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8701 [lbo-talk] Neo-Realism: Chapter 2 -- rank: 1000

On Feb 5, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Bill Bartlett wrote: > At 9:41 AM -0500 5/2/08, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > >> Good lord, that >> sounds very final! We're inspired to ask: well then, who IS able to >> conceptualize freedom? I suppose it must be people who hold the most >> strenuously opposed views to the ideas $pread and co. espouse. > > Here's what they espouse: > > "We believe that all sex workers have a right to self-determination; > to choose how we ...

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8702 [lbo-talk] last minute endorsement -- rank: 1000

On Feb 5, 2008, at 3:24 PM, John Thornton wrote: > Maybe people mesmerized into euphoria over a completely vacuous speech > isn't creepy but if felt that way to me. I suppose it has to be vacuous or they wouldn't be so moved. As Zizek wrote in his analysis of Jaws, people have a million interpretations of the symbolism of the shark. All of them are right, and all of them are wrong, because the shark is what you wanted it to be. If it were named, then it would drive people away. It's a ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 5 12:41:00 PST 2008

8703 [lbo-talk] I hope you all vote(d) for Obama LOL LOL -- rank: 1000

On Feb 5, 2008, at 12:19 PM, shag at cleandraws.com wrote: > Now, on the principle that this will contribute to social unrest, > then i > say: Vote for Obama! This is the best reason I've heard of to do that. Can't do it myself though. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 5 09:45:11 PST 2008

8704 [lbo-talk] last minute endorsement -- rank: 1000

On Feb 5, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Chuck wrote: > Don't vote, it only encourages them! This time, I'm with you. I briefly flirted with walking the extra block beyond the subway entrance to vote for Edwards and decided not to. Doug

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8705 [lbo-talk] I hope you all vote(d) for Obama -- rank: 1000

On Feb 5, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > C'mon everybody in the U.S. Go out and vote. For Obama, of course. This is out of control. Why? Why? Why? I feel like voting for Hillary just for spite. Doug

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8706 [lbo-talk] last minute endorsement -- rank: 1000

Ok, this seals it: Dave Matthews endorsed Obama.

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Date:	Tue Feb 5 07:51:31 PST 2008

8707 [lbo-talk] the Dead's Obama pot party -- rank: 1000

Grateful Dead and Deadheads reunite for Obama Tue Feb 5, 2008 7:54am EST By Adam Tanner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Saying Barack Obama embodies political hope absent since Robert Kennedy was slain 40 years ago, three surviving members of the Grateful Dead rock band reunited on Monday for the first time in four years to back the presidential candidate. "Every few generations a guy like this comes along," drummer Mickey Hart told a news conference a day before California's primary, in ...

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8708 [lbo-talk] 50 Cent endorses HRC -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5002852/50-cent-says-obama-may-die-if-you-dont- vote-hillary>

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8709 [lbo-talk] advances in contracting out -- rank: 1000

[Interesting that the Post doesn't think it's necessary to identify Alex Kuczynski, the NYT reporter whose father is an investment banker & former finance minister of Peru, and who covers the rich and their pursuits for the paper.] New York Post [Page Six] - February 5, 2008 Rent-a-womb HAVING a baby without nasty stretch marks is all the rage among rich socialites. Last week, Alex Kuczynski, 40, announced she and her billionaire hubby, Charles Stevenson, were giving birth using her eg ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 5 04:58:16 PST 2008

8710 [lbo-talk] ABORTION -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2008, at 9:08 PM, tully wrote: > I had an abortion at age 20, and had no trauma experience at the > time, because I didn't want a child. I said I want people to stop discussing abortion. This includes you. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 4 18:18:46 PST 2008

8711 [lbo-talk] ABORTION -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2008, at 7:11 PM, John Thornton wrote: > C. G. Estabrook wrote: >> The discussion of the ethics and politics of abortion doesn't seem >> to me >> to depend on theism. There are of course many theists who consider >> abortion ethical, and there are opponents of abortion who are not >> theists (e.g., Nat Hentoff of the Village Voice). >> >> Probably the most influential non-theistic argument against >> abortion was >> set out in a ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 4 16:39:35 PST 2008

8712 [lbo-talk] ABORTION -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2008, at 7:11 PM, John Thornton wrote: Two comments about abortion after I'd asked people to stop discussing it. Please stop. Doug

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8713 [lbo-talk] Americans in a funk about their economy -- rank: 1000

Six in 10 See a Recession; Stimulus Plan Draws Skepticism Six in 10 Americans think the economy s already in a recession and two-thirds doubt that a government stimulus package will soften the blow. Those and other broadly negative views underscore current public anxiety about the nation s economy. Eighty-one percent in this ABC News/Washington Post poll say it s in bad shape, the most since 1993. And half see a long-term decline rather than a normal correction in a basically solid eco ...

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8714 [lbo-talk] big daddio virgin fuckers in the sky was Re: ABORTION -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > And, pray, how did Yoshie get "driven" from the list? First people disagreed with her, and then I told her (and everyone else) to hold off on posting about Iranian domestic affairs. She found this intolerable and signed off. I'd like to see the Commissar of the Cornfields hand down a similar indictment of Michael Perelman and Lou Proyect, who made similar requests of her, with similar reactions. Doug

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8715 [lbo-talk] O-bomb-a's economic advisers -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2008, at 7:19 AM, Tahir Wood wrote: > One would have to claim that > ALL of those people who are sexually repressed become fascists and > NONE > of those who are not sexually repressed become fascists, which hardly > seems plausible And why would one have to claim that? Why not say that there's some link between sexual repression and authoritarian politics - that sexually repressed people are more likely than others to be drawn to authoritarianism, and that authoritar ...

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