NOTE: I posted the following entry last Friday afternoon and then took it down that evening. Something felt not quite right about it. So while I’m still eager to hear people’s thoughts on the matter, I sliced out the personal part. If you happened to catch that part during a few hours on Friday, well […]

Dave Pollard has the most engrossing entries over at How to Save the World. A few weeks ago he wrote about Ivan Illich, 20th century philosopher/writer. Illich wrote a book in 1973 that I’ll be using next term in my independent study on education social movements - Deschooling Society (available entirely online here). An excerpt:
Many […]

An inquiry over at Ask Metafilter: “Where’s all the money coming from?” eas98 writes:
Ok, so it says that the typical person earns $14/hour, and the typical household earns less than $40k/year. Yet everywhere I look, I see displays of wealth. Expensive homes, cars, boats, TVs, activities, etc. So my question is: how are people […]

An excerpt from a short “journal entry” I wrote today for my Women of Color class:
I am thinking of the fuss over Condoleezza Rice, the new Secretary of State under the Bush administration. Republicans like to make a big to do over the fact that she’s an African American women and they are convinced […]

In the past week, I’ve had heated two debates with two different guys - their position: “war/rape is human nature” - my position: “hell no, it’s dominant culture, not human nature” (basically, see here). Human beings as a species wouldn’t exist after all these years if violent, brutal warfare were more a part of […]

Hear, hear.
(For more of my thoughts on the matter, read this post from last year.)

Just curious, when did you first go online?
I opened my first World Wide Web site in August 1996. I had just started working part-time at a small tech recruiting firm in Fairfield. Part of my new job was to post position specs at a website. Although I was pretty office computer savvy (Windows […]