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571 [lbo-talk] Collective idiocy.... -- rank: 234

I think that what's more interesting than all the speculation about why this happened is the responses to what happened. One of the reason why Freud was interested in the edge cases was that he said that the people he studied simply exhibited, in more obvious ways, the very same ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Tue Dec 18 15:03:53 PST 2012

572 [lbo-talk] Collective idiocy.... -- rank: 234

I will beg one last post to both clarify and largely yield the floor. I admit that some of my thinking here on guns has been largely colored by a very emotional response. I am a recent father of one 2.5 year old boy and we have another child due ...

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Author:	Sean Andrews
Date:	Mon Dec 17 14:22:50 PST 2012

573 [lbo-talk] Collective idiocy.... -- rank: 234

... the recent swath of sociopathic >characters on TV programs, including Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Dexter, Weeds, >Mad Men, House, and many more ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Mon Dec 17 13:37:08 PST 2012

574 [lbo-talk] Collective idiocy.... -- rank: 234

Sean Andrews writes: > It is worth noting - as I did to colleagues who decided the > China reference was some sort of counterfactual to the gun > problem - that the guy in China was far less efficient: he > didn't end up killing anyone. Lanza on the other hand... Maybe I picked the ...

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Author:	Jordan Hayes
Date:	Mon Dec 17 13:20:15 PST 2012

575 [lbo-talk] Collective idiocy.... -- rank: 234

I'm overposted as of this one, so I guess I'll have to leave any future responses to others. It is worth noting - as I did to colleagues who decided the China reference was some sort of counterfactual to the gun problem - that the guy in China was far less ...

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Author:	Sean Andrews
Date:	Mon Dec 17 12:37:42 PST 2012

576 [lbo-talk] 9/11 At Ten -- rank: 234

... t it? I remember when I used to think The Sopranos was a brilliant satire of post-Fordist North American capitalism ...

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Author:	Angelus Novus
Date:	Wed Sep 7 12:08:26 PDT 2011

577 [lbo-talk] biggest international cash airlift/largest theft of funds -- rank: 234

You'd be coming in with cash, right? Yeah. (Sopranos Whitecaps episode) http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Mon Jun 13 01:21:09 PDT 2011

578 [lbo-talk] blog post: a nation in decline, part 2: signs of distress -- rank: 234

... uk> wrote: > US-based innovations? > > TV: Mad Men, the Wire, Sopranos > > Film: Charlie Kaufman, Tim Burton, Kathryn Bigelow, Todd Solondz > > Literature ...

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Author:	Bhaskar Sunkara
Date:	Sun Sep 5 17:12:59 PDT 2010

579 [lbo-talk] blog post: a nation in decline, part 2: signs of distress -- rank: 234

James Heartfield wrote: > TV: Mad Men, the Wire, Sopranos Absolutely. To which I would add: cartoonists: Robert Crumb, Daniel ...

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Author:	Angelus Novus
Date:	Sun Sep 5 14:35:15 PDT 2010

580 [lbo-talk] blog post: a nation in decline, part 2: signs of distress -- rank: 234

US-based innovations? TV: Mad Men, the Wire, Sopranos Film: Charlie Kaufman, Tim Burton, Kathryn Bigelow, Todd Solondz Literature ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Sep 5 14:01:22 PDT 2010

581 [lbo-talk] On Not Owning a Television (was Re: Saturday) -- rank: 234

Ooooooo, another can of worms... Yeah, I would be SO happy watching "live" sports on DVD... but, then again I guess, appreciation of any kind of modern sport is SO bourgeois, I now intend to hate myself. On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Angelus Novus < fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo ...

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Author:	Alan Rudy
Date:	Sun Oct 31 08:10:32 PDT 2010

582 [lbo-talk] On Not Owning a Television (was Re: Saturday) -- rank: 234

... the form of serial cliff hanger for series like the Sopranos clouded peoples' judgement at the time in terms of being ...

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Author:	Angelus Novus
Date:	Sun Oct 31 07:52:30 PDT 2010

583 [lbo-talk] Black Panther Coloring Book -- rank: 234

... 11/3/2010, Wojtek S wrote: >My take on The Sopranos? I have not seen a single episode for a very ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Wed Nov 3 10:47:10 PDT 2010

584 [lbo-talk] the Kultur Krisis -- rank: 234

... to look > today would probably be TV, things like The Sopranos or The Wire. > Nowadays maybe Mad Men, which is doing ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Mar 19 07:03:12 PDT 2010

585 [lbo-talk] the Kultur Krisis -- rank: 234

... to look today would probably be TV, things like The Sopranos or The Wire. Nowadays maybe Mad Men, which is doing ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Thu Mar 18 19:50:29 PDT 2010