“Ask this question — are the credit markets really about to seize up? “If they are then lots of business owners should be eager to tell how their bank is calling their 90-day revolving loans, rejecting new loans and demanding more cash on deposit. I called businessmen I know yesterday and not one of them … More Oppose the Bailout
This is the first day of Fall, the best season. I always liked Fall but in Louisiana it is truly stellar because there is a day in early Fall when the humidity leaves the air. This lowers the heat index greatly and it becomes possible to go outdoors. The month of October is as cool … More World Traffic Survey, and AIDESEP
IN WHICH A YANKEE IMPERIALIST IS UNABLE TO RESIST THE CHARMS OF BARACK OBAMA. This post, which had taken a certain amount of work and thought, got too baroque. I was trying therefore to break it into three posts. In the process of that I destroyed it, and it is the weekend, and there are … More Go Tell Mama, I’m for Obama
I like Houston. It has personality. In New Orleans I am of course a fan of WWOZ – W-Wizard of Oz. But Houston is a city and New Orleans is a town, and New Orleans is an old and sophisticated town, but Houston is a city, and it is truly urban despite the suburbs with … More kpft 90.1 fm HOUSTON
I am not interested in the discussion of whether Sarah Palin is good for women or not – that is ridiculous, of course she isn’t. If people claim to vote for McCain so as to vote for a woman, I will only think they are trying to hide their closet Republicanism. I wondered, when McCain … More Sarah Palin
Hier ist ein important post. It is about sexism and gender discrimination. That was going to be all I said today, but I have read about knowledge and also tried to cook, so this post has had to be renamed for Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and philosophy “done” in the kitchen. * Here … More Juana de Asbaje
I just received the following, which I hasten to disseminate. I’ve written Jindal. You should, too. “Yesterday Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal threatened to roll back protections for our families by refusing to renew an anti-discrimination executive order that is set to expire TODAY [Friday, 22 August]. The order prohibits state agencies and contractors from harassment … More Action Alert – Jindal
Last Wednesday I discovered the blog Choledad Privada, a nonacademic blog by an academic (just like this one), so today I am featuring it. Read it for pleasure. If you are one of those prepared to understand it, you will instantly see why I recommend it. And it is also a FACEBOOK group, which makes … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Private Cholitude
I used to hear that only APRA, or only foreign investment could save Peru. Then I heard that only Alberto Fujimori and the sinchis could save it. Now mining is supposed to be saving the country, which has coal among other minerals. We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to show this video about coal mining. … More Coal Is Not an Alternative Fuel
This is very good. H/T Hattie. As a side note, it alludes to one of my main themes: the fallacious idea that it is more healthy and “natural” (or “genuine”) for women to be irrational than for us to be logical. As we know, that idea is central in Reeducation. Axé.
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