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9976 [lbo-talk] Can Politics Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 13, 2007, at 12:11 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > So, I am not impressed by Prof. Dabashi's piece. A roughly equal > number of blows delivered to Bollinger and Ahmadinejad won't cut it > for me. It's brave in that it risks his job by criticizing his boss. > It's coward in that he attacks Ahmedinajad at a time when the country > that man leads is being threatened by the biggest economic and > military power in human history. I think Dabashi knows that. He's also Iranian, and ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 13 06:52:22 PDT 2007

9977 [lbo-talk] I can get your kid into an Ivy - for $40k -- rank: 1000

Business Week - October 22, 2007 <http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_43/b4055063.htm? campaign_id=rss_daily> Michele Hernandez boasts that 95% of her teenage clients are accepted by their first-choice school. Her price: As much as $40,000 a student As I listened to my 8th period English teacher drone on for the third time about how Finny, a character in A Separate Peace, was indeed the main character although he was not the narrator, it finally dawned on me that this was n ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 18:42:15 PDT 2007

9978 [lbo-talk] "Suck Cock to Beat the Draft" vs. Equal Right to Serve (was An Empire of NGOs) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2007, at 6:40 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > and Jensen? I will never forgive him for the way he treated a sex > worker > friend of my. He blithely dismissed everything she had to say about > anything -- precisely as the kind of dolt Oh Great RadFem Leaders > think we > all are. I never trust these dudes who constantly advertise how sensitive they are. It seems like a dissimulated form of egomania to me, and this story fits right in with that." What do ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 14:53:12 PDT 2007

9979 [lbo-talk] Not getting laid is the same as being oppressed -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Chris Brooke wrote: > On 12/10/07 20:28, "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> Ah, whatever happened to the spirit of Diderot, strangling the last >> king with the entrails of the last priest? > > If Diderot ever said that, he was quoting Jean Meslier (1664-1729): > > "Je voudrais, et ce sera le dernier et le plus ardent de mes > souhaits, je > voudrais que le dernier des rois fût étranglé avec les ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 12:49:24 PDT 2007

9980 [lbo-talk] "Suck Cock to Beat the Draft" vs. Equal Right to Serve (was An Empire of NGOs) -- rank: 1000

> I don't disagree with most of what you wrote, but this is surely a > little > glib. I take the point that the institutional setting is more > important > than what is consumed, but they clearly fulfil a different > function: you > read bell hooks and Noam Chomsky to learn something; you peruse > pornography > to have an orgasm. NC is read at WP because they need to understand > American foreign policy, while the guys at NYPD read bell hooks > because they > ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 12:48:55 PDT 2007

9981 [lbo-talk] Not getting laid is the same as being oppressed -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2007, at 3:13 PM, Mr. WD wrote: > I'm not convinced it's > inappropriate for a secular leftist to be uncomfortable with blasphemy Ah, whatever happened to the spirit of Diderot, strangling the last king with the entrails of the last priest?

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 12:28:22 PDT 2007

9982 [lbo-talk] the death penalty: Americans luv it -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2007, at 3:09 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote: > It's just that the Americans like to invent machines to accelerate the > killing -- electric chairs and depleted uranium munitions. Whereas the > British preferred to carry out their (neo)colonial genocides with mass > starvation. The Iraqis who died from sanctions might disagree - if they were still alive, of course.

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 12:26:35 PDT 2007

9983 [lbo-talk] "Suck Cock to Beat the Draft" vs. Equal Right to Serve (was An Empire of NGOs) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2007, at 3:09 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > ooooooooo! just the provocation I need to spend the weekend > watching the > 3x2 ft box of videos R's friend gave him when he left the navy. i > want to > catch all this eroticization of domination and rape. i figger the > tests of > yer average navy hetbuoy, stuck for long periods on a ship or overseas > without sex partners ought to give a flavor of the typical fare, yah? Please report your findings promptly ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 11:54:47 PDT 2007

9984 [lbo-talk] Dworkin -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2007, at 12:48 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Here's my final take on Dworkin, right after she died: > > <http://redstateson.blogspot.com/2005/04/dworkin.html> > Which is really excellent. As is Susie Bright's, which Dennis cites. <http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2005/04/ andrea_dworkin_.html> I don't think anyone could deny she was onto something, as Lenin's Tomb said. But, as Susie points out, she was hostile to the women who'd read her and ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 10:17:22 PDT 2007

9985 [lbo-talk] "Suck Cock to Beat the Draft" vs. Equal Right to Serve (was An Empire of NGOs) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > On 10/12/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> >> Yeah, that's the standard MacDworkinite line, > > > Well, I don't know, the commonplace hostility to Dworkin makes me > think she > was on to something important. She was a very good writer - and some of her prose has an almost pornographic intensity. When she's describing what she hates, it seems like she's excited by part of it. By far the bes ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 10:09:13 PDT 2007

9986 [lbo-talk] estrogen makes you a better trader -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cnbc.com/id/21224443> Details Emerge in SAC Capital Sex Harassment Case Topics:Lawsuits | Banking Sectors:Financial Services | Banks By Charles Gasparino | 10 Oct 2007 | 02:45 PM ET Sexual harassment cases are nothing new on Wall Street, but CNBC has uncovered new details of one of the most salacious cases to hit a big trading house in a long time. The case involves a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a Andrew Z. Tong, a former junior trader at SAC Capital, the powerful Gre ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 09:06:56 PDT 2007

9987 [lbo-talk] Blown Woofer in NYC -- rank: 1000

[My friend Tom Gogola's band is playing tomorrow night at the Mercury Lounge, Houston & Ave A, NYC, 8:30. Tom is multiply great.] Dateline: Rock! On October 13, 2007, Rock and Roll History will be made as Veteran Journalist and Itinerant Guitar Hero Tom Gogola brings his punk- skronk band Blown Woofer to a triumphal moment of Abject Rock Godness at the legendary Mercury Lounge in New York City! This Saturday night show kicks off with a fearsome set from New Haven's Electric Bucket at 7:3 ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 08:48:18 PDT 2007

9988 [lbo-talk] the death penalty: Americans luv it -- rank: 1000

<http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=29014> October 12, 2007 Sixty-nine Percent of Americans Support Death Penalty Majority say death penalty is applied fairly by Frank Newport GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's annual October Gallup Poll Social Series update on Americans' attitudes toward crime shows no diminution in Americans' strong support for the death penalty in cases of murder. The Oct. 4-7 poll indicates that 69% of Americans respond "yes" when asked this ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 08:45:51 PDT 2007

9989 [lbo-talk] "Suck Cock to Beat the Draft" vs. Equal Right to Serve (was An Empire of NGOs) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > Of course, if you consider it in light of what it does - which is > usually to > eroticise domination up to and including violent rape Yeah, that's the standard MacDworkinite line, and it's repeated in a really shitty new book by Robert Jensen, just published by South End, though it reads like it was just exhumed from a time capsule. But to make that case you have to eliminate lots of genres from consideration, which Jensen does qu ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 08:39:18 PDT 2007

9990 [lbo-talk] Ann Coulter: washed up? -- rank: 1000

So what's the betting? Is Ann Coulter now washed up for having dis'd the Jews? Or will she get away with this one too?

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 07:36:11 PDT 2007