USATODAY.com – Parents protest governor’s decision to give schools two days off Yeah, we were pretty pissed off too. I don’t think it saved much energy. We stayed home. Ben worked on his homework, we played hide and seek, gave the cat a bath. Wish I’d thought of going to the Capitol. It was simply inconvenient for us – I couldn’t go into work, so it cost me two days’ pay. Actually, since I only work two days a week,…
Campaign for Americas Future –The Broken Contract with America In the wake of the disastrous effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Americans have a clearer understanding of the radical right’s dangerous agenda and misplaced priorities. From poverty reduction to disaster preparedness to disaster recovery, the Republican leadership has worked systemically on behalf of the privileged at the expense of the people. And, the radical right’s deliberate neglect and misplaced priorities do not begin or end with the current Administration. Eleven…
Try not to drive, y’hear? What can I tell you? What can I possibly say? Oh, no, that’s Leonard Cohen, and I’m thinking of Bob Dylan. It was good to see the movie “No Direction Home” on PBS tonight. I saw the first half of it anyway, and I’ll be watching the second. Fragments of the old and the contemporary – it all made me feel an odd mixture of hopefulness and sadness. Bob Dylan seemed so very fragile in…
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. – Edna St. Vincent Millay Charlie Rose just quoted this off the website with which Viggo Mortenson is associated (Perceval Press, where you can find some very interesting books). Good interview, with hats off to Howard Zinn, and a calm but determined recircling to the issue of the administration’s loyalty only the interests of a very powerful few. Oh, and he was decent on the upcoming Cronenberg movie,…
Class warfare design. Intelligible Design posted September 15, 2005 (October 3, 2005 issue of The Nation) Katha Pollitt Why, at the very moment that we are talking obsessively about academic “excellence” and leaving no child behind, are we turning our public schools into factories of rote learning and multiple-choice testing, as if learning how to read and count were some huge accomplishment? Well, if your fate is to be a supermarket checker–and that’s a “good job” these days–you won’t be…
village voice > news > NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan by Sarah Ferguson City’s Finest pulls move even Bush wouldn’t have tried – September 19th, 2005 5:54 PM Sheehan was speaking in Union Square at a peaceful protest when the police hauled her off after yanking away her microphone. Zulkowitz, one of her organizers, was arrested for “failing to obtain a sound permit” (something that usually garners a summons). The police said they were responding to his “provocation.” (An updated resource…