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#*@*%^#*@*%^!!: Schools Edition: Comments
2008-02-26 00:00:00 Liprap of course: I experienced something similar when I read the piss-poor articles in the February New Orleans magazine. http://liprapslament-theline.blogspot.com /2008/02/important-notice-ladies-and-gent lemen-i.html Wasn't public education supposed to level the playing fields for our kids? Now parents are supposedly penalizing their kids on the basis of whether or not we can fit ourselves into ... More About: Schools , Comments , Edition
#*@*%^#*@*%^!!: Schools Edition: NOLA Parents? Guide and an Application
2008-02-26 00:00:00 The PDF can be downloaded at the New Orleans Parents ' Guide to New Orleans Schools website. It could be much worse--there could be no guide or a guide with little to no data at all. But here are some details: pages 20-74: schools that range from grades PK to 10th, some starting ... More About: Application , Edition
#*@*%^#*@*%^!!: Schools Edition
2008-02-26 00:00:00 1. "School fair attendance gets failing grades" (cute title for a very not-cute story): Addressing about 30 people Saturday during an event designed to help parents begin signing up their children for the 2008-09 school year, Recovery School District superintendent Paul Vallas bemoaned what he described as a poor outreach effort ... More About: Schools , Edition
My Damn Book Meme 2
2008-02-26 00:00:00 The original tag-yourself meme came from Bardiac. But this is?My Damn Book Meme . TWO! My Rules: 1. I [g]rab the nearest chosen book. 2. I [o]pen the book to page 123. 3. I [f]ind the fifth sentence. 4. I [p]ost the text of the next 4 sentences on your my blog along with these instructions. ...
V to the 10th: Bring 10! Send 10! Tell 10!
2008-02-14 00:00:00 Details from the V-Day site: In celebration of V TO THE TENTH, BRING 10! people with you to New Orleans to V TO THE TENTH at the New Orleans Arena. The V-Day event of the decade, in New Orleans we will celebrate the V-Day movement and honor the thousands of activists ... More About: Send
Amnesty for Telecoms, Not People
2008-02-14 00:00:00 (HT: Am Funk, Amnesty for Domestic Spying) from Glenn Greenwald, Amnesty Day for Bush and lawbreaking telecoms: Update The Dodd/Feingold amendment to remove telecom immunity from the bill just failed by a whopping vote of 31-67 -- 20 votes shy of the 50 needed for a passage. A total of 18 Democrats ... More About: People , Telecoms
aack!
2008-02-14 00:00:00 Crazy-busy. At least I have Ambien, for the time being. Back soon. Keep these things in mind: 1. Black voters cannot put anyone into office on the national level. The numbers are too low. The MSM loves the racial divide story because it is easy and fits a compulsive need to ...
It?s Carnival Time!: 3
2008-02-06 00:00:00 Most of The Girl's 2008 booty. A mother is to carry. * A father is to bring a ladder. *reference: A Hole Is to Dig by Ruth Krauss, a book of definitions created by nursery school children in the early 50s More About: Carnival , Time , Time 3
This Is the Kind of Thing That Erodes the Composition Teacher?s Soul
2008-02-05 00:00:00 Undecided '08: Should I vote for Clinton or Obama? by Rebecca Traister Who am I to turn up my nose at her because she's imperfect? I always figured the first female president would be a Thatcher-style Republican -- how can I complain about a Wellesley-educated Democrat who once resembled the ... More About: Soul , Composition , Teacher , Thing
It?s Carnival Time!: 2
2008-02-03 00:00:00 The Girl and I caught not one, not 2, but 3 Muses shoes: The Girl caught this one: After a float passed, I heard a thump, looked behind me and this shoe was on the curb: This one landed in one of our chairs: Come on baby let the good times roll Come on baby ... More About: Carnival , Time
Liveblogging of Sorts: G Bitch & Mister Watch Obama and Hillary
2008-02-02 00:00:00 7:03 PM: (G Bitch ) Yeah, Wolf, we get it--a woman and a black man. Can you stop being such a white man about it? 7:05 PM: (Mister) CNN? Substantive? And then we decide to "liveblog." 7:18: I think it's nuts, too. that there are 15 million people who just don't want health care. ... More About: Watch , Obama , Hillary , Liveblogging
Nicola Cotton
2008-02-02 00:00:00 I passed the Sixth District police station today, saw her patrol car. I didn't know what to do so I reverted to childhood--I made the sign of the Cross. More About: Cotton
?Fuck no! They always want the writer to work for nothing.?
2008-02-02 00:00:00 A righteous pro-writer rant. Bless him, says the atheist. More About: Work , Writer , The Writer , Fuck
Obama and Clinton
2008-01-30 00:00:00 Obama's message, speeches and campaign talk about "we," what "we can" do, what "we" need, what kind of country "we" want to live in, "Yes we can!" Clinton 's message is "I" will be ready, "I" am qualified, "I" can win, "I" can play and win the game, "I" can roll with ... More About: Obama , Linton
Can You Feel It?
2008-01-27 00:00:00 The Panic of 2008, The Nation: The cynical interpretation of events would be that the Fed is acting to rescue its most cherished constituency, Wall Street, which has had a pretty rough go of it lately after about twenty-five years of raking it in. This isn't wholly untrue, but ... More About: Feel It , Feel
What the Hell Happened Wednesday?
2008-01-25 00:00:00 Intense urges to keep my head in the sand almost made me miss all this good news in the Times-Pic yesterday: 1. "Business owner charged in bribe case" (called Businessman latest to be charged in school board bribery case at nola.com) and the accidental leaking of the name Mose Jefferson. Cover ... More About: Hell , Wednesday
Comment on Surprise!: Ceejay
2008-01-24 00:00:00 I really do miss comments. Ceejay wanted to add this to Surprise! and I am happy to post comments when I get them via email: Just found your blog and love it. Yes, yes, yes about the testing. I was recently telling someone online that when IQ tests were first introduced, ... More About: Comment
FYI: Women?s Health & Justice Initiative: LOCATION CHANGE
2008-01-24 00:00:00 *****Please Note the Location Change ***** Take a Break From The Parades and Join The Discussion! The New Orleans Women 's Health & Justice Initiative ' Organizing Institute' on Reproductive Justice Presented by SISTERSONG Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective When: Saturday, January 26th ...
The Care of Trees, People and Other Needs
2008-01-24 00:00:00 bark, bugs, leaves, and lizards on the coming deconstruction of the Magnolia/CJ Peete *** pic from AP/NY Times La Chola on the Palestinians pouring through the blasted border fence to not protest but buy, as I heard on NPR, "cement, cigarettes and cooking oil." *** Barack Obama on MLK Day (taken from AmFunk) *** You better listen ... More About: People , Care , Trees , Needs
35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
2008-01-22 00:00:00 The Girl has strep throat. Nasty. I had a case in 1999 that I got at Tulane and needed 2 rounds of antibiotics over the course of a month to get rid of. *** It is the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade . Sign the We Had Abortions petition (I wish I ... More About: Anniversary
Year 41
2008-01-21 00:00:00 This is the year G Bitch gives up all hard alcohol. I don't think my sleep-deprived body and brain can handle it anymore. More About: Year
Still Slapping at Gnats
2008-01-19 00:00:00 If you've tried to comment and gotten a blank screen or the comment disappeared, it's happened to me, too. Seems posts will only take 1 comment right now. If you absolutely, positively have to tell me what you think, email. If I get enough "good ones," I'll get them up ...
Fit for a King Weekend!
2008-01-19 00:00:00 Full details on the teach-in and the dine-out at GNO Fair Housing. More About: Weekend , King
Surprise!
2008-01-19 00:00:00 I will not be encouraging The Girl to practice the LEAP online and know that I have the middle-class, college-educated privilege to do so while others do not. Begin your reading assignment with: Measuring What Matters Least How Standardized Testing Damages Education Standardized Testing and Its Victims by Alfie Kohn, Education Week, 9/27/00 A ...
FYI: Women?s Health & Justice Initiative: Organizing Institutes
2008-01-15 00:00:00 Women's Health & Justice Initiative The New Orleans Women's Health & Justice Initiative (WHJI) will be sponsoring a series of 'Organizing Institutes ' throughout 2008, focused on (1) examining and challenging all forms of gender and sexuality-based violence against women of color and poor women in our communities; and ... More About: Women
?Alternatives for the Alternative?
2008-01-15 00:00:00 by Dr. Andre Perry, contributing columnist to The Louisiana Weekly and assistant professor of higher education. Dr. Perry's comments on education can be heard every Friday on WWNO at 5:30 p.m. The essay is available here and was broadcast Friday, January 11, 2008 (emphasis added; my comments are in brackets): If ... More About: Alternative , Alternatives , The Alternative , Alterna
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
TODAY: Internat?l Day to Shut Down Guantánamo!
2008-01-12 00:00:00 International Day to Shut Down Guantánamo Friday, January 11, 2008 4 PM - 5 PM Street Theatre & Vigil in Front of the Federal Court 500 Poydras St. New Orleans, LA 70130 · January 11, 2008 marks the 6th anniversary of the first arrival of "detainees" at ... More About: Today , Namo
Walter Kälin, Representative of the UN Sec-Gen on Internally Displaced Pers
More articles from this author:2008-01-12 00:00:00 Walter Kälin, Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Internally Displaced PersonsJan. 16-18, 2008 New Orleans - Gulfport - Biloxi Brief Bio of Walter Kälin: The mandate of the Representative of the Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons calls upon him to engage in dialogue and advocacy with governments and other parties concerning the ... More About: Resent , Walter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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