Allons chanter
13/10/2007
Here, in French and in English, are the lyrics to Parlez-nous à boire, for it is the weekend and we must sing. Speak to us of drinking, not of marriage. Axé.
Month: October 2007
The Coming Storm
12/10/2007
Columbus Day, 2007 1. A pastor has come forward to blow the whistle on a nationwide FEMA program which is training pastors and other religious representatives to become secret police enforcers who teach their congregations to “obey the government” in preparation for a declaration of martial law, property and firearm seizures, and forced relocation. 2. … More The Coming Storm
Nightmare
12/10/2007
I I dreamed last night that I was drowning a baby in a rushing gutter. I was very sorry to do it but I had been given my instructions – the baby or myself – and I had made my choice. It was a compliant, yet resilient baby. It understood it was to be drowned … More Nightmare
Deep Rivers
11/10/2007
People often complain about this novel that they do not understand it because the characters suffer and express pain. Then the music rises and the mountains come into view; they feel exalted and feel the world to be pure and beautiful. The deep rivers to which the title alludes represent and lead toward the non-Western, … More Deep Rivers
Parlez-nous à boire
11/10/2007
I I am glad about these things and glad I am going away this weekend to write because teaching is so painful – for reasons Jennifer Cascadia has discussed in relation to her high school teaching experience in several comments threads on this blog. Today I spent over an hour explaining to a colleague at … More Parlez-nous à boire
Jack Kerouac
11/10/2007
Today we are reading about Jack Kerouac, and seeing him read on television in 1959. Our host is Comment, Critique and Criticism. Winter is upon us. I know because I have seen a man a felt hat. Straw hats are for summer. I put up the neighbors’ canning pears in wine. I picked key limes … More Jack Kerouac
On Sexual Harassment
10/10/2007
I So at lunch it was revealed that people did not know what sexual harassment was – they thought, as I once did, that it involved being approached baldly out of the blue, and threatened with reprisals if one did not comply, or the sort of clearly unwelcome innuendo Clarence Thomas advanced upon Anita Hill. … More On Sexual Harassment
Eight AND A HALF Mo’ Thangs
09/10/2007
I was tagged yet again for the “eight random facts about yourself” meme and I am of course flattered and honored – although I will also admit that if I get tagged yet again, I will be tempted to fight back by revealing things some people would probably prefer I did not. I have done … More Eight AND A HALF Mo’ Thangs
Torture in American Prisons
08/10/2007
Via Automatic Preference. Axé.
On Reeducation: Other Researchers Speak
08/10/2007
Psychofraud Quotation #1: CBT relies on a patient buying the therapist’s perspective of the patient. Good psychotherapy exists where the opposite happens: psychotherapists are trained to understand the patient’s perspective. In CBT the patient must therefore be ‘socialised’ [made to believe in and comply with] the CBT model in order for it to have any … More On Reeducation: Other Researchers Speak
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