The G Bitch SpotThe G Bitch Spotat which a mad black woman rants about New Orleans, insomnia, teaching, various -isms and anything else involving a bitch, a spot or the letter g Articles
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
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
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 ...
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
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 ...
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
End of Rope
2009-05-30 12:25:00 One more obnoxious Apple commercial and I'm buying a $400 PC. More About: Rope
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.
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
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
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
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
Jazz Fest 2009
2009-05-08 00:10:00 I needed Jazz Fest this year. It's been...a time. Thursday Got there early with the school groups, had my Jazz Fest breakfast of beignets and unsweetened mandarin orange iced tea, then started off with The Red Hawk Mardi Gras Indians and the Paulin Brothers Brass band. Both were fantastic. The Paulins did ...
Wait a Few
2009-05-08 00:10:00 I did 4 days of Jazz Fest and a few other things in the past 2 weeks. One day soon, I'll post about it. Work sux. More About: Wait
Blue?
2009-05-02 00:09:00 Blue Dog Coalition? Blue? Blue is not the color I see. I'll be calling them the Cracker Dogs from now on. And my share of the debt today is significantly less than my student loans. Trade? More About: Blue
Ayo Gorkhali!
2009-05-02 00:09:00 Near the end of this NPR Morning Edition story, after a shaming Liberal Democrat lecture, Joanna Lumley gives the Gurkha war cry "Ayo Gorkhali!"--it is something to hear.
New Subject Line: Annoying Motherfucker
2009-05-02 00:09:00 An email to a friend who'd emailed me the NYTimes op-ed RE: End the University As We Know It If American higher education is to thrive in the 21st century, colleges and universities, like Wall Street and Detroit, must be rigorously regulated and completely restructured. He assumes, incorrectly, that Wall St. has been ... More About: Line , Subject , Annoying
?you must go on, I can?t go on, I?ll go on?
2009-04-24 12:05:00 Easy to say if you're Samuel Beckett. I've been reluctant to write about work, and especially students, since I'm not even semi-anonymous anymore. I can say that I quit. I get to miss the trickling out of contracts with so many caveats that there's barely anything to sign. Majors may disappear. ...
Ibuprofen Abuse
2009-04-23 12:04:00 If you've heard, read or blogged about this case already, don't waste your time telling me in the comments. Just go read something else. Savana Redding's case has gone to the Supreme Court. The Court has to decide if schools, in the name of protecting their students, can go to what ... More About: Abuse
Can You Hear That?
2009-04-21 12:03:00 Went to French Quarter Fest to see the Soul Rebels who I love but cannot stay up past 9 PM to see. I was in front of one wall of speakers. I thought to myself, What kind of ear protection do they wear? Are they wearing any? Then I felt ... More About: Hear
Wednesday
2009-04-13 23:59:00 A graduate student we're hosting this semester wanted to buy a book from me and had to catch me right before a class--she gave me a $20 and we agreed to meet after my class for her to get the book and her $5 change. I was wearing, uncharacteristically for ... More About: Wednesday
Cheesy YouTube
2009-04-12 23:58:00 The Girl is cultivating her own online life and interests. Cats have always been an almost Asperger's-like obsession-"interest." She sent me an email about this YouTube video the other day: This kitten also likes Cheetos. [We have a cat that loves The Chip--potato, corn, tortilla, Doritos, any bag that crinkles gets his ... More About: Youtube
The Whole Bitch
2009-04-09 11:55:00 Posts are all here. There may be some glitches here and there. I am still very sorry about all your broken links. More About: Bitch
If Only
2009-04-07 23:53:00 I intend to write an insomniac manifesto, apology and plea to all my friends, loved relatives, want-you-to-be-my friends with pungent quotes from Insomniac and The Promise of Sleep and a couple studies then an explanation of how disabled I am and an appeal to either be patient, more patient, or ...
Recession Periods
2009-04-06 23:52:00 While some are cutting back on manicures or vacations or brand-name canned tomatoes, I'm going to drugstore-brand "feminine products." I've been a loyal Always user for a couple decades. With the recession, and future plans for less income--only I would pursue lower income in a recession--I've switched from the $3.99 packs ... More About: Recession
25 Writers Meme
More articles from this author:2009-04-06 23:52:00 Professor Zero tagged me. I thought I could do it quickly but it's taken me at least a week, maybe more. So here it finally is, in no particular order: Vladimir Nabokov Robert Walser Margarita Karapanou Alice Walker Toni Morrison Toni Cade Bambara Judith Herman Noam Chomsky Jim Thompson Marcel Proust Joyce Carol Oates Angela Davis Franz Kafka Barbara Ehrenreich Patricia Williams Valerie Solanas Molly Ivins Samuel Beckett Yasunari ... More About: Meme , Writers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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