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

I have been amused, disgusted actually, at the way the mainstream media has completely demurred on the topic of how they were shut out of reporting on events at Zuccotti Park. Sick fuckers. I’m hoping Matt Taibbi takes that shit down, the way he took down down the scum a decade ago when he wrote […]

wah wah wah. I know. I have a lot of nerve ignoring this place only to show up after months and let off giant steaming pile of rantage! I have been laid up with a cold, off the bike and out of the gym, and thus way more time on my hands even in spite […]

I want to write, individually, to everyone who has helped me, been willing to talk about the call for commentary itself, who took the time to do a careful reading and make awesome stylistic suggestions (I’m looking at you Chuckie!).
For now, it’s going to be a group hug, a collective thanks.
Throughout this project, […]

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, […]

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 […]

good lard save me from the essentializing crappola! brownfemipower is writing about working class men and i just want to scream. i really dislike the implicit assumption that, somehow, it is only working class men and women who are owned by corporations, that what it means to be working class is to do manual labor […]

this was originally posted on the old blog, 2006.05.02. I’m reposting it because it is too long to post the whole thing on a discussion list.

I’d mentioned to piny that one of the problems with the attacks on “trans politics” (sic) was that they argued that, as long as transfolk weren’t being denied their formal […]

Michaels chapter on religion is, I think, a skeleton key to what he’s about. He seems to have taken to heart whatever he learned in rhetoric classes and spent a career elevating all the reasons why you shouldn’t use ad hominem into a theory that has all the analytical subtlety of the cudgel you […]

and no, the point isn’t to ransack his text for incriminating evidence. the point is to explicate the entire damn argument, instead of extracting out of it the one thing you agree with and discarding the rest as if there is no fucking connection between the two!
i don’t think you rescue ideas from a […]

Chuck Grimes pointed me at a post about Walter Benn Michaels by Lou Proyect. I dropped by to ask him his opinion. I left the link to WBM’s talk at Harvard and listened to it again as I was packing. At Lou’s blog, people challenged him on his interpretation of WBM and Lou concedes that […]

Honestly, Walter Benn MIchaels really is a piece of work. I’ve been packing my stuff to move, and so I have plenty of time to think about this one particular chapter. It starts out, helpfully (!), to show that it’s just not race that’s a problem, but also other things like gender. (Of course, don’t […]

So, one of the other things I didn’t address in Walter Been Michaels’ book, The Trouble with Diversity, was the chapter, Just and Unjust Rewards. It seems to begin as an attempt disarm critics who might argue that he is singling out race when it comes to diversity. To really be fair, and not […]

OK., so LOBsters know about my ranting about Walter Benn Michaels. What I bitched about early on was his use of leftist and radical language — class, exploitation, and referring to “the left” — to advance what is merely a reformist Welfare liberal position in opposition to Neo-Liberalism.
Henwood, of course, challenged me, arguing that […]

oh good god. i have been on a rant, criticizing Walter Benn MIchaels work in The Trouble With Diversity over at LBO. So, I’m about wrapped up with it all, have made my case, and I happen across a video of him. So, bored at work, I’m listening away only to learn that Michaels pulls […]

I decided that I wanted to use up some leftover dressing from an event at work, along with some leftover turkey I’d roasted and a can of chicken I opened but hadn’t remembered to make lunch or dinner of last week.
I was also in the mood for bread or pizza or something. So, I went […]

the greek work, idiote, means private, iirc.
i was thinking of ids and idiotes because i was thinking of identity politics, reading this thread that amber pointed to:
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/07/11/ad-hominems-etc/
i didn’t read all the details as to what went on, surely not to be in any position to decide who i agree with and who i don’t, and […]

rantwoman, whose posts i always adore at lefty mailing list, has an interesting blog post that concludes with a bit about passing:
And what would be the reasonable accommodation here: as the world’s most irrepressible nephew would hear, “use your words.” Ask nicely. Listen carefully. Communicate, don’t just assume … because some of us spend too […]

yeah. i think I’m adorno, ‘k?
first, I have two new books with which to avoid reading Moishe Postone. _Fresh: a perishable history_ by Susanne Freidberg and _The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language_ by Christine Kenneally.
I immediately wrote Dwayne to let him know since we have been relishing reading various books that […]

This is a really awesome talk hooks gave. In it, she brings up the issue that inflamed folks recently when Renee Martin wrote about big girl panties. While I disagree with Martin’s characterizations of Black Amazon and others, I think hooks says some really interesting things here, some of which I tend to chafe against […]

At work, I’ve been doing a lot of rather rote work that requires a ton of QA. It leaves me lots of time to listen to lectures and talks on youtube. I finally found that one video that I’d seen, the one where hooks discusses institutionalized racism and what she thinks of as the need […]

at work, I’ve been listening to Angela Davis — just search on youtube and listen to them all. It’s all you need to understand what is going on, and how to address so many of the issues that come up repeatedly within leftist and feminist circles.
Seriously.
Meanwhile, a “related video” alert brought me to this […]

in a discussion thread at lbo, where people were talking about a gawker piece about how lacking in radicality today’s young people are, i had a little sarcastic rant. mostly because, as anyone who’s paid attention to the 60s know, the so-called radicals were a pretty teensy weensy part of society then and, today, nothing […]

just one teensy weensy thought on the revolutionary gardening crapliotta.
did any of those workers picking green beans and apples ask you to stop buying the apples and beans they picked. in other words, do *they* think that supporting them in their struggles would be best accomplished by boycotting their products.
hmmm?
srsly. using concern about migrant workers […]

i just read BfP’s rant about some new blowout in bloglandia. I haven’t any idea what happened and don’t have time to learn more until next weekend. gotta hit the gym for a second full body routine for the week, taxes need to be done, house cleaned, gotta get to the clay room, and […]

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 […]