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
Before It?s Gone?.
2007-04-02 00:00:00 Nola.com's front page this morning--Vets still realing in Katrina's wake [emphasis added] "Real" is a noun, adjective and even an adverb but not a noun. Maybe the idea is to make "keeping it real" a single-word verb--"realing." If the T-P needs another human proofreader, I'm available. More About: Gone , Fore
Desegregation #2
2007-04-02 00:00:00 #1: Desegregation *** [Principal James] Thompson [of Simpson-Waverly School in Hartford, CN] never abandoned that apolitical, cautious optimism through the half decade I reported on his turf. As time went on, he discovered that compelling stories about "beat the odds" schools served to bolster the Republican national education agenda. The glory of ... More About: Segregation , Greg
Male Students #34 and 52
2007-03-31 00:00:00 Exact numbers I am not sure of but #34 saw me talking to his current comp professor and would've gone pale if he could have. He reported me to Academic Affairs last year because he didn't pass the comp course. Of course, he didn't tell Academic Affairs he started the ... More About: Student , Students , Male
Hallelujah
2007-03-31 00:00:00 I'm available in China. http://greatfirewallofchina.org/ More About: Hallelujah , Hall , Halle
Judge Hunter, I?m Just Blogging to Say ?I Love You?
2007-03-31 00:00:00 I've followed Judge Hunter 's jeremiad over the public defense system post-K. Seeing the headline and his quotes made my day: Orleans public defender system "a mockery," judge says "The Louisiana Legislature has allowed this legal hell to exist, fester and finally boil over" "This court must take certain measures to protect the ... More About: Love , Blogging , Blog
Please Pardon My Revising Again
2007-03-24 00:00:00 More obvious and occasionally disastrous tinkering ahead. Patience requested again. More About: Again , Sing , Please , Visi , Lease
?Plan?
2007-03-20 00:00:00 The Coastal Restoration and Protection Authority Integrated Plan ning Team did not create a plan: Critics misunderstand the plan, which aims only to lay out in broad terms the state's goals for flood protection and restoration, [authority Chairwoman Sydney] Coffee said. Maybe critics misunderstood CRPA's and IPT's use of the word ...
Go Read!
2007-03-20 00:00:00 Musicians' Village update and all related links and comments. From, of course, Ashley. Maitri rants righteously about C-Ray's latest piece of bullshit/oratory. When will he stop running for office? When will he shut the fuck up? You know what the real conspiracy is? His mouth getting Rob Couhig elected mayor next ... More About: Read
Geek Dinner 3
2007-03-19 00:00:00 Geek Dinner III page Geek Dinner IV is in the works. More About: Geek
State of NO Schools
2007-03-18 00:00:00 The Scott S. Cowen Institute for Public School Initiatives and stateofnolaschools.org have access to a survey about public education in the city. The next community meeting is Wednesday, March 21, 4 p,m, at City Hall. According to stateofnolaschools.org, the meeting will focus on the following questions: #What is going ... More About: Schools , State , Stat
ACT Protests ICF and Road Home in B.R.
2007-03-17 00:00:00 tags: ICF, Road Home , All Congregations Together More About: Protest , Test , Tests
Internal Erosion
2007-03-15 00:00:00 August 1, 2006: More troubling, perhaps, is a 25% jump in the mortality rate, including a threefold increase in the suicide rate ? a conservative estimate since many self-inflicted deaths are classified as accidental. September 18, 2006: The study was conducted by Dr. Raoult Ratard, state epidemiologist with DHH?s Office of Public ... More About: Inter , Internal , Eros , Sion , Intern
The End of Learning
2007-03-15 00:00:00 La Schmantzy Private School: The Girl seems about 2 days away from refusing to return. Partly, this is my fault--I told her we were looking for options and talked about some of the more progressive and radical ones: Waldorf, homeschooling, unschooling, private tutoring. I'm about 20 hours from refusing to ... More About: Earn , Learning , Learn , Earning
Levees.org Videos
2007-03-14 00:00:00 Levees.TV: MRGO: Hurricane Highway; Levees Protecting Your Neighborhood; Why We Need the 8-29 Commission; What Went Wrong with the Levees?; Armoring the Levees HT: Gentilly Girl More About: Video , Videos
Common Ground March on the Pentagon
2007-03-14 00:00:00 *"From Iraq to New Orleans, Fund People's Needs, Not the War Machine!" * *Common Ground Caravan from New Orleans to Join March 17 National March on Pentagon * *Please forward widely!* A caravan of buses, vans and cars will travel from New Orleans to join the National March on the Pentagon, March 17, 2007. ... More About: The Pentagon
Not Ready for Any Time
2007-03-11 00:00:00 I am still making my way through the Citywide Recovery and Rebuilding Plan (14 PDFs) from the UNOP site. I also plan to wade through BGR's critique (PDF). What I have read in the news about BGR's report and analysis jibes with what stopped me from attending so many, and ... More About: Time , Read , Ready
Desegregation
2007-03-11 00:00:00 Segregation and isolation from the mainstream might be manifest in her [teacher Gladys Hernandez] students' low test scores--she didn't contest that--but segregation, she said, also constricts their lives and misshapes their sense of the world. "I think that children can overcome the stigma of poverty...But, what they cannot overcome is the ... More About: Segregation , Greg
In Ten Years?
2007-03-08 10:27:02 The graphics are frightening but the series is as mind-numbingly tragic and depressing as a Beckett play. Now what? What do we fight for first? Is it even possible with the appropriations process we have and the people we have in "charge" to create any significant improvement or slowing-down of the ... More About: Years , Year , Ears
Seven Minutes
2007-03-04 22:24:02 How long it takes to watch the T-P interactive graphic The Rise and Disappearance of Southeast LA. The projected coastline when The Girl is about 23. More About: Seven , Minutes , Minute , Utes
It?s Definitely Not a Hug: Another Update
2007-03-04 16:24:01 Did President Bush see his "good friend," Ethel Williams? From It's Definitely Not a Hug and the update: Ethel Williams 2 promises later, from NPR's All Things Considered [sic] You can hear the story here if you download Real player. More About: Other , Update , Another
Blog Against Sexism Day! 2007
2007-03-04 16:24:01 Details at Taking Place and yes, the deadline is the 8th. pic from http://coffeeworks.blogs.com/bytheway/ima ges/angry_child.jpg More About: Blog , Again , Sexism , Fakta , Doof
Me, Too, Every Damn Day
2007-03-04 16:24:01 Conventioneers see N.O. for themselves: "[W]e noticed apartment complexes just destroyed, their windows all boarded up. What really got us -- we got that frog-in-the-throat thing -- was seeing all the trailers still there a year and a half later."--Ronald Shamlaty, Jr. Sometimes several times a day. Technorati Tags: New Orleans, tourism, trailers, ... More About: Ever , Damn
An Academic or an Intellectual?
2007-03-04 16:24:01 HT to Profacero who linked from Slaves of Academe "Three Differences between an Academic and an Intel lectual: What Happens to the Liberal Arts When They Are Kicked off Campus?" In brief, the three differences: 1. "An academic has and wants an audience disproportionately made up of teachers and students, while an intellectual has ... More About: Intellect , Elle , Intellectual
Got Beads?
2007-03-04 16:24:01 from the Times-Pic print version You can find a list of places taking beads in the "Recycle New Orleans!" brochure. Other places listed in the T-P: Westbank ARC 523 Cook St., Gretna 9 a.m.-4 p.m. M-F Call first! 504-361-1131 Arc of Greater New Orleans 925 Labarre Rd. at Airline, Jefferson 8 a.m.-3 p.m. M-F Milton Batiste at 504-837-5105 OR 5700 Loyola ... More About: Beads
A G Bitch Education
2007-02-24 22:21:01 I was "lucky" enough, much of my life, to go to school with rich/privileged kids, mostly white kids, in magnet schools and a just-a-block-from-the-Ivy-League college. It wasn't given to me. I was no charity case or bottom of the bell curve admitted for flavoring. I was smart, quick, sharp, all ... More About: Education , Cat , Bitch , Ducati , Duca
Turn and Face the Strange
2007-02-24 10:20:05 The Girl will not be returning to La Schmantzy Private School next year. If the charter school we applied to falls through, she'll be going to no school next year. I have much to say but no time. And once I've finished The Case Against Homework and a few other ... More About: Face , Strange , Stra , Turn , Range
At Least They Waited Until Zulu Passed
2007-02-23 10:19:01 Four are killed in 24 hours in N.O. 1) "In the city's first killing in four days, a man was fatally stabbed Tuesday evening in an argument in the Lower Garden District. "The victim, whose name has not been released, apparently tried to set fire to a 24-year-old ... More About: East , They , Pass , Zulu , Wait
Happiness #4: detail
2007-02-19 22:16:01 The Girl has a my-waist-high pile of beads, toys, puzzles, comic books, and plush animals of all colors and stripes. +++++ Happiness es #5+ to come. +++++ More About: Ness , Tail
Happiness #3
More articles from this author:2007-02-16 22:12:02 From the Big Easy Rollergirls at Muses More About: Happiness , Ness 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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