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Flare!
2011-10-24 13:51:00 It starts as an ache between my shoulder blades and weird pain, needles shooting through my wrists, shins, forearms. The ache in my upper back becomes tightness and incredible pain any time my head moves down or to the side. … Continue reading → More About: Flare
LOVE This Detergent
2011-10-24 13:51:00 This is totally out of character for me but I love this laundry detergent. For most of my life, I’ve had various forms of rashes, mostly on my face, occasionally on my shoulders or arms. Once I started doing my own … Continue reading → More About: Love
E.X.H.A.U.S.T.E.D.
2011-10-24 13:51:00 Fibromyalgia [FM] is usually seen as a pain disorder. I can deal with the pain to a certain extent; I don’t let it keep me from moving or living, but when it spikes, I know it’s time to slow down or rest. … Continue reading →
Tomorrow, GA Will Execute an Innocent Man
2011-10-24 13:51:00 Troy Davis will be executed tomorrow. He was convicted on eyewitness testimony; no physical evidence tied him to the shooting of Off. MacPhail. Seven of the 9 eyewitnesses have recanted, “[t]hree jurors have signed affidavits saying that if they had all the … Continue reading → More About: Innocent , Tomorrow
NOLA Public Schools & School Privatization: Coda
2011-10-24 13:51:00 See Parts 1, 1A, 2 and 3. Read. Link. Research. Comment at Education Talk NOLA and Charter School Scandals and the Nation and the New York Times Book Review and everywhere else. Go to BESE and OPSB and charter school board … Continue reading → More About: Schools , Public
Lookie Here, Lookie There
2011-01-17 19:00:00 Again, thanks to Dr. Hill Missed Diane Ravitch at Dillard last month? Here’s a video! It runs 58 minutes; the almost-raucous Q&A period has been edited. Did you also miss the BESE meeting on the plan to return some schools … Continue reading →
htciB G: #*@*%^#*@*%^!!: Schools, Money, Hunger
2011-01-17 19:00:00 originally posted Nov 28, 2009 @ 12:46 Read Education salaries grow $8 million under Paul Pastorek. [State Rep. Jim] Fannin [chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, D-Jonesboro] and [state Sen. Ben] Nevers [chairman of the Senate Education Committee, D-Bogalusa] said … Continue reading → More About: Money , Schools , Hunger
hctiB G: Choice, Choice, Choice and Choice: 2
2011-01-17 19:00:00 originally posted Nov 23, 2009 @ 9:57: Another concern in the reshuffling and unshuffling of schools post-Floods is special education. When schools can pick and choose their students and are judged on test scores and attendance, why not limit the … Continue reading → More About: Choice
?Want Job at State? Don?t Link to Wikileaks?
2011-01-17 19:00:00 Wikileaks [The quote is a paraphrase of what students at Columbia are being told: TPMMuckraker.] More About: Link , State
Keep X in Your Xmas
2011-01-17 19:00:00 2010 Xmas playlist: The Christmas Song–Nat King Cole This Christmas–Donny Hathaway Merry Christmas, Baby–Otis Redding Baby It’s Cold Outside–Ray Charles and Betty Carter ‘Zat You, Santa Claus?–Louis Armstrong White Christmas–Louis Armstrong Santa Claus, Go Straight to the Ghetto–James Brown Happy … Continue reading →
Irritant #4095
2011-01-17 19:00:00 In episode something 5 of Treme, Davis McAlary gets punched in the face for using the N word. The scene still nags me. I didn’t feel sorry for Davis, I didn’t feel fear or shame or righteous indignation. My first … Continue reading →
Teachers? Unions or Teachers? Unions?
2011-01-17 19:00:00 Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children’s Zone on The Colbert Report Jan. 4, 2011: Stephen Colbert: Who’s to blame? Is it the teachers’ union or the teachers’ union? Geoffrey Canada: Well, I think you’ve got to really say it’s both … Continue reading → More About: Unions
Ouch
2011-01-17 19:00:00 I am convinced that the primary reason I have fibromyalgia [FM] is 10+ years of untreated insomnia/sleep disorder. Sleep disorders of all types are common in FM, especially sleep apnea and restless leg syndrome [RLS]. Many folks do not have … Continue reading →
Schools + Creativity = ?
2011-01-17 19:00:00 Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Destroy Creativity ? A fair question as we uproot, upend, redo, repaint, revamp schools in the name of “reform”—what IS it that we are trying to achieve? Test scores are not enough because test scores do … Continue reading →
?Three Strikes and We?re in?
2011-01-17 19:00:00 Historian James Conrad will explore the rocky but rich history of the New Orleans public school teachers efforts to gain better pay and benefits in the 1960s and 1970s. The New Orleans Public School teachers struck in 1966, 1969, and … Continue reading →
Just More Than One Thing
2009-12-18 22:04:00 former Civil District Court Judge Nadine Ramsey dressed down her colleagues for their comments. "We can't sit at the Plimsoll Club and decide that there's not a racial issue," she said, referring to the forum's venue on the top floor of the World Trade Center. "To me, that highlights the insensitivity ...
Anti-Depressions
2009-09-18 02:41:00 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="342" caption="photo courtesy of cLaudue, used under this Creative Commons license"][/caption] Several more recent writers have described how their desire to write disappeared as their depressions lifted, but blame the antidepressant--not the loss of their depression--for their decreased creativity. ... The biochemistry of this side effect, if it ... More About: Anti
Did TX Execute an Innocent Man?
2009-09-15 02:39:00 Looks like a Yes to me. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="by paPisc, Creative Commons/Flickr"][/caption] More About: Innocent
Wheat v. Chaff
2009-09-15 02:39:00 Bank screwed you over? Sick of golden parachutes and multimillion dollar bonuses and BMW SUVs cutting you off? Avoid checking account/debit card overdraft fees: This year alone, banks are expected to bring in $27 billion by covering overdrafts on checking accounts, typically on debit card purchases or checks that exceed a ... More About: Wheat
Tonight on the Shit Box
2009-09-13 02:38:00 "Idiot box" offers too much intellectual heft, as if idiots got themselves together inside a box or box-like structure. I've been so down on TV lately, and print and nonprint news, especially of the MSM type that never, ever, ever stops, that TiVo is my bestest girlfriend. And tonight, we girls ... More About: Shit , Tonight
Fidelity
2009-09-13 02:38:00 Full disclosure: I am married but not necessarily a monogamy True Believer. I don't think that men-can't-control-themselves or that monogamy is counter to human "nature." I don't think monogamy is impossible, though it can be hard like any other long-term absolute or commitment. I think people talk monogamy and present ... More About: Fidelity
Memorial Hospital, Take Two
2009-09-13 02:38:00 Orleans DA: Inquiry into Memorial deaths is not an investigation: nola.com There seems to be tension about it already. Why? Visitors who had come to the hospital for safety felt so desperate that they cheered when two airboats driven by volunteers from the Louisiana swamplands roared up to the flooded emergency-room ramp. ... More About: Hospital
The Embarrasment Continues
2009-09-13 02:38:00 First, Gov. Bobby Jindal robot-walks his way through a response to Pres. Obama. Then Rep. Charles Boustany gives a lame response to Pres. Obama. And Vitter has sent out a fundraising letter that lies like the motherfucker he is. [From TPM, 6 pages. HT: Doing a Vitter---you got to have ...
When You Live in a Cracker State?
2009-09-06 02:36:00 ...Sales tax holiday for guns, ammunition starts today ...Obama's upcoming speech to schoolchildren has some parents worried More About: Live , State , Cracker
Uh-Oh, The Bloggers Are Coming Were Here for Years
2009-09-04 02:35:00 The Times-Pic again discovers the local blogosphere and has the joy of printing the real name of Ashe Dambala. [Along with a picture.] As if the most dangerous thing going on politically in NOLA is Dambala's question about Ellis and the conflict of interest his wife's clients may pose. Conflict ... More About: Bloggers , Years
Four Years and Two Days Later
2009-09-04 02:35:00 Saturday was the first slightly normal August 29 I've had since 2005. I cleaned the kitchen. I went to a meeting. I went to a birthday party. I read no news or comments. I didn't post that We Are Still Not OK. Unlike many others, especially those in the blogpocheh ... More About: Days , Years
G Bitch Ducks Then Talks to NO Cops
2009-09-04 02:35:00 Both Mister and I had unsettled sleep last night, me as usual, him as usual, I said, after a neighborhood shooting. Mister and I were in the back yard, chatting at the grill, The Girl inside with a cat or 2, when we heard gunfire, close, more than 1 gun, ... More About: Cops , Bitch
Another Chance to Tell Rep. Cao About Health Care
2009-09-04 02:35:00 Join Congressman Anh "Joseph" Cao and WBOK for a public health forum. With Special Guests: Nancy Cassagne, West Jefferson Medical Center Mary Joseph, The Children's Defense Fund Judge Calvin Johnson, Director of the Metropolitan Human Services District Congressman Cao will take YOUR opinions to President Obama and Congress in Washington, D.C. Moderated by WBOK's Gerod Stevens Thursday September ... More About: Health , Health Care , Chance , Care , Another Chance
Save Charity Second Line: August 31
2009-08-27 08:30:00 from Save Charity Hospital.com: The second line will start at Charity Hospital, 1532 Tulane Street, at 6:00p.m. sharp. The Rebirth Brass Band and the Hot 8 Brass Band will lead the second line for about one hour around the footprint of the proposed LSU medical center in Lower Mid-City, marching up Tulane Avenue, ... More About: Line , August
Women?s Equality Day
More articles from this author:2009-08-27 08:30:00 No, it's not a joke or oxymoron. Though it does sound like a pipe 10-foot-water-bong dream... In no society are women treated equally yet. I believe strongly that if women are not full participants in society, the society does not advance the way that it could. And if women are denied ... More About: Women , Equality 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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