Thanks to Undine, we have a way for everyone to help with my strike: click on the links to my Blog Supporters! This will help remind my advertisers that I do have readers. I need the revenue because I work at a public university in Bobby Jindal’s state. In gratitude I will post some notes … More Strike Aid!
So I had a conversation about SEX — yes, SEX — with an old friend and I do mean from a very long time ago. He is now a major libertine. As I told him once I got a word in edgewise, he was out of line to be pressing this information upon me. Still, … More On Reeducation and Interrogation/Torture
1. E’s original supposition was that I do not appreciate our great state enough, because I am “a snob from California” [sic] who looks down on Louisiana because it is not moneyed enough for me. I pointed out that I am a state worker, not a tourist, that I have been a state worker here … More Response to E: On Having Three or Four Degrees From UC-Berkeley
That, I do believe, is the title of a Cajun waltz. I, too, departed for Texas and spent three days in an area of which I had until recently had no awareness. There I witnessed and participated in more wonders than I can recount. In one mode I was Professor Zero, Girl Detective, walking into … More Je Suis Partie au Texas
The cardinal rules of Reeducation, as we know, were that one could not trust one’s sense of the reality of any situation — or the motivations of any people, or one’s own. It was shocking because I would have made the opposite recommendation: face the reality of whatever situation you have and then work with … More On Brazil and Why I Ultimately Liked It
As seen at Clio Bluestocking, The Moscow Rules: 1. Assume nothing 2. Never go against your gut 3. Everyone is potentially under opposition control 4. Don’t look back; you are never completely alone 5. Go with the flow, blend in 6. Vary your pattern and stay within your cover 7. Lull them into a sense … More The Moscow Rules
I dedicate this May Day to the workers of course, to Janequin, to Flora, and to children. It is the weekend, and I am singing that our camping trip is tomorrow. I am so excited, I can hardly wait! Axé.
In Reeducation one was not supposed to have personal power. I have a lot of it and the only way to have less is to self destruct in some manner, so I tried. I did not understand then that a lot of people do not have personal power and want power over other people instead. … More Sur le pouvoir
I Yesterday was John Muir’s birthday. It was very beautiful and in fact peaceful, but I had written this post days earlier. It said that in order to achieve the peaceful state corresponding to John Muir I would have to articulate a list of the usual trades and traits of people I find exhausting — … More John Muir
I am now starting to call Reeducation R. The R Bar on Royal Street in New Orleans — see their very own descriptions of the rooms they rent — is a true alkie bar with a lovely pressed tin roof. Since Reeducation seems to have been an addictive substance, I find it fitting to call … More Important Reeducated Misinformation
coldhearted scientist وداد 