Hardly a week passes without a new scandal: a voucher school being led not only by a former state representative but a self-proclaimed prophet and apostle, a Delhi-based charter school that loves state money but not pregnant students, BESE’s corrupt “walking quorums,” the use of wacky creationist textbooks that are now a national laughingstock and … More “Carrying Water for Jindal”
After the imposition of Law 1008, “Trials often lasted five years or more before a sentence was declared.”[v] As a result, Bolivian prisons soon swelled with people detained on low-level drug charges. For example, “In one Cochabamba prison that receives prisoners from the Chapare, twenty times more prisoners entered the prison in 1994 than in … More Prison/Military Industrial Complex
I bought this dress in black, because I saw it in a shop window by chance and knew it was for me. Now I see that it also exists in red. Should I buy it? Pro: I already know it is a great dress and that I will really wear it. Red is the best … More Shall I buy this dress?
I Paul Ryan is truly disgusting and I have to say, this is why I do not like to teach lower division students — too many of them resemble him, and emulate men like him. And that, in turn, is why I do not like the fall semester. I do not have dissociative episodes about … More Des dialogues
I have actually seen this service performed and it was quite oppressive, almost like a malediction. This is not how one is to take it, I know, but when I read Rosario Castellanos’ novel by this title I had not yet attended the service. Having had the experience, I see things somewhat better. Axé.
My banana trees have actually produced bananas, and good ones, too. I am very impressed. I will cook them somehow with drumfish, which is juicy, and perhaps with the green oranges which fell. I have decided that all non organic US meat must be avoided at all times, and all wheat, as well as every … More Tropical
From my mailbag: You can sell illegal arms for many years and then sell your company, maintaining all of your contracts with groups such as the CIA. Your fine will be 7.5 million dollars. Nobody will face criminal prosecution for their crimes. Blackwater admitted to selling satellite phones and defense services to Sudan, illegally building … More On Blackwater, and on the road to H* being paved brick by bloody brick.
Texas authorities executed Marvin Wilson, a 54-year-old death row inmate, on Tuesday night after his attorneys failed to convince state and federal courts that he was mentally retarded and ineligible for the death penalty under a 2002 Supreme Court ruling. Wilson was declared dead at 6:27 p.m. local time. He cried out to his gathered … More Marvin Wilson
If 54-year-old Marvin Wilson is put to death on Tuesday, it will not be because Texas denies that he is intellectually disabled, or as the legal literature puts it, “mentally retarded.” This much, the state recognizes. It just does not believe that Wilson is disabled enough not to be executed in Texas—a flagrant violation of … More States of Barbarity
Our society, by its very economic successes and consequent expansion, has been breeding impersonal forces both outside and within itself that are changing it from a bottom-up elective democracy into a top-down empire. And among these forces are those that produce deep events. Axé.
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