This is the first day of Fall, the best season. I always liked Fall but in Louisiana it is truly stellar because there is a day in early Fall when the humidity leaves the air. This lowers the heat index greatly and it becomes possible to go outdoors. The month of October is as cool … More World Traffic Survey, and AIDESEP
IN WHICH A YANKEE IMPERIALIST IS UNABLE TO RESIST THE CHARMS OF BARACK OBAMA. This post, which had taken a certain amount of work and thought, got too baroque. I was trying therefore to break it into three posts. In the process of that I destroyed it, and it is the weekend, and there are … More Go Tell Mama, I’m for Obama
As the assiduous reader will know, this weblog exists so that I can extirpate from myself that whiteman’s voice and rediscover my own. It is, in other words, a playground in which I am learning for the second or third time in life not to be cruel to myself. One of the ways I am … More Mountains, Winds, and Seas
I clearly do not know myself at all. A student whose pedagogical project I am supervising says I have a strong interest in pedagogy. I have always denied this, originally out of the fear of being designated for a pink collar job, but I see his point. This is quite interesting. Perhaps I have not … More Station Break
A. I was taught that in academia, you had to do things halfheartedly to survive. You must just walk through teaching, since you will not get credit for it; you must write a great deal, but always acceptably bland things, so as to have a form and type of production conventional enough to pass; you … More Full On
I have now finished writing a series of texts which could become a manuscript. They are not yet a manuscript, and may not be suitable as an academic manuscript, but they are what I have been writing since I got back from Peru. I started this file long ago and worked on it occasionally, but … More Pour-soi
I wrote this post long before the recent Wall Street news came out. That only makes it more interesting. * Look closely at this chart. My 1981 research insight was that we were, via internal colonialism, deindustrialization and planned underdevelopment, beginning the project of concentrating wealth in the hands of the transnationals and a few … More Our Colonial Economy
In a long term prediction 22 months ago, Stiglitz told listeners of the Alex Jones show that he believed a global economic crash would occur within 2 years. With major financial institutions now folding every week, others touting mergers just to stay afloat and stocks continually plummeting on a daily basis it seems that prediction … More Joseph Stiglitz
I thought crème fraîche only grew in France – i.e. that it was hard to make and only French dairies chose to make it – but it is easy to make and we can make it here. That means we can have it without going to France. Take 1 pint heavy cream, ideally not ultrapasteurized, … More Crème Fraîche
I decided to earn a Ph.D. the day I learned this degree existed. That took place before I started kindergarten. Thus it was that my academic career and my full acquisition of formal language began almost simultaneously. My recurrent question then was whether thought preceded language or whether, on the other hand, language informed thought … More First Choice
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