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
Jindal and the Moon
2012-02-08 13:33:00 Bobby Jindal Is Mooning LA–CenLamar Jindal?s voucher plan is comically infeasible and impractical. From The Times-Picayune: Under Jindal?s plan, about 380,000 students would qualify to receive state aid for tuition at a private or religious school, (Senator) Landrieu pointed out. But even … Continue reading →
What ?National School Choice Week? Was Actually About
2012-01-27 12:23:00 National School Choice Week ? And the kickoff was a “party,” all flash, no substance? That noise you heard was dry heaves. 5 Biggest Lies about the Right-Wing, Corporate-Backed War on Our Schools, Alternet, 1/23/2012 The lies? That school “choice” is “about … Continue reading → More About: National
Blog for Choice 2012: hctiB G: A(nother) title I wish I?d thought of first
2012-01-22 08:22:00 originally posted January 22, 2000 ———– Read I?m Pro-Choice and I Fuck. I just wish I?d come up with the title first. It so sums up my feelings and philosophy?. According to Cristina Page, vice president of NARAL Pro-Choice New … Continue reading → More About: Blog , Thought , Title , Title I
hctiB G: Chocolate City
2012-01-20 19:51:00 originally posted Jan. 20, 2006 Part of the flak over Nagin’s chocolate city comment (he said it when he testified in front of Congress and no one seemed to notice though that time he did smile as he said it) … Continue reading → More About: Chocolate , City
Quick Reads
2012-01-13 23:11:00 Ones that make salient points that may be ignored, or never seen, by most, especially in our top-down state education system with the absolute complicity of mainstream local press in that so-called system. First, though I read it second, and … Continue reading → More About: Quick
You Know Why
2012-01-10 20:05:00 John White appears poised to be named state schools superintendent this week No surprise here. This has been wanted since 3 days after he became superintendent of RSD. [Even now, no one in public has asked, or questioned, why.] Now that the … Continue reading →
Money Does Not Make One Smart
2012-01-01 12:26:00 Or an expert. I know that’s hard for some Americans to believe. Or, rather, feel because the equating of material wealth with spiritual, moral and other types of worthiness is not a thought but a gut feeling/mass delusion. In Waiting for Superman, Bill … Continue reading → More About: Money , Smart , Make
hctiB G: Holiday Greeting 2011
2011-12-25 09:07:00 Ah, the season of what-DO-you-eat is here again. originally posted December 21, 2006 Spare an animal–have a vegetarian/vegan holiday meal. Donate to others and smile for no reason. More About: Holiday
Remember: Dec. 31, 2005
2011-12-24 12:06:00 Longtime educators are kicked to the curb, letter to editor, Times-Pic. 12/31/05 I am a 34-year veteran who has spent half of my entire life at a successful school. Now the restructuring experts are putting the final nail in the … Continue reading →
Solution Meets Problem
2011-12-21 16:33:00 The solution: 9/05: The news racing around the shelter that day was that the Republican Congressman Richard Baker had told a group of lobbyists, “We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.” … Continue reading → More About: Problem
Missing, Still
2011-12-20 17:36:00 Sam sent me the link to Is there room for black leadership in New Orleans’ charter school movement?: Jarvis DeBerry and my response to her became what you see below, edited for clarity and cheap shots: In 2005, many of the black faces … Continue reading → More About: Missing
hctiB G: Complex PTSD
2011-12-13 01:16:00 I’ve been blood-vessel-bursting annoyed by In Session’s coverage of Susan Wright’s resentencing, by prosecutors and commenters and viewers questioning Wright’s story of spousal abuse because she doesn’t “act like” or “react like” a “victim” or, to my extreme annoyance, “looked like a vicious … Continue reading → More About: Complex
Why I Like Thanksgiving
2011-11-25 13:06:00 It means it’s closer to Christmas and closer to King’s Day and closer to Carnival and Mardi Gras and then Jazz Fest French Quarter Fest. It’s Tofu Roast time! (from ARK II–The Animal Rights Kollective with permission from Sarah Kramer, … Continue reading → More About: Thanksgiving
htciB G: Choice, Choice, Choice and Choice: 1
2011-11-22 13:05:00 originally posted Nov 20, 2009 It’s not a surprise that there are stumbles along the new road of School Choice to our difficult and deceptively “improved” status quo. While the New Orleans community has successfully created an unprecedented number of school … Continue reading →
hctiB G: Compassion, Lack Thereof
2011-11-19 13:04:00 originally posted Nov 18, 2009 In “Compassion ” [from 9/4/05, and which starts with a PSA for help for New Orleanians after the Floods], Gil Fronsdal says that compassion is hard because it requires feeling the suffering of others: When compassion flows … Continue reading →
VOTE!
2011-11-19 13:04:00 Because of expected, and typically, low turnout, your vote Saturday carries more weight. I don’t care who you vote for, but please do. It’s not a right but a duty. I have only this to say: More About: Vote
Painful
2011-11-16 01:01:00 And it’s not about public education this time. It’s Sandusky. Costas: Are you a pedophile? First off, who would answer yes on national television when there’s a criminal case against him [and now about 10 more victims have come forward, though all … Continue reading →
htciB G: Dear University Student #20
2011-11-14 12:59:00 originally posted Nov 13, 2006 also see Dear University Student , Dear University Student #19, Dear University Student #21, and Dear University Student #22a, b, & c. Do not turn in 3 or 4 weeks of missed homework, essays and assignments on the day … Continue reading →
1. If you don?t agree with me about schools,
2011-11-11 12:57:00 …don’t delude yourself into thinking I care. For more information, see the Comment Policy. 2. I do not think that questioning the idea that public money is best spent by private interests, and pushed by those who’d benefit from being … Continue reading → More About: Schools
hctiB G: The Girl in the World
2011-11-05 12:55:00 originally posted Nov 4, 2009 The Girl ’s best friend told her that M-, another girl in their class, told the best friend that atheists can’t get married. [This is rich after all the kerfuffle over now-resigned Keith Bardwell.] The best … Continue reading → More About: World , The World
Runoff!
2011-11-05 12:55:00 Louella Givens v. Kira Orange Jones. The big money is behind Jones—actually, it’s to smear Givens which means either (even) low(er) voter turnout or more votes for Jones. She is one of the last pieces of the puzzle. And it’s … Continue reading →
Bloomberg Knows What?s Best for Us, too
2011-10-30 12:53:00 Times-Pic/nola.com: New York’s Mayor Bloomberg joins fray over control of state school board New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who kicked off his own controversial reform effort in New York City schools almost a decade ago,…signed a $5,000 check this month to … Continue reading →
?You Don?t Need a Title to Help Bring This Country Back?
2011-10-24 13:51:00 The presidency is not “a title“—it is a job, one serving the public. But this you wouldn’t know too much about, would you? As for her own job, she was known for coming in late and leaving early. “It’s not … Continue reading → More About: Country , Back , Title
VOTE!
2011-10-24 13:51:00 The League of Women Vote rs has candidate guides for state senator, state representative, and parish office races for civil, criminal and traffic court. Candidate data for statewide offices, including BESE seats, are here, including PDFs of candidate responses to questions … Continue reading →
Damn Squared
2011-10-24 13:51:00 Normally, I couldn’t give a quarter of a hair off a rat’s ass about Lil Wayne but this excerpt made me put this interview [Nov. 2011] on my very, very, very long Read Later list: GQ: Your relationship with your … Continue reading →
Save Our Sons? Save Our Daughters, Too.
More articles from this author:2011-10-24 13:51:00 You still have time to register for the crime summit at UNO tomorrow. Something absolutely has to change, and I hope tomorrow galvanizes those attending and everyone else who’s been watching the same shit happen over and over. I’ve seen the aftermath of these … Continue reading → More About: Save , Sons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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