Search LBO-Talk Archives

9451 [lbo-talk] demonization -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:40 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> It really felt like the whole media establishment was leading us into >> war. > > And your point is...? I'm clearly not up to your level of cynicism. The severity and unanimity of the embrace of insanity shocks me.

Document Size:	4808
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 25 08:52:38 PDT 2007

9452 [lbo-talk] housing bust deepens -- rank: 1000

NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal Sept. 25, 2007 Demand for previously owned homes tumbled in August to the lowest level in five years as mortgage-market troubles hurt sales. Home resales fell to a 5.5 million annual rate, a 4.3% decline from July, the National Association of Realtors said. In a separate report, the S&P/Case-Shiller index showed the decline in U.S. home prices accelerated nationwide in July, posting the steepest drop in 16 years. FOR MORE INFORMATION, see: http:// ...

Document Size:	5103
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 25 07:35:44 PDT 2007

9453 [lbo-talk] Clash of Sexual Civilizations (was Re: ahmadinejad) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Laws are against certain sexual acts, not against certain categories > of persons, in Iran. How is that different from anywhere else? We don't have laws against being a closeted U.S. Senator, but we do have laws against soliciting sex in public places. > Personal rights and > freedoms concerning sexuality, however, may be achieved in other ways > than one based on the idea of sexual orientations Well, isn't that what queerne ...

Document Size:	5690
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 25 07:26:18 PDT 2007

9454 [lbo-talk] standards these days... -- rank: 1000

[time was that you had to be a serious poet to get published in The New Yorker - now you just have to be famous, or have been famous 30 years ago...] <http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/ 2007/09/17/070917po_poem_mitchell> Poetry Bad Dreams Are Good by Joni Mitchell September 17, 2007 The cats are in the flower beds A red hawk rides the sky I guess I should be happy Just to be alive But We have poisoned everything And oblivious to it all The cell-phone zombies babble Through the shop ...

Document Size:	6201
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 25 07:03:42 PDT 2007

9455 [lbo-talk] post analytical Marxist era -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Sujeet Bhatt wrote: > Well, this thread on lbo-talk has confirmed my suspicion that the word > "liberal" means nothing and the word "neo-liberal" less than nothing. Neoliberal has a pretty definite meaning, or so I've thought - promoting the policies of deregulation, privatization, and marketization. You have a different idea? Doug

Document Size:	4954
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 25 06:44:19 PDT 2007

9456 [lbo-talk] Clash of Sexual Civilizations (was Re: ahmadinejad) -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > But a majority of Iranians, apparently including their > President, have not adopted the idea of sexual orientations, nor have > much of the rest of the Third World. How do you know that's what Ahmadinejad meant? It wouldn't surprise me if he was simploy denying that there are men in Iran who suck cock and women who munch box. You think the engineer-president is up on comparative queer theory? Doug

Document Size:	5284
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 25 06:43:05 PDT 2007

9457 [lbo-talk] demonization -- rank: 1000

My god, watching Fox and CNN last night made me feel like I was turning into Yoshie. On Fox, Newt Gingrich was - I'm not kidding - bashing the Bush admin for being too soft on Iran. Then on CNN, there was the relentless demonization of Iran from a more liberal (and closeted) Anderson Cooper POV. It was creepy and completely insane. It really felt like the whole media establishment was leading us into war.

Document Size:	4871
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 25 06:40:37 PDT 2007

9458 [lbo-talk] Post Marxist Era -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2007, at 1:01 AM, joanna wrote: > I do think god has a wicked sense of humor as Freud, Mohammed, and > Henry > the VII all had daughters and nothing but daughters and lots of them. Freud described his daughter Anna as his only son. Doug

Document Size:	4728
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 25 05:57:53 PDT 2007

9459 [lbo-talk] post analytical Marxist era -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2007, at 1:10 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > that Pallas Athene of liberalism, Hillary Clinton I hadn't realized until recently, thanks to lbo-talk, that the word "liberal" meant so many things. Yoshie thinks the Bush administration is secular liberal, and now we learn that Hillary's one too. I'd thought that the Clintons, both of them, made their careers out of differentiating themselves from the liberal inheritance - meaning the New Deal, Great Society, and influences ...

Document Size:	10911
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 25 05:55:42 PDT 2007

9460 [lbo-talk] narcissism of minor differences -- rank: 1000

<http://www.goodweatherforairstrikes.com/> But there was also a strong Columbia presence, so much so that one hipster-looking douchebag looked at Rya and I [sic] as we walked in and muttered to his friend about how Ivy League the scene was.

Document Size:	4818
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 18:51:25 PDT 2007

9461 [lbo-talk] Hillary plays hardball -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5992.html> Clinton campaign kills negative story By: Ben Smith Sep 24, 2007 03:43 PM EST Clintons press aides have leverage like Hollywood publicists less Mitt Romney and more Tom Cruise. Early this summer, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton s campaign for president learned that the men s magazine GQ was working on a story the campaign was sure to hate: an account of infighting in Hillaryland. So Clinton s aides pulled a page from the book of Holly ...

Document Size:	5583
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 18:16:00 PDT 2007

9462 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Ahmadinejad at Columbia -- rank: 1000

Hamid Dabashi was quoted by CNN as describing the Ahmadinejad event at Columbia as "misguided." I asked him to amplify. His response: "It was a circus masquerading as a dialogue that never took place--two self-promoting presidents confusing photo ops with moral intelligence--no one, especially our students, learned anything from this event."

Document Size:	5050
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 17:49:17 PDT 2007

9463 [lbo-talk] Laurie David's lifestyle choices -- rank: 1000

[from the Rush & Molloy column in The Daily News] Side Dish If anything is impervious to climate change, it's frosty eco-warrior Laurie David. The other night, at the "Patterns of Green" lecture series at the Gant flagship, we asked if we could pose a few questions. "Are they appropriate questions?" she snapped. We weren't even going to bring up her curbing the enthusiasm of husband Larry David by taking up with their married contractor. But we did want to let her r ...

Document Size:	5508
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 17:37:48 PDT 2007

9464 [lbo-talk] humans agree: humans causing climate trouble, must do something -- rank: 1000

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7010522.stm> Man causing climate change - poll Large majorities in many countries now believe human activity is causing global warming, a BBC World Service poll suggests. A sizable majority of people agreed that major steps needed to be taken soon to address global warming. More than 22,000 people were surveyed in 21 countries and the results show a great deal of agreement on the issue. The survey is published a day after 150 countries met at the Uni ...

Document Size:	8191
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 17:30:25 PDT 2007

9465 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Jena Ignites a Movement: Report from Yesterday's Demonstration in Jena, Louisiana] -- rank: 1000

On Sep 24, 2007, at 8:03 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Town fathers do not constitute a ruling class. > > Exactly how much power do you envision anyone in a town of 2,971 > having? Not much, but certainly they're connected to a ruling class of Louisiana and the south. Aren't they invested in maintaining a racial hierarchy? Doug

Document Size:	5539
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 24 17:20:52 PDT 2007