I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is The Science of Freelancing.
I hate the role of Cassandra. I want to believe that America has moved beyond violence and racism and maybe we have. But I thought we had moved beyond sexism, and this campaign proved me wrong. The petty woman-hating jibes, the ageism, and the physical mockery have not been easy to watch. The only good thing about the defeat of Hillary Clinton may be a resurgence of feminism, an understanding that we haven’t yet killed misogyny and that we have work to do.
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning gas pump rant I present: From My Dad.
I am blogging, and blogging in the manner that I do, because there is an inherent hypocrisy in American society that puts people in my position, i.e. people whose baggage is a public record felony conviction, in a position of total helplessness, without a single way out.
And sitting in judgment of these people in such terrible straits, are often those who have done far worse things in their lives, hurt far more people, some of which is even documented on public records, and yet have the temerity to tell someone like me that I am unemployable.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
“Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy?
She does not. I only listen when I am unhappy
When I am happy I live and despise writing
For my Muse this cannot but be dispiriting.
– Steve Smith, My Muse. p. 183
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
The military dictators of Myanmar continue to enjoy all the luxuries of their palaces while more than two million of their citizens continue to suffer in the wake of Cyclone Nargis. After listening to John O’Shea yesterday I’m convinced that nothing short of a humanitarian invasion will bring relief to these people.
From MeriNews:
Farce and the Myanmar military junta have become synonymous. A month after over a million people perished and 2.5 million were rendered homeless, the heartless regime withholds permission to airlift relief supplies by choppers to devastated areas.
It must be the worst record of rescue and relief operations following a natural calamity in the world. It has been a month since the killer Cyclone Nargis devastated the Irrawaddy Delta and the Yangon division in Myanmar and till date no foreign helicopters have been allowed by the military junta to airlift relief materials.
The international community and foreign relief organisations have hit a major hurdle despite promises by the Myanmar military junta to the United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon that relief workers of all nationalities and relief material would be allowed unfettered access to the cyclone ravaged areas.
The truth of the matter is that the junta lied through its teeth while making this promise because naval vessels of at least three Western countries were denied permission to offload relief material to affected areas and relief organisations are not being permitted to use helicopters to airlift the supplies to areas, which are not accessible by road or water ways. Continue Reading »
I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is Living the Prolific Life: A How-to Guide.
No. Not Michigan, Florida and Ohio, but rather Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. Here’s what he said to AIPAC this morning:
…Palestinians need a state that is contiguous…
Palestinians need a state that is contiguous and cohesive and enables them to prosper. But any agreement with the Palestinian people must preserve Israel’s identity as a Jewish state, secure in its borders, and Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, secure and undivided.
You can’t do that without either creating corridors along Israel’s borders with Egypt and Jordan and giving up the Israeli Red Sea port of Eilat; cutting Israel in half; or by building a bridge/tunnel over/under pathway to connect Gaza with the West Bank.
Or, you could imitate events on the Indian subcontinent following the end of British colonial rule (without the bloody civil war) and declare Gaza and the West Bank to be free, and independent, states.
In many ways, that is the de facto situation today. After the Hamas-led government won election, the Palestinian Authority only retains some semblance of control in the West Bank. Would Hamas be satisfied with Gaza? Would the PA accept the West Bank? I don’t know.
But if the Democratic party’s presumptive nominee for president truly believes that a contiguous Palestine is possible, my latter analysis (three states) seems much more likely than the former (bridges and tunnels).
She who Writes Like She Talks is live blogging Sen. Brack Obama’s speech before AIPAC.
It’s been a busy week in Wally World: the Universe’s source of cheap plastic crap. On The Writing On The Wal — the blog USA Today says should be on its readers’ radar — Jonathan Rees, Robert Feinman, Peter Sayles and I continue our work dedicated to drawing back the curtain on the Bentonvile Behemoth’s corporate disinformation and other flackery.
I GET IT…! WAL-MART LOVES ANOREXICS…! The primary problem with the Wal-Mart philosophy of constantly driving prices lower and lower is that at some point, the fat is all gone and you start destroying muscle. Lean and mean can be healthy. Anorexia never is. In the business world profit is the fat. Keep reading…
LET WAL-MART FIX IT… IT CAN FIX ANYTHING… First, my apologies to Mikey, wherever he may be. If you”re in business, then business is the answer to every problem. Every aspect of life, business people believe, is a contract; a transaction where services are exchanged for legal tender. Keep reading…
WAL-MART TACKLING EBAY AND CRAIG”S LIST…? Keep reading…
AT THE WALLY PLEX… There are sound stages on Hollywood”s back lots smaller than Bentonvile”s behemoth”s, so it”s no surprise that budding video talent has been sneaking cameras in at odd hours. And now for the midnight show at the Wally Plex featuring Minyanville. Watch…
IT”S BECAUSE NEOCONS AREN”T CONSERVATIVES… Blogger David Crisp ponders the question: why do so many self-identified conservatives appear to love Wal-Mart so much? It”s because their not really conservatives, Dave. They”re Libertarians, Neocons, Theocons or just everyday bitter and greedy people. Keep reading…
OH LET ME COUNT THE WAYS… OH LET ME COUNT THE WAYS…Abhineet Kumar enumerates the ways the Wal-Mart has gone wrong in its entrance to the Asian subcontinent. While its chief competitor in the market has opened 600 stores, Wal-Mart has yet to open one and now looks to next year for a possible launch. Keep reading…
I HOPE THIS MAKES IT TO THE WALLY PLEX… I”ve posted videos of two, three, even four teenagers acting a fool in Wal-Mart in the small hours of the morning, but nothing like what happened at a Wal-Mart in Gainesville, Florida over the weekend. I sure hope someone got video for YouTube. Keep reading…
LET THEM EAT PORK RINDS…! Our discussion of the Wal-Mart recession windfall is rapidly approaching dead-horse status, but this morning the news wires are all a buzz with repetitions of Anne D”Innocenzio Associated Press story on how investors are drooling over Wal-Mart”s stock value. Keep reading…
WAL-MART EMPLOYEES TAKE NOTE… The vast majority of Wal-Mart workers don”t unionize for a very simple reason: they can”t afford to lose their Wal-Job. The company uses fear and intimidation to daily reinforce the corporate policy that will kick you to the curb if you so much as whisper the word union in a stall in the bathroom on your break with the light turned off and no one else there to hear you. Keep reading…
From C-Notes:
Over the past few years, the city has invested millions of dollars in The Terraces, a complex of shops and 48 condos that was supposed to be built on Lee Road at Meadowbrook. Taxpayers footed the bill to buy the land, clean up pollution, and build a $6.2 million public parking garage near the Cedar Lee Theatre. That was the public end of the deal-and the government upheld its end of the bargain.
It was the private company that fell through. Cincinnati developer Al. Neyer, Inc. recently dropped the project after not selling enough condos to even begin construction.
I seem to recall reading recently that there was a $2 million shortfall in the Cleveland Heights buget this year.
How do we convince government that private enterprise never has the best interests of a community nor its residents at heart?
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning gas pump rant I present: From My Dad.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
…the left hemisphere is better than the right at recognizing rhythm, whereas the right is better at recognizing melody. (T) p. 180
From The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer”s Block and the Creative Brain by Alice W. Flaherty.
This morning’s story is an audio one broadcast by Public Radio International’s The World Program. On this program PRI anchor Marco Werman interviews John O’Shea, founder and CEO of GOAL. O’Shea pulls no punches in calling for a humanitarian invasion of Myanmar and dealing with the political consequences later.
I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is How To Kill Your Addictions to Junk Food and Soda Pop.
Nnaeke Olando wrote me in an email this morning:
SOMEONE YOU CALL YOUR FRIEND, WANTS YOU DEAD.
I felt very sorry and bad for you, that your life is going to end like this if you don’t comply, i was paid to eliminate you and I have to do it within10 days. Someone you call your friend wants you dead by all means, and the person have spent a lot of money on this, the person also came to us and told us that he wants you dead and he provided us your names, photograph and other necessary information we needed about you.
Meanwhile, I have sent my boys to track you down and they have carried out the necessary investigation needed for the operation, but I ordered them to stop for a while and not to strike immediately because I just felt something good and sympathetic about you. I decided to contact you first and know why somebody will want you dead by all means. Right now my men are monitoring you, their eyes are on you, and even the place you think is safer for you to hide might not be. Now do you want to LIVE OR DIE? It is up to you. Get back to me now if you are ready to enter deal with me, I mean life trade, who knows, and I might just spear your life, $12,000 is all you need to spend. Continue Reading »
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