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How to Avoid Getting Real: Advice from Chris Rock
2009-07-30 00:47:00 Thank you, Bill Stephney at True/Slant for highlighting this. I needed this laugh. More About: Advice , Rock , Chris , Real , Avoid
Today?s Reading
2009-07-30 00:47:00 At Schools Matter blog: Open Letter to Arne Duncan from Herb Kohl and comments. More About: Reading , Today
20 Things You Need to Hear?
2009-07-27 00:45:00 I stole this meme from Certifiable Princess who stole it from Miss Britt [much apologies]. Here are Miss Britt's instructions via CP: "...the blogger makes a list of random things they wish they could say to someone, but they don?t name names. The readers then either join in with their own ... More About: Hear , Things
Lucky for HL Gates
2009-07-25 00:44:00 If Henry Louis Gates were a woman, he probably would've been strip searched. In fact, several of the first strip search cases were filed as violations of the 14th Amendment's equal protections clause because in many counties only women - and not men - have been subjected to blanket strip searches. More About: Lucky
No, It?s Not Better
2009-07-25 00:44:00 Both Sens. Landrieu and Vitter voted for Sen. Thune's crazy gun bill which could've forced states with more stringent gun control laws to accept the concealed weapons permits of less stringent states. Would you like Alaska's standards to be the general, default national standard? Proponents of Senator Thune?s attempt to create ...
OK, Rachel, We Cool
2009-07-25 00:44:00 Video at HuffPo. i mean, for now anyway. More About: Cool , Rachel
Environment, Nature, Education, Nurture
2009-07-25 00:44:00 Kids' lower IQ scores linked to prenatal pollution---AP [in the July 20, 2009, Times-Pic as "Prenatal pollution, lower IQ scores linked"] While future research is needed to confirm the new results, the findings suggest exposure to air pollution before birth could have the same harmful effects on the developing brain as ... More About: Education , Environment , Nature
sigh
2009-07-19 00:43:00 I've been so tired, I don't try to do much of anything. I can feel my life slipping..... It's hard to know what coming out of the Michael Jackson weirdness is true but if the "severe insomnia" stuff is, maybe this celebrity death in pursuit of sleep will finally point some ... More About: Sigh
Dear Rachel
2009-07-19 00:43:00 I didn't watch your show last night---I can no longer tolerate the repetitive nature of television and radio news, every show doing the same fucking story over and over and can barely keep from ripping out my own eyes and ears when the "commentary," which fills most of the time ... More About: Rachel
G Bitch Is Mostly?
2009-07-13 00:41:00 TIRED: Shit. Again, how tired can a person be and not be asleep? Drugless, I woke around 2, felt like falling asleep every 20 or so minutes but then I'd have an itch or a weird pain or suddenly realize I was more awake than I had just been but ... More About: Bitch
Happy Dead Animal Day 2009!
2009-07-06 00:39:00 It's that time of year again! And time for a still-true G Bitch rerun: Last week, the grocery ads got more meat-heavy than usual which tipped me off that a holiday is coming, the Fourth of July specifically. It is a day, as Mister, Girl and I say, for folks to ... More About: Animal , Happy , Dead
Guess Who?
2009-07-03 00:37:00 The pattern is inescapable: she takes disagreements personally, and swiftly deals vengeance on enemies, real or perceived. Stacy Head? Close but not quite. More About: Guess Who , Guess
Still the ONE!
2009-07-01 00:36:00 The G Bitch Spot is still NC-17! Woooo! I ROCK! Created by OnePlusYou - Free Online Dating
Dirty v. ?Dirty?
2009-06-25 00:34:00 I never quite understood the menstruation-is-filth thing, mostly because I was so poorly raised no one made sure I was fully inculcated/brainwashed. Men dribble all over the tiles and floor but my pads have to be buried deep in the garbage so no one [read no male] will see them? ... More About: Dirty
Can They Keep Him?
2009-06-10 12:29:00 New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin quarantine could last a week How come we didn't think of quarantining him before? We could've barricaded him in the cleaned-up part of Charity, safely away from City Hall and the rest of us.
The Rest Cure
2009-06-08 12:28:00 A scourge for Victorian women, I could really use one---no errands, no housework, no work-work, big windows to look out of, a garden to loiter in and people to feed me and no yellow wallpaper. I didn't think the early 40s were supposed to suck this way. June is looking like ... More About: Rest , Cure
5th Annual Hike of the Lafitte Corridor?TOMORROW!
2009-06-08 12:28:00 Oddly, the New Orleans Picayune section of Thursday's T-P said "Get your two-wheelers ready for the fifth annual bike hike of the Lafitte Corridor ..." A hike is about being on foot, isn't it? And why would you take a bike on an undeveloped, "parts...are a little rough" trail? More About: Tomorrow , Hike , Annual
Dr. Tiller Shot Dead Going to Church
2009-06-01 12:25:00 Dr. George Tiller, outspoken and brazen foe of anti-abortion groups and individuals, was shot to death as he walked into church this morning. Dr. Tiller, who had performed abortions since the 1970s, had long been a lightning rod for controversy over the issue of abortion, particularly in Kansas, where abortion opponents ... More About: Church , Shot , Dead
Showing Their Asses
2009-06-01 12:25:00 (to) show one's ass: to behave in such a way that reveals some inner or hidden bias, hatred, stupidity, heartlessness, misogyny, racism, ageism, homophobia, androphobia, etc. When he called her of all people out in church, he was really showing his ass. ____ G. Gordon Liddy on Sonia Sotomayor: "Let's hope that ...
Why Teachers Don?t Matter
2009-06-01 12:25:00 [See D-I-S-R-E-S-P-E-C-T for a teeny slice of background.] In the national debate on educational accountability, the people who know the most about what goes on in classrooms have the least say. ... The national [teacher's] unions are supposedly the teachers' mouthpieces, but their opposition to [NCLB], which mirrored that of other ... More About: Matter , Teachers
End of Rope
2009-05-30 12:25:00 One more obnoxious Apple commercial and I'm buying a $400 PC. More About: Rope
RE The Silence
2009-05-30 12:25:00 I've needed to turn inward lately. And the power cord for The Silver Turd shorted, sparked and could've started a fire. I know what you're thinking, or saying to your screen, right now---Bitch, I don't give a fuck about you. What about The Scores? Yeah, what about the scores. They show ... More About: Silence
Activist Judge?
2009-05-30 12:25:00 "Judge s are like umpires," [Chief Justice John] Roberts said [during confirmation hearings]. "Umpires don't make the rules. They apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ballgame ...
T-P Letters to the Editor You May?ve Missed
2009-05-30 12:25:00 My #1 favorite, a true argument, well-structured, reasonable, supported: Cops facing gun shoot first, ask for permit later Re: "Guns in class a good thing: True or false?" Other Opinions, May 16. As a retired chief of police from LSU with 27 years of law enforcement experience, I am against House Bill ... More About: Letters to the Editor , Letters , Editor
From Tested, Again
2009-05-17 00:19:00 Under No Child Left Behind, average daily attendance below 94 percent would mean a failure to make adequate progress, no matter what the test scores were. Perlstein, Linda. Tested : One American School Struggles to Make the Grade. Henry Holt, 2007: 60.
More Student Errors
2009-05-10 00:11:00 See Kweshuns abeut Sillbish on for the first part of this list. Additions this year, some totally, crazily new to even me: dinning insttead of dining, as in dinning room threw for through, as in The dog went threw the door. living for leaving, as in He was living the party early... lives for leaves, ... More About: Student , Errors
Education Is Not a ?Business?
2009-05-10 00:11:00 The more time you spend in school, the more you see the influence of business practices. ... The corporate bible Good to Great sits on the bookshelf of nearly every principal, and a lot of Stephen Covey gets quoted at education conferences (98). Jim Collins, the author of Good to Great, ... More About: Business , Education
Marching Orders
2009-05-08 00:10:00 A trend among African American women above the age of 50-55: What president Obama says goes. Recent examples: SMother has never been a grandmother to give her time to babysitting or stepping in for us in emergencies. But as soon as she heard that a confirmed swine flu case had closed ... More About: Orders
Swine to Human to Swine
2009-05-08 00:10:00 I counseled caution to a colleague who was enjoying feeling alarmed by swine flu. I haven't been, even with The Girl's school closed for a few days. I'm just glad it's 3 days instead of 7 or 14. I heard on a newscast yesterday that it's usually the next strain that ... More About: Human
Women?s Action 33.1: Rape simulation games
More articles from this author:2009-05-08 00:10:00 Suggestions for action at the bottom.... http://equalitynow.org/english/actions/ac tion_3301_en.html Excerpts from Women 's Action 33.1, May 2009--Japan: Rape simulator games and the normalization of sexual violence The aim of the RapeLay game is ... More About: Games , Simulation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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