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
Got Comments?
2008-01-12 00:00:00 I do but I can't post them. WTF? Still a few cobwebs in the Spot...... More About: Comments
From The Nation: 2007 Holiday Donations
2008-01-10 00:00:00 Ho-Ho-Holiday Donations , 2007 Edition by Katha Pollitt 1. The Women's Health Initiative of HEARTT. Under Africa's first woman president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia is emerging from a devastating, protracted civil war, and its healthcare system is pretty much in ruins. Only about fifty Liberian doctors serve a nation of 5 million people, one ... More About: Nation , The Nation
Merry Happy Keep X in Your Xmas
2008-01-10 00:00:00 I am ambivalent and conflicted about Christmas. I'm not about the Christ story; I have only recently learned the art and nuance of gifting and being gifted; I'm a loner; I like the compulsion to see, talk to and hang out with family, something that can be too easy to ... More About: Happy , Xmas , Merry
Hillary Wins in Iowa
2008-01-10 00:00:00 While the crowd chanted, "HILL-A-RY!," I chanted "Bitch, you lost! Bitch, you lost! Bitch, you lost!" Ha-ha-ha-ha!!! More About: Iowa , Hillary , Wins
Can You See Me Now?
2008-01-10 00:00:00 Lucky you b/c I can't. Until this blows over, check for me at humidcity.com.
Back to the Spot
2008-01-10 00:00:00 Whew! I got a whole 2 posts up at Humid City. It's kind of fun being on someone else's blog, like using a friend's apartment to get your freak on. Thanks, Loki! Many thanks to Vegankid for cleaning up the Spot . More About: Back
Whoa, Whoa, Back the Hell Up!
2008-01-10 00:00:00 Missouri Governor Convenes Abortion "Taskforce": The group?s members are examining "the physical, emotional, social and economic effects of abortion," reports the Associated Press. Blunt has said that he will begin the taskforce with the "presumption that abortion has a negative impact on Missouri children, Missouri women, Missouri men, because it's harmful ... More About: Back , Hell , Whoa
What am I doing (there)?
2007-06-06 00:00:00 From now until after the fourth of July, I will be (huh?) in school, a 9-hour day from drop-off to pick-up 5 days a week. I'll have homework. Does this mean I am a fool or a "real" teacher? I won't be posting at all and will be even more out ... More About: There , Doing
Minimum Wage Increase
2007-05-26 00:00:00 from Salon.com (watch an ad to read it) Minimum Wage Increase to Become Reality: Currently, a person working 40 hours per week at the current minimum wage of $5.15 makes about $10,700 a year. An increase to $7.25 would boost that to just over $15,000 a year. $7.25 x 40 x 52 ... More About: Ease
Blow, Blow, Blow Your ____
2007-05-25 00:00:00 The shortfall debated: BLOWING IN THE WIND The state documents contend that a significant part of the Road Home shortfall emerged either because homeowners had insufficient insurance coverage or because insurance companies failed to meet their obligations. But the Bush administration foresees the Road Home coming up short by ...
Divine Ladies S&PC and Hot 8
2007-05-24 00:00:00 Sunday, May 20, 2007: First part of route at YouTube: several brief taken-with-a-little-digital-camera clips--be sure to watch Oh, wait till you see. More About: Ladies , Divine , Dies , Adie
Oh. My. G*d.
2007-05-18 00:00:00 RECYCLING! Well, possible community DIY recycling--if enough households sign up, it may be workable and affordable. There may be few Central City folks signing up. GOT RECYCLING? Phoenix Recycling will offer curbside recycling service for a fee, once we have enough interested customers. Hopefully early fall 2007! Plastic ? Glass ? Metal ? Newspaper The ...
Day Whatever-Maitri-Says-It-Is
2007-05-11 00:00:00 Subtropical storm Andrea: With three weeks until the official start of hurricane season, Subtropical Storm Andrea became the first named storm of the year, with sustained winds of up 45 mph, and moving slowly southwest. A Florida State University model has the storm potentially crossing Florida and entering the Gulf over ... More About: Ever , Itri
?Education? in NO
2007-05-07 00:00:00 Michael Homan has a couple great posts about local education (also read the comments): Hannah Three Steps Forward in Education What upsets me most is the elitification of a basic right--only if you are among the lucky few or dedicated to extremes and ready to pull all and any possible strings will your ... More About: Ducati , Duca
Dear University Student #22a, b, & c
2007-05-07 00:00:00 Sending 4 copies of a week-late assignment will not improve your grade. The syllabus says two important things about email: check your account daily and allow me 24-48 hours to reply--i.e., do not ignore your email account, and my emails about your grades and missing assignments, for 1-4 weeks then barrage ... More About: University , Student , Univ , Univers
Crunchy on the Outside, Crunchy on the Inside: 2007
2007-05-05 00:00:00 The word is slowly spreading that I am not coming back to the U. Most people have said to me I am doing the right thing. It's tough being a faculty member in general--tenure; student v. administrative needs and priorities; too much work and too little consecutive, uninterrupted or non-multitasking ... More About: Inside , Outside , Side , Crunch , The O
Not-Much-About Jazz Fest 2007
2007-04-29 00:00:00 After hearing Chris Rose (WWNO, Friday morning) on children and Jazz Fest , I thought of my many years of packing the stroller (a 90's version of this) and filling The tofu-and-broccoli-loving Girl with mango freezes, snowballs, lemonades, and all the sweet starches--plantains, fry bread, beignets. Now all she wants ... More About: Much
One More Time: Housing Discrimination
2007-04-29 00:00:00 The Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center released a report today on a study done between September 2006 and April 2007. "For Rent--Unless You're Black" is available as a PDF at the GNOFHAC site. The investigation showed that 57.5% of landlords [in Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Tammany parishes] discriminated ... More About: Time , Discrimination , Sing , More
An Anti-Depressant-Free G Bitch
2007-04-20 00:00:00 I am ambivalent about regaining my appetite and but happy about no longer sweating like 40 proverbial pigs (now I'm down to my usual 4). The tremors in my nerves, which is the best way I've found to describe this particular detox/withdrawal symptom, is tapering off, too. Oh joy. More About: Free , Essa , Bitch , Anti , Sant
All Is Quiet
2007-04-20 00:00:00 The shootings at VA Tech are appalling and really have rattled universities across the country and those who work and study at them, including me (yes, 2 shivers in the same year). Complaints were made and concerns voiced about Cho Seung Hui but nothing could really be done. Not ... More About: Quiet
People with Degrees Really Do #@^$%!* Live Here
2007-04-20 00:00:00 The Recovery School District and the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education are preparing for next year by offering incentives to draw out-of-state teachers to NO: New Orleans schools offer bonuses to lure out-of-state teachers The plan offers $5,000 per year for two years along with a $400 monthly housing subsidy for ... More About: People , Live , Real , Here , Degree
Walk on By
2007-04-20 00:00:00 The beans-and-rice sabbatical: I am making myself unemployed in 32 days and some hours. Update/clarification: I'm leaving the University period. Salary be damned. photo © Arjan Hamberg for openphoto.net CC:Attribution-ShareAlike More About: Walk
Watch What You Eat
2007-04-13 00:00:00 The problems the government faces are legion. Pesticides and chemical fertilizers are used in excess to boost yields while harmful antibiotics are widely administered to control disease in seafood and livestock. Rampant industrial pollution risks introducing heavy metals into the food chain. Is this the US? Russia? Vietnam? Iraq? Answer Organic Consumers Association: ... More About: Watch , What , Hat
Bitchbitchbitchbitchbitch
2007-04-13 00:00:00 "Bitch " is not the same as the n-word. (I'm actually euphemizing.) The n-word is meant to dehumanize and has no power. Bitch has power. Men call you a bitch (white, black, polka-dotted or striped) when you don't do what they want. It can be a line in the sand--duck and ...
Call It What?
2007-04-11 00:00:00 A clash of spring breaks has me disoriented and drained of words. That and the papers I've graded. Though they weren't as bad as I feared they'd be, I did get half the number I should've. Entergy to begin charging for fund: ...said Morgan Stewart, a spokesman for Entergy New Orleans. "The ... More About: What , Hat , Call
Insomnia: Year 7
2007-04-03 00:00:00 The only thing worse than 7 years of shitty sleep is a few months of decent sleep (bless you, Ambien) that deteriorate into only almost-passes-as sleep (with my darling Ambien, even). I am again losing my shit. All over the place. It still amazes me that one month of poor sleep counts ... More About: Insomnia , Year , Omni
More Insomnia: Year 7
2007-04-03 00:00:00 News reports about Anna Nicole Smith have peaked my curiosity about chloral hydrate. I must be slipping into some kind of sleep-deprivation delirium reading Anna Nicole Smith news stories. In addition to a morbid fascination with fatal familial insomnia (I use it to remind myself that I may feel like shit ... More About: More , Insomnia , Year , Omni
Desegregation #3
More articles from this author:2007-04-03 00:00:00 [note--refers to page] 47---------as housing discrimination continued--------- [Rose] Helper, Racial Policies [and Practices of Real Estate Brokers (Minneapolis: University of Minnesoata Press, 1969)]; [Douglas] Massey and [Nancy] Denton, American Apartheid [Cambridge, MA: Harvard Unversity Press, 1993]; and Greg ory Squires, "The Indelible Color Line: The Persistence of Housing ... More About: Segregation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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