It is Friday, Oxalá’s day, and for the weekend we shall invoke Green Tara, the principal female manifestation of enlightenment and “Swift Liberator” from the Eight Great Fears. According to the First Dalai Lama, these fears are representative of corresponding defects, flaws, or obscurations: lions and pride, wild elephants and delusions, forest fires and hatred, … More Green Tara
I am on a Lightnin’ Hopkins kick, and I think it is justified. In the Blog World, I want to say that I am concerned about Colorado Bob, and I have the feeling that someone who knows how should call him on the phone. Axé.
This the great Lightnin’ Hopkins. Watch his hands. I am invoking my own mojo hand because I am bored with the article I am writing. My problem is that it is in Spanish because it is destined for a Chilean journal, but many of my most interesting sources are in English and the text itself … More Mojo Hand
I would like to repeat these words by Martin Duberman, who I really do not think wrote them to defend a false universalism: For women, the common enemy remains the patriarchy. For blacks and Latinos, it is still white racism. For gay people, heterosexual oppression. None of these movements function effectively when the focus is … More On Individualism
From School of the Americas Watch May 17: Costa Rica to Cease Training at the SOA/WHINSEC Colombian Warlord Confirms Collusion with SOA/WHINSEC Graduates 1. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias announced Wednesday that Costa Rica will cease to send police to train at the U.S. Army Ft. Benning facility after citing its history of involvement in … More Costa Rica, Too, Has Left SOA/WHINSEC
The Paper Chaser says, “Confessing Author has this done on her website, and I think it can be altered nicely for academic writers (why should fiction writers have all the fun?). So … substitute ‘article’ if you need to for ‘book.’” I am a less dedicated academic writer than the Paper Chaser, but I am … More Lisa’s Writing Meme
“This is the kind of offence that cannot be tolerated in our society,” District Judge J. Owen Forrester said when sentencing [Joya] Williams, the woman who plotted to steal Coke’s secrets and sell them to Pepsi. The most important crimes, it seems, are against large corporations. Axé.
An important answer to this question is, she does not remember that she has the right. I remember feeling I only had the right to ask for changes. The result was always that I ended up apologizing for having asked. It was excruciating. The point is that I had forgotten I had the right. Before … More Why She Does Not Just Leave
Here are Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice, singing of the wide open spaces, the living and the dead. Axé.
Here in Louisiana there are gestures toward lynching every so often. For today, everybody read this from the African American Political Pundit. Going around with nooses is a prank if you are white, but battery turns into attempted murder if you are Black? Roy Briethaupt and Reed Walters need to be removed. On a happier … More On Lynchings, Writings, and Totems
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