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9346 [lbo-talk] uh-oh, this crisis must be serious -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - March 31, 2008 Housing slump comes to the Hamptons By Daniel Pimlott in Washington The US housing slump has arrived at the Hamptons, summer playground of the Manhattan elite. In a sign that falling prices and home sales gluts are no longer limited to the nation's declining rust-belt cities or bubble markets, prices for gilt-edged properties in East Hampton and Southampton have fallen sharply. The Long Island resort towns, among the wealthiest and most well- connected in the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 1 13:23:46 PDT 2008

9347 [lbo-talk] Sophomore PHilosophy -- rank: 1000

On Apr 1, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > A friend of mine at the U of Michigan mentioned a short story by > O'Henry > which he used in introduction-to-philosophy classes to illustrate the > meaning of "fatalism" and distinguish it from other determinist etc > perspectives. The story begins three times, with each time the > protagonist (a young man in a sheephereding-village) making a totally > different choice, leading to a totally different life, but each l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 1 13:18:28 PDT 2008

9348 [lbo-talk] bad timing on the $81 burger? -- rank: 1000

From: Brian Smith <brians at hallpr.com> Date: April 1, 2008 2:45:41 PM EDT To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: THE $81 BURGER COMES TO NYC On April 1, 2008, Old Homestead Steakhouse (56 Ninth Avenue between 14th & 15th Streets, 212-242-9040) will be proud to present the most deliciously decadent item to grace its 140-year-old menu: The $81 "Burger". It might be April Fools Day, but this burger is no joke. Made from 100% Grade Five Japanese Kobe Wagyu, this American steakhou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 1 13:16:05 PDT 2008

9349 [lbo-talk] Conde Nast to acquire Jezebel -- rank: 1000

On Apr 1, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > [Maybe this is an April Fool's joke. If it's not, it's probably bad > news.] > > <http://jezebel.com/374361/big-changes-new-beginnings> > LETTER FROM THE EDITOR > Big Changes, New Beginnings Ok it is an April Fool's joke. Whew.

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Date:	Tue Apr 1 10:25:37 PDT 2008

9350 [lbo-talk] Conde Nast to acquire Jezebel -- rank: 1000

[Maybe this is an April Fool's joke. If it's not, it's probably bad news.] <http://jezebel.com/374361/big-changes-new-beginnings> LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Big Changes, New Beginnings Well, guys, we've got some pretty big news: We're moving. Or rather, Jezebel has been acquired by CondeNet, the online arm of publishing giant Conde Nast (Vogue, Glamour, Conde Nast Traveler, The New Yorker). We'd heard rumors last week that there were discussions going on between CondeNet and Gawker Media ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 1 08:55:57 PDT 2008

9351 [lbo-talk] Pat Buchanan on Iraq and Georgia -- rank: 1000

Should We Fight for South Ossetia? by Patrick J. Buchanan Posted: 04/01/2008 In echo of Warren Harding's "A Return to Normalcy" speech of 1920, George Bush last week declared, "Normalcy is returning back to Iraq." The term seemed a mite ironic. For, as Bush spoke, Iraqis were dying in the hundreds in the bloodiest fighting in months in Basra, the Shia militias of Moqtada al Sadr were engaging Iraqi and U.S. troops in Sadr City, and mortar shells were dropping into the Gre ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 1 08:30:23 PDT 2008

9352 [lbo-talk] Hillary & sexism -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage, I read on Lou Proyect's list that you haven't seen any sexist commentary on Hillary Clinton. Literally two minutes after I read that funny claim, I saw this on Gawker. STANLEY CROUCH Hil-Sterical! Author and noted critic-slugger Stanley Crouch, on Hillary Clinton: "On TV, Clinton seems by turns icy, contrived, hysterical, sentimental, bitter, manipulative and self-righteous." Play along at home: which of those adjectives also describe Stanley Crouch? Hint: we don't kn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 1 08:03:15 PDT 2008

9353 [lbo-talk] Hersh: he's doing god's work -- rank: 1000

Der Spiegel Online - September 28, 2007 <http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,508394,00.html> Interview With Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh 'The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing' Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has consistently led the way in telling the story of what's really going on in Iraq and Iran. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke to him about America's Hitler, Bush's Vietnam, and how the US press failed the First Amendment. SPIEGEL ONLINE: Iranian President M ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 30 19:51:37 PDT 2007

9354 [lbo-talk] Bello article -- rank: 1000

On Sep 30, 2007, at 3:15 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > So I think working people have no choice but to > try to form global resistance organizations and aim for control > globally > too. And this is a good thing. Why would it be bad to break down the > national/international distinction? Does Bello fear some sort of > mongrelization? Why shouldn't it be a good thing for cultures to > mingle and > mesh and form new cultures? All excellent questions, I'm sure you won't be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 30 13:25:55 PDT 2007

9355 [lbo-talk] Fwd: [Nuts And Bolts] Pacifica Radio's Second Chance -- rank: 1000

[Matthew Lasar has written two books on the history of Pacifica.] Pacifica Radio's Second Chance Matthew Lasar http://www.lasarletter.net/drupal/node/477 The Pacifica National Board has hired Nicole Sawaya as Executive Director of the Pacifica Foundation, LLCC has learned. Pacifica owns the licenses for five listener supported radio stations in Berkeley, New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Houston. This is great news, LLFCC thinks. It signifies that a critical mass of people at Paci ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 30 11:46:17 PDT 2007

9356 [lbo-talk] Bello: The Post-Washington Dissensus -- rank: 1000

On Sep 30, 2007, at 7:10 AM, John Gulick wrote: > This piece had me arching my eyebrows until I got to the end, where > Bello kicked it in to neo-Marxist gear and began to delineate the > impossibilities of a global new deal, given the abiding > contradicition between world accumulation and inter-imperial > competition. What inter-imperial competition? There's not really much of it that I can see. Things looked little dicey in the run-up to the Iraq war, but Sarkozy's France and ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 30 11:12:04 PDT 2007

9357 [lbo-talk] an Iranian socialist writes -- rank: 1000

On Sep 30, 2007, at 1:53 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > There is no point lecturing British and Americans > about the shortcomings of the Islamic Republic of Iran No there isn't really. But neither is there much of a point in lecturing Brits and Americans about how great the IRI is, either. Doug

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Date:	Sun Sep 30 11:06:14 PDT 2007

9358 [lbo-talk] Last Supper, in a leather harness -- rank: 1000

On Sep 30, 2007, at 11:29 AM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > i forgot to ask: what on earth could "over-educated" mean anyway? > is there > some line drawn as to what just the right (goldilocks) education is > so that > you aren't under- or over- educated? is there a commission > somewhere that > determines this? I think it means when someone applies an education to critical thinking about the status quo. The best kind of education, from that POV, is voke ed, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 30 10:23:43 PDT 2007

9359 [lbo-talk] An Iranian socialist writes -- rank: 1000

On Sep 29, 2007, at 7:11 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > The Iranian socialist might be right about policy in Iran, but in > (the UK as > in) the US, the proper position is that the Iranian state has a > right to > develop such energy sources (and defences) as it sees fit. I completely agree with this. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Sep 29 18:20:58 PDT 2007

9360 [lbo-talk] Bello: The Post-Washington Dissensus -- rank: 1000

[This is an interesting piece. I'm not sure what a de-globalized world would look like, or even how much popular support there would be for one. Why is an international economy inherently more unstable than a national one? And trade doesn't have to be synonymous with export-oriented development. The critique of vulgar free trade theory doesn't require a rejection of the idea that there are gains from trade, does it?] Foreign Policy in Focus September 24 THE POST-WASHINGTON DISSENSUS Walden ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 29 13:44:11 PDT 2007