Macarena by Taos
Shoes to wear while drinking hot cocoa and admiring the Christmas lights.
Tuesday Shoesday
We’ve known the answer for 200 years and there is still no justice
There were defenders of the Indians. Perhaps the most eloquent was Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, who told the Senate, debating removal:
“We have crowded the tribes upon a few miserable acres on our southern frontier; it is all that is left to them of their once boundless forest: and still, like the horse-leech, our insatiated cupidity cries, give! give! … Sir … Do the obligations of justice change with the color of the skin?”
1830. From Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States
Last minute gift ideas
Tuesday Shoesday
Poca by Shoe the Bear
While you’re waiting for the bus
Stuff worth reading
Dessa-lation
This is good
I read the letters between Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (of Pussy Riot) and Slavoj Zizek
Jessica Conrad: Why Mayors Should Rule the World
Vote in local elections. It means something
Not From the Onion-NROL 39.
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How We’re Destroying Our Kids’ Brains
Don’t blame vaccines
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Bring back the OTA!
Cold and hungry
Empty Jar by Marisa McClellan on Flickr
The graduate student association at my university is collecting food for local food banks, but is having trouble getting donations.
Our Food Bin is cold and hungry for some donations! Please plan to pass by with something to share this holiday season. We will offer your donations as some support to help families in need get through the winter holidays.
It’s not that we’re a greedy or uncharitable lot. It’s that a living wage in this city is more than $35,000*, but the basic stipend here is $18,000.
The graduate student association should know that more of the graduate students need food than have room in their budget to give food. Perhaps next year they can organize a food drive for graduate students instead.
*That living wage calculation doesn’t include any room in the budget for the credit cards and student loans we used to get through undergrad, saving for retirement, caring for family members, or saving for emergencies or tough times.
Women’s clothes are always part of someone’s revolution
When Amelia Bloomer in 1851 suggested in her feminist publication that women wear a kind of short skirt and pants, to free themselves from the encumbrances of traditional dress, this was attacked in the popular women’s literature. One story has a girl admiring the “bloomer” costume, but her professor admonishes her that they are “only one of the many manifestations of that wild spirit of socialism and agrarian radicalism which is at present so rife in our land.”
1851. From Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States