Fashion Alert

These are men’s Wrangler relaxed fit straight leg jeans. Mine are black and they look like a designer item on. Seriously. They cost $17. Women should buy men’s jeans, they are cheaper and you can find a cut which will fit. Nobody should buy designer jeans. Buy work jeans, they are better designed and better … More Fashion Alert

Love Like Heaven

The images here are dated but the content is not. I had not thought of Donovan in a long time, but I was reminded recently of how ethereal his voice still is, and how prevalent it was on long ago radios as we rode to beaches, where sometimes sun would break through and other times, … More Love Like Heaven

Glen Ford

Read the Freedom Rider. I never could stand Barack Obama or Michael Eric Dyson, anyway. And when I see Ford, who has research and analytical skills, talk to Dyson, who has only sophistry, I feel well justified in preferring journalists to professors. I think people are voting for Obama because they think he can cause … More Glen Ford

Ominous

“The holy grail, for management, is to scab a UPS strike,” said Charles Richardson, a researcher who has analyzed UPS on behalf of the union. Richardson argues that the technological leap forward at UPS is really about “stealing knowledge” and making smart machinery that can be operated by not-so-smart scabs. Currently, work at UPS is … More Ominous

Lord Kitchener

“If you’re not white, you’re considered Black.” That explains it. If we are really lucky, we will be in Trinidad for Carnaval. Take it away, Lord Kitch. Everybody’s there, one and all. Axé.

Chiapas Alert

“Those of us who have made war know how to recognize the paths by which it is prepared and brought near,” Marcos said. “The signs of war on the horizon are clear. War, like fear, also has a smell. And now we are starting to breathe its fetid odor in our lands.” Marcos’s assessment supports … More Chiapas Alert