Do you think it would do the world some good if we first boycotted the top 10 Fortune 500 companies, and then started boycotting more of them? The current top 10, with 2007 gross revenues in millions, are: 1. Wal-Mart Stores: $378,799 2. Exxon Mobil: $372,824 3. Chevron: $210,783 4. General Motors: $182,347 5. ConocoPhillips: … More Toward a Post-Growth World
Now I am writing a pre-piece of my new book and trying not to ignite my usual set of literary academic writing reactions, having to do with wishing I had always been doing more of this, and also wishing that when I decided I preferred to move on from it that I had honored my … More Chola soy, y no me compadezcan. Jacques Derrida. Paroles en liberté
There is a semi-serious test available to tell you which of the seven deadly sins are yours. I lack both pride and sloth according to this test. I am medium to low medium on all of the others. Axé.
This is blog action day on poverty. Like Geoffrey Philp, who explains blog action day, I am blogging for Haiti – land of Toussaint L’Ouverture. The Changeseeker has numerous informative posts on Haiti, with excellent video links. This video shows how to make Haitian mud pies. Mud is what many there eat in the absence … More On Mud Cookies in Haiti
ZEFIRO TORNA, Claudio Monteverdi, 9th Book of Madrigals, sung by Ray Bauwens and Richard Conrad. Claudio Monteverdi has to have been born to compose, his very name is so sonorous. I have posted on this song before. Axé.
Introducing Dr. Curmudgeon. I wish I had had his confidence when I was his age. Here’s the story. I’m 35 years old. I’m going into my fourth year of teaching at a small university somewhere in America. I get to discuss big ideas and controversial notions on an almost daily basis. I get to ask … More On Being A Professor
…je vestirai. The state will refund 50% of your solar installation costs up to $25,000, and the Federal tax credit is 30%. I cannot easily gather $25,000 to pay up front to covert my electrical system to a solar one. This in my case might not eliminate all electrical bills, and solar panel technology is … More Ma verte cotte
The principal whiteman of this hour is, of course, the McCain/Palin campaign. Momo has a relevant post, and the Anxious Black Woman has another. Fortunately Christopher Buckley, William F. Buckley’s son, sees beyond the Republican smoke bombs and says this: Obama has in him—I think, despite his sometimes airy-fairy “We are the people we have … More Some New Whitemen
“I’ll kiss you in my dreams.” Every once in a while we have to have a Huddie Ledbetter Memorial Post, and this is one with excellent, heretofore unseen pictures. Leadbelly’s lyrics, as we know, are very nineteenth century. But the world described apparently lived through the 1960s at least, and I know a man from … More Good Nignt Irene
I am channeling my former academic self and it is working. I haven’t had this person so well channeled in years. It is really fun to get this objective. It gives one a great deal of power and speed. Objectivity and power were, of course, not valued in Reeducation, and I lost them by taking … More C’est bien
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