ? ( "Surveys" done by Black "experimenters" ) No, sorry. Wish I did. I just stole the piece from the Boston Globe. They should have asked questions like that.

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Date:	Tue Feb 26 08:42:21 PST 2008

8470 [lbo-talk] Roselli's resignation letter -- rank: 1000

<http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002386> Internal Dispute at SEIU Deepens Ken Silverstein February 13, 2008 A few months back I reported on internal fighting at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), describing what looked to be a power grab by President Andy Stern. Now Stern s chief in-house critic, Sal Rosselli, the president of United Healthcare Workers West (UHW), has resigned from the SEIU s Executive Committee. In his resignation letter, reproduced below, ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 25 18:15:30 PST 2008

8471 [lbo-talk] more SEIU dissidents -- rank: 1000

<http://www.sfweekly.com/2008-02-20/news/local-union-leader-rosselli- blasts-seiu-boss-andy-stern/> SF Weekly - February 20, 2008 Local Union Leader Rosselli Blasts SEIU Boss Andy Stern By Matt Smith Somewhere in California there's a woman alone in a nursing home with bedsores that grow more painful and life-threatening by the day. And down the hall there's an orderly who would like to do something about her but can't, because during some shifts he's one of just two care- givers on a wa ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 25 18:11:29 PST 2008

8472 [lbo-talk] whom Americans wouldn't vote for -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Carrol recently had a post -- which I wish I had saved It says at the top of every post (though you may have to expand your headers to see it): > List-Archive: <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk>

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8473 [lbo-talk] whom Americans wouldn't vote for -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > And a lot of those who vote for a black would be uneasy at more > than one > black family on their block, and really uncomfortable with 25% black > enrollment in the local highschool. Surely there must be many > sociological studies on the differential expression of sexism and/or > racism in different contexts. I posted an article on psychological experiments along those lines the other day. The conclusion was that sexism is mor ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 25 15:44:34 PST 2008

8474 [lbo-talk] GM exec stands by calling global warming a "crock" -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2008, at 4:24 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Corporations are making a fortune out of > environmentalism Some are trying to. Most aren't. Doug

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8475 [lbo-talk] whom Americans wouldn't vote for -- rank: 1000

An atheist 65% Someone in "their" 70s 50 Muslim 48 Homosexual 46 Mormon 32 Hispanic 15 Woman 11 Black 4 etc. <http://pewresearch.org/pubs/744/mccain-too-old>

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