Since defaulting on last weeks Old School Friday I refuse to miss it this week. It’s Friday somewhere. The theme for this episode is tenth grade. When the facts of 10th grade are revived they are colorless, a year of pointless existence is now a felled branch of the growing …
Female Buyers Beware of Obama’s Call to Service
With Obama’s call for increase service, both military and non military, I’m wondering if his administration is going to help clear some of the debris off the path of service, making the path less hazardous for women? The Lavena Johnson case has yet to be reopened, the Army refusing to …
Funiture Polish Poisoning
I arrived home to find the place reeking of an unknown scary chemical smell my housemate assured me was only a really expensive beeswax furniture polish meant to “create lasting natural beauty from within”. Within fifteen minutes the feeling of starvation which accompanies me home most evenings was replaced with …
The Wanting of Sunday Evenings
More often than not it’s Monday morning before I’ve finished appreciating Sunday evening.Tonight is no different, with Sunday evening once again left wanting of the respect it deserves. Simply notes as usual this time of the week. I won the Valentines post contest at Pointless Banter for the post about …
Chandra Levy
April 30th 2001, before 9/11, nothing much to cover news wise, when 24 year old Chandra Levy a Washington Intern disappeared. There was a recent series on this, Who Killed Chandra Levy, in the Washington Post, which sparked off memories of this incident. It occurred at the end of my …
Taking Back New York University
A student (dis)organization, from my old haunt, called “Take Back NYU”, having skipped “Protest 101″, took back NYU by making a gazillions demands without any kind of uh… organization. Kind of took the puff out of their dragon. If you are going to show solidarity with Gaza you don’t necessarily …
