One of my favorite professors in grad school (Part I) was Lynda Koolish. She introduced me to a great deal of poetry that actually kind of matters to me, though I don’t love poetry just for the sake of loving poetry. She, like many scholars, made a case for a Audre Lorde’s position [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Notes to Self on Political Poetry
Posted in Aww screw it, Just images (and sounds), the other on December 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Bush Greeted as Liberator (of Feet from the Tyranny of Shoes)
Posted in Aww screw it, Fox News on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
George W. Bush, was the target of a shoe-throwing reporter in Iraq today.
Fox News treats it as ethnocentrically as possible.
Note the tone Gregg Jarrett uses. He calls it “truly bizarre.” Let’s think about this for a moment. Is it bizarre for someone to voice disagreement with a leader? [...]
“Palin pushed the party to the right”
Posted in Aww screw it, Those Wacky Conservatives on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Powell criticizes polarization, especially in a push by Palin.
Part of this is about rhetoric, talking about slogans and accusations of socialism.
Is it just me, or can you hear a lot of breathing and fidgeting when Zakaria is asking questions?
Posted in Aww screw it on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am knee-deep in essay-grading and Ph.D applications, but the latter has led me to a few things I should have found before the election.
One is Journalism.org’s “Principles of Journalism.”
This is gold. A lot of my posts tied directly to these:
1. Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth uhhhhhhhhh
2. Its first loyalty is to [...]
Obama delivers Blow to Women of Color
Posted in Aww screw it on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
President-Elect Barack Obama (or P-EBO, as his friends have taken to calling him for short), delivered a painful blow to women of color today as he announced his pick for Sectretary of State. It’s Hillary Clinton – another example of a white woman taking a job away from a woman of color (poor Condeleeza [...]
Wondering Where I’ve Been?
Posted in Aww screw it, Whoami and Whyami on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, you’re a dedicated reader who’s wondering where I am?
That’s weird.
I haven’t had time for the news lately, as I not only picked up an additional class that requires me to spend 8 more hours in transit per week, but I have been working on Ph.D applications. This is no easy task, especially when [...]
