Posted in Uncategorized on June 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Mondoweiss: Iraq comes home: the war of ideas, by Philip Weiss.
His thoughts on Zionism:
1. The post-Holocaust west is a utopia for Jews. Jews must recognize this and celebrate this, and deal with the consequences. Herzl’s vision of political Zionism was based on a belief in the undying antisemitism of the west. It just ain’t true.
2, [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged autobiography, wealth on June 29, 2007 | 41 Comments »
A while back, the New York Times did a series on class that included this interactive chart that lets you plug in four factors (occupation, education, income, and wealth) to see your class in the USA.
Now, class really is much simpler than capitalists like to think. Ultimately, it’s just about the wealth. The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2007 | 6 Comments »
A few months ago, Joel Monka of cuumbaya tagged me with a meme to mention five of my favorite blogs. I rarely do memes, but this one’s nice. Only I couldn’t narrow it to five, so I let it get buried in my email file. Now I’ve found a solution; here are five fairly different [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2007 | 14 Comments »
Any of these would do: TOP 5 TINIEST PREFAB HOMES. (I think I’ve linked to all of them in the past, but it’s nice having them on one page.)
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2007 | 6 Comments »
threadbared. From its “about”: “Threadbared.com was born out of a love of all things vintage (Mary) and all things snarky (Kimberly) (and, um…okay, Mary too).”
Posted in seeker, tagged wealth on June 29, 2007 | 4 Comments »
How To Keep Brown Alive: Use income level, instead of race, to integrate the schools. The best is here, the conclusion:
For 40 years, researchers have found that the single most important thing you can do to raise the achievement of low-income students is to send them to attend a middle-class school, where classmates tend to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
“There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.” Brendan Behan
That’s not the earliest version of the saying. I found a discussion here that includes this exception from 1934:
“Without publicity it is doubtful if Alphonse Capone ever would have been sent to prison. It is axiomatic among all intelligent criminals that [...]
Posted in seeker on June 28, 2007 | 22 Comments »
When Emma and I do our one-day fiction writing workshops, we tend to say something like this about narrative choices: “Past tense has authority, present tense has immediacy, first person has intimacy, and third person has objectivity. They’re all valid choices, though most readers have prejudices for one kind or another. If you do second [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
That might become a new standard post title, ’cause someone who doesn’t follow Boingboing reads my LJ, and I’m always happy to link to the things I think she’d like.
In this case, she may not know that Hillary Clinton had a contest for her campaign song. During the contest, she posted this video update, which [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 27, 2007 | 18 Comments »
Ask in the comments if you wish, and I’ll say a bit more. All I want to say here is that I’ve encountered two disappointing endings in the last 24 hours, and it makes me want to make a vow about the kinds of endings I’ll write henceforth.
The disappointing works (but not the reasons):
Cold Mountain [...]
