This week’s best and most beautiful post is by Liprap. Read it, then act. Carlos Pellicer, the modernist poet, was from Villahermosa, Tabasco. He wrote in 1943 of Tabasco in blood, water, earth, sun, and time. . . . /water of Tabasco, I come / water of Tabasco, I go / my lineage is made … More Agua de Tabasco
This is another of my magic charms against Reeducation. As we know, it was said there that I had too much personal power and was not in enough pain. I therefore tried hard to relinquish power and to feel pain. Later I discovered that I had in fact not been deluded the first 35 years … More Magic Charm
One Black Man’s Blog has a number of useful points to make on the Jena situation. Perhaps the parents of a few of the black students would have informed the Jena School Board how threatened their children felt if they had been given their right to speak at the school board meeting. According to the … More Donald Washington
I woke up in the middle of the night, which I normally never do, with a new consciousness of the absurdity of the reasons students in one of my classes say they cannot learn. I then moved on to realize how much it would take to unpack two questions from my neighbor: 1. Since Cheney … More Scott Ritter
MD Filter: I am not there yet, either. I favor Montessori schools and I think that, especially in a wrecked school system like that of New Orleans, you should do the best you can to meet the needs of your child and that is it. In general, what I have to say about teaching is … More In Which I Do Not Resemble Jonathan Swift.
This post is unbalanced and unfair. It is judgmental and uncaring. All of these characteristics are unacceptable in a woman. I therefore declare that I am now Jonathan Swift. In claiming his identity, I am being dishonest about my own. I am also emulating a dead white man when I might do better to emulate … More In Which I Resemble Jonathan Swift.
One is requested to eat local produce but this is not always easy. There is “Louisiana” coffee but it is not actually local. The local sugar and rum do come from our very own cane fields. There is Louisiana wine but I dislike it, and now there is Louisiana olive oil but it is very … More On Rice
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) announced Friday that he will be offering a privileged resolution (H RES 333) on the House floor Tuesday, November 6, that will bring articles of impeachment against the Vice President, Richard B. Cheney. Please contact your representative today to ask for their support. There is popular support for this initiative which … More Impeach.
In rebellion against faux science, and in honor of Peripersonal Space who has announced that the dichohtomy between emotion and reason is false, I hereby designate myself a Hard Bloggin’ Scientist. Click on the badge and you will see what this entails. As a Hard Bloggin’ Scientist I now call for solidarity with and sympathy … More Hard Bloggin’ Scientist
THE SPHINX (To Marcel Schwob in friendship and in admiration) In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy thinks A beautiful and silent Sphinx has watched me through the shifting gloom. Inviolate and immobile she does not rise she does not stir For silver moons are naught to her and naught … More Oscar Wilde
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