Monthly Archives: June 2012

hctiB G: There’s more

originally posted June 24, 2006 ——– I have a student studying social work and who went to a social work-themed high school writing her researched argument on emotional and verbal abuse, that it should be considered as much as physical … Continue reading

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hctiB G: All Fall Down 2

originally posted June 22, 2006 ——– Suicide rates are up. Depression is rampant. Even those without catastrophic losses must pass debris, trailers, emptied blocks, National Guard troops daily and explain to people who lost everything they ever owned and knew, … Continue reading

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Louisiana Believes Advisory Committees

FINAL LOUISIANA BELIEVES PLAN INTRODUCED AND ADVISORY COMMITTEES NAMED: Statewide School Board Meeting Tour to Follow Announcement. Press release. 6/18/2012. PDF. Louisiana believes what exactly? Of the principal advisory committee’s 23 members, 5 are from Orleans. The 11-member superintendents advisory committee, a small … Continue reading

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The Shame Is the Lack of Shame

Tom Aswell. The rise of Jane Smith from defeated senate candidate to Secretary of Revenue–and her bizarre mission statement, LA Voice (weblog), 6/18/12. Following [Jane Smith's] January appointment as deputy secretary of Revenue (remember, it’s Revenue, not Education), she promptly showed … Continue reading

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Oh, Yes, and Yes.

Righteousness. You should have to look at the people your politics affect. You should have to tell them, face to face with their anger, why you’re doing what you’re doing. You OWE them that. Otherwise we’re all just constructs, just … Continue reading

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hctiB G: Father’s Day

originally posted June 18, 2006 ——— Before the age of 5, the sun that rose and set daily in my world was my father. He was fun. And he liked me unconditionally, loved me unconditionally. Many Saturdays, we woke early … Continue reading

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hctiB G: Who’s Right to Return?

originally posted Jun 16, 2006 —— My mother grew up in what was the Magnolia housing projects Uptown. Back then, as in many ways recently, it was a place for poor people with children and elderly people living on pensions. Poor … Continue reading

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Not Instead of, in Addition to

Friday, French Quarter Fest. Capital One Bank Riverside Legacy Stage. I was not tired, I was not drunk or tipsy or giddy, I wasn’t hungry or dehydrated or hot at all–I’d had three bottles of water, I had three fans in … Continue reading

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