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Supporting unions while you travel
My current job has me travelling for work more than I ever have before, and that involves frequent stays at hotels. One thing I never thought about before now is respecting hotel workers unions and their struggles with various hotels – avoiding hotels that are being boycotted or where workers are on strike or lockout.…
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“Deserving” the death penalty
When I was sitting in the airport on Tuesday, waiting for my delayed flight to Atlanta to board, there was a piece on CNN about the delayed execution of Michael Morales, a man in California convicted of the murder of high school student Terri Winchell in 1981. The execution was delayed because of questions over…
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Most Beautiful Baby?!?
Daytime TV is dangerous and should generally be avoided. Case in point: for some reason, I was watching Live with Regis and Kelly (as of a few moments ago, when I finally turned it off). Today’s big segment: the final rounds of the Most Beautiful Baby competition. Apparently, people across the country have been looking…
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Fuerza Bruta Imperialista: FBI abuse and intimidation in Puerto Rico
This is slightly old news, but still probably news that far too few have heard. On last Friday, February 10, FBI agents raided six private homes and one business in Puerto Rico in an attack of intimidation and repression against the Ejercito Popular Boricua (Boricua Popular Army). The raids were conducted under the pretense of…
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Holy stupidity, Batman!
There are far more important things to be writing about (and hopefully I’ll get to at least one of those things later on today), but I needed to have a public WTF?!? moment about this, from the San Francisco Chronicle: Frank Miller, who changed the way people looked at comics with his noirish 1980s Batman…
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Tagged, I’m it!
I have something of a rule against memes on this blog, but since I was tagged by Brownfemipower over at Woman of Color Blog, I feel obligated to break that rule. It actually brings up a general internal debate about where I post different stuff. I’ve got a livejournal for the fluff and the really…
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My astute and articulate commentary on Alito’s confirmation
FUCK. Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.
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Playing my get out of blogging free card…
Clearly I’ve been a bit out of the loop lately. That’s what business travel, freelance work, and a few other projects and events will do to me. But it presents a good excuse to use this, which cracks me up: courtesy Emilienne Ireland
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2005 as summed up in 10 dictionary definitions
Today, when I went to m-w.com to verify that I was using a word correctly (it was “regale,” and I was), I noticed a link to the top 10 words looked up in the online dictionary in 2005. They provide an interesting summation of what 2005 was all about. The list, with some commentary added…
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Nothing new in The New World
I’m really waiting for the Religious Right to flip out over the obvious immorality of this film – hello, pedophilia? When white America comes out with a movie that prominently features Native people, you can’t really expect much good to come of it, can you? So, when I saw the previews for Terrence Malick’s The…