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Local Thursdays
2008-05-08 00:00:00 graciously cross-posted at Humid City when the Spot was spotty First off, no, I do not understand the finer points of funding and producing Jazz Fest. But I do know that $50 tickets price out a fair amount of locals and takes an iconic season away from many of us who ... More About: Local
Last Sunday 2008
2008-05-08 00:00:00 graciously cross-posted at Humid City when the Spot was spotty The Lump (our 11-1/2-year-old spawn) reads during Jazz Fest. I have found this humiliating and/or embarrassing over the years, and make pains to point out her bobbing or tapping foot. This year, though, people were quite charmed. One man talked to ... More About: Sunday , 2008
Showing the Charter School Love
2008-05-08 00:00:00 graciously cross-posted at Humid City, my evacuation chalet My daughter goes to a charter school. I got an email the other day about tomorrow's rally in Baton Rouge in celebration of Charter School s Week (I've never heard of this one and wonder why it is the same damn week as Teacher ... More About: Love
Calling a Cracker Vote a Cracker Vote
2008-05-08 00:00:00 Before I get started, let me say that some of my closest friends are white people. I called Indiana for HRC based on what I called and call The Cracker Vote , that percentage of white people who consciously or unconsciously, strongly or mildly, overtly or covertly cannot vote for A Black ... More About: Calling
Thursday Festing
2008-05-08 00:00:00 I think of this as a guest post at Humid City though the Spot was down.... I got a long Jazz Fest tradition, one of those who went as a child and carts her spawn there each year. Every year of my daughter's life, we've gone to Jazz Fest. She never ... More About: Thursday
The State of Public Education in NO: Some Remarks, a Speaker and a Panel
2008-05-08 00:00:00 I got there 30 minutes late so I cannot tell you anything about Scott Cowen's opening remarks or Paul Pastorek's keynote address. I can tell you that nothing is clearer about the future of schools to me. Like many meetings, many hopes were voiced, many opinions told and held, and ... More About: Education , Speaker , Public , Panel , State
NO Schools: Choice, a Report, and a Forum
2008-04-24 00:00:00 Can I finish both by Monday's "State of Public Education in New Orleans" forum? (I'm still amazed that a private college that has had no education department or degree in several years is the "leader" on local public education.) School Choice : Evidence and Recommendations (PDF)--good and bad news on school choice, ... More About: Schools , Report , Forum
Run Like What Kind of Business Exactly?
2008-04-17 00:00:00 The Advocate.com: People often say government should be run like a business. In offering large salaries to Louisiana Department of Economic Development Secretary Stephen Moret and Louisiana Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek, state officials seem to be heeding a time-honored rule of business: To get talented people, give competitive compensation. But concerns about ... More About: Business
Liveblogging of Sorts: G Bitch and Mister Watch (Another Damn) Dem Debate
2008-04-17 00:00:00 7:01 PM: While they are "re-introduced," I'll get settled in. Mister, when he is done helping The Girl, will appear in italics. Yes, here we go again, more analysis from Mister and crankiness from me. Yaahoo! 7:02 pm: Audience can't applaud? Sounds like a rule Clinton's campaign might want. Does this ... More About: Watch , Debate , Bitch , Damn , Liveblogging
The Goodbye
2008-04-14 00:00:00 I haven't been in St Louis #3 since my grandfather was buried there and his jazz funeral was a painfully cathartic moment in my life. And there was no parade back to the house so we missed the important dance-and-sweat-until-the-tears-stop part of the ritual. Ashley's funeral was complete--we mourned, we ... More About: Goodbye
Shifts
2008-04-12 00:00:00 I've been tempted to go back to work full time, back to teaching. It would be nice to again have a mostly-finite job that I can go home from. But as I often said when I was leaving my office, "Im going to my other job"--meals, homework, bills, relationships, errands, ...
Grumble
2008-04-06 00:00:00 I love all the commemorative stuff to Martin Luther King. But it does push to the face multiple times a day the murder of a leader of people and that smarts.
Man Sports Porn
2008-04-06 00:00:00 Enforcer expects rematch to get physical, plans to be ready to 'challenge them' By Chris Kuc Tribune staff reporter March 28, 2008, 9:59 PM CDT Adam Burish finds it funny when he's referred to as the Blackhawks' enforcer. "I'm 6-5!" the rookie center exclaimed Friday. No, you're 6 feet 1 inch, 189 pounds. While not the typical ... More About: Sports
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2008-04-06 00:00:00 Ashley Morris, rager extraordinaire of "Fuck You, You Fucking Fucks" notoriety, has died suddenly and totally unexpectedly. I'm stunned. And mute. Not The Huck Upchuck, thankfully: It will be one of my biggest regrets that I never took him up on his offer, always thinking there would be tomorrow. I am ...
And Julie Quinn, Too
2008-03-29 23:00:00 See Citizens' City Hall for State Senator Julie Quinn 's (R-Metairie) questions for Alan Levine and his non-answers. The full Times-Pic article is Proposed downtown hospital size, cost questioned.
?The need for a hospital now?
2008-03-28 00:00:00 from Brad Ott's testimony to the Louisiana Senate Local and Municipal Affairs Committee. March 25, 2008: "There has not really been an independent evaluation of that facility, big Charity. And even if you go by that, as I think they [LSU] can honestly respond to, Charity was less damaged ... More About: Hospital
Brilliance at the Top
2008-03-28 00:00:00 A new committee will look for ways the Recovery School District, the Orleans Parish School Board and the city's network of charters can consolidate their services, work together to cut costs and plot out the education landscape of the future. You mean, like a school system? What a radical idea. Maybe ... More About: Brilliance
It?s Not the Food That?s the Thing
2008-03-27 00:00:00 No mincing of words, no making nice: Rebecca Walker's blog post The Food Thing is self-consciously hip-cute, long on 1-2 sentence paragraphs and more revealing of her shortcomings than the toddler, motherhood, food, diet or anything of substance. Yes, others of us who parent have had toddler food dilemmas. Most ...
The Gotcha
2008-03-26 00:00:00 I'm having a rant-cork issue lately. But I'm watching Cliff's jump into the registration mess. It's been too volatile to warn anyone of anything and have it mean anything a week later. I am reluctant to enter the fray, like a lot of parents, and kind of hope The Girl's ...
Tax That Motherfucker
2008-03-22 00:00:00 Ed Rust of State Farm (H/T: Bark, bugs, leaves and lizards) Stay tuned for future installments of Tax That Motherfucker.....
What Kind of Fuckery Is This?
2008-03-21 00:00:00 I've been wanting to use that title for weeks...... Liprap's been tearing up the blogosphere with her school posts. The pictures are devastating. The reality is a lot fucking worse. A quick sample of recent posts: Yeah, it's not like it was entirely unexpected... Some responses to last week's RSD/OPSD properties posts: I read ...
Another Example of How NOT to Do Things
2008-03-21 00:00:00 A citywide and barely publicized downloadable/PDF recycling survey to mail in to the city. No, you cannot complete it online. Brought to you by the Department of Sanitation. Note that the next "recycling drop-off event" is April 12. And yes, it does need more copyediting. More About: Things
Just Stop Before I Really Get Pissed Again
2008-03-14 00:00:00 "I think what America feels about a woman becoming president takes a very secondary place to Obama's campaign -- to a kind of campaign that it would be hard for anyone to run against," she [Geraldine Ferraro] said. "For one thing, you have the press, which has been uniquely hard ... More About: Stop , Pissed
(Give a Flying) LEAP Week
2008-03-14 00:00:00 The Girl is absolutely loving LEAP week. (She isn't in a high-stakes grade.) Main reasons: Kids have to be quiet and concentrate. The "math isn't too hard and every once in a while, like 2 of the questions, I actually learn something, like about coordinates." There's no homework all week. They are told to ... More About: Flying , Week , Give , Leap
Wisdom
2008-03-14 00:00:00 Wisdom is experience with, long-term memory for and ability to often predict the stupid and wrong behavior of your age cohorts and others. Just one of the tidbits Mister and I try pass on to The Girl. More About: Wisdom
Just Stop Before I Really Get Pissed
2008-03-07 00:00:00 First, the quote from "To Women, So Much More Than Just a Candidate": As Wagner and other NOW executives toured Ohio last week, they repeated a resounding message: Clinton has been mistreated by an opponent who subtly demeans her, by a mainstream media that ridicules her, by voters too threatened to ... More About: Stop , Pissed
#*@*%^#*@*%^!!: Schools Edition: The Application
2008-03-04 00:00:00 This is The Application : Not an all-in-one application but one form you can use to apply to "most" RSD, OPSB and various charter schools. Unless the school you want to apply to has a different idea about the form, process and deadlines and you make the right decision (as pointed out ... More About: Schools , Edition
Insomnia: Year?something-or-other
2008-02-29 00:00:00 60: The brain keeps an exact counting of how much sleep it is owed. In our first study, we restricted the sleep of 10 volunteers to exactly 5 hours each night for 7 nights and observed that the tendency to fall asleep increased progressively each successive day. For the first ... More About: Insomnia , Year
How Sleepy Can You Be and Not Be Asleep?: 2
2008-02-29 00:00:00 A more detailed description of the Epworth Sleepiness Scale: 0-5 Slight or no sleep debt 6-10 Moderate sleep debt 11-20 Heavy sleep debt 21-25 Extreme sleep debt Dement, William C., and Christopher Vaughan. The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night?s Sleep. New ...
How Sleepy Can You Be and Not Be Asleep?
More articles from this author:2008-02-28 00:00:00 The Epworth Sleepiness Scale My score: 11. 9 and up: Seek the advice of a sleep specialist without delay Oh. pic from amysgster 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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