Super Sunday, typically in March near St. Joseph’s Day, is the year’s best day because all the Mardi Gras Indians come out on parade. The video I have embedded explains things to the uninitiated, but this video of the Creole Wild West is the best and most authentic of the Indian videos I have found … More Tambourine and Fan
Power was rightfully awarded the Pulitzer for her finely written and downright horrifying book A Problem From Hell which, in macabre detail, describes the calculated indifference of the Clinton administration when 800,000 Rwandans were being systematically butchered. The red phone rang and rang and rang again. I don’t know where Hillary was then. But her … More Marc Cooper
This is International Women’s Day but the most interesting story I have to tell is of men. My student called yesterday after getting out of parish prison, to explain that having been there for 24 hours was the reason he had missed class. He was in parish prison for 24 hours because he jumped his … More Among Men
Although I cannot, or rather should not afford it, I have bought the Eileen Fisher Viscose Pencil Skirt. It is excellent. Now I want all, or at least most of the items that go with it. At least I know what I am shopping for, and at least it creates a coherent wardrobe. Axé.
Read the Field Negro’s post and its comments thread. Axé.
I My intermediate level class, an introduction to literature, is bombing and it is in part because those who can read, do not want to, and those who want to, cannot. I have been using an anthology for this class and it is the one used for such classes nationwide. Up until now it has worked rather well but … More On Being and Not
This from Nezua is really worth perusing – on politics and on life. Two brief excerpts: As we’ve had made painfully clear to us for too long now, the Left is running around reacting and no longer trusts progressive visions enough to forward them boldly and unapologetically and borne on their own volition and timing. … More Post-election Post
“It’s a pity nation-making moves only through a single groove like a one-track brain that is obsessed with the one thing. It is not enough to be in power but to be power itself and there is no such thing except in the minds of people with religious notions. We are a devastated garden in … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Nation-Making Moves
Once upon a time there existed the Ladies Against Women, a satirical group. Now, as I sweat out tonight’s election results (in which I am not rooting for either a Woman or a Lady, unless Barack Obama is indeed a woman), I am creating the Women Against Ladies. This is because there are far too … More Women Against Ladies
I have a new badge on my research site, and it looks like this: Click on it and you will see why everyone needs it. Axé.
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