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12346 Salt of the Earth (was Re: On toilets) -- rank: 46

Pat Bond wrote: >Here are some Jo'burg contributions to your witty dialogue: > >* at one level, the debate over how many litres to flush boils down to >the issue of "skid marks"--i.e., whether low-income folk mind a dirty >bowl because they're only getting 6 litres, instead of ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Sep 23 04:33:39 PDT 2000

12347 [fla-left] [news] Study: States Without Death Penalty Have Lower Homicide Rates (fwd) -- rank: 46

forwarded by Michael Hoover > Published on Friday, September 22, 2000 in the San Francisco Chronicle > > States Without Death Penalty Have Lower Homicide Rates > > by Raymond Bonner, Ford Fessenden, New York Times > > The dozen states that have chosen not to enact the death penalty since > the Supreme Court ruled in 1976 that ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Sat Sep 23 03:58:58 PDT 2000

12348 [fla-left] Reauthorization of Violence Against Women Act by Sept. 30! (fwd) -- rank: 46

... and local programs to combat violence against women, including > special police units focused on sex crimes. The reauthorization bill would > continue ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Sat Sep 23 03:51:53 PDT 2000

12349 The Soviet Toilet & Nostalgia (was Re: retheorizing the toilet) -- rank: 46

Speaking of the semiotics of toilets, Marcel Duchamp first signed a urinal & entitled it "The Fountain" in 1917 -- the year of the Russian Revolution. In the early twentieth century, the political & artistic vanguards were sometimes one and the same (though not all avant-garde artists were on the Left & some later ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Sep 21 19:32:17 PDT 2000

12350 Kosovan View of Negotiations, Circa last fall -- rank: 46

Max, this is not an analysis of Rambouillet but of the October agreement with Holbrooke. This is significant because that agreement didn't bring in the KLA. Which baffles me: how do you resolve an armed insurgency by simply making the government promise to stop the repression? As soon as the ...

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Author:	Seth Ackerman
Date:	Wed Apr 21 17:19:30 PDT 1999

12351 Kosovan View of Negotiations, Circa last fall -- rank: 46

I haven't read the Rambouillet agreement, but in light of discussion of it some might like to get the view of Kosovans on negotiations last fall, a sample of which is below. I can't speak for the veracity of all the statements in this piece, but a consideration of ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Wed Apr 21 19:40:26 PDT 1999

12352 [lbo-talk] 35-cent ice cream and anarchist theory -- rank: 46

Here's something from J.G. Ballard's daughter that she wrote after his death. I think this is a fine example of modern parenting: From The Sunday Times April 26, 2009 My dad, the perfect mum When my father wrote his autobiography two years ago, he dedicated it to me ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Fri May 1 11:49:21 PDT 2009

12353 [lbo-talk] Fascists thugs support each other: Watch woman attack Lester Chambers over Trayvon Martin Tribute -- rank: 46

... Hayward, California, when a 43-year-old woman, identified by police as Dinalynn Andrews Potter, jumped onstage and knocked Chambers down ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Tue Jul 16 15:15:32 PDT 2013

12354 [lbo-talk] satyr play: with a terrible joke, but a serious suggestion (was: Zimmerman not guilty) -- rank: 46

... nothing to do with his duties as a New York Police Department detective. Instead, he was accused in May of looking ...

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Author:	Jordan Hayes
Date:	Tue Jul 16 21:54:08 PDT 2013

12355 [lbo-talk] Review of Ron Aronson's *Living without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided* -- rank: 46

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Fri May 1 19:22:53 PDT 2009

12356 WB: PR offensive continues -- rank: 46

... than holding them at bay at the end of a police truncheon. "The best possible way of looking at this is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 19 09:08:33 PDT 2000

12357 [lbo-talk] Review of Ron Aronson's *Living without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided* -- rank: 46

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Author:	X
Date:	Fri May 1 21:09:31 PDT 2009

12358 [lbo-talk] Review of Ron Aronson's *Living without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided* -- rank: 46

The first funny thing is that the New Atheists are repeating arguments that were fresh 300 years ago when Voltaire and Hume were making them, yet seem to think that they are on the cutting edge of intellectual criticism. The second funny thing is that these people are philosophically illiterate jackasses ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri May 1 22:32:42 PDT 2009

12359 Charles' support for the authorities -- rank: 46

In this characteristic broadside, Charles demands more powers for the very state that is at the moment bombing Yugoslavia (which he rightly condemns). If the American state apparatus is given control over free speech, how will it use this right? To defend working people, and minorities? Or to suppress its own ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Apr 21 11:41:35 PDT 1999

12360 [lbo-talk] US auto workers, occupy the plants -- rank: 46

Thinking about Mike Yates' essay on the UAW, and how extraordinarily depressing it was. Part of the problem of mobilizing any group of working people is their own lack of understanding of what the realities are for them. They see themselves as powerless. The two things Washington and Wall Street fear ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun May 3 21:04:25 PDT 2009