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121 [lbo-talk] Marta Russell, RIP -- rank: 1000

I recently learned that list alum Marta Russell, the disability rights activist, died sometime in the last week or so. That's all I know, but she would have been 62 today. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 20 07:24:17 PST 2013

122 [lbo-talk] with a whimper, not a bang -- rank: 1000

On Dec 17, 2013, at 8:28 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > "An anarchist is a neoliberal without money." Did you coin that?

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Date:	Tue Dec 17 05:45:25 PST 2013

123 [lbo-talk] Bloch quote on FB -- rank: 1000

On Dec 9, 2013, at 9:02 AM, Andy <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote: > Lemme try something here. > > Regarding Doug's recent post: > > https://www.facebook.com/doug.henwood/posts/10151931955411475 > > I kind of thought foodie meant gourmand instead of health food enthusiast. > But that aside, how safe is the assumption that the latter is peculiar to > people with money? "Foodie" wasn't my word - it was Remeike Forbes's. I wouldn't use it - I don't like the wo ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 9 06:55:41 PST 2013

124 [lbo-talk] with a whimper, not a bang -- rank: 1000

On Dec 9, 2013, at 9:21 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > No present or past > teacher of Freshman Comp can tolerate the phrase "these days." Nico's version of the Jackson Browne song is pretty damn great though.

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Date:	Mon Dec 9 06:52:05 PST 2013

125 [lbo-talk] Pearl Harbor attack vs. Doug Henwood's birth -- rank: 1000

> Alex Cockburn used to say that the two greatest disasters that befell U.S. power in the twentieth century were the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Chomsky's birthday, both on December 7. Didn't he know about your birthday, Doug? Evidently not. But both those events greatly outclass me.

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Date:	Sat Dec 7 11:35:29 PST 2013

126 [lbo-talk] Pearl Harbor attack vs. Doug Henwood's birth -- rank: 1000

Thanks. Also the birth of Noam Chomsky, Ellen Burstyn, Willa Cather, and Tom Waits!

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Date:	Sat Dec 7 10:37:48 PST 2013

127 [lbo-talk] with a whimper, not a bang -- rank: 1000

On Dec 7, 2013, at 8:11 AM, John Gulick <john_gulick at hotmail.com> wrote: > apparently... Would you prefer a bang? Or maybe a page lifted from the life of Lazarus?

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Date:	Sat Dec 7 10:34:07 PST 2013

128 [lbo-talk] The Pierre Omidyar Trojan horse -- rank: 1000

On Dec 1, 2013, at 6:16 PM, Eleutherios <eleutherios.rizooto at gmail.com> wrote: > For a longer history and more analysis, this blog > http://ohtarzie.wordpress.com/ Oh yes, Park Slope's leading anarchist!

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Date:	Sun Dec 1 17:52:17 PST 2013

129 [lbo-talk] Most Americans, including John Kerry, continue to believe Kennedy was victim of a conspiracy -- rank: 1000

On Nov 21, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: > Not to be a spoilsport or anything, but why does anybody > *care* who killed Kennedy? Sport. He was a total scumbag, I agree.

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Date:	Thu Nov 21 17:20:23 PST 2013

130 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk] Is Paul Krugman cribbing from Monthly Review? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 18, 2013, at 9:47 PM, "JOANNA A." <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > Wasn't the high capital spending you speak of due to the computerization of everything? not in the mid-70s or mid-80s

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Date:	Mon Nov 18 19:10:01 PST 2013

131 [lbo-talk] Is Paul Krugman cribbing from Monthly Review? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 18, 2013, at 5:15 PM, Julio Huato <juliohuato at gmail.com> wrote: > No, no. It is, instead, about rationalizing, supplying excuses to > leave this political establishment here and now off the hook. It is > about naturalizing (turning into a natural juggernaut) a *social*, > human-made and humanly-resolvable crisis, a crisis in the social > relations of production --- because this is how actual people on the > street are increasingly perceiving it. Ask around an ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 18 14:25:56 PST 2013

132 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk] Is Paul Krugman cribbing from Monthly Review? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 18, 2013, at 11:23 AM, michael yates <mikedjyates at msn.com> wrote: > The January 2014 Notes From the Editors in Monthly Review takes up the Krugman/Summers acceptance of the notion of secular stagnation. But it notes that the two economists ignore the problem of insufficient capital spending and its connection to the growth of oligopolistic markets, something that Hansen, Kalecki, Steindl, Baran, and Sweezy made more central to their analyses. Capital spending was high in the m ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 18 08:37:42 PST 2013

133 [lbo-talk] Bruce Bartlett: " I think it is only a matter of time before the Tea Party morphs into unapologetic fascism" -- rank: 1000

On Nov 17, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Andy <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I note Doug rarely contributes to the list anymore, and I have the >> impression he'd just as soon let it expire quietly. Pity. >> > > He posts daily to his FB account with the sort of material he used to share > here, but the format isn't friendly to longer posts and isn't easily > searchable. B ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 17 09:42:55 PST 2013

134 [lbo-talk] urinals and physicists... -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2013, at 11:53 AM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > Given the perponderance of males on this list, I thought this might be interesting... > > http://phys.org/news/2013-11-university-physicists-urine-splash-back-tactics.html I love the insect decals they have in the urinals at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam to encourage men to target that spot for the least splashback.

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Date:	Fri Nov 8 09:14:26 PST 2013

135 [lbo-talk] Got book reviewers? bloggers? -- rank: 1000

Carrol, these characters work as a team. You've got your crazies like McCarthy (and his predecessors - he wasn't the only right-wing anticommunist in American history) and then the Dems can seems like sane, reasonable alternatives to them.

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Date:	Fri Nov 1 17:51:46 PDT 2013