Wear Clean Draws  (because there’s 5 million ways to kill a ceo)

2007-01-21 04:34:00
Oooops! I may be plagiarizing there. Whatev. I’ve been quite irked of late to read a lot of dismissals of theory and ideology, as if to say that asshattery and shitbagginess are caused by commitment to a political theory or ideology. I’m an ideologue and I am proud. Indeed, pretty much every single person […]

love this blog i stumbled over: Pervocracy

this was also originally published a few years ago, 2007-01-01 00:51:11
reposted for archival purposes. It’s actually a repost of something written for the Bad Subjects zine by an anonymous writer. Don’t know if it’s still online but the link to the old issue is included below.
Dedicated to RenEv, you spitfire, you. heh.
Actually, the title is, […]

looking for something in the archives of the old blog. i’m thinking i’d like to eventually teach a course for the workers justice center we are getting off the ground here. i want to call the class: your employer hates you. i knew i had used that phrase before, so i looked it up and […]

btw, one of the things I heard in this conversation about boycotts which prompted me to ask about historical analyses of the effectiveness of boycotts was this.
Well, to set it up. We were discussing concrete activities we could do now. Things to accomplish. Everyone had to name just one small thing we, as a group, […]

I went to the the closing ceremony for non-violence activities in honor of Martin Luther King tonight. It’s part of an area nonviolence group’s initiative to raise non-violence awareness. The activities begin on Martin Luther King’s birthday and end on the anniversary of his assassination.
A fellah I will call Walter invited me when I […]

lord. what a wacky, pissed off muddle of a rant!
I initially wrote this on 01/01/2007
When I started blogging, my first posts were on race. I think they are lost to the winds from the switch from one host to another. I was on about Bill Bennet as I recall. Then I did a series […]

Posting about Angela Davis sparked a debate about prisons, crime, etc. All the stupid crap you’d expect to see because, for the most part, people didn’t want to actually have a discussion about what Davis said, since she addresses their objections. Instead, they were more interested in trotting out whatever tried and true hate ons […]

cleaning out files and came across this book review, which I’m archiving here. It’s a review of the horrid, horrid awful book, Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, edited by Diane Bell and Renate Klein.
Well sure,” said I, when asked to review an anthology with the nifty title Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed. “What self-respecting woman wouldn’t […]

cleaning up my email and came across an inquiry from a reader which i’d somehow missed. at some point, i’d written this:

“Because, remember: socialism is about condescendingly sharing *your* sandwich, not about asking why the other guy doesn’t have a sandwich to begin with. fuck.”

that was a snide comment about a thread on the LBO […]

For every anti-racist Marxist, there are 10 (or more) others who think that getting rid of capitalism should take precedence over ending racism. http://www.rachelstavern.com/?p=827
gosh, who wrote this?
” Labor in the white skin will not be free while labor in black skin is branded. “
wow. just wow. what a fucking asshole. like she has, what?, a […]

we had a discussion about whether people of color and others should vote in solidarity with people of color. Julio Huato and John Thornton (NDN) felt that this was important, that people of color and progressive whites support the struggles and wishes of people of color. my responses:
John T wrote: ”
The idea of standing in […]

at lbo, there are frequent discussions of talk therapy vs. drug therapy when it comes to depression, etc. for some reason, the topic sets people off. there is also some strong opposition to freud by those convinced that the only thing that matters is that depression is a chemical disorder. and yet, a couple of […]

I am sadder than sad about this news. We were just discussing research that indicated a connection between a layoff when someone’s over forty and a higher than usual rate of death. Carl Remick, LBO list member, who was there at the birth of the list, died and did so while dealing with a health […]

I think you were wrong about what you said last night, Gary. For those who don’t know, Gary’s an old friend of mine and we yakked on the phone for about four hours last night. Anyway, I think Gary and I might have it wrong about blogging and memory. I don’t know if it’s […]

2007-05-16 20:10:40
Little Light wrote:
B|L, I’m honestly a little surprised at you. Yes, some of these criticisms are sophomoric or by people who haven’t read the book. But you’re treating substantive arguments the same way as the idle sniping. I don’t care whether or not you agree with the critiques offered, but some of these […]

2007-01-23 00:22:13
Carpenter asked me a question off-blog. Seeing as how a Bitch can, for a change, breath a little, I decided to catch up with various things that have been put off in the search for jobs and gigs. Among the backlog of things to be done was slog through email. I had a huge […]

2007-01-19 15:37:14
If you followed the Burqagate wars, this article might help flesh things out. If you are still confused about essentialism and why it can be a problem, the article also illuminates, though I hope it’s not too big on the theory and strange words. The reference will also help ground my discussions of Janet […]

2007-01-19 02:02:24
“I suspect it can be a good thing to be internally riven: Teiresias was a prophet, after all, not the village idiot. But even if it’s bad to be internally riven, many of us (the postmodernists) just are. There’s no putting that genie back in the bottle. And the genie has mischievous ways of […]

2007-01-06 09:53:31
OK, so KH’s questions got me thinking. I decided to unbury Split Decisions I realized I needed to explain something that probably isn’t clear. Now, I was just going to flesh out Halley’s work. As I did so, though, I couldn’t help but think of how nubian and brownfemipower articulate their own convergentist and […]

2007-01-04 14:12:05
Since I’ve been very disengaged from the blog, I was kind of in a place where I was thinking, “Man, I’d like to get back to a time when I had hardly any readers and they all knew me already. So much more time to participate elsewhere and still write. Not much need to […]

2006-09-26 01:36:51
and blowing my mind. I’m reading the part about Judith Butler again because it just blew my mind. I’m just finding it fascinating that the person who gives Halley to most unexpected resistance is Butler! I woulda thunk that, if anyone could dig “Taking a Break from Feminism,” then it’d be Butler and what […]

2006-09-24 14:44:51
I’ve mentioned several times that one of the most persistent divisions among feminists was the question, “who is woman?” How do we define what a woman is? Whatever a woman is, then this woman must be our subject, the one for whom we advance our politics. If woman is fundamentally oppressed by rape, then […]

2006-09-24 19:36:06
Have you ever looked at Michael Berube’s blogroll? He ‘classifies’ the blogs like so:

* Those That Belong to the Emperor
* Those Drawn with a Very Fine Camelhair Brush
* Those Included in the Present Classification
* Those That From a Long Way Off Look Like Flies
* Fabulous Ones
It’s a wink at Foucault’s introduction to The Order […]

2006-09-23 02:42:03
I mentioned already that one of the things that makes Split Decisions refreshing to read — and also as if she sitting right next to you, chatting — is Halley’s forthrightness about her lack of objectivity. It is, no doubt, an interesting rhetorical device. Here’s another example of this sort of directness where Halley […]