Keywords for the age of austerity

Wellness User Team Synergy Sustainability Stakeholder Self-Starter Resilience Pivot Peaceful Protest Nimble Learning Outcomes Leadership Innovation Flexibility Failure Errors in Judgment Entrepreneur Engagement Dynamic Descent Into Violence Democracy Customer Creative Content Civility Choice Caudillo Branding Best Practices Accountability Read all about it. Axé.

Boycott

According to the Left Business Observer, “the federal prison industry produces 100 percent of all military helmets, war supplies and other equipment. The workers supply 98 percent of the entire market for equipment assembly services; 93 percent of paints and paintbrushes; 92 percent of stove assembly; 46 percent of body armor; 36 percent of home … More Boycott

Basalmic Tuna

I bought fresh Gulf tuna yesterday. It smells like the ocean. I tried this recipe and it is quite good. I am curious to know how the dish will be cold — I think yet better, vinegary, like some kind of escabeche. We can have all sorts of hot vegetables with it, and I am … More Basalmic Tuna

Haggadot

We have not sung at all recently. Here is a beautiful video of fourteenth century songs from the exhibit on Haggodot, that ends in Barcelona today. See how Eastern it sounds, and how ancient. Axé.

Des signes

About this post, from over two weeks ago: it is difficult for me to recognize mistreatment. But my reaction to is a kind of hallucination: I jump to thinking that if I can only calm my mother down and placate her, the pain will stop and I will be released from my cage. This indicates … More Des signes

Church burnings

I had the most terrifying dream. I was to be burnt at the stake. Hitler was in power in the United States and the White Citizens’ Councils were his henchmen. Twelve of us were to be burned at the stake and the technique was, they sewed you, including your head, into a burlap suit and … More Church burnings

Black post

See what you think of this. These white folks, who call the other white folks “backwards,” “rednecks,” “racist,” and “trash,” hate to have their whiteness sullied by these other white folks. They wouldn’t want colored folks to think they were like those white folks. So, they latched onto the thing that they hate about backwards white southerners … More Black post

Yankee post

I lost a whole post but it was very interesting on my Yankee roots. It involved my 3x great grandfather the Irish minister and immigrant, an important figure, some of his publications and publications on him, and my exact relation to Lyman Beecher (father of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and an important … More Yankee post

On southern pride

A local musician, one of my colleagues, and some other people have been going on about how — if I understand them — it is unfortunate that Dylann Roof associated himself with the Confederate battle flag, because that flag has nothing to do with racial violence. It does have everything to do with their families’ … More On southern pride

On the “entrepreneurial” model and education as a commodity

What do I mean by “against students”? By using this expression I am trying to describe a series of speech acts, which consistently position students, or at least specific kinds of students, as a threat to education, to free speech, to civilisation: we might even say, to life itself.  In speaking against students, these speech acts also speak for more … More On the “entrepreneurial” model and education as a commodity