via amber’s blog i read this. what an asshole:
wasn’t being a team player, but I needed to find the balance of feeling good about myself, making money and taking care of the house. It’s not an easy spot to find, especially since the house encourages you to go ahead and have sex at what […]
ellie mae question about opera
if you go to the opera, do you go and understand it because you understand Italian (or whatever language) or do you go for the experience of the opera and cry like cher in that movie, Moonstruck, because you are bowled over by the emotion conveyed by the singers?
More»microcredit as the political economy of shame
Microcredit: a political economy of shame October 14, 2008 by tanglad
It’s easy to understand the appeal of microcredit. Poor women from the Global South use loans as small as $20 to start businesses and lift themselves from poverty. The creditors make a profit when the loans are repaid. Win-win.
What do they say about things that […]
art whore confidential
did i tell everyone? i’m treating myself to pottery classes — and maybe oil painting. Haven’t decided if I want to afford both. One class is lunch hours, the other once a week, evenings.
Oh, and be the way, speaking of my evenings, check this out: http://www.portfolioweekly.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=4F603B44BB1D4EBDAF3CAEFA4F144C04&nm=News+and+Views&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=78EA30ECA7854F04945C66D38E408EFB
No, MOveon wasn’t anything I supported but compromises, compromises! :)
Inspired […]
hip hop wars
we’ve been shopping all day. my dogs are tarred. i am lusting for one of those homedics massagers i tried in the store. about four balls roll around and massage your back. i enjoyed it so much, when one of those balls rolled and hit the small of my back, i jumped and made noises […]
More»allies
as i’ve said before, i am not an ally. but i was just talking with a friend and it occurred to me that there are some figurations of ally that don’t ever seem to make sense — and probably aren’t really even uttered.
ally work typically comes from a critical race theory perspective, so it’s […]
racial democratic (fuck the poor) dream fulfilled by obama’s election
My buddy Dwayne wrote last night to urge me to listen to Doug Henwood’s latest radio program. Here’s why Dwayne was kvelling: because the author basically gets at what I’ve called “assimilationist black nationalism” — of the sort featured in Lawrence Otis Graham’s _Our Kind of People_:
Hey, if you haven’t already done so, I recommend […]
over privileged is the new phrase now, eh?
Even though the gay community is made up of people of different ethnicities, races, cultures, and class backgrounds, it’s public face is pure over privileged white male. Right after the passing of prop 8 all over the news the white male gay leaders came out in force to verbally protest.
honestly. I think, collectively, a […]
suck
guess who?
The emphasis on sucking cunt serves to demystify cunt in a spectacular way — cunt is not dirty, not terrifying, not smelly and foul; it is a source of pleasure, a beautiful part of female physiology, to be seen, touched, and tasted.”
Sucking is an act of the same magnitude as fucking. That […]
FAIR: media cheer for “non-ideological” centrists
FAIR’s on the case:
“Corporate media are largely cheering Barack Obama’s early appointment of Clinton-era centrists. Many of these nominees have a distinct record of support for the corporate-friendly NAFTA trade pact, gutting public assistance programs under the guise of welfare “reform,” and pushing various deregulatory policies in the financial sector (including the elimination of the […]
Dismal Science
archiving: the economist on the coming bubble burst»because i have been irritated with otherwise intelligent, well read, keep-up-with-the-news, read -the-Economist-type people lately, i have been surfing around the archives looking for when our lbo discussions of the coming real estate bubble burst started happening.
they can be traced back to the first signs of a bubble in hot real estate markets in california […]
