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646 [lbo-talk] Joss Whedon, union militant -- rank: 234

... years. As > has been pointed out here, much of the Sopranos can be read as a > critique of capitalism. Yes, among ...

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Author:	Dennis Perrin
Date:	Tue Dec 11 12:25:33 PST 2007

647 [lbo-talk] Joss Whedon, union militant -- rank: 234

... years. As has been pointed out here, much of the Sopranos can be read as a critique of capitalism.

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Tue Dec 11 11:50:59 PST 2007

648 [lbo-talk] Harry Potter, Metritocracy, and Reward -- rank: 234

You would say that, Carl. Just back from Italy. (Sigh.) Dante is almost always depicted has wearing a whole head full of laurels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri Way too much foliage. Me, I think we already have too much the problem of Ecclesiastes: Ecclesiastes 9:11: “Again I ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed Aug 22 22:28:45 PDT 2007

649 [lbo-talk] more on house prices -- rank: 234

On 22 Aug, 2007, at 9:43 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > > Doug and Joanna each live in rent-controlled apartments and love it. > Great for them! I would encourage everyone to find ways to live in > one > of the few places in the US that have rent-control (hey, no one ...

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Author:	ravi
Date:	Wed Aug 22 10:01:03 PDT 2007

650 [lbo-talk] what people talk about while avoiding work -- rank: 234

That's like what everyone's grandma says, "Don't bring up religion and politics in mixed company." Bringing up divisive issues like the war in Iraq, etc., is a sure way to get people to hate you. But.. they're not divisive, right? Everyone hates the Iraq War, Bush, etc ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Thu Aug 9 20:06:57 PDT 2007

651 [lbo-talk] more Taibbi on Yeltsin -- rank: 234

Well, not exactly. What Americans missed during Yeltsin's presidency -- and they missed it because American reporters defiantly refused to report the truth of the matter -- was that under Boris Yeltsin the Russian state itself became little more than a cash factory for gangland interests. This was corruption on the larger ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 27 21:36:19 PDT 2007

652 [lbo-talk] Maestro will pass baton -- rank: 234

I made a passing reference to this earlier today and thought I'd post the story because it seems interesting in light of last week's thread on classical music: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-phil8apr08,1,7565760.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage >Another big change for ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Mon Apr 9 14:23:43 PDT 2007

653 [lbo-talk] The God Solution -- rank: 234

On Oct 26, 2006, at 9:51 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Speaking of the 9th, what about that weird Turkish march that >> interrupts the Ode to Joy? Zizek claims it's an ironic self- >> deconstruction of the text's hymn to universal brotherhood ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 29 18:14:39 PST 2006

654 [lbo-talk] Re: Islamophobia -- rank: 234

... and Godard, American Free Jazz and European Free Improvisation, The Sopranos and the Simpsons, Adorno/Marx/Benjamin, Pynchon and DeLillo, and ...

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Author:	Angelus Novus
Date:	Wed Nov 29 13:20:06 PST 2006

655 [lbo-talk] Re: Thesis, antithesis, thesis! ... -- rank: 234

... yea. I forgot about the Simpsons and Stewart and Colbert. > > Sopranos was great too, but I didn't think cable counted ...

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Author:	Andy F
Date:	Thu Nov 16 03:58:44 PST 2006

656 [lbo-talk] Thesis, antithesis, thesis! ... -- rank: 234

... still showing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Books The Sopranos is quite good, personally I am also quite fond of ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Wed Nov 15 22:39:19 PST 2006

657 [lbo-talk] Re: Thesis, antithesis, thesis! ... -- rank: 234

... crop of hbo dramas have been mostly very good (Rome, Sopranos) and at times of singular brilliance (the wire and deadwood ...

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Author:	Jim Straub
Date:	Wed Nov 15 21:36:54 PST 2006

658 [lbo-talk] choices [was: trash talking the lumpenproletariat] -- rank: 234

... thing. "We're in a fucking stagmire." --Little Carmine, 'The Sopranos' http://blog.pulpculture.org

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Author:	bitch
Date:	Wed Nov 15 11:46:30 PST 2006

659 [lbo-talk] Ellen Willis dies -- rank: 234

... the dead burying the dead Here's some from the Sopranos "What a wonderful woman..she gave me my first handjob ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Fri Nov 10 13:03:34 PST 2006

660 [lbo-talk] Ellen Willis: N Y Times obit -- rank: 234

N Y Times November 10, 2006 Ellen Willis, 64, Journalist and Feminist, Dies By MARGALIT FOX Ellen Willis, the noted journalist, feminist and cultural critic, whose work ranged seamlessly through politics and religion, sex, film and rock 'n' roll, died yesterday at her home in Queens. She was 64. The cause ...

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Author:	Jesse Lemisch
Date:	Fri Nov 10 05:24:25 PST 2006