Please see this interview (on video and in transcript) of Howard Zinn discussing the bailout. He confirms my point of view and he is an expert. Certain grownups keep telling me this is just a market downturn of which we should think nothing. Like that compound fracture in your leg, which is just a scratch, … More Howard Zinn
1. Bonus product review, very fresh: contact lenses. I have contact lenses. I am new to glasses and did not know I would ever be a candidate for contact lenses. However, after several twists and turns I walked out of the store wearing contact lenses that cost less than good glasses and realized I could … More The Contact Zone. Close Encounters
It is getting cold in Louisiana, like Lima in winter. There, of course, it is spring, and summer will soon be coming in. And it is the weekend, so we will sing from the memories we wish we had of Lima in the 1940s, with “a waltz and a memory.” Strangely, the Lima I first … More Lima: un vals y un recuerdo
“[E]mpire building always has gone hand in hand with impoverishing the population of the imperial center as well as its periphery.” This is why I want to study economics, history, sociology, and political theory. It is also why I think people should study in general, and why I believe in rigor. Thinking on my own, … More A Very Important Point
Geoffrey Philp, one of the very best bloggers, has given me a Friendship Around the World Award, and now I get to award it. I am very much honored to have won this award from Geoffrey Philp. I will not award it to any blogs on Philp’s list, although I would have chosen some of … More Friendship Around the World Award
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
HYPERBOLIZED FOR HUMOROUS EFFECT PZ: You want me to engage in a major service project to benefit you, and you will stay here if I succeed within three years? Who are you, again? Axé.
Obama ’08 – Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo. Via Momo. As cool as Mt. Tamalpais. As majestic as Drake’s Bay. Axé.
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!
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