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196 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1603, Issue 6 (Politics in the DP) -- rank: 858

On Jun 15, 2011, at 10:42 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > By an odd coincidence, I just spoke on the phone > with an old acquaintance of mine, guy I haven't > heard from in quite some time, who's a bit of a > political insider in NYC. He told me, for ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 19:57:52 PDT 2011

197 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1603, Issue 6 (Politics in the DP) -- rank: 858

On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:19:36 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > On Jun 15, 2011, at 9:50 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > > > What exactly was so "liberal" about AW, by the way? > > Single-payer. I hadn't known. How hard did he push for it? By ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 19:42:05 PDT 2011

198 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1603, Issue 6 (Politics in the DP) -- rank: 858

On Jun 15, 2011, at 9:50 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > What exactly was so "liberal" about AW, by the way? Single-payer.

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 19:19:36 PDT 2011

199 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1603, Issue 6 (Politics in the DP) -- rank: 858

On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:25:01 -0500 Anthony Kennerson <anthonyk6319 at gmail.com> wrote: > pro-Zionist > liberals like Anthony Weiner What exactly was so "liberal" about AW, by the way? I haven't followed his career that closely, but the last thing I heard about him, before his Johnson ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 15 18:50:51 PDT 2011

200 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1603, Issue 6 (Politics in the DP) -- rank: 858

Responding to Bhaskar Sunkara: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> > To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org > Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:54:28 -0400 > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Politics vs the DP > This is utter bullshit. There seems to be some obfuscation about what the ...

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201 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1599, Issue 1 (Re: The "Ugly Cunt" Slur) -- rank: 858

On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:43:39 +0000 (UTC) 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Sorry...but being the sex-plus lefty lurker around here, I gotta rebuke > Michael's remark. "Rebuke"? What are you, my governess? Of all the damned impudence. As a matter of fact, it was Joanna's ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 11 15:15:37 PDT 2011

202 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1599, Issue 1 (Re: The "Ugly Cunt" Slur) -- rank: 858

----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Kennerson" <anthonyk6319 at gmail.com> Sorry...but being the sex-plus lefty lurker around here, I gotta rebuke Michael's remark. Calista Gingrich may be pretty damn ugly....but don't blame women's cunts for that. Any part of a woman's body that brings ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 11 11:43:39 PDT 2011

203 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 18, Issue 117 -- rank: 858

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Luke Weiger wrote: > I might've been a bit too cryptic here. Anyway, Miles, your argument above > is a manifestation of Marxism in its most vulgar and least plausible form > (what Dennett would call "greedy reductionism"). Chuck recently wrote in > response to Carrol, "Besides the life ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 13 19:21:08 PDT 2005

204 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 18, Issue 117 -- rank: 858

Miles wrote: > >I have to side with ol' Whiskers on this one: religion is the opiate of > >the masses. Theological debate is nothing more than a > >symptom of and a distraction from the sensual-practical problems that > >plague workers in a capitalist society. --If all the energy people have > >devoted to ...

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Author:	Luke Weiger
Date:	Mon Jun 13 09:53:58 PDT 2005

205 [lbo-talk] Digestimundo vavavoom(Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 18, Issue 17) -- rank: 858

On 6/4/05, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote: > That's exactly what makes my skin crawl about the social "sciences," in > whose company I spent many unhappy moments in college. I think using the > model of science for studying humanity has had a pernicious effect on > people's ...

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206 [lbo-talk] Digestimundo vavavoom(Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 18, Issue 17) -- rank: 858

>From: snitsnat <snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com> > >... I think it's funny when social scientists make claims about the 'base' >habits of the majority of the population and then claim to have somehow >escaped those baser desires themselves ... That's exactly what makes my skin crawl about the social "sciences ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 4 21:08:45 PDT 2005

207 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 18, Issue 35 -- rank: 858

Turbulo at aol.com wrote: > Finally, I think leftists should stop trying to defend the welfare state on > the basis that it makes capitalism work better. It usually doesn't. Depends on what programs are considered part of the "welfare state." Universal education could be considered part of the welfare state ...

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Author:	Luke Weiger
Date:	Sat Jun 4 11:52:31 PDT 2005

208 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 18, Issue 17 -- rank: 858

> There are no "accidents" in the process of evolution. The reason fingers > where developed - over time, of course - was because of some factor in the > species environment; otherwise it would not have stood the test of time. > This includes the number of fingers on the hand... watch someone with a ...

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209 [lbo-talk] Digestimundo vavavoom(Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 18, Issue 17) -- rank: 858

:) yeah, like the unique men who don't marry their wives for their boobs, but the emajority of the human male population does. heh. heh. Sorry, I'm not picking on you, but I think it's funny when social scientists make claims about the 'base' habits of the majority ...

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210 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 18, Issue 17 -- rank: 858

http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20050530/011441.html Where Luke lazily just pressed the reply button to the thread with the subject line, "Why think sociobiologically (at least sometimes)." On 6/3/05, Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote: > > >There are no "accidents" in ...

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