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9901 [lbo-talk] did Carver coin his most famous phrase? -- rank: 1000

Gawker's writeup of the story that Gordon Lish essentially created Raymond Carver as we know him prompted an email from a grad student who'd looked at the manuscripts: <http://gawker.com/news/csi%7C-books/there-is-absolutely-no-way-to- tell-whose-hand-swiped-that-black-marker-over-page-after-page-of-that- manuscript-312043.php>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 20 06:50:43 PDT 2007

9902 [lbo-talk] Friedman, Free Market and Freedom -- rank: 1000

On Oct 19, 2007, at 8:28 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > Friedman's book, Capitalism and Freedom... Is the book what done it to me - made me a right-winger back in 1971, along with Buckley's Up From Liberalism. I haven't looked at it in years, but as I remember, it's very seductive. The logical sleights of hand that Macpherson cites are very effective, very appealing to an adolescent mind longing for liberty. (We loved that word, "liberty," on the right, even more than "freedom ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 20 05:38:29 PDT 2007

9903 [lbo-talk] Americans deeply confused over SCHIP: like kids, scared of socialism -- rank: 1000

<http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=29047> October 17, 2007 Both Parties Have Strengths in "SCHIP" Debate Democrats generally preferred, but Bush's counterarguments have support by Lydia Saad GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- The Beltway debate over a bill reauthorizing federal funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is moving beyond the attempt to override President George W. Bush's veto -- a vote that is likely to fall short of the necessary t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 12:16:37 PDT 2007

9904 [lbo-talk] feminist bookstore -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/second-acts/-312935.php> Second Acts Have you been wondering what Carrie Brownstein is up to now that Sleater Kinney has disbanded? We had forgotten to! Anyway, it turns out that she randomly but wonderfully has a sketch comedy website with Fred Armisen now. The one about a feminist bookstore deciding what can and cannot go on the bulletin board is particularly amazing. "My problem with this one is, when I see this drumhead, I see a woman's face. A woman' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 12:06:22 PDT 2007

9905 [lbo-talk] Gindin on CAW-Magna deal -- rank: 1000

[Gindin used to be Hargrove's economic advisor.] <http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/bullet065.html> The B u l l e t Socialist Project E-Bulletin No. 65 October 19, 2007 The CAW and Magna: Disorganizing the Working Class Sam Gindin In the neoconservative Canada of the late 1990s, the labour movement needs to become more militant, less accommodating to the demands of corporations and governments. If this sounds like a return to the days of the 1930s or 1950s, so be it. It's either ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 19 07:09:36 PDT 2007

9906 [lbo-talk] CAW (Canadian Auto Workers) shelves right to strike -- rank: 1000

What happened? I thought the CAW split from the UAW because the Americans rolled over for the boss too easily. Now they're renouncing the right even to coffee-break-length strikes? Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 19 06:58:20 PDT 2007

9907 [lbo-talk] weird meat -- rank: 1000

<http://gridskipper.com/travel/new-york/new-yorks-weirdest- meat-311662.php> Eating weird shit is all the rage. You've got Bourdain on the Travel Channel gnawing warthog rectum in Namibia and wolfing down jellied sheep testicles in Iceland. Then there's the other guy on the Travel Channel -- you know, the bald one -- whose penchant for worms sometimes approaches Fear Factor territory. And now the Food Network's getting in on the action with their own daring diner/ comedian, Zane Lampr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 18:15:09 PDT 2007

9908 [lbo-talk] trends in values -- rank: 1000

American slightly less religious than a decade ago: 83% never doubt the existence of god, down from 88% in the 1990s! But even the religious are looser on trad vals. <http://pewresearch.org/pubs/614/religion-social-issues>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 11:50:04 PDT 2007

9909 [lbo-talk] the skinny on "values voters" -- rank: 1000

<http://pewresearch.org/pubs/615/republican-social-issue-voters> A Portrait of Republican Social-Issue Voters Though Much Courted by GOP candidates, Their Impact on the Nominating Process Is Still Unclear by Dan Cox and Gregory Smith, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life October 15, 2007 With no clear heir apparent to President Bush, and a nominating contest that remains very much in flux, many 2008 Republican presidential candidates are vying for the support of an influential segme ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 11:45:52 PDT 2007

9910 [lbo-talk] paler shade of white: race and current indie rock -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2007, at 1:31 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > B wrote: > > > ...web comments are really fucking depressing. But so > are calls into a lot political call-in shows. One > show on C-Span whose name I forget, I watched it, > thinking the audience must be a fairly liberal, > bookish sort, like what I imagine an NPR or PBS > audience to be -- everyone who called in was a flaming > political idiot and the majority of their stuff was of > a conspiracy-theory type n ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 10:47:31 PDT 2007

9911 [lbo-talk] Vision of a Europe for a Eurasian Century (was Putin in Iran) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Besides, Iran itself is not unlike a femme fatale. She is at times > cruel, but ravishing all the same, so well endowed is she with > nature's gifts. She will probably stab you in the back at the very > first opportunity, and yet she stirs the flesh of all men and women, > whether they are on the left, right, or center, who are politically > ambitious, like Chavez, HRC, and Putin. Yes, she really has a way of > makin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 08:24:53 PDT 2007

9912 [lbo-talk] Hillary raking it in from the Masters of War -- rank: 1000

[This is big news. About the only remaining major biz support for the Reps is oil.] <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/17/defense-industry- embraces_n_68927.html> Defense Industry Embraces Democrats, Hillary By Far The Favorite October 17, 2007 11:07 PM The defense industry this year abandoned its decade-long commitment to the Republican Party, funneling the lion share of its contributions to Democratic presidential candidates, especially to Hillary Clinton who far out-paced all he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 08:03:40 PDT 2007

9913 [lbo-talk] Rudy's threat -- rank: 1000

Rudy, yesterday: "If we're not careful -- if you don't elect me -- this country could be to the left of France."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 07:58:03 PDT 2007

9914 [lbo-talk] Reps crumbling -- rank: 1000

Yesterday, Bush felt the need to declare himself "still relevant." And now this: > Hastert Likely to Announce Resignation > By Lauren W. Whittington and Matthew Murray > Roll Call Staff > Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007; 7:57 pm > > Former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) is expected to announce > Thursday that he is resigning his seat in Congress effective later > this year, eventually setting up a special election to succeed him, > knowledgeable GOP sources said l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 18 07:52:50 PDT 2007

9915 [lbo-talk] Zionists policing academic discourse -- rank: 1000

On Oct 18, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > I'll inject an uncharacteristic Pollyanna note here: I rather think > they're fooling fewer people these days. That's one of the reasons > why they've gotten so hysterical and absurd. When a clown like Alan > Dershowitz is your public face -- then you're in trouble. Another thing we agree on! I think they've kicked up the hysteria a few notches precisely because they feel so threatened. As problematic as Mearsheimer & Walt ar ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 18 07:46:37 PDT 2007