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106 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

Oh dear. Even after watching the video on youtube, I had thought we were dealing with a somewhat green grad student interested in whetting his chops at politics. Much of the attention I paid was in an attempt to give a critique to what I thought was misguided youth. But this ...

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Author:	Sean Andrews
Date:	Sat Apr 10 20:12:44 PDT 2010

107 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

By the way, not to personalize this or anything (though Ian Bone would urge just that), but this photo reminds me of my old Party of the Right colleagues: http://home.speedsite.com/ccutrone/index.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 10 18:16:48 PDT 2010

108 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

On Apr 10, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Christopher Cutrone wrote: > This will be my last post to the list, at least for a while. Indeed, > I was drawn into a place of "sandbox" disputes. Thanks for descending from on high to mix it up with us juveniles. It's been ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 10 18:00:46 PDT 2010

109 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

Very interesting stuff. I am only just dipping into it, looking for ammunition, at the moment, in arguments that mary beard is on the right side<http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2010/04/why-good-practice-can-ruin-good-practice.html#more>, but of course that's just a small ...

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Author:	Jeffrey Fisher
Date:	Sat Apr 10 14:32:06 PDT 2010

110 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

Hey Jeff: There's some great stuff in that volume, no? Diane was TQMed right out of a job in the early 90s... Stuff in that book is so prescient relative to the whole teaching effectiveness and learning assessment stuff going on across public universities these days... so much so that ...

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Author:	Alan Rudy
Date:	Sat Apr 10 14:07:35 PDT 2010

111 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:30 PM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote: > > http://cleandraws.com/2010/04/10/shagalize-button/ ok that was totally worth my dipping into this thread. i've just been reading an essay from Audit Cultures<http://www.amazon.com/Audit-Cultures ...

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Author:	Jeffrey Fisher
Date:	Sat Apr 10 13:49:57 PDT 2010

112 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:30, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote: > At 11:15 PM 4/9/2010, Sean Andrews wrote: >> >> For fucks sake sometimes I wish I >> had a "shag" button on my computer that would generate the relevant >> level of ostentatious befuddlement and ridicule ...

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Author:	Sean Andrews
Date:	Sat Apr 10 12:05:18 PDT 2010

113 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:49, Christopher Cutrone <ccutrone at speedsite.com> wrote: > Dear Sean, et al., > > This will be my last post to the list, at least for a while. Indeed, I was drawn into a place of "sandbox" disputes. we actually never even got to that point ...

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Author:	Sean Andrews
Date:	Sat Apr 10 12:02:43 PDT 2010

114 [lbo-talk] we make the dead left deader (was: Platypus) -- rank: 773

we have a friend who's a totally mad scientist nerd geek kinda guy. he's got this project going for his kids that mi mirado says is inspired by steampunk. poking around, he comes across this: http://zombiehunters.org/. I have appropriated their tagline. we need t-shirts and coffee ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sat Apr 10 11:36:35 PDT 2010

115 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

At 11:15 PM 4/9/2010, Sean Andrews wrote: >For fucks sake sometimes I wish I >had a "shag" button on my computer that would generate the relevant >level of ostentatious befuddlement and ridicule. http://cleandraws.com/2010/04/10/shagalize-button/ >Who. was. doing. this???? Everyone who engaged with ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sat Apr 10 10:30:59 PDT 2010

116 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

>On 4/8/10, Chris Maisano <cgmaisano at yahoo.com> wrote: > > If the US left > > Afghanistan next month, for example, we probably would not see a > progressive > > regime take root there. We'd likely see a reversion to decentralized, > > clan-based rule and warlordism. so? i don't mean to ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sat Apr 10 06:40:21 PDT 2010

117 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

Joseph Catron wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > > Actually, on further thought, I'm not sure I have some "principled" > > opposition to imperialism, in some rigid, a priori sense. It does seem to be > > an empirical fact, however, that every ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Apr 9 20:58:36 PDT 2010

118 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Sean Andrews <cultstud76 at gmail.com> wrote: > Here I'm struck by the similarity between some of the early actions of > the New Left, but also a very distinctive discontinuity.  The > continuity is in the idea of holding some sort of public ...

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Author:	Mike Beggs
Date:	Fri Apr 9 20:18:08 PDT 2010

119 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 18:58, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > But Chris Cutrone is teaching us an important lesson that ought to be heard. teaching who? Who the fuck doesn't understand this in the terms you've suggested here? do you really think we ...

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Author:	Sean Andrews
Date:	Fri Apr 9 20:15:52 PDT 2010

120 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

On Apr 9, 2010, at 7:59 PM, Christopher Cutrone wrote: > I made a polemical critique of Ali that he falsified the situation > in Iraq under the occupation. Saying or even implying that > marketplace and mosque bombings were the work of Black Ops and not > sectarian forces was and remains a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 9 18:37:37 PDT 2010