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Name: Jen Muehlbauer. Location: Los Angeles (formerly Boston, Germany, and suburbia). Occupation: inner-city tutor/kid wrangler (former biz/tech writer). Husband: this mad scientist. Topics: politics, travel, LA, the kids and what passes for a public school education these days, blah blah blah, you get what you pay for.
Click here for beer (currently not generating new content). I can see my lifetime piling up/ I can see the days turn into nights/ I can see the people on the street/ Open those windows up/ - A hundred floors below me/ Pilin' those houses up/ Pilin' them higher, higher, higher/ I can feel them swayin' back and forth/ Building it higher, higher/ - This tower's learning over -- Talking Heads
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Saturday, September 03, 2005
It's always interesting to see What other countries think of us at times like this: "But what the devastating consequences of Katrina have shown - along with the response to it - is that for too long now, the fabric of this complex and overstretched country, especially in states like Louisiana and Mississippi, has been neglected and ignored....The neglect that meant it took five days to get water, food, and medical care to thousands of mainly orderly African-American citizens desperately sheltering in huge downtown buildings of their native city, has been going on historically, for as long as the inadequate levees have been there... "The uneasy paradox which so many live with in this country - of being first-and-foremost rugged individuals, out to plunder what they can and paying as little tax as they can get away with, while at the same time believing that America is a robust, model society - has reached a crisis point this week." Incompetence or racism or both, it's shameful. "Sure like to feel some pride, but this place just makes me feel sad inside." Friday, September 02, 2005
FEMA bullshit vs. reality, as compiled by CNN, acting like a real news outlet for once. And the on-air media losing it. My own commentary has, at times, been too crackpot even for a blog. (This blog, anyway). But I'll put it out there that I think this is worse than 9/11. And proof that civilization is two missed meals away from barbarism. Thursday, September 01, 2005
If you want some good outrage about the federal fumbling of this tragedy, turn on CNN and listen to Cafferty go ballistic. It's happening pretty regularly. What are the chances Louisiana and Mississippi will still be red states when all is said and done? Then again, black people already vote Democratic, and it's obvious from all photos and video that's the population really getting screwed. Maybe that's why the federal government is twiddling its thumbs, more worried about looting than saving lives. That being said, why not suspend media coverage and use news helicopters to get people out? Why not pull the troops out of Iraq (which, arguably, we should have done a long time ago) and get them here? Woulda, coulda, shoulda. It's probably too late now. Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Holy shit, New Orleans. I thought you were out of the woods when the hurricane went north. Stupid levee. Dang. Hello, navel, how are you? As much as I'd like to get back to school, I'm enjoying my period of temporary underemployment (and thus, very dull blog entries). By the time I'm bored with surfing the web, reading travel books, emailing old friends, going to the gym every day, and cooking from scratch, I ought to be working full-ish time again. Or I'll be in Italy. Either is fine. :) After all, now I've got time to waste on web quizzes like The Nerd, Geek, or Dork Test. I'm a nerd, of course. I just said I was eager to get back to school, didn't I? I'm not a student, so I suppose that makes it a little less lame... |
