Somehow, Cleveland has survived, with her gray banner unfurled -- the banner of Archangelsk and Detroit, of Kharkov and Liverpool -- the banner of men and women who would settle the most ignominious parts of the earth, and there, with the hubris born neither of faith nor ideology but biology and longing, bring into the world their whimpering replacements.
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READIN
READIN started out as a place for me
to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly)
how to design a web site.
There has been some mission drift
here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of
the main things I write about here are
reading books,
listening to (and playing) music, and
watching the movies. Also I write about the
work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.
The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.
See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.
READIN has been visited approximately 236,737 times since October, 2007.
🦋 Have some respect
Darcus Howe speaks to BBC News about the riots in London. The interviewer* does not hear a word he's saying.
Update: Mr. Howe appears on today's Democracy Now!
*(Indeed "interviewer" seems like the wrong word here.)
posted morning of Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 ➳ More posts about Politics
"I do not call it riot, I call it insurrection" That´s what they don´t want to broadcast!
Violence is never free; violence comes from violence. People suffering social violence: discrimination, lack of chances, poverty, segregation, repression...
Youth with no expectations: that´s a hazardous equation.
In the boom years of the late '90's, Barbara Ehrenreich researched and wrote Nickeled and Dimed. The tenth anniversary edition comes out in a darker economic climate, one in which the subjects of her book have borne the brunt of the decline. The new afterword, Turning Poverty into an American Crime, is online at her blog.
