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9991 [lbo-talk] Can Politics Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:54 AM, Charles Turner wrote: > Dabashi may indeed be engaging in some liberal conceit, but I don't > understand why the situation has to be reduced to the binary of a > Prisoner's Dilemma? Because some people are imprisoned by imperial thinking, even if they believe otherwise? Doug

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9992 [lbo-talk] Pelosi: only slightly more popular than Bush -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1007/6309.html> Dems barely beat Bush's dismal ratings By: David Mark Oct 11, 2007 06:57 PM EST President Bush's approval ratings continue to hover just above Richard Nixon's on the eve of his resignation amid the Watergate scandal, but Democratic congressional leaders do not fare much better in public esteem, according to a new Harris Interactive poll. Only 27 percent of U.S. adults view Bush's job performance positively, while 72 percent give him ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 07:19:13 PDT 2007

9993 [lbo-talk] public opinion on climate -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/2007/10/al-gores-campai.html> The Numbers A Run at the Latest Data from ABC's Poobah of Polling, Gary Langer Al Gore's Campaign: Turning up the Heat October 12, 2007 9:46 AM For a guy committed to combating climate change, Al Gore's plans for his prizewinnings make good sense. Gore this morning said he'll donate his share of the Nobel Peace Prize to an outfit "devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 07:13:22 PDT 2007

9994 [lbo-talk] Doris Lessing on her Nobel -- rank: 1000

On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Russell Grinker wrote: > Has anyone read any of her more recent > stuff (from about 1979 on) which I found quite unreadable and obscure? Harold Bloom agrees: <http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071011/ap_on_en_ot/nobel_literature> However, American literary critic Harold Bloom called the academy's decision "pure political correctness." "Although Ms. Lessing at the beginning of her writing career had a few admirable qualities, I find her work fo ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 07:08:24 PDT 2007

9995 [lbo-talk] Eco: ugly is lots more interesting -- rank: 1000

Ugliness is more fun than beauty, author Eco says Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:41pm EDT By Sylvia Westall FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Warty noses, saggy skin and meaty thighs can be beautiful and fascinating, according to Italian writer and academic Umberto Eco, who praised the virtues of quirky bodies at the Frankfurt Book Fair on Thursday. Eco, presenting his new book "On Ugliness", said ugly bodies are more interesting than beautiful ones because ugliness knows no bounds. "We discovered ho ...

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9996 [lbo-talk] income gap at record high -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - October 12, 2007 Income-Inequality Gap Widens Boom in Financial Markets Parallels Rise in Share For Wealthiest Americans By GREG IP The richest Americans' share of national income has hit a postwar record, surpassing the highs reached in the 1990s bull market, and underlining the divergence of economic fortunes blamed for fueling anxiety among American workers. The wealthiest 1% of Americans earned 21.2% of all income in 2005, according to new data from the Internal Rev ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 07:00:17 PDT 2007

9997 [lbo-talk] Hillary: kinda funny -- rank: 1000

[also from The Note] When you get to be our age, it's kind of nice to have all these men obsessed with you. I guess I could put that spin on it." -- Clinton, on MSNBC, on the attacks she weathered at this week's Republican debate.

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 06:56:38 PDT 2007

9998 [lbo-talk] Dick Armey: it's Hillary -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] Add Dick Armey to the list of Republicans who are convinced 2008 is Hillary's year. "I don't see any way that Hillary Clinton won't be president," the former House majority leader, R-Texas, tells Anjeanette Damon of the Reno Gazette-Journal. "She is more well- organized, she is more intelligent. . . I don't admire her. But I don't discount her ability. She is ruthless and she is tough."

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 06:54:18 PDT 2007

9999 [lbo-talk] Enquirer: part-owned by a Clintonite -- rank: 1000

[The Clinton connection is interesting but it'd probably hurt her if Edwards was out of the race because that'd make Obama the not-Clinton.] <http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1007/ The_Clintonite_who_owns_National_Enquirer.html> The Clintonite who owns National Enquirer The political world has been holding its nose for the last twenty- four hours while peering at the weekly tabloid National Enquirer, which published a story yesterday alleging that presidential candidate John Edwar ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 06:41:45 PDT 2007

10000 [lbo-talk] Edwards' affair: the sequence -- rank: 1000

[Ambinder is an alum of The Note] <http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/10/ john_edwards_entrapped.php> John Edwards, Entrapped 1. Tabloid prints trash story about presidential candidate, deep inside, not even teased off the cover 2. Elite media pretends to ignore trash story but secretly makes inquiries 3. Local TV news station asks candidate about trash story 4. Later, Elite media's editors tell field reporters it's ok to ask candidate about trash story because he's alrea ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 12 06:36:13 PDT 2007

10001 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Ahmadinejad & Bollinger -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2007, at 10:21 PM, ravi wrote: > Yes, yes, I think you are pretty much right here. This is what I have > been sort of [trying] to say, I think... that its all fine, the whole > liberal thing -- unlike you, I even think its valuable -- but not at > the cost of forgetting the reality, especially of others. So you read Dabashi's piece, or has the bad net connection made that impossible? Just commenting on a comment on a pull-quote? Doug

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10002 [lbo-talk] "Suck Cock to Beat the Draft" vs. Equal Right to Serve (was An Empire of NGOs) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2007, at 9:48 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > If you really enjoy these fantasies, of course the man to read is the > Marquis de Sade. He made the XXX version of this into high art 2 > centuries ago. (He might even deserve a fourth X. He had fantasies > we'd still be ashamed to film.) I've read a fair amount of Sade. There's a lot of tedium mixed in with the hot stuff.

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Date:	Thu Oct 11 18:58:20 PDT 2007

10003 [lbo-talk] Doris Lessing on her Nobel -- rank: 1000

[the video clip is amazing] <http://jezebel.com/gossip/clips/its-official-doris-lessing-really-is- our-fave-bitch-of-the-day-309980.php> Clips It's Official: Doris Lessing Really Is Our Fave Bitch Of The Day Today, the press greeted Golden Notebook author Doris Lessing as she arrived at her home in a taxi. In the clip above, they tell her she was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, and her response is, "Oh Christ. I couldn't care less." She's the saltiest! What's not seen ...

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10004 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Ahmadinejad & Bollinger -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Pathetic. I hate this moral-equivalence stuff -- it's > so liberal, so above-it-all. Did you get past the headnote? What kind of liberal denounces Bollinger as the racist president of an imperialist university? Dabashi: > When Bollinger finished with his preamble and turned his attention > directly to Ahmadinejad, we begin to witness the precise manner in > which the legitimate criticism of the Islamic Republic invariably and &g ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 11 18:22:12 PDT 2007

10005 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Ahmadinejad & Bollinger -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Pathetic. I hate this moral-equivalence stuff -- it's > so liberal, so above-it-all. > Maybe Yoshie's whole mission on this list can > be summed up as: "Bollinger vs Ahmadinejad -- take > your pick. No, don't evade. You have to choose. > This is actually existing reality, with a genuine > social basis, not some contrivance of legislation > or institutional bylaws. You really have to take > your pick." That's ...

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