It is time for something new new: Khattak dance. Regardez ça-là, it is mesmerizing. The Khattacks speak Pashto. Their historical centers include Herat, Ghowr, Ghazni, Zhob, Karak, Tirah and Wana. Their ruler under traditional organization was Malak. We could easily learn Pashto as it is Indo-Iranian (English is Indo-European) and uses Arabic letters (an alphabet, not … More Khattak Dance
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I have a few hundred dollars to spend on library materials, related to courses and also to be part of our university library’s permanent collection. Some of the materials are books from university presses, and some of these are available as examination and desk copies for faculty using them in courses. I am being told … More An Ethical Question
I got this recipe from blogger Momo years ago and I have been looking for it; now I have found it. This recipe is from Veracruz. It is unusual and really good. 2T lard or oil 16 chicken livers 1 garlic clove minced 1 small onion minced 3 hard cooked egg yolks 2T parsley minsed … More Pollo Mariscala
There was the question last year of LSU’s “Foreign Languages 14,” all instructors discontinued due to program reduction. Now this document on events in the UL system has been posted on the Louisiana AAUP website. I am reposting it in its entirety since it is a public document and important. I have emphasized a few … More Michael Bérubé
The parody of this song I really like is Caught in a Bad Project by the Hui Zheng Lab, but this one is for Bastille Day! Axé.
Obamaism’s shortcomings are the failures of the Democratic Party’s longstanding corporate-imperial centrism and of the dominant narrow political culture that pits an arch-plutocratic, extremist military party (the faux-“conservative” Republicans) against the “inauthentic opposition” of the conservative, faux progressive, and corporate-neoliberal Democrats and leaves no room for non-corporate parties that accurately reflect majority progressive opinion. The … More Paul Street
One thing that has been nice for me this summer is the weather. I have been unable to travel other summers when it has been dark, humid, and rainy. This year has been less humid and very luminous. I have not taken advantage of the good weather as well as I could have, but I … More Edie Brickell
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird’s throat, the musical shuttle, Out of the Ninth-month midnight, Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child leaving his bed wander’d alone, bareheaded, barefoot, Down from the shower’d halo, Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they … More Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking I
From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, via commenter human: According to Mrs. Ford, her young adult children probably had smoked marijuana — and if she were their age, she’d try it, too. She told “60 Minutes” she wouldn’t be surprised to learn that her youngest, 18-year-old Susan, was in a sexual relationship (an embarrassed Susan issued a … More Betty Ford
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