Observe these people in Lima playing real Chicago blues. “Jelly roll killed my pappy and run my mother stone blind.” This was filmed in the Jazz Zone which is near the Parque Kennedy, so it is easy to get to. Let’s go tonight. Axé.
Where are the weapons of mass destruction? We been lookin’ for months and we ain’t found nothin’ Please Mr. President, tell us something We knew from the beginning that your ass was bluffing! And despite the deaths now of both Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Ladin, we are still at war. The AAUP, meanwhile, has … More BLUFFER OF THE DAY AWARD: La Casa Blanca
I would rather be running Linux and using LaTex, and I would like it if Open Office worked better for me than it does. But I am running Windows 7 and XP, and I am unlikely to be in a position to change this in the near future. In the university we have Microsoft Word, … More WordPerfect
NEWS 1. Of interest – post du jour: In which a great-aunt in Calcutta’s traditional values are shocked by the self-righteous logic of “have conceived, will ruin a future life by having the child and giving it to strangers:” She thinks the “villianisation” of abortion in a “dangerously over-populated” world is crazy, self obsessed, morally … More Notes From My Oven
In the first place, Wilbert Rideau and many other former prisoners and wardens, as well as a Federal judge or two, all deserve more credit for the reforms at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola there than does the dishonest and incredibly self serving current warden, Burl Cain. I am amazed at how Cain has … More On Bluffing
The LSAT differs from the GRE and other standardized tests I have taken in that the question is what is the flaw in the argument, not what is the point of the paragraph. This is difficult because the questions are written to be deceptive. That means you have to read very closely and my training … More Pasodoble
The erotic dimension of the city has always been an aspect of its fearfulness, for it holds out the possibility that one will lose one’s identity, will fall. But we also take pleasure in being open to and interested in people we experience as different. We spend a Sunday afternoon walking through Chinatown, or checking … More Iris Young
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In General Relaxing evenings, getting up early, time in the gym and at the pool, some sort of nature time maybe, except that I will not try to pretend I enjoy Louisiana nature if I do not. I will not force anything but I do want to see natural water every and I remind myself … More My Summer-to-Fall Plan
Here is some information on Ella Baker. She is younger than my grandmothers and great aunts and I am not sure they would have entirely liked her — although I believe my aunt Helen, the librarian, would have done. “Don’t tell anyone, Z, but I am a Socialist. I know, it is problematic. In 1917 … More Ella Baker
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