Having been the recipient of wisdom which was also undermining, although I did not realize it at the time, having had important information withheld from me and/or not having had access to it, and having had basic principles pronounced at me as the ultimate in new wisdom when I have said things which did not … More Ways to Oppress Girls in School: Open Thread
I am really glad someone has expounded upon this. Positive thinking is endemic to American culture – from weight loss programs to cancer support groups – and in the last two decades it put down deep roots in the corporate world as well. Everyone knows that you won’t get a job paying more than $15 … More Positive Thinking Has Wrecked the Economy
I always did like the month of October, so maybe it is just that, but I have this strange feeling that something is about to happen. I do not know what it could be. This has been a beautiful weekend, although I have not taken advantage of it at all. I have done virtually nothing … More Lara! Lara!
I knew the first week of my first job that I did not want to be a professor, at least not in the kind of institution – and there is an archipelago of them, rather like a gulag – to which I was now bound. I looked about me and was horrified: all the other … More On Mental Slavery
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
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
…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
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
In the September/October SIERRA, Paul Rauber’s article on/review of carbon imprint calculators is of very great interest! I did one of these before but I do not know how good it was. It said we would need 5 earths if everyone lived like me. It seems that the Berkeley Institute of the environment, at coolclimate.berkeley.edu, … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesdays: Carbon Imprint Calculators
Everyone needs your time and money right now, I know. But it is important to DEFEAT MEASURE 11 IN SOUTH DAKOTA and women there need your help. Consider it, and consider phone banking for Obama this weekend. One point of phone banking now is to get people to vote early – that is that much … More Alert. En Vida
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