No more Ms. Nice Girl
April 17, 2007
I apologize in advance for writing a second time about “nappy headed ho’s.” But, I’m not done with it, and who can blame me, no less authority than the president of the NCAA has called the event a cultural tipping point. I hope not. But I’m writing for BoomerGirl, and ...
'Nappy headed ho’s'
April 13, 2007
Jason Whitlock, a sports columnist who writes for the Kansas City Star, commented that Don Imus is not the villain; the villain is “us.” He writes that it is black people themselves who have embraced a culture that degrades and stereotypes. All Imus did, Whitlock says, was use language, ...
Units of production
March 28, 2007
Karl Marx claimed capitalism relentlessly reduces human relationships to questions of pure economics. The relationships of physician/patient, of lawyer/client, even those of parent and child, and of husband and wife, are valued, and those values are calculated by use of objectively measurable numbers. Marx himself, of course, bought off on ...
Taking responsibility
February 26, 2007
I thought by the time we were in our 50s we’d be in charge. Someone has to be in charge. Doesn’t being in charge mean having our way? People doing as we say! When we were 20 we knew a few things that needed to be done. A war needed ...
The silence is deafening
February 12, 2007
When Susan does not approve of my doings, really disapproves, she becomes quiet. I can put up with that awhile, but the explosion will come. A blog is a dialogue. All blog, no comment, is a monologue. I’ve put three of them out there, and the silence is deafening. No ...
Modern life can pit individualism vs. family
January 18, 2007
“He wants to know what is wrong with the modern woman.” “The modern man.” "More Than A Secretary" — Jean Arthur, George Brent (1936) There are more than a few answers to this, and more than a few ways to take the question. Is it: “what is wrong”, as in ...
Sheet folding
November 28, 2006
Twelve days ago Susan’s mother’s brain was irradiated by something called a Cyberknife. As best I can tell, it is something like a robot wielding a Star Wars “lightsaber.” This Cyber-bot used its invisible knife to stab two tumors inside Earline’s skull until they were dead. She’s home now, but ...